URLs bitte einfach kopieren. Ich hatte keine Lust auf HTML.
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“Cutesy” doesn’t even begin to describe this Flash movie.
But it’s a must-see. I love egg:
http://www.iloveegg.com/winopen_ani/eggsong.htm - * * *
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Fun Stuff 2004
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All Fun Stuff entries, from Jan. 7, 2004 through today:
Weird, weird, weird music… “outsider music,” you might call it.
Check track 7: a tuba playing Lonely Bull.
http://www.comfortstand.com/catalog/001/
Very well implemented: virtual whiteboard and chalkboard.
http://www.pvsusa.com/pvsdrawingboard/pvsdrawingboard.php
(Two drawbacks: (1) there’s no eraser – only a “clear all” button, so
you erase everything or nothing; (2) the “tell a friend” feature
sends the e-mail in HTML only.)
Fun game for kids: switching the heads and tails of different
animals. The interface is cute and fun, though not totally
intuitive.
http://www.switchzoo.com/
Several stories from the Old and New Testaments… in Legos.
http://www.thebricktestament.com/genesis/garden_of_eden/gn02_04-06.html
Who needs to pay big bucks for a “branding firm” to create a new
company name? Just click Name Generator in the left column of this
page (thanks to Seth Godin for the pointer):
http://www.wordlab.com/
While you’re at it, take a look at recent trends in logo design
(please, no more swoosh logos!):
http://www.gdusa.com/feature/4_03/trends.php
If you’re really into this topic, I found this in the archives of
Good Experience…
http://www.goodexperience.com/images/ntfirms041300.gif
Picture of lightning hitting a tree – I think it’s legit:
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/lwx/lightning/lgtng-hits-tree.jpg
Fun DJ simulation:
http://www.marleentimmer.com/worteldrie/djtrainer/djtrainer.html
Surreal stuff. Don’t miss the meat gallery:
http://www.surrealcoconut.com/home.html
If you didn’t see its commercial during the Super Bowl, here is one
of the best websites I’ve seen in recent memory… brilliant satire:
http://www.shardsoglass.com
Old government and school films! Dating, hygiene, etc. (See “Most
Viewed Films” on the right side.)
http://www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php
A fan created his own movie trailer for “The Hobbit”:
http://www.lathamfilms.com/hobbit.html
Old Disney animated shorts:
http://disneyshorts.toonzone.net/index.html
Cool short movies of events being slowed down (i.e. cat lapping milk):
http://tinyurl.com/2fcy4
Subway maps from different cities, compared at the same scale:
http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/subway/index.html
Lots of maps from the Library of Congress:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
For example, here is Portland, Oregon in 1890 – even with a little
piece of the map ripped out:
http://tinyurl.com/2h7g8
Pay $150 for a hammer that doesn’t work! This is for real: an online
store that sells “useless tools.”
http://tinyurl.com/263bg
A photo for every minute of the day:
http://www.humanclock.com
It wasn’t just Bill Murray in the movie. Again, for real: American
celebs in Japanese TV commercials.
http://www.japander.com/japander/
Fold a Jules Verne-style submarine:
http://www.tin-soldier.com/paper/downld/narwaldownld.htm
Free paper toys to fold:
http://papertoys.com/
Japanese robots to fold, if you can read Japanese instructions:
http://www.robo-t.com/r-kata-s.html
And finally… 1924 mechanical typewriter turns into a windows PC:
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/underwood/
Here’s the “Click & Build” donation page on the website of
Habitat for Humanity. Here you can specify what elements of a house
to donate, by clicking on different parts of a cartoon house.
Perfect use of the Web for a nonprofit donation page.
http://www.habitat.org/donation/clickandbuild
Reminiscent of the Human Clock from last week’s newsletter,
here’s the clock that shows pencil and paper and… ahh, just watch it.
http://www.lares.dti.ne.jp/~yugo/storage/monocrafts_ver3/03/
Random art:
http://gs2.sp.cs.cmu.edu/art/random/
(Better is to look at the Archive of Best Random Art)
http://gs2.sp.cs.cmu.edu/art/random/archive/index.html
List of online museums
http://www.coudal.com/moom.php
Googlephrases: Search Google for a long, slightly obscure sentence
fragment, enclosed in quotes, and then revel in the Web-zeitgeist.
http://www.goodexperience.com/columns/04/0331.phrase.html
Sarah Yake points us to this Johnny Walker commercial:
http://tinyurl.com/22592
Gertie’s beverages:
http://www.patheticgeekstories.com/gertiebeverages.html
By the way, if you haven’t explored that site, you should.
