FF:NSW Weird, wacky, wonderful: Stuff you found on the net

I downloaded the demo, but am yet to play it. Power-gliding like the Vipers on the show is tempting. Im more interested in the StarFox mod thats also being developed for Freespace 2.

 

The Landlord

Warning: May contain under-aged coarse language. May also contain the funniest skit you've seen in a long, long time.

 

Pearl is a champion.

 

omg!! ace!!!!

i love pearl!!!!!

 

Techno geek stuff.

http://www.glumbert.com/media/highpower

 

Anchorman 300

 

Turn Off Your Cell Phone Ad shown in theatres before the 30th Anniversary screening of SW.

 

I think I'm in love ...

 

Words fail me.

http://www.terre.tv/indexvod.php?case=1&ref=00151

Takes awhile to load, stick with it.

 

oh dear.

 

The ah Original site is HERE!... Mind you the subtitles in Shad's version is pretty cool.

 

http://www.mcmorran.org/pages.php?page_id=15

Someone buy me the Ewok one.







Please.

 

I like 'The Force' in a box.

It's not an empty box dammit !

 

This has a naughty word or two:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1O3HkI3Wrg

 

If The Force is part of all living things in the SW galaxy, shouldn't "The Force" box contain all the figures in the SW galaxy ... ?

 

What's Cooking, Grandma?

 

The Future According to Bill Gates: The Virtual Reality Table


A lot of this stuff was supposed to go into windows Vista (and it might have been a bit more popular if it had) but didn't quite make it. So it looks like they've found a new home for it all.

 

Avoid touchtone insanity! speak to a human!


This site offers instructions on how to bypass those damned touchtone menus and speak to a real live human being at lots of major companies. Just select Country = Australia for a growing list of instructions for Australian companies.

 

Nothing funny about this -- it's a technology demonstration that has to be seen to be believed...

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1762315

 

For anyone who wants a hands-on play with the Photosynth technology, Microsoft has a live version at their Live Labs website, featuring a few different photo collections ...

http://labs.live.com/photosynth/view.html?collection=sanmarco/index1.sxs

 

It seems Vader is no different from you or I in how we go about our daily lives...

 

Apparently The Oxford English Dictionary has an entry for "McJob" that defines it as "a low-paying job that requires little skill and provides little opportunity for advancement."

And now it seems that McDonald's is behind a petition to get the OED definition changed to "a job that is stimulating, rewarding ... and offers skills that last a lifetime."


http://www.changethedefinition.com/

 

Those crazy folks at Apple are trying to get another piece of your windows computer: they're releasing the Apple Safari web browser for windows xp & vista.

http://www.apple.com/au/safari/



I've tried it. It's neat, it's fast, but it's like IE: too barebones. It doesn't even have (or allow expansion to include) basic ad-blocking, etc. So I won't be ditching Firefox any time soon. But if they did ...

 

6 year old solves Rubik's Cube in 37 seconds.

 

Skill tester - requires sound.