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Interview: The Google Earth / Holocaust Museum Crisis In Sudan project
For the vast majority of people throughout history war crimes and genocide have taken place in dark distant places. The crimes of genocide in Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Rwanda or the former Yugoslavia were served up through old media: news reports on the breakfast table, heart rending photographs in Time magazine or gripping reports with shaky camerawork on the nightly television news. Yet despite the media coverage of ongoing war crimes in locations like the Balkans or such tragedies often lack immediacy for many people when contrasted against the normality of daily life.A new collaboration between Google Earth and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is seeking to address that distance by a new project to draw awareness to the ongoing genocide in the East African nation of Sudan. Called 'Crisis In Darfur' the project is designed to draw awareness to the ongoing human rights tragedy in that country by using the Web 2.0 functionality of the Google Earth program.
Since 2003 Arab militia groups called Janjaweed, which are backed by the Government of Sudan, have conducted a vicious campaign against African rebel groups in the Western Sudan region of Darfur. In an attempt to suppress the rebel groups, the Janjaweed have targeted innocent civilians on a massive scale, carrying out rape, murder and theft or destruction of property against the indigenous African population resulting in an estimated 300,000 deaths and 2.5 million refugees.
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 ...
