Filed under: Fun, Web services
Track the Tour de France live with Google Maps
What shall we obsess over while the World Cup isn't on? How about the Tour de France? Tour de France Live Tracker is a Google Maps mash-up that plots the route of the Tour and its riders in real time. It also displays riders' vitals, like heart rate and speed. Of course, at this hour nobody's moving, which makes it pretty boring, but once they get going again you can track your favorite rider across France.[Thanks, Martin!]
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 ...
