See the web without words
Some web designers have an uncanny ability to look past all the text and advertising on a webpage, directly at the structure of its design. Now one of them is letting you do it for yourself. Paul Armstrong's project "Web Without Words" started as a bare-bones blueprint of CNN, but is now an ongoing experiment. You can even submit your own site to be considered for the Web Without Words treatment. Replacing all the words and images with plain blocks is interesting all by itself, but Armstrong's analysis make the site fun to read, too. He refers to Yahoo.com as "a Starbucks-drinking, Gap-or-Talbot's shopping, trend watching fellow," and calls CNN.com "the know-it-all of news sites." Whether you agree or not, it's at least thought-provoking, and at best could inspire you to take a hard look at your own site design.
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 ...
