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Old 12-24-2006, 01:05 AM   #1
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Dude flys with a wing !!!
http://today.reuters.com/tv/videosto...video-7&rpc=93

And in a lawn chair !!!

http://www.markbarry.com/lawnchairman.html
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Old 12-25-2006, 03:12 AM   #2
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Weird and intersting stuff ,
http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/
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Old 12-25-2006, 09:11 PM   #3
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Old 12-28-2006, 05:19 PM   #4
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First try.
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Old 12-28-2006, 07:50 PM   #5
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My first game was about 40,000. My second game, I hit the fence just right but the damn counter actually rolled over past 10,000,000 and reset.

My third game the counter reset but I still got a good score.
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Old 12-28-2006, 05:34 PM   #6
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Damn - can't do screen print!

Trust me (as it was pure fluke - I didn't get the game til halfway through)

Bounces: 293
Accidents: 4
Final Score: 9959856
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Old 12-28-2006, 08:07 PM   #7
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Just for the record (although I have easily been bested)

So glad I printed this - I can't screen print, this is a photo of a printout. Was just experimenting at the time, but 7 games later have realised how flukey my fluke was...
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Old 12-28-2006, 09:43 PM   #8
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I've since found if you don't move (having a trackerball mouse helps) you will get a fence ricochet almost every time.

Just got this score:
Bounces: 2395
Accidents: 4
Final Score: 7414449 (as this resets it's pretty damn useless)

Good fun until I learned the trick though
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Old 12-28-2006, 09:56 PM   #9
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Try this one. http://www.guessmygift.com/

It's a Christmas version of 20 questions. Eerily intelligent.
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Old 12-28-2006, 10:53 PM   #10
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Old 12-28-2006, 11:03 PM   #11
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Old 12-29-2006, 09:52 AM   #12
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How did I do it?! Photoshop!

Did you guys know you can pump the rifle more than once? You can also cheat by changing the score in an image editing software.
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Old 12-29-2006, 03:28 PM   #13
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Try this one. http://www.guessmygift.com/

It's a Christmas version of 20 questions. Eerily intelligent.
Wow. Is this thing HAL9000 or what?
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Old 12-29-2006, 05:44 PM   #14
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Try this one. http://www.guessmygift.com/

It's a Christmas version of 20 questions. Eerily intelligent.
Last Christmas I got a handheld version called 20Q. I can see how the online version could learn and get smarter over time, but this hand held can't do that. It's amazing how well it can deduce the answer.
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Old 12-29-2006, 08:06 PM   #15
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Try this one. http://www.guessmygift.com/

It's a Christmas version of 20 questions. Eerily intelligent.
Last Christmas I got a handheld version called 20Q. I can see how the online version could learn and get smarter over time, but this hand held can't do that. It's amazing how well it can deduce the answer.
I was amazed. I put in harmonium, a somewhat obscure instrument, and it still guessed it after about 16 tries. I doubt anyone else on the Cellar could do better.
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