Street performances like you've never seen

Video Stores Explained To Modern Kids

Nah! Next you  are going to tell us people had to go out in bad weather to download books for their Kindle too? No way!

Andy Kaufman: Mighty Mouse Original (Here I Come to Save the Day)

Andy Kaufman's First Appearance on The Tonight Show Johnny Carson (1977)

Ventriloquist Jim Barber and Seville

An excellent performer!

The Roadrunner Story by Martha Sigall

 

Martha Goldman Sigall worked at the Termite Terrace, Leon Schlesinger's Studios in 1949 when the Roadrunner was created by Mike Maltese. She tells the story of how the Roadrunner character was created.

 

Time flies. A day to remember

Awesome FSX–ORBx video

 

As some of you know I am an MS-Flight Simulator enthusiast (FSX). I use ORBx sceneries whenever possible and can’t give enough praise to their quality and their service and staff.

A sim colleague, Narajan has recently put out a video showcasing some of the latest ORBx sceneries. I recommend you watch in 1080p HD and see the quality of Flight Simulation today.

 

FSX & ORBX sceneries

 

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Steam engine made from glass

 

 

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(Via Get Cynical)

After the Rapture

 

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Welease Wodger!

What better way to celebrate a fictional history that with a fictional history clip?

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FSX can be stunning, and not only for flight

Ferrari runs away

Sometimes talented people create amazing videos (watch in HD). Everybody associates FSX with flight . After all, it is Microsoft Flight Simulator. What you may not know is that besides excellent after-market sceneries (here ORBX’s Brisbane), and planes (Captain Sim’s C-130 Hercules) there are also cars you can use.

Sit back and enjoy.

The magic of today’s Flight Simulation

AS some of you know one of my hobbies is MS Flight Simulator, especially in multiuser over the net, with VoIP communications in real time.

As good as FSX is out of the box, it is nothing compared with what you can get in the after market. Some good freeware packages exist but the best scenery and aircraft add-ons are commercial.

Here’s a new video by my friend Patrick in Germany,flying the DodoSim Bell 206 Jet Ranger, in the town of Concrete, Washington (scenery by ORBx’s FTX-Pacific Northwest and Concrete Municipal Airport-3W5, skies by REX2).

What a joy is to fly as realistically as it gets (well, OK, Patrick takes some liberties as some of his excellent but daring flying would get him in hot water in real life).

Watch it in HD.

Drum battle

 

Harry Belafonte vs. Animal

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(Via Miss Cellania)

The Limits of Science

 

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(Via Unreasonable Faith)

I’m enjoying World Cup

Having a ball with Argentina, and watching as many games as I can. Happy with all the South American teams, doing well, from powerhouses like Argentina and Brazil to Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile.

Speaking of football, John Cleese wants to make a clarification:

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What Would Jesus Do?

by Axis of Awesome

He’s a zombie-wizard who also knows kung-fu, so next time you’re in trouble thinking “What Would Jesus Do?,” try not to forget, he’s a million billion trillion times better than you

(Via Atheist Media Blog)

Avatar Review

From the maker of the Phantom Menace review.

 

Part I

 

Part II

(Via Cynical-C)

Bohemian Rhapsody

This live version features Elton John, Queen, and Axl Rose performing at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992.

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Here is the excellent and amusing version Oompah version by an Austrian Band. Different and very amusing.

Miss Cellania has a list of Bohemian Rhapsody versions.

 

(Via TYWKIWDBI)

Flight Sim: OZx Team’s Australia!

As many of you know, I like the realism of Microsoft Flight Simulator. Besides the excellent world-wide coverage of the sim, and the default planes, enthusiastic simmers have a lot of choices to improve the hobby, with freeware and payware planes and sceneries.

One of the usual producers, the OZx Team has just released OZx_AUS_v3.0,  freeware for Microsoft Flight Simulator – FSX. It is a big download, in two parts, that covers the continent in 3Gb with over 5,000 files!

It has 20 new fields and heliports, 13 water landing ports and new VFR sceneries covering the Aussie landscape. This makes a total of over 300 sceneries plus oil rigs and farm silos. It provides wonderful flying opportunities, from the lush green landscapes of eastern Australia to the red outback, from farming areas in the west to the oil fields in the Indian Ocean.

As I do not know much of Australia (having never flown there), I decided to do a tour with a few hops a day, to get to know the terrain. This one started at Canberra (YSCB) going North, with Plan-G maps (beta) open on my second monitor. Very nice scenery, very well done. Plane is A2A's Piper Cub (payware), and excellent choice for model realism, if you like laid back, low and slow flying.

On to some screenshots:

1. Plan-G flight plan 

2. NE of Canberra (YSCB)

3. Farmland near Lake George, NSW

4. Goorooyarroo Natural Reserve

5. Over the Shoalhaven River canyon

6. Goulburn (YGLB) ahead

(click on the images for larger size)

I like the realism of the plane, an excellent rendition of the venerable Piper J3 Cub, and OZx’s Australia scenery. The passenger is Heidi, and she talks and reacts to the kind of flying you do, so better be a good pilot.

I plan to continue flying hops around Oz and see what the land has to offer.