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Three Frames .net is entertaining. It’s also makes me realize that normal screen captures from movies just don’t say anything. If a picture of a frame is worth a thousand words, three frames is worth a whole chapter.
Note: If you’re using Firefox, and you can’t stand the madness, the trusty Stop button kills animated gifs.
Not much of a game, Torrent Raiders is a sort of interactive Torrent downloader plus visuazliser that doubles as a social commentary on the culture of illegal downloading. This is internet art in its purest form.
Highly recommended in FULLSCREEN mode (F11 on PC / Fn+F11 on Mac)
Typically, five dollar games are pretty terrible. That’s about how much you pay at Goodwill for crap no one else wanted. Noby Noby Boy is a Playstation 3 title, and it’s just as strange as thrift store gold, and so much more. Look at this video, I mean, really…
As you might have guessed, it’s made by the Katamari Damacy guy. Though confusing, it’s nice to experience something truely unique once in a while. Consider this: one of the game’s features is if you accidentally tear yourself in half, you can eat your own butt to reattach it to the rest of your body when it tries to come out the other end; and then the trumpets play “ta-da!”
You can also eat the manual…
If you instead decide to read the manual, there’s lots of other things you can do. Mainly, your goal is to stretch yourself in to a long snake thing over and over and occasionally “report” to the sun that you did a good job. The sun tells your female counterpart she should grow too, except she’s wrapping herself around planets. That’s fairly hard to grasp in the first five minutes, but as you play it you find out that everyone playing – not just you – the whole internet-connected reporting noodle worm sock puppet collective – is adding up their stretch counts in to actual distance between all the planets in the solar system (and beyond?) So, really, everyone is sharing the same save file globally.
But really, you don’t have much to do in the game. You just stretch, jump, fly, eat, and poop.
This one’s a Cloninger find. ShiftSpace is a plugin for Firefox that allows its users to basically screw around with any web page. Other users running the plug-in, perticularly those who set it to “automatically load shifts”, will see those modifications. The plug-in allows a user the following features: Switching images form one web page ot another, placing custom html/css frame on top of the web page (absolute positioned), sticky notes (there’s a lot of those), and highlighting text.
having some fun with Cloninger's front page. He likes big trucks, right?
