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OSCON:And the winners are...

Proof you can make money with open source software: Here are the winners of the first ever Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards, handed out at the OSCON conference in Portland, Tuesday evening. Sure, the winners only got $5,000 each, but that's more than most open source developers get for their late nights and dedication.
Communicator: Internet pioneer Doc Searls, co-author of "The Cluetrain Manifesto" and a Senior Editor for Linux Journal
Evangelist: Jeff Waugh, who manages to find time to pitch for both Ubuntu Linux and Gnome desktop environment
Diplomat: Geir Magnusson Jr of Apache
Integrator: D. Richard Hipp (SQLite)
Hacker: David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby on Rails and 37Signals)
Congrats to all the winners! Drinks are on you!
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With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
