mySQLgame is a quirky App Engine game that has decided to forgo flashy UIs and just stick with the core of the system: a database. You start the game by creating your own row in the shared game database. Game time increments your fuel and money resources every ten seconds. . .

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‘Press It’ Bookmarklet in WordPress 2.6 Makes Tumblelogging Easy

The bookmarklet link can be found on the “Write new post” page on the right.
Just drag it to your browser toolbar and you´re ready to go.

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WordPress 2.6 contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.

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The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest bit-torrent tracker allegedly claims damages against anti-piracy agencies.

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Adobe has relinquished control of the Portable Document Format (PDF) to the ISO (International Organization for Standardization), which will now assume developmental control of the format as an industry standard.
The standard goes by the official name ISO 32000-1, Document management – Portable document format – Part 1: PDF 1.7 and is based on Adobe´s PDF-Version 1.7.

Read the ISO Press release here

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Hilarious Video.

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There has been much talk of Twitter users moving over to FriendFeed since Twitter replies were down for the majority of last week. Twitter announced that they were back on Saturday in their blog, but seeing as the outage may have inspired some users to flock to FriendFeed, I decided to take a look at the 3rd-party applications and scripts that enhance the FriendFeed functionality.

For those of you moving on to FriendFeed’s greener pastures, here are 13 essential tools for an organized, “noise”-free experience.

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SaaS or Software as a Service, is what is generally thought of when you consider services like Google Apps or Salesforce.com. Let’s face it, from the end user and SOHO crowd, to big businesses that are making use of services like Salesforce, you can see the huge value in outsource certain applications, not only from a cost standpoint but for…

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Blizzard announces the highly-anticipated Diablo 3. Thousands of nerds lose control of their bodily functions and nerdgasm.
Best Comments on DIGG: “The fact that it’s Diablo 3 and not World of Diablo is a huge relief.”

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