When you stop and think about it, preparing for zombies is a lot like preparing for any other natural disaster.  You need nonperishable food, water, all of your basic medications, then tools and supplies.  Duct tape, a radio, tons of batteries and that type of things.

According to the CDC blog, if a zombie apocalypse breaks out, the CDC will investigate the event just like they would any other disease outbreak. CDC investigation and assistance would include "consultation, lab testing and analysis, patient management and care, tracking of contacts, and infection control (including isolation and quarantine)." Just like any other disease outbreak, the CDC would try to determine where and how the outbreak started and would make every effort to determine how to best deal with an outbreak of zombies.

So, feel safe that the CDC is looking out for you and keep that shot gun and chainsaw handy, just in case.

Steel Diver

Ever want to pilot your own submarine? No? Well, me neither – however Steel Diver still takes the cake when it comes to delivering a fun and unique experience. It is essentially a submarine simulation game that kind of mashes up the gameplay from strategy games and arcade shooters.  The periscope mini game missions (where you can turn yourself 360 degrees to look for ships to shoot) is really fun too.

Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition

Fighting games on portable systems usually suck due to lack of features and poor controls.  This variation of Street Fighter though is thankfully the exception to that rule.  Sure, "professional" players might be turned off a ‘bit by it – however the inclusion of the touchpad combos and special moves for me, makes it a much more enjoyable experience.  It keeps the gameplay fast and you won’t have to worry about spamming Hadoukens by pressing the touch screen cause the computer will often counter you quickly.

Pilotwings Resort

Last but not least, you have Pilotwings Resort.  This game (especially with the 3D turned on) is amazing to look at and play too.  The best way to sum it up quickly would be if you took the flying parts of Wii Sports Resort and made them into their own game – plane and simple.  Really fun and there is always the challenge of beating your previous score in many of the missions.

Overall, I am pretty happy with all three game choices.  Each showcases the abilities of the 3DS really well, and should at least be looked into if you are wanting to pick up a few more new games for your new 3DS system.

The Worth of Web score I got for mitchelaneous.com was 4 out of 5.  Here are some of the other values it came up with for me:

Daily Visits: 3,500
Daily Pageviews: 10,500
Daily Revenue: $ 15.75
Monthly Visits: 105,000
Monthly Pageviews: 315,000
Monthly Revenue: $ 472.5
Yearly Visits: 1,260,000
Yearly Pageviews: 3,780,000
Yearly Revenue: $ 5,670
Estimated website worth: $ 11,340

Not bad at all, I’d say? Who wants to buy me out? 

Now let us take a look at webhostingshow.com:

4 out of 5 stars

Daily Visits: 3,300
Daily Pageviews: 9,900
Daily Revenue: $ 14.85
Monthly Visits: 99,000
Monthly Pageviews: 297,000
Monthly Revenue: $ 445.5
Yearly Visits: 1,188,000
Yearly Pageviews: 3,564,000
Yearly Revenue: $ 5,346
Estimated website worth: $ 10,692

Here is how firefoxfacts.com scored:

5 out of 5 stars

Daily Visits: 10,000
Daily Pageviews: 30,000
Daily Revenue: $ 45
Monthly Visits: 300,000
Monthly Pageviews: 900,000
Monthly Revenue: $ 1,350
Yearly Visits: 3,600,000
Yearly Pageviews: 10,800,000
Yearly Revenue: $ 16,200
Estimated website worth: $ 32,400

Now, I would not go to a negotiating table with these figures – however it is fun to see where it places your domain as far as value goes.  Go check out the Worth of Web Website Value Calculator and let me know where your domain stands in the rankings.

The bookmarklet will only work in Firefox 4 or Google Chrome – but if you are using either of those two games, you will soon find out this can be a pretty fun and addicting time waster.  When you first start it up you go through a few options to tweak and then you too can start picking up website elements with the ball you control – rolling it all over the website until you have picked up everything there is to pick up.

Want to give it a shot? Head over to kathack.com and drag the bookmark there to your bookmarks toolbar.

Want to take a look at what HTML5 can do? Not only is it able to give us slicker user interfaces and more tools when it comes to setting up websites, it can also be used to develop really awesome Tetris clones.  Ok, Torus might be a little ‘bit more than your average Tetris clone because it sports a nifty 3D interface.

