Filed under: Web services, Google
Google Maps go green
Google is showing its ecological side with Summer of Green, an attractive Google Maps mashup that, in a partnership with the Earth Day Network, "highlights some planet-friendly travel tips for top U.S. travel destinations as well as how to use Google Maps in your daily routine to find and support green activities." Though the site is a bit overloaded just now (when will Google learn that any site it launches is going to get pummeled?), it's very slick, clean, and easy to use.
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 ...
