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Browser Tip of the Day: Userscripts.org, a new home for Greasemonkey scripts
by Jordan Running Aug 15th 2005 at 9:45PM
We're big fans of Greasemonkey here at Download Squad, and for the past few months the best place to find GM user scripts has been the GreaseMonkeyUserScripts wiki. But as much as I love wikis it leaves a bit to be desired, and so I'm hoping that Userscripts.org will grow to replace it. It's a bit rudimentary right now, but they've got the right idea: User scripts can be tagged a la Flickr and you can rate or leave comments about individual scripts as well as see the newest and most popular scripts. I'd like to see an even larger emphasis on new scripts, though (with RSS feeds!) and see the tag cloud on the front page pushed down and perhaps pruned to hide tags only used a couple times. Also, site-specific scripts could be managed better. Fortunately, all of these improvements are already in the works.
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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.
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