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Here’s the belated WCS entry for last week:

• PhoneBin: See photos submitted directly from camera phones all over the world. Due to the nature of some pictures, this site might be NSFW
• Poom: What’s a WCS entry without featuring Flash time-wasters. Poom is quite an addictive game that requires good hand-eye coordination… and a non-jerky mouse.
• Creativity Techniques: Got a creative block? Try some of the suggestions here to get your creative juices flowing again.
• Free Programming and Computer Science Books: Because knowledge wants to be free
• Strange and Unexplained Anomalies: Can’t get enough of X-Files? Then you would probably want to check this web site out.

That’s all for this edition of WCS. Like always, feedback is always welcome

Blinded since birth, his disability didn’t stop Brice Mellen from whooping his opponents’ collective asses.

He’s a whiz when it comes to beat-em-up games like Mortal Kombat and Soul Calibur II. Quote from the article:

Blind since birth when his optic nerve didn’t connect because of Leber’s disease, Mellen honed his video game skills over the years through patient and not-so-patient playing, memorizing key joystick operations and moves in certain games, asking lots of questions and paying particular attention to audio cues. He worked his way up from games such as “Space Invaders” and “Asteroid,” onto the modern combat games.

“I guess I don’t know how I do it, really,” Mellen said, as he continued playing while facing away from the screen. “It’s beyond me.”

Wikipedia has more info on Leber’s Disease.

Well, it’s finally here… WCS 6. Here it goes:

• Internet FAQ Archives - Almost all FAQ known to mankind, or at least to me
• Break The Habit - Stop Smoking Now. I did, and stopped smoking for about two months. Maybe I should re-enroll
• Infiltration - The zine about going places you’re not supposed to go
• The Grid Game - Nice time waster. My personal record is 888 sequetial turns
• Personality Disorder Information - Can’t differentiate ADD with OCD? This page is a good start.

Comments are always appreciated. Sorry for the delay of this installment of WCS.

The people at CNET have compiled a Top 10 Web Fads list for our consumption.

Some are predictable memes such as AYBABTU, Friendster, Ellen Feiss and The Star Wars Kid. However, in all honesty, I know jack about the top two sites; Hampsterdance and Mahir (partially offline at the moment, images have been taken off).

I’m suprised that the Goatse guy nor Tubgirl made it on the list. Probably because CNET is covering memes that are safe for work only

That’s right folks, it’s WCS time again… and this is our fifth installment. This week I have more strange but nevertheless interesting links for your clicking pleasure.

Is Gmail too boring for you? Want a really exclusive email address? So exclusive that some web forms are unable to read your email address. Heck, some email app couldn’t even configured with this exclusive email address. Yes? Well, check out the world’s longest alphabetical email address. And yeah, it’s free too.

Lately, I seem to have this thing about playing Flash games with lots of spewing blood, heh. Let me just share with you two of my favourites. First up is Extreme Pingu. Basically this is your typical Smack the Pingu game, with extra blood, gore and some exploding mines to boot. Well, to me it’s much more exciting than the original, which was introduced to me by Lainie.

The second game is a recent favourite of mine. It requires more brainpower compared to the Pingu game… but nothing a pre-schooler can’t handle; check out Bow Man. Basically this is like the old classic Gorilla game bundled with QBasic. However, unlike the Gorilla game, Bow Man’s fun comes mostly from seeing your opponent bleed profusely when your well-aimed arrow hits him. Too win, shoot the bugger at the head. To add more challenge and fun to the game, add a wall and some wind.

Now on to more informative links. I stumbled upon tutor2u while searching for some marketing reference material. I must say I’m quite impressed by the quality of content available on this web site. Other than Marketing, they also have materials on Production and Operations, Politics and Strategy, among others. The notes are short and compact, so if you’re looking for thesis-length reports, this web site is probably not really meant for you. The notes presented are more useful as refresher materials for something you have studied before.

Only in America, land of patents and litigation, can we find things that are Patently Absurd! Some of the things shown here are really unbloodybelievable… take the Beerbrella for example. The first thing that crossed my mind when seeing that was, “WTF?!”. I think you might want to browse through the pages yourself.

Another site which I found very interesting is Koders, the source code search engine. Here you can find sample code implementations for multiple programming languages. From Ada to VB.Net it’s all there, heck, you could even filter your results according to the code license. To help you get started properly, check these results first before proceeding

I guess that’s all for this week’s WCS. I have something exciting, although quite personal to share with you sometime in the middle of next week. But you have to wait until Tuesday to find out what it is.