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Google Maps lands on Mars
For the interplanetary
traveler, Google has launched Google Mars which lets you pan and zoom around
the red planet's surface. It gives you three different views: visible, color-coded elevation, and infrared.
Unfortunately there's no cheesy easter eggs a la Google Moon, but there are a
bunch of markers for locating landmarks (including the legendary "face" and the less well-known Happy Face
Crater) and landing sites. Google Mars and the mars-themed logo at Google.com commemorate the 1855 birth of astronomer Percival
Lowell.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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collapsibletank said 2:29PM on 3-13-2006
Not sure why when you zoom all the way out it is a repeating tile image....?
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hareendra said 3:42AM on 4-23-2006
your all products are well. search enginewas devoloped
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