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Google Earth adds KML overlay search
Google has recently introduced the option to search through all the world's collection of Keyhole Markup Language (KML) files within Google Earth, which makes all the gazillions of layers immediately accessible for your geobrowsing pleasure. In order to use this new search function, all you need to do is navigate to your area of interest and enter a search query, and a list of appropriate KML files will be displayed within your results. Click on one of the KML links, and information about that file will be displayed in a bubble. Finally, you can then click on the link within the bubble to display the KML layer over Google Earth. This nicely streamlines the process of using layers within the application, to say the least. Spiffy.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
