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mensa anyone?

May 21st, 2008 by abbas

Leading logic puzzle supplier Conceptis announces a new website today dedicated to logic puzzle enthusiasts. Promised to be the most advanced puzzle website ever created, conceptispuzzles.com aims to change everything about how we play logic puzzles on the Internet.

The site was designed with the sole intention of providing exceptional puzzling experience. Both newcomers who have no idea what logic puzzles are about as well as experienced “beyond Sudoku” puzzlers who seek new challenges and varieties will enjoy the range of puzzles and features. The site includes Sudoku, Kakuro, Battleships, Hitori, Slitherlink, Hashi, Pic-a-Pix, Link-a-Pix, Fill-a-Pix, Maze-a-Pix and Dot-a-Pix puzzles in dozens of variants and hundreds of models. All puzzles are playable interactively and printable online, providing a content and gaming platform which is by far the most advanced of its kind in the world.

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vexing software

May 21st, 2008 by abbas

The internet has brought us many joys. It’s rewritten the rules of business and pleasure.

And pain. For it allows what may have seemed like bright ideas at the time (’let’s use it to make sure our customers have the latest software’, for example) to turn into a stinking pit of misery — usually, but by no means always, after marketing gets its fangs in.

Here are just ten of the guilty parties who try to do the impossible: to make us hate the internet and wish it had never been invented — and who very nearly succeed.

Posted in Humour, Technology | 1 Comment »

gasoline alley

May 21st, 2008 by abbas

We all know gas prices are crazy lately. But how much are you really paying. How about this…

Check out the highest gas prices across the globe courtesy of CNN Money and Air-Inc.

10 Most Expensive Places to Buy Gas

1. Eritrea $9.58
2. Norway $8.73
3. United Kingdom $8.38
4. Netherlands $8.37
5. Monaco $8.31
6. Iceland $8.28
7. Belgium $8.22
8. France $8.07
9. Germany $7.86
10. Portugal $7.84

And the U.S.??
108. United States $3.45

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