Okay, here’s another one of those time-wasting, yet addicting games. I know it’s in French, but it’s really easy to play : Keep the white bouncing ball up in the air by sliding the mouse left and right. At the same time, don’t let the bowling ball roll off the see saw it rests on that tilts as you move the mouse. Just play it for about 30 seconds, you’ll get the hang of it.
Timewaster of the day is Flatland. A small little game where you move around shooting buggers and collecting the colored blocks that shoot out. When you get hurt, you loose blocks. Its actually kind of like mario and coins…
Play it: Flatland
Brian’s list reminded me of a fun little game called Truck Dismount- a program that simulates in 3d the effects of a truck with a passenger hitting a wall. There are various options to change the crash, including speed, position of passenger, camera angle, etc. There are 2 other games in this series, both of which are not as fun (in my opinion): stair dismount, and dismount levels which is customizable but still in its beta phase.
Yes, so Dan introduced me to Jumper, which, i gotta admit, is fun and addicting, but its FREAKING hard. For some reason, I do better on the redux campaign, which is harder, than the normal campaign. I played that for a good chunk of time today.
The rest of the time, I played Jedi Trainer and read Terry Pratchet.
Jedi trainer…is absolutely addicting. I dont know why…but it is. I mean, all you do, is wave a lightsaber and hope to kill a floating ball. But…its kind of odd. Because, sometimes, you can hit the ball, and kill it. Most of the time, you hit it, and it flies off in some direction, and starts shooting you with it. Oddly, you can hit the thing as much as you want, and it just wont die. Then…it dies. Its really random. But…see how high you can get! I got 12594 SOMEHOW. Play it here
Remember the Optimus keyboard we blogged about waaay back in January, with the customizable color OLED keys that could show any icon on the key in full color?
http://www.flashladybug.com/wordpress/archives/64
Well, it’s finally out. Minus a few features. Such as color. And full key oled displays. And the launcher keys, keys specifically included to start programs. And the pricetag of this scaled down keyboard? $1,200. Not exactly cheap…..I mean, this is a great idea, and has potential, even in black and white, but the price has gotta come down first.
They do sell a very small 3-key customizable block for $121. What would I do with those three keys? Make it 6 or nine, and now you’re talking. That’s enough keys for a hotkey pad for game playing or photoshop tools.
Sadly, this keyboard was overpromised, underdeveloped, and overpriced for now. I actually wonder if they had done a full color model if they could have found buyers even at a really high price…..
Read the article/review here
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/index.php?p=168&tag=nl.e589
Staring December 4th, people in North america will be able to register for the opportunity to beta test Halo 3, sometime in spring 2007. The site is halo3.com, it aint up yet 
Right now, i’m wondering how long it takes before the site goes down from lag 
Info from here
Yes, this is the day of timewasters.
There is QWERTY Warriors, which, I have to admit, is pretty odd, but hey, its great for someone who wants to improve their typing skills. You sit there looking at the screen, each enemy comes waltzing in with a word under him. You type the word correctly, and you shoot him. Type it incorrectly, and nothing happens. Enemies come faster and faster in different forms with each of them getting harder words. Its pretty hectic near the end, and what do you know, theres even powerups.
Play it here
The second one…Double Wires is a Spiderman type game. Assuming you’ve played helicopter before, this is like that…only with a spidy guy. You got two arms that are sticky and can extend. Object of the game? Swing around as far as you can. Good luck! Play it here
And finally, TrID the file identifier. You ever see really wierd files that have no extensions on them? And you know you want whatevers inside it? You know you can open it and get the info, only if you remembered the file extension. No fear! TrID can scan the file and tell you the possible identities of the file! It can also learn different file types as you use it, and has lots of uses. Try it here
Recently, like a couple million other people, I upgraded from FireFox 1 to FireFox 2. So far, I haven’t really had any compatibility issues. I’ve had this minor problem that sometimes when I minimize FF2, it disappears from the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. A quick visit to the task manager, and I can pull it up again. But that’s not what really, at the moment, as Peter Griffin might say, griding my gears.
Whats really grinding my gears is a little detail overlooked in one of the menus. Our beloved “extensions” seem to be no more. I don’t mean the fact that a whole bunch of mine no longer worked. A bunch of the ones that no longer work didn’t work in the first place. If you look under the “tools” menu, the “extensions” heading has been replaced with the more mundande and downright pedestrian “Add-Ons.” I know that this heading now controls the updates, extensions, and themes. But come on. What used to be the largest selling point for FF? It was the extensions. Sure, we all knew about its better security, and the tabbed browsing. But the real kicker were the extensions. It didn’t matter that a good chunk of the people who used Firefox didn’t know the first thing about web security, and that they didn’t fully grasp just how much safer FF was. They just liked the idea of having multiple programs rolled into one. They weren’t add-ons. An extra button on a toolbar is an add-on. Some random smiley :C is an add-on. But an extension is so much different. An extension is usefull. Its a way to compound functions into one window, give a free-flowing river of customizable information at your fingertips. I mean, extensions are cool. They work. They’re unique. Add-on’s aren’t. They’re just extra baggage, thrown in, without any forethough. Extensions are cool and hip; Their the things that you want to use. Being an extensions is like being asked “do you want to become the most popular kid in school,” and you answering “of course I want to be the most popular kid in school. Why wouldn’t I?” Add-ons are sluggish, and bulky. Add-ons are like slowly agreeing to become the fat kid who constantly eats, and doesn’t try worth a damn in gym class.
Memo to Firefox : We know that the new add-ons page covers more than just extensions, but it sounds so much better, cooler, etc. if you call em extensions instead.
Destroy the pumpkins by running your mouse over them.
Simple as that.
Yep. The paintball tank. A farmer in England got bored a while back, and turned a part of his farm into a paintball range. Thinking bigger, he decided to make a paintball tank. Teams work in threes, with a driver, a gunner, and a commander. The tanks are modified, with fake guns, although they do shoot ping-pong balls filled with paint at up to 300mph. Two Hours of tank warfare is only 74 pounds a head. ($140 US). Not cheap, but then again, its a real tank, with real weapons.