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Roll your own 404s with Error Page Generator
Plain old 404 Web site error pages are so last century. Now you can make your own custom page with AllVoices' 404 Error Creator tool.Choose a person from a pre-populated list to create the background image, or upload your own. Then, add a title, a few comments, and click "create." Your new 404 error page is created in seconds, along with the code you need to save it for your Web site or post it on your blog.
Judging by the inordinate amount of political figures in the list of background images, this tool was probably created to let people voice their opinions during the election season. Since you can upload your own image, though, the possibilities of how to use the 404 Error Creator are pretty much endless. Of course you can use it as a way to mess with your friends, but since you can add whatever text you want -- including URLs -- it's also not a bad way to put together a fun temporary redirect page for visitors to your Web site.
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 ...
