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date: "2000-11-19T13:40:00Z"
title: Tetrinet and Gphone
---

<a href="http://twistedpath.org/">Term</a> has come up with some
ingenous new ways of wasting our time.  Last night he introduced me to
<a href="http://gphone.sourceforge.net/">Gphone</a> a
<a href="http://www.speakfreely.org/">SpeakFreely</a> compatible
internet phone that uses GSM compression (ie the compression used in
many cellular phones).  A word of caution: you need a decent 
microphone, or it will be extremely difficult for the other person
to understand you.
<br /><br />

Also, Term introduced us to the exciting world of 
<A href="http://www.tetrinet.org/">Tetrinet</a>, and online
multiplayer tetris game.  If you're using Linux, you should check out
<a href="http://gtetrinet.sourceforge.net/">GTetrinet</a>,
a GTK+-based Linux client.  There's a list of Tetrinet servers
available <a href="http://www.tetrinet.org/frame/ip.html">here</a>,
but we've been having so much fun playing that I put up a permanent
server at <i>tetrinet.pablotron.org</i>.  You can monitor our game
rankings over on <a href="/tetrinet/">my tetrinet page</a>.