You use your left, right, up and down keys to spin the blocks around the ring the Tetris blocks are on.  The goal is to make a complete ring of blocks (all the way around) to clear them out.  Well, I don’t really need to explain how to play Tetris to you, do I? Just think of it as a game of Tetris where you are building a cup – rather than just filling up a big wall. 

Go check out and play Torus for yourself.  You will need Firefox 4, or another HTML5 capable browser installed before you can play it – but if you do it is well worth wasting some time on.

Minecraft, simply put, is a game where you go around building things for fun. If you want to go out and build a 400 foot monument to yourself, go for it.  If you want to go dig a house out of a mountain, you can do that too.  From what I have seen there really is no right or wrong way to play the game. You pretty much sit down, figure out your goal and do it.

At the core of the game, you gather resources to make things.  For example, when you start out – you can go punch a tree down.  Yes, this is as awesome as it sounds. You can then gather the pieces of wood to craft something else. You might make a crafting table, so then you can create a pick axe.  With the pick axe, you can start mining for coal to make your torches.  Then you can build a shovel to dig faster in the dirt.  Before you know it, you will have an entire fort built for yourself with animals randomly spawning in your second floor (as you can see from the picture above). 

You can download this amazing little game and play it again and again for only about $20 or so (technically, If you pre-purchase now during beta, you pay  €14.95!)  My entire Sunday was lost in Minecraft and I am sure more productivity will go down the drain soon.  How else will I finish my 200 foot tall stone badger monument?

I downloaded Risk: Factions the other day while looking for another good multiplayer game on the PlayStation Network that wasn’t a beat ‘em up and I have to say, I was really impressed. For anybody who has played the board game, the objective is pretty much the same ol’ game.  The have added enough new and interesting twists though to keep you coming back and playing again and again.

When playing, you have the choice to play by the traditional Risk rules, or to play the Factions mode.  Personally, I haven’t tried the old rule set just yet because Factions is so much fun to play. In most games, you have the choice to achieve three objectives to win.  This might be as simple as taking over on continent or it might be more complex like taking over two enemy capitals.  When you do so, you get special abilities that make playing a very rewarding experience.

The factions in the game are humans, cats, robots, zombies and yetis.  The battle animations for each are really priceless and fun to watch again and again. 

Risk: Factions is available on both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and well worth checking out.  If you like strategy games, this is a game you just have to download.

Here are my favorite wallpapers from the past year.  My hope is that you might browse through these awesome digital creations and find one that you might want to switch to today.

Mortal Kombat HD Wallpaper Going Green (Lantern) Wallpaper Distraction Free Christmas Wallpaper More Mario Wallpaper Amazing Train Wallpaper Old Wooden Wallpaper Castle Crasher 3D Wallpaper Portal on Your Desktop Space Invaders HD Wallpaper Old School Atari Wallpaper 9 Favorite Mega Man Wallpapers

Ghostbusters Wallpaper More NES Box Art Wallpaper NES Box Art Wallpaper – Take 2 NES Box Art Wallpaper Bring Ms Pac Man to Your Desktop 8-Bit Mashup Wallpaper Wallpapers Organize Desktop Icon Clutter Deviant 1920 x 1200 Wallpaper Super Wallpaper (for Any Man) I’m Batman (the Wallpaper) 3 More Masterful Zelda Wallpapers Zelda’s Master Sword Wallpaper

Hope you enjoyed all of these great digital downloads.  If you have found or created an amazing wallpaper you would like to see me feature on Mitchelaneous.com, be sure to drop me a message and let me know.

NBA Jam has been just about the only sports game (outside of wrestling games) that I can play and actually have fun with.  Like it’s predecessor, the new NBA Jam for Wii is a basketball game for people who may not know all 227 rules you need to know in most basketball games.  It is simplified, when you compare it with other basketball games out there – but that’s perfect for me, because I’m not the world biggest sports fan. 

The game is great for a group of people or as something quick you want to play while you have a little free time to spare. 

Overall, I would say this version of NBA Jam might even beat out the old SNES version I still dust off and play from time to time.  It gives you all the basic features of the old two on two basketball game and tosses in enough new fun modes and un-lockables to get you to keep playing. 

Pirates and Treasure

Pirates Second Blood

Pirate Puzzler

Pirate Defense

Red Beard’s Gold Hunt

That is all the free flash goodness I have for now.  Know of another great free flash games involving pirate?  Make sure you leave a link to it in the comments, so we can all check it out.