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The myths behind launching a Digg clone

If you've got Pligg on the brain and you're planning to become the next social-news mogul, a quick read-through of these 8 myths about launching a Pligg site is a great place to start. It may dash you're hopes and dreams but, better to dive well informed and headlong into a new project than to wander blindly and hold expectations that may not match reality.
If you're still not dissuaded from your quest to become a social news baron, the Pligg forums can help you weather the inevitable hardships you'll face along the way.
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 ...
