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WikiCalc collaborative spreadsheet from Dan Bricklin
by Marc Perton Nov 10th 2005 at 4:34PM
If you want a collaborative spreadsheet, you could try NumSum. Or, you could download and install the alpha of WikiCalc, which was created by none other than spreadsheet pioneer Dan Bricklin, who brought us VisiCalc back when dinosaurs walked the earth. Right now, the only version of WikiCalc is a Windows desktop app, but Bricklin plans on making it cross-platform, and producing both client and server versions, so it shouldn't be long before you can use this on the web. He's also planning to GPL it, so if you want to help out, here's your chance to work with code created by a software legend.
[Via the Office Weblog]
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 ...
