Average Shoveler: 8-bit headline zen - Today's Time Waster

There's a lot of things you can do with RSS headlines, but this isn't one I had thought of: Average Shoveler is a Flash toy with old school adventure game-style graphics. You control a character who can do three things: walk around, shovel snow and talk to passers-by. The passers-by will tell give you news (scraped from Yahoo! News) and when you shovel the snow, news photos will appear. Occasionally large chunks of snow will fall and photos will fly inall directions (try not to be under those when they fall, though). There's really no object to the game, other than to shovel snow, learn about current events, and explore. Eventually, though, the snow will win.

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