Gel speaker Maria Schneider draws readers’ embarrassing stories from
adolescence.
http://www.patheticgeekstories.com
Dictionary of nonverbal communication cues:
http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/entries.htm#Entries
(Don’t miss the deconstruction of the Big Mac:)
http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/bigmac.htm
Calculate the speed of light with some marshmallows and a microwave.
http://www.physics.umd.edu/ripe/icpe/newsletters/n34/marshmal.htm
Funny costumes:
http://www.stagecraftinc.com/htmlFile/TPWI.html
Geek humor: Rebecca St. Martin points us to a parody of tinyurl…
http://hugeURL.com
And, a great one this week… random comic strip paired with a
random punchline. Zen-funny. (Reload the page to see a new pairing.)
http://www.monochrom.at/erheiterer/process.shtml
Nice screensaver-type animation:
http://ugokie.diginauts.com/flash/hotaru/hphotal.html
Fun online exhibit on biodiversity (especially fun for kids):
http://tinyurl.com/2fund
Several illusions and puzzles in one Flash animation:
http://www.sagadvd.com/Extra/visual%20hallucination.swf
Crazy about (or driven crazy by) cicadas?
http://www.cicadamania.net/
Some witty people with way too much free time label hundreds of CDs
with a single Sharpie marker, just to see how much ink it contains:
http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/sharpie/sharpie1.html
Internet fads you may have missed:
http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=article&articleid=24853
Songs about cicadas.. featuring Gel 2004 performer Lee Feldman:
http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/openmic/index.php?episode=current
A well-designed site about the nine planets of our solar system.
http://www.nineplanets.org
The Infinite Cat Project. Rather than explain it, I’ll just suggest
that you start with any cat, and click “Next Cat” again and again and
again.
http://www.infinitecat.com/
Bad 70s interior design:
http://www.omodern.com/Eurobad/euro.html
“Kitchen clones of America’s favorite brand-name foods” (thanks to
Mike Krypel for the pointer):
http://www.topsecretrecipies.com/
Fake roadsigns (neat signs, but horrible navigation on the site -
click “Artists”, click through their designs at page bottom):
http://www.bopano.net/
Lots of links to paper-folding fun…
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/06/18/web_zen_paper_model_.html
Finally, software that admits to doing nothing for everybody!
(Thanks to Gel speaker David Greenberger.)
http://www.bernardbelanger.com/computing/NaDa/index.html
One-page cartoons for 5- to 15-year-olds, showing them how to build
all kinds of stuff:
http://www.howtoons.net
Optical illusion: undulating almonds.
http://tinyurl.com/5kwta
Fun music video (in Flash), featuring They Might Be Giants:
http://www.homestarrunner.com/expfilm.html
Google way back in 1960. (Thanks, Kevin Fox!)
http://fury.com/images/weblog/google_circa_1960.jpg
QuickTime VR (panoramic) shot from the moon landing, put together
from Neil Armstrong’s photos. Don’t miss the zoom-in feature (hold
down Shift).
http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen3/f29.html
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2004 Results – bad opening lines of
fictional novels.
http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2004.htm
Cute, low-tech animation
http://j-walkblog.com/blog/docs/platform.htm
Common English mispronunciations. (My pet peeve: “nucular”. Now, if we
could get a page on the constant misuse of the word “literally”…)
http://yourdictionary.com/library/mispron.html
A must-see: cassette vs iPod (thanks to David Pogue):
http://homepage.mac.com/danielturek/PhotoAlbum50.html
Whoa… duuuude.
http://zongrila.net/swirl.htm
You know blogs are overripe when the INCREDIBLE HULK gets one.
