There is a new sport created by some people, in which basically a person runs on the surface of water. It may sound absolutely impossible but it’s true. The sport is called Liquid Mountaineering. There are some historical statements that suggest that this sport was created by the Greek, but now it is recreated and it’s one of the most impossible looking activities that anyone has seen.

The sport is all about running on water. Science tells us that with the right angle and speed anything can bounce off the surface of water for some time before it sinks. The perfect example is of a rock that when thrown with the right amount of speed, spin and angle, it starts bouncing on water and touches the surface many times before sinking. If we could follow the same set of rules that enable the rock to bounce, we can bounce too.

The things necessary for liquid mountaineering are; good quality rubber running shoes, preferably winter season, a cold lake, and a good entry point to the lake. All you have to do is start running towards the bank of the lake and keep running with top speed placing every step at such an angle that instead of thumping on water with the whole foot at once, the foot should skim the surface from the heel to the toes. The process could be perfected only with practice, but it definitely is possible to take 3, 4 or more steps on the surface before sinking.

So that's what it is. I stumbled upon a video today and it seemed pretty amazing. Tried Googling the subject, but the sport is relatively new so there isn't too much info about it, and ESPN are claiming the video I watched is a fake. Regardless, the sport does exist, a lot of people have tried it and achieved varied results, and I'm going to give it my all this summer. We have a really shallow coastline by the summer place so I think I could throw together a video from the side where I'm just walking on the surface beneath the water and make it look like I'm walking above it. Running, I mean, would look pretty stupid walking.

Really though, I might make the video, but I'm going to give real running on water a try as well. Thought about taping thin boards of wood to my feet and seeing how that goes. If the edges don't dig into the water, trip me or slide away too quickly, hmm, maybe something else will happen, hehe. Looking forward to it.

Anybody still play Doom? If the answer is no, you won't need to read the rest of this post. Or, you can start playing Doom... and keep reading. ;)

I for one still can't get enough of the game. Even though the quick and bumpy motion makes me nauseous if I play the game for too long times, I keep playing. I started making WADs way way back, but didn't get far, now I've been at it again since a while back seeing as the wadding & modding community pretty much died down during the past few years and I can't get my hands on any new and funky fresh levels, so for those of you who still want play I'll be posting a 32-level level pack each week for the following 32 weeks. If you know Doom you'll know that the WADs are for Doom 2, and you really should get the Doomsday Engine if you want to get the most out of this game.. and these levels.

All levels are made with Oblige, a random level creator that whoops together a definable amount of levels in a mere minute (one, one episode, or 32 episodes for Doom 2). I'm not saying I don't take credit for these WADs, I do, I fiddled with the settings, generated the WADs & I'm now hosting them here at CyberD, but I'd like to give a big pile of thanks to the program and its creators! I've made levels before and the process takes time, tons of it, with this you can throw together a batch and start playing in no time at all! If you want to create your own levels, Google 'Oblige level generator', it should be at the top of the list. If you'd rather just fire up this pack of WADs and play some, you'll find a quick preview and download below. Have fun!

32-Wads-01.zip (1881 downloads )

Been playing the game for maybe half an hour at night each day for maybe a week now, and after starting a new game I've reached up to 102%. ;) First you run through all the levels and beat K. Rool. After the credits and the "Is it over?" message you then collect all the coins and enter the Lost World. In the lost world you play through another batch of levels and collect all the coins again to fight K. Rool once more, at his Last Stand level. If you manage to beat him, again, he'll give you six more watches (you'll have six yourself) and you can try speed-running twelve levels for further enjoyment, taking you from 97% of the game completed, to a full 103%! I'm guessing, since I'm up at 102% and there's just one more level left. Hehe, wonder if another set of credits will play once I'm done?

Anyhow, Coral Quarrel is the level I have left, and seeing as I reach the goal 40 seconds late even after way too many tries I'm thinking there must be some secret passage in the game, but the Internet won't give me an answer! Apart from a couple of FAQs on the game, a pretty good entry at the Super Mario Wiki and some basic game entries on other sites, the silence is overwhelming. Posted the question at YA, so let's see if someone has a solution...

I see a lot of people typing their whole life out as if it was one big headline. You Know, When They Post Like This, With The First Of Each Word Capitalized, And It Really Drives Me Nuts! Its harder to read, and it's probably harder to write too. I don't know about you but I type at least twice as fast when not having to capitalize every letter in every word in every sentence that I post in my post.

It's even worse than the people who KEEP POSTING EVERYTHING ALL IN CAPS MAKING IT SEEM LIKE THEY'RE PISSED OF AT THE WORLD AND EVERYBODY IN IT EVEN WHEN THEY SAY THANK YOU, since the latter just changes the emotional strain of the message, not its readability. Plus, it's just as easy to type in all caps as it is without.

and whats up with all of those people typing everything without capital letters. even when they start a new sentence they cant be bothered to use the shift button even once. the sentences just get really boring and you can't see where one sentence starts and another one ends, or whatever, theres just no expression ... and it gets even worse when they forget the 's or .s or ,s or statr maeking lotso typsos liek tis.

If you type like that, stop, the capital type is fine for titles or domains where each keyword is supposed to be a big deal, but in posts each word isn't important, it just makes it harder to read. Even in quotes you don't need to capitalize every word, unless it's something especially verbal such as "Fuck You". I'm trying to think into the brains of the people posting like this and figure out why they post so, it's not easier for them and it's not easier for others either, so how did it become a habit in the first place?! I used to capitalize certain words that were more Important than Others, but the habit just faded away after a while, lucky me. :P

Anyhow, that concludes my rant for the day, thanks for breathing in the sour air from my vent of frustration, heh. Later.

Went to Google to try beating my previous highscore and GASP it's gone... O_O

So I uploaded a mirror! Play the game right here or download the source code and put it on your own site. It's made of images, JS & Flash (that's how the sounds are stored), and all the URLs are domain-free (meaning you won't have to change the directory paths ... though you might want to change the CyberD.org to your own site) so it's a piece of cake uploading. Have fun!

Now that all of you'll be playing the game I feel like I can take a break from it, haha, there's been waaaay too much Google Pacman for me the past few days. I have no excuse. It's addicting. :)

I've been lurking around in blogs trying to find some info on how many levels there are in the game, but I can't find any. What I do find however is a lot of people bitching about how they can't get the screeching sound to stop, how it just goes on and on, how the game starts playing automatically, and how they've completely lost respect for Google and changed search engine due to this only. It seems like it's affecting a lot of offices as well, where entire divisions have to change the start page just because of this game.

That really sounds stupid to me.

I can't understand what these people are doing wrong when not being able to turn of the sound, if they're not playing the game, in which case there really is no problem, to reduce the level of sound while playing you simply lower the volume on your speakers. Piece of cake.

If they actually use the search engine, type in a phrase, and hit the search button within 30 seconds, the game won't start. The game isn't displayed on search results, or on any other pages except the main page, so how the hell do these strangers manage to make a problem out of it? I take for granted that most people who have this problem just leave the Google window open, maybe using it as a start page, while doing other things. What I don't understand is why you fire up a browser if you aren't going to use it, or if they have used it, why return the main Google page before doing something else, if they actually plan on continuing to use it? It's only logical that you shut down your browser when you're done with it, or just let it be if you aren't. This is just stupid.