Archive for the 'Fun' Category
Stop Motion: London
Great stop motion video made of more than 3,300 pictures (2minutes). If you feel homesick or you want to take a piece of London with you when traveling well here’s another option…
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Time Waster: Whiteboard PONG
If you have too much time in the office on your way to redundancy here’s one potential possibility to pay yourself the bonus you definitely earned in time.
Australian 3D design studio Eness has found a way to play the classic game of Pong on a regular whiteboard.
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Time: Sunday Afternoon Feast
Four short clips for a quiet Sunday afternoon. Some funny ones, one that might make you think plus some music too.
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Humor: Al Murray vs. Americans
In an effort to provide the new U.S. administration with a first hand experience on how your European Allies really tick, here’s a 6 minute cut of British comedian Al Murray talking about Americans.
Al Murray at his finest.
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Cartoons: United Features opens archive
United Features, the home of more than 90 great comics like the Peanuts, Speed Bump or Mike Luckovich (our favorite) has opened its archives of daily cartoons for free on its web site comics.com.
Besides providing the complete archives of many cartoons that go back years (with the Peanuts to October 1950 - more than 20,000 strips), you can also create yourself a custom RSS feed from the different artists that will include…
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Time Waster: FactoryBalls2
Another great Flash game from Bart Bonte games. This time waster - the second version of FactoryBalls - is more complicated than it might look at first sight.
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Short Film: The Mysterious Explorations of Jasper Morello
Nominated for an Oscar and for a BAFTA award, Jasper Morello is a short feature made in a unique style of silhouette animation developed by director Anthony Lucas and inspired by the work of authors Edgar Alan Poe and Jules Verne. In the frontier city of Carpathia, Jasper Morello discovers that his former adversary Doctor Claude Belgon has returned from the grave. When Claude reveals that…
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Humor: Counting Sheep
Not tired when its time to sleep or having spent too much time in the office with your head on the desk. This little Flash application might help.
Unfortunately little Bah-Bah can’t count further than 40 so we are missing the pleasure listening to a sheep saying one thousand three hundred thirty three.
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Humor: Pay Rises
In quite a few countries around the globe the next rounds of pay negotiations will soon start or have just started. And this time those negotiations most likely in a few countries might turn out to end in fights for workers getting at least the inflationary price increases covered.
Interestingly enough while those managers that have caused the current world wide economic crisis have recently given themselves pay rises of 20% or more (plus of course millions in bonus and dividend payments) they are once more demonstrating complete resistance to let those who create the results participate - even with a minimal share. And based on recent publications real inflation e.g. in the UK is actually closer to 18% and not around the 3-4% published by the government.
Now here’s an image to help sustain these hardships and to make you feel better (or at least smile).
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DIY: Melon Brains
If you’re still looking for some last details for Halloween get out and buy some water melons.
The Melon Brains how-to guide from Instructables is one of the best new ideas we’ve seen for this year’s Halloween.
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