England, Thailand and Other Things

HTML5 games playable on mobiles and computers

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 06:17:00 +0000

A lot of the new HTML5 games in my HTML5 games website can be played on phones and tablets, not just PCs and laptops. Yay!

And I know this is a terrible cheap shot to get visitors to my site, the worst kind of click bait, and for that I apologise. However, this is still true and mostly sensible advice... stay safe, indoors, away from the risk of getting the new China coronavirus, and play these games on your mobile device or computer to avoid the boredom of being in self-imposed exile.

Also, please remember that I live in Thailand, not so far from China, there have been 5 confirmed cases of the new disease here so far, and life in this beautiful country has suddenly become very scary.....

Sonic the Hedgehog HTML5 Mobile - A remake of the 1991 Sonic the Hedgehog game on the SEGA Master System and Game Gear consoles.

Dr. Mario HTML5 Mobile - A remake of the 1990 Dr. Mario puzzle game on the Nintendo NES console.

Mario's Same Game HTML5 Mobile - Remove connected groups of Mario icons from the screen.

Pokemon Crush HTML5 Mobile - Crush as many Pokemon as possible with only 1 life.

Flappy Bird HTML5 Mobile - A remake of the Flappy Bird mobile game (no app download needed).

Helicopter Game HTML5 Mobile - Keep the helicopter safely flying as far as possible.

Panda Jump HTML5 Mobile - Navigate the panda through increasingly hard platform puzzles.

Once again, I am sorry about the China coronavirus click bait thing above. But I really do need visitors to my site.

The new "SARS".... scary stuff!

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 05:33:00 +0000

Living in Thailand, not so far from China of course, has just become really scary due to the outbreak and rapid spread of 2019-nCov - the deadly new strain of coronavirus from Wuhan in China. We have been advised to "be cautious, but don't panic". Yeah, right, thanks for that reassurance:
What you need to know about the new Chinese coronavirus outbreak

And, unfortunately, further to that:
Fifth coronavirus case in Thailand

Sonic HTML5 games and more

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 07:02:00 +0000

Hello again. As promised recently, here are some more HTML5 games from my new HTML5 games website, the first of which which is totally unique to my site. These games will run in any browser without the need for Flash.

Infinite Sonic Mario HTML5 - A "Sonic in Mario World" version of Infinite Mario, with some unique special Sonic treats included.

Sonic the Hedgehog HTML5 - An HTML5 version of the 1991 Sonic the Hedgehog game on the SEGA Master System and Game Gear consoles.

Super Mario Kart HTML5 - A simplified version of Super Mario Kart that is still great fun.

Super Mario Jump HTML5 - Jump up 100 platforms to rescue the princess before the rising water drowns Mario.

R.I.P. Terry Jones, a true comedy genius

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 07:15:00 +0000

Sadly Terry Jones, one of the stars of the Monty Python group, and director of the funniest film ever made, "The Life of Brian", died yesterday aged 77.

He was the Messiah.... of comedy

Super Mario Bros. in HTML5

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:49:00 +0000

Adobe Flash will be killed off at the end of December this year, 2020, meaning all Flash games in the world will stop working in 2021.

In preparation for that, I have been putting HTML5 games into my websites, because they will run in any browser without the need for Flash.

Here are three Super Mario HTML5 games to replace the Super Mario Flash games (many more are coming soon):

Super Mario HTML5 - An accurate port of the original 1985 Super Mario Bros. game on the Nintendo NES console.

Infinite Mario HTML5 - An infinitely random version of the 1990 Super Mario Bros. 3 game on the Nintendo NES console.

Mario's Same Game HTML5 - Remove connected groups of Mario icons from the screen.

Reactivation of this long neglected old blog

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 04:56:00 +0000

So obviously I have not really used this blog for the past 6 years, something I have now come to regret. This used to be a popular blog once upon a time, long long ago. Lol.

There are many reasons for this extended absence, but it's mainly because I have been very busy with many other things in the real world, including working as an English teacher here in Thailand. However, I will be posting a lot more stuff in here next year. Until then, have a very Merry Christmas and a super Happy New Year!

PS. If you get bored this holiday season, and especially if you get tired of free mobile game apps which are not free really, try playing the hundreds of truly free games in these 2 sites... no app downloads are necessary:

Play Disney and Pixar games at Dan-Dare.org

Play Super Mario and Sonic games at MarioSonicGames.com

My traditional bi-annual post

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 06:54:00 +0000

After another 2 years of being silent in this blog (sorry about that) I would just like to say "Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year for 2018"!

The end of another year

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 04:44:00 +0000

I have been silent in here for a very long time. Anyway, wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for 2016!

