Mister PicassoHead

Like Mr. Potato Head, but artsier!

The Human Clock

Time flies when you've got a whole bunch of people taking pictures.

Moon Trees

Trees grown from seeds that were taken to the moon. Pretty cool!

Fun with Roller Coaster Tycoon 3

TIME.... is still marching on!

Line Rider Game

Featured in Time magazine, build a course with your pencil, and watch the little guy on the sled ride it out. Or maybe not. Life can be short for a little guy on a sled....

Updated Snake Game

Back in the day, we used to play a game called snake, where you had to eat the bits of food, which made you grow longer, only you couldn't touch yourself or the wall. Single color snake. Four drections. Keyboard only. No mouse. No music.

And we were thankful.

The Dots Game

You know, the one we play in restaurants and stuff where you've got to make boxes and keep your opponent from making boxes? This is a computer single-player version of that.

Play

Fun shockwave flash movie. When it says "Play", click to start it.

Punch through the ice

For some reason, it's called the "Nex" game. You're this guy running along and there are these big walls of ice in your way. Click at the right time and you punch through. Don't click and, well, you don't.

The Very Long Pi Song

In case you every have to memorize the first, say, hundred or so digits of pi, maybe you can sing this catchy song!

The Never-Ending Dugong (Manatee) Song

It doesn't have wings, because that would be silly.

Looking for Pie

Fairly simple Mario-like platform game with a little blob that really likes pie....

Flying Around in Google Maps

You can fly the little airplane around New York, or Disneyland, or Paris, or ...

Use the arrow keys for up and down, left and right. A to go faster. Z to go slower. Space bar to fire bullets, though I can't figure out why...

Pool Tricks

Nonlinear Cornstarch

The third man listed on this video's title (Harry L. Swinney), graduated from Rhodes College (my alma mater). I get to hear him speak once.

The cornstarch and water mixture sits on a vibrating table that shakes it really hard and really fast. The results (through the "magic" of nonlinear physics), look truly bizarre. Watch the whole thing through...

What's it like to be color blind?

A color-blind website designer blogs about what it means to be color blind. It's from a design perspective, but it's still pretty cool.

Class Hamsters

They learn about science. The HARD way...

Online Art Lessons

Huge collection of online art lessons.

I might try one myself.... I think I'll draw a face.... a happy face... and a mustache... and big eyes... OK, let's see how it turned out:

8{)

(*@#$!!! They hung it up sideways!)

[Note: I just saw that they need a registration to take many of the lessons. The registration is free, but they still want information from you.]

GAME: Crazy Pong Game

Y'all don't remember PONG, but you'll figure this out pretty quick.

NFL Rule Changes for 2006

The last one there, about inadvertant whistles, is my favorite new rule. It should have been in place years ago.

Underground Nuclear Explosion

Just in case you get the idea that a nuke is not such a big deal...

Balancing Point

This is an incredibly cool video. A little more information at this blog.

Disaster Map

If you're ever think that you're feeling too good about the world, this rapidly updating map of earthquakes, radiation leaks, volcanos, bird flu, and more should put you back into an appropriate level of "AAAAAAAH!!!!!"

(Or, you could just feel good when none of that stuff is too close to YOU...)

The Cool Calvin and Hobbes Collection

That is, of course, John Calvin, the 16th century theologian, and Thomas Hobbes, the 17th century philosopher.

NOT!

This site has all kinds of stuff about the world's most eloquent six-year-old and stuffed tiger.

Incredible Dancing on a Unicycle

Unicycles and dancing. Seems like another good fit...

Robot Soccer

Robots and soccer. Seems like a good fit....

Amazing Stop Motion Video - www.2BlogGadgets.com

Stop-motion photography and classic video games. This must have taken FOREVER to do.

The Size of Our World

Click the title to get a sense of proportion.

What's That Bug?

Lots of pictures of bugs. Some really strange ones. Like the one climbing up your neck!

Cursor Kite

It's a kite that looks like a big cursor in the sky...

Flatlife

Jonas Geirnaert graduation project "FLATLIFE" (2004), selected for Short Films in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2004.

High Speed Photography

Find the video of the baloon popping (4th one from the left on the top row). Really cool. (If you film in high speed, you can play it back in super-slow-motion.)

The other clips on the site are cool too.

Make your own Trampoline Game

You make the game out of ball bearings, baloons, peanut cans and wooden dowels.

Draw Like Jackon Pollack

Jackson Pollack was an artist who did abstract art by dripping paint onto canvas.

Click on the title to do the same thing without the mess. (Hint: Click the mouse to change colors.)

The official blog of the FOSTER'S HOME FOR IMAGINARY FRIENDS production crew.

