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22 January 2002
Filed under:Uncategorized at1:56 pm

This Flash animation based around the game Pong seems a little boring and obvious at first but then it goes on… and on… and ends up rather funny…

Filed under:Uncategorized at9:31 am

Once upon a time, big media companies thought video on demand would allow them to bring their huge libraries of old movies to the public. Unfortunately, they seem to have found that most people only want films from the last few years and are concentrating their energies on providing those.
Sadly for those of us who are old movie buffs, several sites which once made classic films, TV and cartoons available for free via broadband have gone under. One or two remain, however – including the Internet Archive’s movie collection (mostly “public service” films, old propaganda and the like) and MovieFlix, with free offerings that include DW Griffiths’ The Birth of a Nation and several Chaplin and WC Fields films, several Dragnet and Jack Benny TV episodes, three You Bet Your Life shows (featuring Groucho Marx) and more. (For $4.95 a month you can access their whole collection, which is extensive).ringtone free 2112 nokialg 1200 ringtone7520 ringtonestheme american ringtone idolfree 3590 nokia ringtoneringtone 7250i polyphonic nokiaboyz ringtone motorola 69song ringtones actual free Map