Visit these great sites to play some awesome free games this holiday season:

Play Disney and Pixar games at Dan-Dare.org

Play Super Mario and Sonic games at MarioSonicGames.com

FlashyOnlineGames.com - Play the best free Flash games on the internet, and download free Wallpaper

More Mesut Ozil goodness

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:43:00 +0000

Record Arsenal signing Mesut Ozil is looking like excellent value for his 42.5 million pounds transfer fee – he set up all three goals for Arsenal in yesterday’s 3-1 home win against Stoke City (Ozil's home debut match, no less) which put the Gunners top of the Premier league after 5 games of the new season. Nice!

Space, the final front ear

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 16:24:00 +0000

Here is a very nice blog about could-have-been, should-have-been space missions that never happened: Beyond Apollo

View Talay 2a Condo, Jomtien Beach, Pattaya, Thailand

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Sat, 21 Sep 2013 10:38:00 +0000

The condominium development named in the title of this post is, according to my wife Su, the best place to rent or buy a condo in the Pattaya area, and I have to say that I agree with her. She should know after all, because she is Thai and lives in the area. Read her unbiased post about it in her blog here:

Condominium advice for Pattaya and Jomtien Beach, Thailand

Apparently we're all aliens

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 06:32:00 +0000

This article is very interesting, especially if you misread the title at first glance: Organisms ‘originated from space’

New videos added to my YouTube channel

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 15:29:00 +0000

With reference to my YouTube posts in June this year and also July 2010, I have added 24 more new videos into my YouTube channel over the past two days, so there are now just over 300 great videos in my channel in total.

The new videos include trailers, movie clips and featurettes from Pixar's "Monsters University", Disney's "Planes", Illumination's "Despicable Me 2", Disney's "Frozen" and Marvel's "Thor: The Dark World". And if you're interested, there are over 100 free Flash online games based on these and other movies and cartoons in the Dan-Dare.org and FlashyOnlineGames.com websites.

MarioWebGames.com and SonicWebGames.com

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:33:00 +0000

This is a belated follow-up to my post back in April about MarioWebGames.com and SonicWebGames.com, this time featuring some actual games from the two sites that can be played straight from here:

MarioWebGames.com

  Mario's Adventure 2

  Bullet Bill 2

SonicWebGames.com

  Sonic Match-It

  Sonic Chaos Crush (Sonic Breakout)

(See also here)

FlashyOnlineGames.com game recommendations

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 09:53:00 +0000

Expansion of FlashyOnlineGames.com to include more and more high-quality Flash online games continues at a rapid pace. Below is a series of posts in my FlashyOnlineGames.com Blog listing many of the best games now in the site which I thoroughly recommend you to take the time to try out - I promise you will be pleased you did:

Disney Flash online games

Pixar Flash online games

Flash games based on TV cartoon shows

More Flash games based on classic cartoons

Sonic and Mario games

Classic retro computer and arcade games

Wow - Mesut Ozil was a good buy for Arsenal!

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 18:04:00 +0000

With reference to my post earlier this month about Arsenal signing Mesut Ozil: it took the German midfielder just 10 minutes in his Arsenal debut game today (a 3-1 win away to Sunderland) to notch up his first goal-assist for the club when he set up Olivier Giroud for Arsenal's first.

Given that Ozil was also involved in almost everything else Arsenal did going forward, it seems he was indeed a very good buy. Still, it's very early days yet. Fingers crossed he will keep today's form going and going!

The Ig Nobel Prize Awards 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 02:52:00 +0000

This article in Yahoo! UK yesterday made me laugh so much when I first read it, and I'm still getting minor after-giggles an hour later while starting to write about it here!

Wacky Ig Nobel prizes show the funny side of science

The tongue-in-cheek Ig Nobel awards were handed to dozens of scientists, including those who confirmed drunk people think they are more attractive and studied the onion enzyme that makes us cry.

The Nobel prize spoof honors achievements "that first make people laugh and then make them think," according to a press release. The Ig Nobels invite real Nobel laureates to confer honors on serious scientists for work that is generally only unintentionally funny.

There is also a peace prize, which this year was jointly awarded to the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, for making it illegal to applaud in public, and to the Belarus police "for arresting a one-armed man for applauding."

The safety engineering prize went to late American researcher Gustano Pizzo, who invented a system to trap airplane hijackers, seal them into a package and parachute them into the hands of police.

A team from Britain, the Netherlands and Canada were awarded the probability prize for determining that the longer a cow has been lying down, the more likely it is it will soon stand up.

They also discovered that once a cow stands up, you cannot easily predict how soon it will lie down again.

The physics prize went to researchers who discovered that some people would be physically capable of running across the surface of a pond -- if those people and that pond were on the moon.

A joint award in biology and astronomy was given to a team from Sweden, Australia, Germany, Australia and the UK, who uncovered the fact that when dung beetles get lost, they can navigate their way home by looking at the Milky Way.

The study by researchers who confirmed drunk people really do think they are more attractive won the Psychology Prize.