It's called "BLOGregard Q. Kazoo".

FUNNY: Chico Marx at the Piano

This is some phenomenal, er, unusual piano playing. Funny stuff.

Renactment of Pointilist painting

Sunday (no, Saturday) in the park (no, Wisconsin) with George (well, somebody there was probably named George.)

This is pretty cool.

Rocket Muppets

Because what Ernie's friend Bert always wanted was a rocket stuffed up each leg...

Yeah, y'all need more games...

Clear skulls of the same color from the board, eh? There's a timer, eh?

OK, so this is a little bit political, but...

How often do you get to tell the President of the United States what to say? (Not really, of course.)

Magic Trick (but REALLY freaky)

OK, so this is a bit scary, so don't watch it if it's going to freak you out.

You know who you are.

It's only a trick. Here is a story that talks about it over at Snopes.

Fire Rainbow

Just so you don't think this is photoshopped or anything, have a look at the amazing "Fire Rainbow" at the myth-debunking site Snopes.com. They explain it too.

The Lyrebird Video

Stay with this one. Don't give up just because nothing blows up in the first ten seconds. You'll be amazed.

The lyrebird in Australia has the most amazing song, or, rather songs. The spot was voted the favorite segment by the incredible David Attenborough on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

Seriously, you'll want to talk about this one.

GAME: COLOR box

Something like Tetris, but with single blocks, and their different colors, and there's no time problems, so I guess it's not really like Tetris....

DANCING: I guess....

So this guy invents a suit that lets him make music by dancing. And then he writes a computer program to let you "choreograph" his dance.

Weird. You'll love it.

GAME: Keep the Ball in the Air

Keep the tennis ball in the air by clicking at the right place at the right time.

Card Tricks Revealed

Amaze your friends! Amaze your enemies! Have a good reason for keeping an entire deck of cards together, and not spread out all over the family room!

Attraction/Reflection Toy

Move the circles and play with the water drops!

Ping Pong Ball into Plastic Cup

Sounds easy?

Yeah, baby! Radio Controlled Acrobatics

GAME: Click Drag Type 2

No instructions.

Figure it out.

GAME: Noodle Mine

I think this is from a noodle company in Britain. Or, it could be from some raving lunatic who happens to think sheep live underground and you mine noodles.

Either way, it's a side-scrolling Flash game (like SuperTux).

Jet Set Show

From the producers of Rocketboom, it's a show for kids.

Juga Bonito

The beautiful gane.

Also, have a look at this:

SCIENCE (?): Mentos and Diet Coke Fountains

Who knew you could make a fountain out of Mentos and Diet Coke?

Rock Paper Scissors 25

This is the site where the 25-item Rock/Paper/Scissors/Dragon/Alien/Cockroach/... game is outlined.

Spanish Castle Optical Illusion

OK, it's an optical illusion.

There's this picture of a castle which looks kind of yellow and blue. You stare at it for 30 seconds. (You can blink.) Then, without taking your eyes off the picture, you move your mouse onto it. For an instant, it's color, then it goes to black and white.

If you move your mouse onto it without staring, it's just a black and white picture.

FUNNY, SCIENCE: Rube Gold-burger

From the Zoom folks: make the Rube Goldberg device put together lunch for the TV crew.

CREATE: Bombay TV

Put your own captions on movie clips.

ANIMATION: Funky look at water

A commercial for a bottled water brand, but really neat animation imagination.

MATH: Plus Magazine

Math news, puzzles, and much more.

Ask a Ninja

You got questions? Ninja got answers.

Then he kills you.

Google Maps Meets the Weather

Instantly find out the weather anywhere you can stick a pin!

DANCE: Old footage of dancers given hip-hop soundtrack

These guys are cool. It's old-school dance to new school music.


Get this video and more at MySpace.com

I'm also going to put this link in here. I haven't really figured out how to use the site yet, but a good starting page seems to be here. It's apparently a huge (40 GB+) archive of video footage of people dancing (possibly only swing dance).

FUNNY, COMPUTERS: Webserver Blues

Just let the message scroll. It looks like it's just a bad link, but it's not.

MAPS: Worldmapper

Maps in various categories (like "Vehicles Exports") where the size of the country is proportional to its size in the category.

FUNNY, DANCE: The Evolution of Dance

Watch as dance evolves. He gets knocked down, but he gets up again. You ain't never gonna keep him down.

FUNNY: Trainwreck Video

OK. A toy train, crackers, a guy, and brocolli.

OH!!! THE HUMANITY!!!

COMPUTERS: Awesome Start Pages

You can pick a customizable start page from here. It might be a fun way to get to Google.