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This isn’t Pandora news, but with your help it could be. The Humble Indie Bundle, if you haven’t already seen it on every gaming site in the universe, is a limited time promotion in support of Child’s Play and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Wolfire Games invites you to pay whatever you like for a bundle of legendary indie games containing World of Goo, Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru, Penumbra, and now Samorost 2. Versions are available for Linux, Mac and Windows, and it’s all DRM free.

These versions won’t run on your Pandora of course, which leads us to the latest development. It’s now being reported that if the total donation pool hits $1m, the source code for Gish, Penumbra and Lugaru will be released to the public – opening up the possibility of Pandora versions should someone take on the porting job. The total is currently at over $800k, but the promotion ends some time in the next 24hrs! So get on it, and badger your mates to get on it too. You’ll be supporting some very worthy causes and getting some sweet games to boot.

Ze link again: Humble Indie Bundle

Thanks to “death wears a big hat” for signing up on GP32X to let us know.

…to pandorapress.net, the new home of whatever it was that went on at the old one. We trust you enjoyed your flight. Pour a whiskey, make fists with your toes, and get chatting with the locals. You’ve arrived.

The roadmap is back. Unofficially, anyway. With the case mould a good fortnight into production, it looks like the dreaded Two Months meme may have finally breathed its last. But these things are easy to miss if you don’t drop by daily, so now there’s a one-click status page for those flying visits. We’ll do our best to keep it current, and well sourced. Eyes right, soldier. >_>

Some of you may have heard of Google Latitude, the mobile (and now web) service that allows you to broadcast your location with friends, via phone signals. Well, now there is a way to use Latitude on the web, provided you have Firefox, WiFi and iGoogle. Google calculates your position through triangulation and your Wifi signal.

Guess where this is going? Guess what the Pandora has? That’s right, WiFi and Firefox!

So, effectively, you’ll be able to hook up to a Wifi hotspot in a city, log on to iGoogle on the Pandora, and share your location with friends, without suffering network costs! Pretty cool (and a terrifying invasion of privacy) eh?

If you still don’t understand, watch this video for an introduction…

If anyone want to try out the service on their laptops/desktops, here’s the howto:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/159378/find_yourself_on_google_latitude_without_gps_or_a_phone.html

P.S – It has pinned my location to 10 metres, which is both terrifying and awesomely-awesome.

This one’s nothing Pandora specific, but is the first video made by a community member, Esn. I think it’s so cool that it deserves a wider audience and due to the seasonal content it might not get that audience for long. Again, if you like this video please express your love on the thread. The video is entitled One Quiet Winter Night.