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 Tetrical is a 3D Tetris Flash game that you can play in your browser. Link [via BoingBoing
Spot the 5 Differences is a free online flash game where the objective is to spot the 5 differences between the side-by-side scenes. You cannot move on to the next set of scenes until you spot all 5 differences. The last difference is always the most difficult to find. [via MeFi]
The New York Times has announced that they will no longer be charging for for access to parts of its website.
The move comes two years to the day after The Times began the subscription program, TimesSelect, which has charged $49.95 a year, or $7.95 a month, for online access to the work of its columnists and to the newspaper’s archives. TimesSelect has been free to print subscribers to The Times and to some students and educators.
In addition to opening the entire site to all readers, The Times will also make available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain. There will be charges for some material from the period 1923 to 1986, and some will be free.
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someecards has the most original and hilarious e-cards I've seen on the net. They have cards you won't be embarrassed to send. Be sure to send a someecard to a friend with a sense of humor -- many of the cards are tongue and cheek. [via BoingBoing]
Be very cautious -- sex offenders are creeping up in every corner in the social networking world, which is no surprise. However, when you hear a number like 29,000 sex offenders registered on MySpace it makes you want to cringe.
MySpace said the 29,000 names have been deleted from its servers. "We're pleased that we've successfully identified and removed registered sex offenders from our site and hope that other social-networking sites follow our lead," said Chief Security Officer Hemanshu Nigam.
The number of sex offenders that had been on MySpace figures to boost identity-verification advocates who have been arguing for age- and identity-verification requirements for social-networking sites.
"On the most basic level, this is horrifying," said John Aristotle Phillips, CEO of Aristotle, a technology consulting firm that has developed age-verification for sites including Anheuser-Busch's pioneering Bud.TV. "You have 29,000 convicted sex offenders milling around with kids on a website, and it's just the tip of the iceberg because these are just the people who were stupid enough to use their real names."
MySpace has argued in the past that age verification is ineffective.
[via meshly]
 Human Brain Cloud is an online, mult-player word association game that will make your brain churn.
The idea is that given a word, a player types in the first thing that comes to mind and the results are combined into a giant network.
For instance given the word "volcano", a common word people might submit would be "lava", and this would result in a very strong connection between "volcano" and "lava". On the other hand, given the word "volcano", fewer people might associate it with something like "birthday party", resulting in a very weak connection or no connection at all. Over time and with many players, I hope the cloud will gradually grow to represent words and phrases people tend to associate with other words and phrases, assuming it doesn’t get inundated with spam. The cloud started with just one word, "volcano". All other words were submitted by visitors to this site.
[via Neatorama]
 Flute Hero (Flojte Hero) is a spoof on the PlayStation game Guitar Hero. Instead of rocking out with a guitar, you're grooving out on a flute.
Choose from four levels: easy, medium, hard or insane. My laptop is being putzy so I'm pretty much sucking on the easy level. I guess you could call me a Flute Failure.
It's a fun flash game to pass the time away. [via meshly]
If you need some flute inspiration check out Greg Patillo, beatboxing flute player extraordinaire.
 Drawball is a social art project in which users could contribute their own graffiti art to a community graffiti wall. You can no longer contribute to the wall, but you can watch a time lapse replay of the entire project as it progressed.
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