A team from Japan and Germany tackled the age-old question of why onions make us cry and discovered merely that the biochemical process is "even more complicated than scientists previously realized."

The archaeology prize went to a US-Canada team who parboiled a dead shrew, swallowed it without chewing, and then carefully examined their excretions to see which bones dissolve inside the human digestive system.

It was the 23rd edition of the Ig Nobels, awarded at the uber-prestigious Harvard University in Boston.

The prize-winners, who travel to the ceremony at their own expense, were given 60 seconds for an acceptance speech, a time limit enforced by an implacable eight-year-old girl.

The ceremony also included the premiere of a mini-opera called "The Blonsky Device," inspired by the life and work of 1999 Ig Nobel Prize winners George and Charlotte Blonsky.

The couple invented a machine to aid a woman in giving birth by strapping her onto a circular table, which is then rotated at high speed.

(The awards are organised by Improbable Research.)

Building a time machine “is possible” claims Professor Brian Cox

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:47:00 +0000

This interesting article appeared in the Yahoo! UK site the other day, although I only just read it. I really like the Professor, he's a very entertaining chap for a boffin!

Time machines similar to Doctor Who’s Tardis are possible, Professor Brian Cox said in a speech at the British Science Festival.

Time machines similar to Dr Who’s Tardis are possible, Professor Brian Cox said in a speech at the British Science Festival.

“Can you build a time machine?” said Professor Cox. “The answer is yes.”

There’s just one, tiny problem, Professor Cox says - if you can build a machine capable of time-travel, you can only travel into the future. You can’t come back.

Professor Cox also suggested that research at the LHC might uncover extra dimensions - thus, perhaps finally explaining how the Tardis is bigger on the inside.

Professor Cox, a Dr Who fan, is to deliver a 60-minute speech on Dr Who to be screened by the BBC on November 23 - tackling questions such as extraterrestrial life, travelling to other dimensions and time travel.

Professor Cox says that time travel is possible, and has already been done - albeit at a very small scale. The technology to accelerate something as big as a police box to near light speed does not yet exist.

Professor Cox says that, armed with such technology, “You can go into the future; you've got almost total freedom of movement in the future.”

To “travel” forward in time, you simply need to accelerate to speeds close to the speed of light, Cox says - as you get close to that speed, time slows down, but only for you, according to Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity.

“If you go fast, your clock runs slow relative to people who are still. As you approach the speed of light, your clock runs so slow you could come back 10,000 years in the future," said Professor Cox.

Cox said previously on Conan O’Brien’s chat show that travel into the past was “impossible”, saying, “You can travel into the future as fast as you like. You can’t travel into the past.”

But in his speech in Birmingham, the physicist went into more detail - suggesting that “wormholes” often used in science fiction as portals through time may not offer a simple way to travel into the past.

“In General Relativity, you can do it in principle. It's to do with building these things called wormholes; shortcuts through space and time. But most physicists doubt it. Hawking came up with the 'chronology protection conjecture' - physics we don't yet understand that means wormholes are not stable.”

Travelling between different dimensions, though, might be easier - a relief for the Doctor, for whom “transdimensional engineering” was a key part of the Tardis.

Cox says, “We look for extra dimensions at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). You can imagine extra dimensions in space, and that we are living on a sheet of higher dimensional space.”

Whether this explains how the interior of the Tardis is “dimensionally transcendental” - bigger on the inside - will perhaps be revealed in Cox’s speech on the 23rd.

No Suarez for Arsenal, but Ozil seems like a very good buy

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 22:37:00 +0000

Following on from my post in July about Arsenal bidding for Liverpool striker Luis Suarez - which didn't work out - Arsenal did finally spend some serious money on a true superstar, the totally awesome Mesut Ozil, in the final hour of the final day of the summer transfer window. Phew!

Here are a couple of great-to-read newspaper articles regarding the transfer:

The Guardian - Mesut Ozil can breathe new life into Arsenal's Emirates era

The Telegraph - Arsenal and United land Mesut Ozil and Marouane Fellaini late on transfer deadline day

Pixar online games

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 13:47:00 +0000

My good friend Calvin has been very busy recently working on our joint Flash online game websites. In addition to the rapidly expanding FlashyOnlineGames.com site (which you can read about in one of my posts last month), he has also been adding lots of great new games to the LightningCarsGames.com site.

Here is a list of some of the best of those games for you to try out here:

Cars: Lightning McQueen Desert Dash

Cars: Radiator Springs Racing

Cars: Lightning McQueen Tractor Tipping

Cars: Doc Hudson's Time Trial

Cars: Mater to the Rescue

Cars: Luigi's Casa Della Tires

Cars: Ramone's Coloring Book

Toy Story: Woody's Big Escape

A Bugs Life: A Bugs Land

Monsters Inc,: Monster Melee

Finding Nemo: Crush's Summer Holiday

The Incredibles: Save the Day

Ratatouille: Choppity Chop

WALL-E Pinball

Up: Sky Glider

Don't forget to visit the site to play all the other games!