http://incrediblehulk.blogspot.com
Long list of fun or good sites, picked by the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/12/technology/circuits/12diar.html
Strange and cool design stuff:
http://www.bodytag.org
Reader Kim Antonson sends us to the Museum of Hoaxes:
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoaxsites.html
The ugliest Powerpoint file ever created:
http://www.clicktoaddtitle.com/slides/roundtwo_harpold.ppt
Funny because it’s the dumbest thing ever – the “hyperlink policy”
on the Olympics website. They want you to send them a printed letter
asking for permission to link to their site:
http://tinyurl.com/3refd
Geek-only humor: Essay on designing videogames for grown-up guys:
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/design/features/wageslave/
“Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines”:
http://spamusement.com
Transformers break-dancing (thanks to memepool.com for the pointer):
http://www.wilenkin.com/transformers/Video_player_06_content.html
Not updated recently, but the archives are interesting/weird/gross -
not for the faint of stomach (or eye). “The most bizarre items found
for sale on internet auction sites”:
http://disturbingauctions.com
RealAudio of many of the late Mister Rogers’ songs.
http://pbskids.org/rogers/songlist/
Ben Fry points us to his newly improved Zip code finder:
http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/zipdecode/
Dave Lougheed points us to this funny Pepsi commercial
http://www.joeytomatoes.com/pepsicanfu.htm
Footy footy footy footy… (yes, it’s strange)
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/35/
Animated bunnies act out “Jaws” in 30 seconds. Outstanding.
http://www.angryalien.com/0804/jawsbunnies.asp
Strange Japanese/African/mod-60s music.
http://www.bellybongo.com/
A New York City baby photographed with many celebrities. Click links
on left.
http://www.whoisthatwithjeremy.com/index.html
“You call that mowin’ the grass?”
http://www.valtio.org/tex/index.php?p=66
Mary Pat LaBoda points us to this RIT thesis project – an
interactive presentation on color. Very well done.
http://www.mariaclaudiacortes.com
Plush doll of the Ebola virus (for the person who has everything…)
http://www.giantmicrobes.com/calamities/ebola.html
Dark, but funny, animations:
http://www.strindbergandhelium.com/
Abandoned bikes in NYC:
http://jschumacher.typepad.com/photos/abandoned_bikes/index.html
How to create a flapping paper airplane:
http://homepage.mac.com/keithgreenstein/Flapper/PhotoAlbum41.html
Neat science site:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins
27 photos that changed the world (most depicting not-fun situations):
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/lm_index.html
A SP-Mologue by the one and only Ze Frank, Gel 2003 speaker:
http://www.zefrank.com/request/index_better.html
Many more fun things on Ze’s site: http://www.zefrank.com/
Sort of interesting – Google images quiz. See the images, guess the
search query.
http://blog.outer-court.com/quiz/
Speaking of search fun, Steve Nelson reminded me about his site:
http://www.bananaslug.com
For geeks only: In honor of the new Star Wars box set, and the
release of the outstanding making-of documentary “Empire of Dreams”
(now playing on A&E), here’s a “scientific” comparison of the weapon
systems in “Star Wars” and “Star Trek.” No offense to the
Kirk-or-Picard set, but I think we all know who wins THIS battle:
http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Essays/FiveMinutes.html
David Teten points us to this very cool map hack, which overlays a
street map (as you move your cursor) over an aerial photo of the
Tower of London. It would be more useful if the background was the
street map, and the overlay was the photo, but it’s still cool:
http://tinyurl.com/3pvs5
Fly these colors all over the screen (use your arrow keys):
http://www.ertdfgcvb.ch/p1/fly_2.html
Free virtual-bridge-building contest:
http://www.bridgebuilder-game.com/c22.php
Jodi Moore points us to someone who writes back to spammers:
http://www.reversescam.com/
(Choose any of the letters under “The Victims” dropdown menu.)
The late, and beloved, Richard Avedon’s photos in the New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/slideshows/pop/?041004onslpo_avedon
Grated Fanny. Click on links to left to see more “rude food”
(heads-up, much of the humor is spicy)..
http://dazbert.co.uk/sites/rudefood/index.php?page=food/gratedfanny.htm
Funny/bizarre Japanese commercial:
http://www.toto.co.jp/tips/cmlibr/CM/maho30l.mpg
More of the same here:
http://www.toto.co.jp/tips/cmlibr/index.htm
Self-explanatory domain:
http://www.badarchitecture.org/
Finally, Ian Stokes suggests the following “call center therapy”:
“If annoyed with a call centre, go to this web site –
http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/
- and input text such as this: ‘Your customer service is not
helpful. I want to speak to a real person. I don’t want to listen to
a robot.’” Also fun to select non-English languages and hear the
various accents.
