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Coffee Break Arcade Here is another great website with tons of free online games.
Game FAQs and Guides Having trouble with an incredibly tough boss? Don't know what to do next? Well, you're in luck! This site has tons and tons of game FAQs and guides for you to use!
Xiao Xiao Shootout Here is a simple, fun shooting game from the makers of the Xiao Xiao movies. It may take a while to load. Enjoy!
Eagle Red mod This is a huge mod for Red Alert 2:Yuri's Revenge, and it's absolutely free! There are about fifty new units for soviets, allies, and Yuri, and a whole bunch of new game modes. I know Red Alert 2 is an old game, and now there's "Generals," and I'm out of date, and most of you don't like Red Alert 2 that much, but forget about that. This is a great mod. And now they're working on something called Asian Alliance, which will have a whole new army with rail guns, pulsars, and all that good stuff.
Easter Eggs
"Easter eggs" are little tricks hidden in electronics. Sometimes they're very cool, sometimes they're very useful, sometimes they're very pointless, but they're always interesting. I list all of the easter eggs I know here. If you know any that I don't, feel free to write it in the guestbook and I'll put it here with your name beside it for good measure.
- This egg is supposed to on Windows 98, but I've never gotten it to work. Go to the Start menu then "Programs" then "Accessories." Right click on any application and go down to "Properties." Click the "Change Icon" button and double click on the icon that is already highlighted. Click the OK button. Now open the start menu again and move your mouse right below the Shut Down option. You should see an option that says "eject PC."
- In Word 97 you can play a pinball game. Open Word. Type in "Blue." Go to "Format" =>"Font," and change the style to Bold and the color to blue. Add a space after the word. Now go to the "Help" menu and click "About..." Press Ctrl and Shift and click on the Word logo at the upper left of the window.
- In Word 97 start a new document and hold down "Ctrl", "3", "g", and "w."
- In Excel 97, open a new Worksheet and Press F5. Type "X97:L97" and press Enter. Press the Tab key, Hold down Ctrl & Shift and left click the Chart Wizard toolbar icon. You should now be in a flight simulator. Use the mouse to move around - Left button reverse thrust, Right button forward thrust. Look around carefully to find the Shrine with the programmers messages and the Blue Lagoon!
- You must have Excel 2000 and DirectX (which most of you have even though you may not know it) for this egg. It's very cool. Open Excel, but don't write anything yet. Go to "Save as" in the file menu. At the bottom of the new window, you'll see a bar marked "Save as type." Scroll through the list and click "Web Page" - new options should appear. Click the "Publish" button, and a new window should pop up. Check the box that says "Add interactivity with..." and the one at the bottom that says "Open published web page in browser" then click the "Publish" button. Now you should see what looks like a web page, but has an Excel spredsheet on it. Scroll down to Row 2000 (tedious, I know). Click the button which labels row 2000 to highlight it. Now press the Tab button on the keyboard until you get to column WC (again, tedious, I know). Then press Ctrl, Alt, Shift, and click on the office logo in the upper left side of the spreadsheet. Voila - you should (although I haven't done it yet) be able to play a game.
- If you change your screensaver to 3-D text, click the settings button and type in "Volcano" for the text, the screensaver will show the names of major volcanos around the world.
- On google (www.google.com), if you type the extension "intl/xx-klingon/" after google.com (to form www.google.com/intl/xx-klingon/", the website will appear in the Klingon language from Star Trek.
- The egg above actually work for other "languages" as well. Try these: http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/ http://www.google.com/intl/xx-elmer/
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-piglatin/
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/
- Google Mac edition (dedicated to the Mushroom): www.google.com/mac
- http://www.google.com/Easter/feature_easter.html - Google's easter edition.
- On askjeeves.com (a search engine), if you type in "How are you?", the first result on the screen will be "Splendid! Would you like to ask another question?"
- Also on ask.com, if you type in "Deja Vu," scroll down to the bottom and under the heading "refine your search" it will say "Didn't you just ask that?"
Comics
Jokes
Here are some jokes that I've heard that were mildly funny. Well, actually, there aren't that many jokes that are funny, so I'll just put any jokes that I've hear recently. Below is also a riddles and jokes category search. I cannot guarantee that the jokes are funny, but check them out if you have nothing to do.
What does Star Trek and toilet paper have in common?
They both fly around Uranus and get Klingons.
AKA They both fly around your anus and get cling-ons, for those of you who still don't get it.
mushroom's favorite: What do we say to Steve, the Dell guy?
Dude, you're getting a cell!
What is the opposite of progress?
Congress
One afternoon, a woman was complaining to her new next-door neighbor that her husband always came home late, no matter how she tried to stop him. "Take my advice," said the neighbor, "and do what I did. Once my husband came home at three o'clock in the morning, and from my bed, I called out: 'Is that you, Jim?' And that cured him."
"Cured him!" asked the woman, "but how did that cure him?"
The neighbor said, "His name is Bill."
A little boy was wondering about God after Sunday school, when he realized that he was uncertain about some things. So he went to his mom for some answers.
"Mommy, is God a boy or a girl?",
and his mom said, "God is both a boy and girl."
So he continued the inquiry, "Mommy, is God black or white?",
and his mom said, "God is both black and white."
And finally he asked, "Mommy, is God gay or straight?",
and his mom replied, "God is both gay and straight."
So after this, he thought a while, and he drew some conclusions and he asked his mom, "Mommy, is God Michael Jackson?"
A pirate walked into a bar, and the bartender noticed that he had a steering wheel in his pants. The bartender asked him what in the sam hill he was doing, and he replied, "Yaaar, it's driving me [my] nuts!"
I mean no offense to Japanese people, but I think this joke is quite funny:
For a military experiment, three people were placed on an isolated island - a Frenchman, an American, and a Japanese person. The American was put in charge of buiding a house, the Frenchman was in charge of cooking, and the Japanese person was in charge of getting supplies. When the conductors of the experiment returned, they found a large spacious house, they could smell gourmet French cuisine, but there was no sign of the Japanese person. They asked the Frenchman and the American where he had gone, but they hadn't seen him either. Thus, they went into the forest to search for the missing test subject. Suddenly, the Japanese person jumped out from behind a tree and yelled, "Supplies!"
The mushroom told me this joke, and it's not very funny but what the heck:
Billy Bob Joe was walking home from work one day when he glanced behind him and saw a coffin stalking him. He was frightened as any person in their right mind would be, so he decided to try to walk faster. But the coffin just stayed with him. By this time, he was panicked. He ran home and locked the door behind him, but the coffin started knocking on the door! Eventually it knocked the door down, and was about to get Billy, when he ran to the bathroom and locked the door again. But the coffin kept coming, and sure enough it broke down the bathroom door, too! Now he was cornered, and he didn't know what to do. He just cowered on the toilet waiting to meet his doom. Finally, he got an idea. He rushed to the medicine cabinet and took out the Robitussin. That stopped the coffin [coughing]!
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