Happy 5th Wedding Anniversay to my amazing wife Su!

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 05:45:00 +0000

Wow, the time sure has gone fast Su. Lily is now a year old, and Boss will soon be 7. How is that possible? It's been loads of fun, and hopefully will always continue to be. Thank you darling. Love from me. XXXXX

The Arsenal and Luis Suarez transfer saga gets serious

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 02:55:00 +0000

Being a life-long Arsenal fan has never been easy, but it has also never been boring. And it is currently more interesting than ever, now that the club is at last able to compete financially for big-name transfers.

All summer so far Arsenal have been linked with the possible signings of a host of superstars, such as Real Madrid's Gonzalo Higuain, Manchester United's Wayne Rooney and my favourite, Liverpool's Luis Suarez. So far though, no such signings have actually happened (as is normal for Arsenal, unfortunately).

However.....

While looking through the latest Arsenal transfer rumours just now, I spotted this little gem that seems to be from a reliable source, claiming that Arsenal have now lodged a £40 million + £1 bid for Suarez. Incredible! Hope it works!!

More Flashy online games fun!

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 04:49:00 +0000

First launched in July last year, the FlashyOnlineGames.com site has recently been massively updated and expanded to include even more Flash online games and desktop wallpaper backgrounds. Check out these sections to see for yourself just how many awesome games there now are in the site:

Super Mario Bros Games
(including Super Smash Bros. Flash)

Sonic the Hedgehog Games
(including Sonic the Hedgehog: Super Sonic Pinball)

Arcade Classic Games
(including Asteroids)

Disney Games
(including Bolt: Run Bolt, Run)

Pixar Games
(including Toy Story: Operation Alien Rescue)

DreamWorks Games
(including Shrek: Shrek Shreds)

Cartoon Network Games
(including Tom and Jerry: Tom's Trap'o'Matic)

Nickelodeon Games
(including Power Rangers: Red Hot Rescue)

Don't forget to keep coming back to the site regularly, as new games are being added all the time!

(See also here)

Disney and Pixar trailers and film clips

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 05:02:00 +0000

I've been putting lots of great Disney and Pixar videos into my YouTube account recently, all collected together into playlists to make it easier for you to watch groups of related ones:

Pixar Monsters, Inc. and Monsters University videos

Disney Wreck-It Ralph videos

Pixar Cars 1, Cars 2 and Disney Planes videos

Despicable Me 1 and 2 videos

DreamWorks Rise of the Guardians videos

I hope you enjoy them! And remember, you can play loads of great free Disney and Pixar games directly in your web browser here:

Dan-Dare.org's Disney and Pixar games site

Response to a UK soldier being hacked to death on a London Street

noreply@blogger.com (Danny Dare) — Fri, 24 May 2013 01:27:00 +0000

This is the real reason why I quit England and came to live in Thailand ten years ago: It makes no difference which political party is in power at Westminster, they only care about human rights for immigrants and little about the rights of true English people:

From Wednesday just gone came this utterly shocking story: British soldier hacked to death in suspected Islamist attack

Then yesterday came this not-at-all surprising story: Woolwich: EDL Protests As Mosques Targeted

I suspect there's a lot more of that to come - if you read the comments below the second story, you'll see clearly what I already know but which UK politicians constantly ignore: that true English people are totally sick and tired of the endless uncontrolled immigration into England, and the fact that non-English people get treated much better than English people.

To cap it all off, if you are a true English white person like me and you talk in public in England in such a way as to vociferously criticise this whole immigration/Islam issue, you can actually get into trouble with the law for being racist and/or inciting racial hatred! And yet if non-English people talk in public in a similar way, criticising England and English people in truly hateful ways, nothing is done to them! Seriously, what do "the powers that be" think is going to happen in the end? How stupid are they?

Very stupid, clearly. In 1968 a great English man and a very conscientious politician (probably the last one of those ever!), Enoch Powell, made a very famous speech about the dangers of uncontrolled immigration (click on those two previous links and read what's there if you care about the truth, by the way).

The speech caused great controversy at the time (to put it mildly), but it has since turned out to be so prophetic that it seems dear old Enoch must have borrowed Dr. Who's "Tardis" and taken a peek into his then future (our present).

It would be most wise for those in power in England to, at long, long last, pay urgent attention to what Mr. Powell said all those years ago, and to what almost every single English person is saying today, namely: Stop the uncontrolled immigration into England!!! And get rid of the ridiculous Human Rights Act which only favors those who do not deserve human rights!!!

Failure to do so will, I am afraid, and as Enoch so eloquently and accurately put it, lead to "the River Tiber foaming with much blood."

God Save the Queen!