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Google Earth Featured Content

google earth featured contentGoogle has teamed up with the United Nations Environmental Program, Discovery Networks, and the National Park Service to bring a new showcase of Google Earth multimedia overlays. The informative content from the premium content providers can be activated by clicking the Featured Content checkbox in the sidebar on the Google Earth application. Icons will then be displayed across the earth for the special content.

The initial featured content will be provided by the UN Environmental Program, time stamping images that illustrate 100 areas across the world that have suffered extreme environmental degradation. The Discovery Network has provided information overlays that will allow travel enthusiasts the opportunity to virtually visit major world attractions like natural wonders, and cities. National Park Service will show natural recreation opportunities, with park descriptions on more than 10,000 miles of trails in 58 US National Parks. The Jane Goodall Institute overlay will give users the ability to visit chimpanzees and view their daily exploits. This will be updated daily, capturing the work of the Institute's research on chimpanzees and the effects of deforestation in Africa. Another exciting overlay called Turn Here, will showcase free video guides for worldwide restaurants, hotels, and events.

Lots of exciting things are happening with Google Earth. It's a very powerful tool that can be used in the comfort of your home and office to visit places that you might not normally get the chance to visit. Happy virtual traveling.

[Google Press]

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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