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MapLib.net: Google Maps-ify your big images

MapLib.netAwhile back I reported on Zoomify, a neat desktop app that turns any large image (like a map, for instance) into a Flash widget that lets your web site's visitors pan and zoom around the image without loading the whole huge thing at once. Kinda like Google Maps. Well, the logical extension of that idea is MapLib.net, a free web service that does much the same thing. You upload a big image and MapLib wraps a Google Maps interface around it for panning and zooming to your heart's content. It's pretty easy to use, if a bit lacking in polish. Just upload your image (6,000 x 6,000 pixel, 4MB limit), provide some details like title and description, and wham! it's got a zoomable, draggable interface accessible by a unique URL. You can also add custom markers to the map, and allow other users to do so as well. Best of all, though, MapLib.net gives you a snippet of HTML that allows you to embed your map or image in your web site or blog. I tried it out and though uploading my 4MB image took awhile, the results are decent, but the image quality isn't the best. You can see the fruits of my labor after the jump, or see the full map here.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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