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What it's really like inside Google
At the Something Awful forums a user called ZorbaTHut, who claims to be a Google engineer who spend his 20% free time improving Google Calculator, has started a thread called "Ask me about Google (and Google Calculator)," and, at least to a geek like me, the results are fascinating. Unlike the many articles that have been written about the inner workings of Google, ZorbaTHut reveals trivia about the company that, while not of much interest to shareholders and Wall Street Journal readers, might be interesting to Download Squad readers. In case you don't have the attention span to scroll through seven pages of forum thread, Google Blogoscoped has posted some of the more interesting excerpts from the discussion. According to Zorba, Google employees get one terabyte of Gmail storage.
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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 ...
