Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Flight late or canceled? You need to know rule 240

There's a little-known rule in the airline industry that requires airlines to fly you on another carrier in the event that their flight is canceled. If you travel, here's what you need to know.

Rule 240, at MSNBC

Saturday, January 19, 2008

New online game: Fancy Pants 2

Fancy Pants 1 is a fantastic free online flash game; it's a creative adventure side-scroller with great physics and environments.

A demo of Fancy Pants 2 was released some time ago (a year or two perhaps?), which showcased some remarkable improvements....and then, nothing. Silence. Fans of the demo waited so long for the full version, we forgot what we were waiting for!

Today, the developer Brad Borne has released Fancy Pants 2! Give it a try, it's fun for all ages.

http://games.mochiads.com/c/g/fpa-world-2/FPAWorld2.swf



Controls:
  • Left and right to move
  • Up to open doors
  • Down while running to slide or roll
  • S to jump
  • To kill the baddies, jump on them or slide into them. If you land on them still pressing S, you'll permanently get them off the level. Without, you'll just stun them
  • If you jump onto a wall, and jump again, you will jump off it and (if there's another wall nearby) onto that one. You can scale closely-spaced parallel walls that way
  • The snail and golf holes are explained in-game