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Is JavaScript slowing down the web?
Read/WriteWeb has a great article up that claims that JavaScript and - more to the point: all of the widgets that JavaScript powers - are ruining the web by slowing down websites to a crawl. The surprising information here is that JavaScript is a single-threaded language, meaning that in most cases nothing can happen on a website while a given piece of JavaScript code is being run. While this isn't a big deal for small or fast code, anything that your site is loading from a 3rd party that isn't optimized could be drastically slowing your site down. Some tips are included with respect to how to optimize your pages to be minimally impacted by potentially slow JavaScript, however there is no easy solution. Maybe simply using moderation when determining which widgets to add to your site is the best advice.
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 ...
