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Fancy Ajax Google search for your web site
The other day Google launched its AJAX Search API, which lets you put a live Google search box on your web site. I'm not talking about the plain old static search box that everyone's had since the birth of Google; rather as the name implies the new API uses Ajax to make search results appear live, embedded in your site, when the user clicks on "Go." The most basic use of the API requires only a copy-and-paste into your site's source code, but if you know some JavaScript and are willing to roll your sleeves up, you can accomplish a lot more with the Google AJAX Search API. You can customize what results are shown (e.g. Images, Videos, or Blog Search), add local and map search to your site, give users locale options, and let users append search results to things like blog comment forms. Check you what you can do with it on the Examples Page.
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 ...

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Jnetty99 said 2:10PM on 6-07-2006
Why does every post after myspace stalker have lines across the text?
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