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Donate to Katrina victims via P2P
If you're looking for a way to donate to victims of Hurricane Katrina
and show your support for the P2P distribution model at the same time, the
Distributed Computing Industry Association, a P2P trade organization, has a deal for you.
The DCIA will release a version of the song "This Too Will Pass" by
Scooter Scudieri with — yikes — DRM, requiring a payment of 89 cents to
unlock, 80 cents of which will go to victims. Of course, the DRM being
used is the P2P-friendly Weed, so you can still check out the song for
free by downloading it via Kazaa, Grokster and other P2P services. Then
go ahead and hand over the 89 cents, even if you've never paid for
music before, and never will again.
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 ...
