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Create your own presidential debate with Yahoo! candidate mashup
But if you're suffering from debate overload, or if the debates just haven't been run the way you'd like, you can get directly involved. Kind of. It turns out that even when average citizens got to ask the questions in the recent CNN/YouTube debate, the candidates pretty much gave stock answers.
But now no matter what the candidates say, Yahoo! is giving you the chance to twist their words. As if you wouldn't have anyway. But seriously, Yahoo! is teaming up with the Huffington Post and Slate to create a candidate mashup. Charlie Rose is asking each Democratic candidate a series of user-submitted questions today. Tomorrow the answers will be available online, and Yahoo! is encouraging users to edit the video.
Want to see how Hillary Clinton and Dennis Kucinich stack up against one another? Because we know that's what you've really been wondering. Go ahead and put their answers back to back and make it a two-person debate. You'll be able to mix and match the answers and share your mashup with other users. It looks like Yahoo! will provide all the tools on its own site, rather than letting you download and re-cut the videos, so mashup might not really be the best word for this, but it's the word Yahoo! is using.
Yahoo! plans to launch a similar candidate mashup featuring Republican candidates soon.
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 ...
