Filed under: Internet, Utilities
Warrick reconstructs websites from the ether
Warrick reconstructs lost websites from cache data found on the web, more specifically through search engines like MSN, Google, Yahoo, and the Internet Archive. Warrick is a command line utility started by a student at Old Dominion University for his thesis on lost web sites. The recovery process is most effective when Warrick is used within the first few days after the website is deleted. Unfortunately Warrick doesn't work on pages that haven't been crawled and indexed, so newer pages may not be able to be recovered. I don't know just how useful Warrick is, since I am not in the special circumstances it requires to test it (all of my websites are safe in their kennels), but it certainly is a unique idea for ripping your website files from cache files that are hanging out with Casper and his friendly ghosts. If only Warrick could find that one file you had with lottery numbers from the future, so you could cash in. Dang!
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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