I've been trying out the the new Google Desktop Search 2 Sidebar and found a couple neat things about it. Apart from the nifty search capabilities, you can customize the panels in the Sidebar. The Sidebar seems to use Microsoft .Net and relies heavily on ActiveX. Using the "Add Remove Panels" option you can create a panel for any ActiveX component installed on your Windows system. I've been trying several with limited success. But my favorite is adding Macromedia Flash movies straight into the panel.
Flashinsider has the step-by-step.
But if you want the Flying Spaghetti Monster or maybe AllYourBase, replace the URL with the link or hard drive path directly to the .SWF file.
like these...
http://www.zefrank.com/fsm/fsm.swf
http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/AYB2.swf
