12.27.2008

Ho Ho Ho! It's the December Top 3

Given the holiday and it being a supposed time of good cheer and goodwill, this month's top three includes sites that work to foster working together and senses of community.

1) Drop Spots. This site allows you to search for and locate and/or create and post "drop spots" across the country. Apparently, people will leave an item or collection of items in a hidden "spot," and then post its whereabouts on this site for other participants in the area to find and check out.






2)Flash Mob. This site is one where people can "plan" a flash mob, suggesting spots for people to gather seemingly spontaneously and randomly, only for a minute or so, and then promptly disperse, all just for the hell of it.





























3) Global Orgasm. This site promotes this annual even (since 2006) informing people of the date and time for people all over the world to strive to have an orgasm simultaneously.

12.20.2008

Holiday Alcohol Needs Addressed

Well a couple of the big drinking holidays are fast approaching, and this handy tool can help you plan a drink menu for your holiday get-togethers, based on the booze you have on hand. Maybe you are just coming home from a family get-together and just really need to get really drunk, fast. Either way, Booze Buddy is here to help.

Just check off what you have available from the list provided.























And the Booze Buddy does all the work, calculating what drinks you can make with what you have on hand, lists them all and tells you how to make them.
























You can be totally shit faced inside an hour.

12.13.2008

Incidentally, snowflakes are a popular online pass time

I ended last week's post with a snowflake generator and, let me tell you, it is not the only one. An even better one, in my opinion, is featured on the site Make-a-Flake.












You can make your own snowflake and then find it in the snowflake gallery, which you can also browse to view some of the flakes others have made.

























Once you create your flake it is saved to the gallery and you are given a flake number, which means you have to go looking for it anyway, so you might as well check out some others along the way.

The site's administrators are serious about keeping the site clean and ask you not to create obscene flakes and to report any "offensive snowflakes" that you find.




Here's my flake. It is totally original, and slightly phallic.








I hope it is not judged to be obscene or offensive.

Once you find your flake, you can email it to a friend.


















And you should, obscene or not.

12.06.2008

Too much time...

Some people spend quite a bit of time developing bizarre stuff for the web and many of them have put together websites that feature all their creative, programming weirdness, thus providing hours of useless entertainment for people like me with nothing better to do.

The project euh? site is a fine example of these, simply select from the turnable wheel in the top corner of the main page and you will find yourself transported to one off thing after another.
















A page with a dialog box full of chattering teeth.














A page picturing a young man and a "breath with me" button that, when you push it, opens another window in which the boy "breathes" and said window expands and contracts along with him.































Another site with lots of strange, interactive fun is Vector Park. Here, for instance, is a man with a telescope who follows your cursor. When you mouse over other stuff in the landscape, weird shit happens.

















When that gets boring, and it does pretty quickly, Vector also offers a page were a man cries his eyes out and then spits out an eyeball, which you then feed back to him, causing it to reappear on his face.


































For more fun go to yet another page on this site and objects with hooks fall into the water from the sky. When you retrieve them with your mouse, you can hang them from another thing to create a mobile of sorts, but the balancing is tricky.
































When you are all done checking out what this site has to offer, I suggest you head over to the New Rafael site where more bizarre fun can be had.





































Choose an application from the sidebar and let t he good times roll.

Spend hours opening door after door after door and going nowhere.














































Or making jell-o wiggle
















Last but not least, the ZeFrank site is another great place for useless fun.
This site features everything from a kind of interactive kaleidoscope























to a quick animation creator where one can make a woman roll her eyes and move her mouth in different ways























Or, you van make a flower, a floral arrangement or a virtual garden.












Or, create a snow flake.























Perfect for this time of year.