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The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is the best-known example of a cellular automaton. The “game” is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input from humans. One interacts with the Game of Life by creating an initial configuration and observing how it evolves.

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URL shortening is a technique where a provider makes a web page available under a very short URL in addition to the original address. There are hundreds of provider out there, but only a few of them provides public api and crossdomain.xml. I put toghether some of those that work and URLShorten class was created feel free to use it and enjoy

Update: jdem.cz, tinyurl.com, bit.ly, tr.im, is.gd providers implemented.

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