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BotanicallsTwitter - now even your plants can twitter you
It's fun to follow all your friends on Twitter and get updates from Darth Vader but now the bomb is getting Tweets from your little plant friends. If you have a burning desire to get tweets from your plants advising you on their need for water and nutrition, well, there's an interesting DIY gadget you can build courtesy of the folks at Botanicalls.
Basically, using an Adafruit Ethernet shield from Arduino, some nails, a soldering iron, a healthy plant, and a few other things, like your computer, as well as Arduino's software environment, (an open source, cross platform electronics prototyping system), you can build a gadget which will provide you with online Twitter status updates for your green leaf friend.
If you're smacking your head saying, Sheesh, I wish I had thought of that - well, imitation is the greatest form of flattery, right? Let us know what you build for your aquarium fish who are known to have the Twitter fanatic witihin, and while you're at it don't forget your little pond friends. They have so much to tell us.
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 ...
