Yahoo! has just launched
Yodel Anecdotal, a new blog which, in its
first post, cheekily describes itself as "yet another self-serving corporate blog." According to Paul Stamatiou, a Yahoo! intern who built the site (and has written about its genesis
at his own blog), Yodel Anecdotal is "not the type of blog you visit to check if there's a new API for that JavaScript library you so dearly love nor is it the kind of blog you go to get info on the company's earnings reports." Rather, the site promises to "cover emerging trends, provide some behind-the-scenes commentary, profile interesting Yahoos, spotlight our beloved users, reveal some of our quirks, tap into guest bloggers, sprinkle in some videos and photo essays, and generally think out loud." Though there's currently only one post, featuring a breakneck MTV Cribs-style tour of Yahoo!, the site is soliciting "comments, quibbles, questions, suggestions" on Yahoo!'s products and practices.
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 ...
