Filed under: Web services, Google
View KML overlays on Google Maps
Previously KML files were exclusively the domain of Google Earth, but a part of the Google Earth 4 announcement the other day that I missed was that Google Maps now supports KML files, too. KML, in case you're not up on your acronyms, is an XML format that lets you add data to Google Earth, e.g. locations, annotations, pictures, etc. To pull a KML file into Google Maps, just enter its URL in the main search field. For an example of it in action, check out this national parks tour from the Discovery channel.
[Via Lifehacker]
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, ...
