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| 8.10.2005 |
| The obligatory link post |
We certainly have some gems today...
Spider-Man Reviews Crayons
Spider-Man (as an action figure) takes it upon himself to review every one of Crayola's crayons in their new 96 crayon box. While the page is not fully completed (it's only 1/3 of the way done) what is there is hilarious enough to last until the next installment.
The cool thing about "Yellow" is that you always end up needing it a lot more than you anticipate. Nobody ever picks yellow out of the box just for the Hell of it, but once you start coloring in whatever coloring book or colored coloring you colored, there's a 99.9% chance you'll eventually need the yellow for something. In that I cheerfully liken it to bay leaves.
Gym Class
Gym Class is a short film about one boring day in gym class interrupted by a bold finger gunfight. While the beginning was mildly startling the rest proved to be a few minutes of sheer amusement. Rated PG: V
The Dead Letter Office
The premise is a simple one: you have just died. You don't know why, or how, all you are certain of is you are dead. This is your chance to write one letter to the world, using as many or as few words as you want. You can anonymously submit your entry to the Dead Letter Office where it will be shuffled into the other 6500 or so. Or you can browse through other Dead Letter entries. |
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| 8.07.2005 |
| Fun links today, kiddies. |
Alright, so I understand while my last batch of links might have been fun to me, it was very politically charged. So here I give you links which require no thinking and are just mindless fun.
NetDisaster
NetDisaster. Wow. Basically, you type in the URL of a site you would like to punish or otherwise maim. It then gives you an extensive list of things you can do to the site. One of my personal favorites is The Text Sucker Machine, which gets rid of all of the text on the webpage. The most amusing bit it watching the page's text fly through the Machine's huge tube! Another setting is Scribbling Baby, and I bet you can just imagine the outcome of that one.
Windows RG
This is hilarious, even for people who love their Windows as a first child. Basically it is an interactive flash of a new version of Windows, called Windows RG---Really Good edition. It then presents you with a desktop and a start menu from which to wreak havoc. If you enter Microsoft Word, you can start typing, until Clippy interjects and tells you that it doesn't look like you're writing a letter. He then suggests how to write a letter. "You should start with a word like MILK. And sponge. I like sponges!" afterwards, you get an alert that states Clippy has performed some illegal operations and will now be shot. Then, Word gets arrested for performing an illegal operation (shooting a paperclip) and for that reason, closed. Two words: click everything!
Classic 80's Games
An amazing compilation of various early 80's games such as Duck Hunt, Asteroids, Frogger, Ms. Pacman, Simon and many others! Most of the games come in Shockwave or Java versions for online play but some also are available in a downloadable format for offline gaming. Remember the good old days with the help of this site. And for you creations of the 90's, get a taste for what TRUE gaming is.
ASCII Generator
Reminds me of whenever I would see those amazing headers on .txt game walkthroughs and I never knew how they did it. Now you can make your own ASCII picture-words too! Simply type in the word(s), pick a font and voila! You've got your own 3D-looking ASCII. Pretty cool, huh?
Throw Rocks at Boys
...I don't know why this is fun. Go through several stages where you have one goal: to throw rocks at boys! Underwater, in a field (don't hit the happy prancing deer), hanging from a balloon...yup. Great stress reliever.
The US Government Has a New Site
This cracks me up beyond mention. Basically, it states that the US government has a new website that details what to do to be safe from terrorist attacks and other dangers, however, the pictures they use to depict these actions are so vague that they could mean anything. So, the creator of this page took it upon him/herself to decipher the meanings. For example:
If you are sprayed with an unknown substance, stand and think about a cool design for a new tattoo.
also:
If you spot a terrorist arrow, pin it against the wall with your shoulder.
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| posted by Ianthe. @ 9:31 AM |
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| 8.02.2005 |
| America the annoying |
Sometimes I just want to move to Canada. I'm beginning to get fed up with how America as a whole is so full of itself, acting like it's the single greatest country on the planet.
Which really ties into my feelings on the war. Many Americans seem to blindly think that everything in our country is completely flawless, and for that reason we should impose it on other countries that may be having problems. Uh, newsflash everyone---we have no business trying to force other countries into being like America.
Really, we're overpatriotic. I mean, it's great to come together as a whole as we did post-9/11, for example, but really it's getting out of hand. We're displaying this sort of 'We're America, we probably kicked your ass in some war and if we haven't yet, we will eventually, so let me blast my national anthem at you because you're clearly a heathen for not moving into the country!' attitude.
I'm really tired of having red, white, and blue propaganda thrown at me all the time. Quite honestly, in comparison, the rest of the world is quite modest compared to us. We're just another country, yet we act like we own the world.
While on the topic, what's up with these 'Support Our Troops' ribbons? If you want to support the troops, send them a tank or some missiles or something they want. Make them some camos. But for the love of god, how is plastering a sticker on your car supporting them one bit? You lot have some twisted ideas of support.
Would I die for my country? Probably not. If people are dying just to keep a country together, there's clearly something horribly wrong with it.
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| posted by Ianthe. @ 3:02 PM |
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| 8.01.2005 |
| Entertainment is key |
SLEUTH
Sleuth is an exciting game where you can search for clues, interview suspects, and travel around town finding information to solve a crime. There are an infinite number of unique mysteries to solve, providing for a game that you can come back to again and again! |
| posted by Ianthe. @ 11:36 PM |
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| worth stumbling upon |
Firefox's Stumble feature brings me many great sites that I need to share with you.
First up is LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD?
It's a strange little flash project that lets you drag George Bush or Tony Blair's face around by the nose. It's oddly amusing for a few minutes.
Throw Paper
Flash game. The object is to get a wad of paper into a wastebin, however the presence of a fan affects what direction you need to throw it in order to get it into the basket. Good for killing time.
Fly Guy
Funny for the sheer weirdness of it.
Basically, you're Fly Guy. You can fly. Adn when you do, there are various things you can encounter in the sky, including but not limited to, a copy machine, a chair with wings (that promptly serves you tea), a guru who gives fortune cookiesque advice, and a small child holding a balloon (and if you fly through it, it pops and enables the kid to become Superman). Also a great time killer.
TrueMajority
This site makes me happy.
It explains the federal budget and the problems with it...by using OREOS, and an entertaining flash movie, but it also gets the message across. A good stop if you don't know anything at all about politics but wish you did.
Declaration of Revocation by John Cleese
Undeniably one of the most humorous things I have ever received in my inbox, and now here it is again in a website form.
The Declaration details England's taking over of the United States due to electing a crap president and all of the things that we have been doing wrong.
3. You should learn to distinguish the English and Australian accents. It really isn't that hard. English accents are not limited to cockney, upper-class twit or Mancunian (Daphne in Frasier). You will also have to learn how to understand regional accents --- Scottish dramas such as "Taggart" will no longer be broadcast with subtitles. While we're talking about regions, you must learn that there is no such place as Devonshire in England. The name of the county is "Devon." If you persist in calling it Devonshire, all American States will become "shires" e.g. Texasshire, Floridashire, Louisianashire.' ACLU - Pizza
Rather distressing, really. Highlights the creepiness of government privacy invasion using a flash animation in which a man orders a pizza and instantly the pizza place has all of his library books, recent purchases, and medical records on file. Somewhat like Big Brother, interesting to check out if you're paranoid and need another reason to loathe the advancements in government. |
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