Bubble Bobble - Flash Game
Bubble Bobble - Flash Game
A replica of the classic arcade game!
Martha Stewart still hasn’t cleaned up her act.
Martha Stewart still hasn’t cleaned up her act.
Pilot mistook road for runway
Pilot mistook road for runway
A pensioner attempting to land a plane on a road after mistaking it for the runway.
An accident report says he only noticed his mistake when he hit a speed bump, reports Sky News.
The pilot believed he’d found the landing strip despite noticing “a kerb to the side and lamp posts to his left”.
The 68-year-old, who has not been named, was an experienced private pilot who had clocked up more than 1,000 hours in the air.
However, he had flown for just four hours in the three months before the accident on August 24 2006 and only landed at the Shobdon Aerodrome three times before.
The accident happened during a solo flight from Coventry, the monthly bulletin from the Air Accidents Investigations Branch reports.
“When close to touchdown, the pilot noticed that the airfield was different from what he remembered,” it states.
“Shortly after touching down, the aircraft ran over a speed bump which caused it to veer left and leave the road.”
The plane’s left wing hit a tree and its right was almost entirely sheared off after colliding with a lamppost.
The pilot managed to escape from wreck unscathed. The road, near Leominster, Herefordshire, was free of traffic as it had only just been built.
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from Ananova
Rocket Bob - Flash Game
Rocket Bob - Flash Game
Help Bob jump from one platform to another through the dense city skyline using only his jackhammer.
Barbarian Bob - Flash Game
Barbarian Bob - Flash Game
Travel through the castle
My sister is 15…
Xerox Inkless Printer
The personal computer revolution of the 1980s brought with it the hope of the paperless office as there was a shift from the old-fashioned typewriters to viewing and editing documents on computer screens. But this dream vanished quickly as people realized that their monochromatic cathode ray tube (CRT) displays were uncomfortable to watch for long periods of time. Aggravating the problem was the introduction of the low-cost office printer, capable of making dozens of copies of each document (an ability which was limited until that time to large and expensive photocopying machines).
As years passed by it seemed that the introduction of the personal computer not only did not reduce the amount of paper produced in our offices, it actually increased it.
Sky Boarder - Flash Game
Sky Boarder - Flash Game
Fly through the dark skies. Slash at flying enemies using your electric attack.
Man crossed river to avoid ‘bank charges’
Man crossed river to avoid ‘bank charges’
A Canadian rescued from a rubber raft in near-zero conditions told rescuers he was paddling to the US to avoid bank charges.
Wayne Kingwell, 40, ended up spending five hours on the Niagara River before he was rescued, reports Buffalo News.
US Attorney Terrance P Flynn said investigators were trying to determine the validity of the bizarre explanation he gave.
He claimed he regularly crosses from his home in Fort Erie, Ontario, to Buffalo - using a small aluminum boat or the raft - to do his banking.
“He said he was coming across the river to pay off the balance of his credit card,” Flynn said.
Kingwell claimed he was charged an $85 fee if he mails the payment, so he crosses the river each month instead.
There is a bridge - but Mr Kingwell claimed he was not allowed to use it because of a legal dispute with the Canadian government.
When he was rescued, authorities said, Kingwell was carrying more than $3,000 cash - enough to pay off a credit card bill that he really does owe.
Border Patrol spokesman Michael Przybyl said: “I was surprised that he’d try this on one of the coldest days of the year.
“It’s not the first time that this has happened. We’ve had attempted entries in the middle of winter. But this is the coldest that I can remember someone trying to cross on the water.”
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from Ananova
