After many years on dialup, I’ve spent the last two days installing a high-speed wireless network at Chez Jackelope. My throat is painfully dry from all the cursing, but aside from that things are working pretty well.
What have I been missing out on? What cool stuff can I do that I haven’t even realized yet? Bring on the suggestions; I’m watching StrongBad e-mails and trucking through the Internet Archive, and I no longer fear Flash.
Whatcha got?
A bunch of crappy music available for free at my site.
Thanks for listening! I love my fans!
Movie trailers. Well, you can’t download them, but at least you can watch them fast!
Game trailers at www.gametrailers.com
Yes, you can download them
Remixes of game music at www.ocremix.org and www.vgmix.com
There are free, opensource games everywhere. Try googling for them.
Go to earth.google.com (google ‘google earth’ if that url isn’t correct) and download the program. You can zoom in anyplace in the world. You can even put in two addresses and watch as the program ‘dirves’ you there - the map turns when you are supposed to make a turn and everything. It’s pretty neat.
Snowboarder Bo, I like the music. It’s not really my genre, but the “Half Pipe or Half Full” song was cool; I’ll send the link to my wife, who likes that trip-hop type stuff more than I do.
Thanks for the links, folks! What else you got?
I second the Google Earth… great stuff…
Get e-mule and start downloading good MP3 music… especially older stuff you miss.
Go to www.ifilm.com/viralvideo and watch everything. Laugh for hours.
Then go to www.japander.com and watch stuffy american celebrities like Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt embarrass themselves in insane Japanese commercials.
wow! thanks!
lol i am a shameless self-promoter, but i never actually expect anyone to go and listen 
I’m always caught off guard and very pleased when someone actually thinks the tunes rise above “craptacular”. Muchos gracias, amigo.
http://www.atomfilms.com/af/home/ is a good site
Neatest thing that I’ve seen lately. A coyote stalking a man. This guy is walking and filming, and everytime he stops, you can hear the coyote behind him.
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Make sure your sound is turned up.
Every time I see this sentence in a video recommendation post, it’s like a giant red flag with flashing LEDS that spell out “STARTLE VIDEO!!!”
Yes, it is a startle video, with a sudden noise and something that jumps up at the last second. Unregistered Bull, those are (a) not funny, and (b) frowned upon by the mods around here.
I swear, I do not understand the point of trying to startle someone when you don’t get to see their reaction.
jackelope has it right. If someone opened this at work they could get in a lot of trouble.
Google Earth is a disaster for me, constantly crashes…
Google Maps, however, must be a nightmare on dialup but is wonderful on broadband… maps.google.com, maps.google.co.uk etc. for the regional variants.
Y’know, I just upgraded to broadband in early June. So, in the last couple of months, I finally set out to download…
•Episodes of “Red vs. Blue” and “Happy Tree Friends.”
•The Batman fan-films “Grayson” and “Dead End.”
•Demos for Halo, Battlefield 1942, and Postal 2.
•The Civil War mod for Medal of Honor. (Multiplayer only, which I haven’t actually tried, yet. Ever. But I did play around solo on some levels, and I actually got to use a muzzle-loading smoothbore musket in a FPS! It takes 20 seconds to reload, with full animation! How much geeky fun is THAT?)
•Samples of iTunes songs, without having to wait two minutes per clip.
•Countless Mp3s.*
*…from iTunes and Amazon’s free song download pages.
Second (or third) the recommendation for Google Earth. I love it.
I also have NASA’s WorldWind, a similar program, and Celestia, an excellent free space simulator.
The Library of Congress American Memory site is also fantastic, and is something that every American should check out. Much of the material consists of documents and smaller pictures that might not benefit too much from a fast connection, but they have high-resoultion TIFF images on many of the sites, and there is also a good amount of video, including:[ul]
[li]Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements[/li][li]Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies: includes a full, downloadable copy of the first western, Edwin Porter’s The Great Train Robbery, from 1903.[/li][li]Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904[/li][li]Origins of American Animation: early animated films, from 1900-1921.[/li][li]The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906[/li][li]Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916[/li][li]Variety Stage Motion Pictures: early films of burlesque, comedy sketches, dancing, etc. from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.[/li]Americans at Work, Americans at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894 to 1914[/ul]For slightly less cerebral material, check out Ebaumsworld and Punchbaby.
It was well recieved by others with a sense a humour on other boards. I enjoyed it myself the first time around. I could also see way more folks getting in trouble at work for opening links to the Victoria Secrets catalog and other non-nude T&A links that seem acceptable. :rolleyes:
There’s a diffference between understanding your risk and evaluating it than in innocently opening a link that you have no idea is a trick.
–Cliffy
Of course one of those differences can be not finding something to be a funny experience and finding someting to be a funny experience. But I won’t do again. It appears to be against the rules. I sure didn’t intend to do it to be mean or to get someone in trouble at work. I enjoyed it and was simply passing it on. I had no idea that it would have been that traumatic. I won’t let it happen again.