Do you have your Halloween costume for 2005 yet? No? Well,
have you considered dressing up as Beaker the Muppet?
http://toughpigs.com/journalhalloween2004a.htm
Ron Lichty points us to this demonstration of how to fold a shirt:
http://telivyel.ferrona.to/maglietta.mpg
Someone collects flight attendant uniforms. Ahh, the Web.
http://www.uniformfreak.com/indexnav/indexnav1a.html
For productivity fans, I wrote a different kind of column here:
http://www.goodexperience.com/blog/archives/000065.php
Surprising it took this long: colored table salt.
http://www.margaritasalt.com/colored_table_salt.htm
- * FUN STUFF 2004 WINNER * *
“Cutesy” doesn’t even begin to describe this Flash movie.
But it’s a must-see. I love egg:
http://www.iloveegg.com/winopen_ani/eggsong.htm - * * *
Speaking of egg, not so much fun as useful – shelf lives of
various foods:
http://www.msnbc.com/OnAir/nbc/Dateline/Food/shelf.asp
Intro to cluster ballooning. Scroll for pics.
http://www.clusterballoon.org/intro/intro.html
Name that 80s video game (thanks to screenhead.com):
http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/arcade/name/index.html
I scored 18 out of 20.
One final link to keep you busy for the next couple of weeks:
a devilishly simple yet addictive game. I got to level 15 of
Nucleus in 64 clicks.
http://www.scenta.co.uk/nucleus/
Tom Kenny, the man who does the voice for Sponge Bob Square Pants,
interviewed by Terry Gross:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4172667
And yes, I plan to see the Sponge Bob movie soon! (Thanks to Phil
Terry for the pointer.)
Cool game: guess the number of stars – I got 167 on my first try.
http://www.tonypa.pri.ee/12many.html
Strange “I like you” animation:
http://www.scrolllock.nl/
Interesting video on an optical illusion…
http://www.grand-illusions.com/videos/dragon%20illusion.wmv
…with corresponding description:
http://www.grand-illusions.com/dragon.htm
And finally, a robot that completes the first level of Mario Bros:
http://community.middlebury.edu/~tdooley/
The 25 weirdest things you can buy on amazon.com: (like 9,000 ladybugs)
http://tinyurl.com/4fr7y
Bubble wrap, for wrapping those weird gifts. Try manic mode!
http://uk.download.yahoo.com/ne/fu/attachments/bubblewrap.swf
Awesome prank at the recent Harvard-Yale game:
http://www.harvardsucks.org/about.php
Finally, I have to thank Lisa Napoli who pointed this out in her NYT
column… this is the coolest thing I’ve seen on the Web in awhile:
a time-lapse video of a four-day drive from Los Angeles to NYC.
http://www.lacquersound.com/english/opener1.html
Panoramic photos from France:
http://www.ecliptique.com/fullscreen2/menu.html
Fish highway. Fish highway! (Click on photos.)
http://www.fishighway.com
Alice in Wonderland, told in Flash:
http://www.feelgoodanyway.com/interactive/Alice.swf
SpiderMan 2, told in Legos: (thanks to Mark Chackerian)
http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/spiderman2.html
Noether’s second theorem for graded Lagrangian systems of even and
odd variables… the funniest treatment yet!
http://arxiv.org/pdf/math-ph/0412034
A bizarre, bizarre fitness video with… I can’t even describe it.
http://www.panasonic.co.jp/olympic/movies/download_movies09.html
And finally, holiday-related entries:
Scared of Santa photo gallery: (NEW Fun Stuff entry for this week)
http://tinyurl.com/7yuuq
Make your own snow people: (NEW Fun Stuff entry for this week)
http://www.bigmikestudios.com/clients/xmasCard04/
I made an e-card for you – and for all Good Experience subscribers:
http://www.zefrank.com/xmas/pickup.html?ref=57675
If you want to make your own elf-choir carol, try the tool here:
http://www.zefrank.com/xmas
If you’re still buying gifts, you might like to read my holiday
suggestions, in the Uncle Mark 2005 Gift Guide and Almanac. It has
tips on buying technology (and other stuff), for non-techies:
http://www.goodexperience.com/unclemark/unclemark2005.pdf
and http://www.unclemark.org
What’s the holiday season without watching “It’s A Wonderful Life?”
Watch it here in 30 seconds, acted out by bunnies.
http://www.angryalien.com/1204/wonderful_lifebuns.asp
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