July 7th, 2004

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Link Round-Up: Web Crack

Today, games and simple distractions to waste your valuable time at work.

  • From Janine,
    a Swiss game of drunkenness.
  • Bend
    it     like a low-res version of Beckham. Has irritating music, and Becks
    goes for goal from some pretty unlikely positions. I got 14761 points.
  • This
    game     has been around for a long time, but I hadn’t tried it until recently.
    It’s hilarious, and particularly resonant for anyone (I’m not naming any names)
    who wiled away (is that the correct use and spelling of ‘wile’? I couldn’t decide) their early adolescence playing Dungeons and Dragons in their
    basement. You’ve got to love any online game whose latest news item is "The
    burrito bug from yesterday has been fixed — thanks to everybody who reported
    it."
  • An exceptionally clever
    and fun way     to create metadata for images on the Web.
  • The simplest online
    marketplace     in the world. I think.
  • Check out the Greenpeace ad on this
    page    . Very funny, and utterly British.
  • Help pick the
    best colour combination    . Ever.

Bonus links that I need to get rid of: knit your
own licorice panties (thanks, SWT)
and the cheerleader who put
"I" in "team". You can view other link round-ups here.

UPDATE: Boing Boing points to this wonderful short film starring a Lego Spiderman. It’s part Indiana Jones, part Tom and Jerry, all in tiny little bricks.

Comments: 6 Responses so far

Janine
July 7th, 2004
2:42 pm

Ok, Darren - so how many meters can ya get?

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Darren
July 7th, 2004
4:49 pm

How rude! I think I made it to about 55 metres.

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Darren
July 7th, 2004
5:09 pm

But then, I generally don’t drink, so I’m unaccustomed to this phenomenon.

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Janine
July 7th, 2004
6:15 pm

Can I use that excuse, too?? ;)

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Sue
July 8th, 2004
11:22 am

I love that cheerleader story. What a bunch of uptight little snots… “The behavioral administration and myself have yet to determine whether or not the actions of Ms. Brenning were in fact planned or if this was just some kind of mishap.”

So she’s either very stupid and unfortunate, or very amusing and equally unfortunate. Somehow I bet she’s a new hero to millions of high school students across the US.

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bob
July 11th, 2004
9:24 pm

What a great word. It’s “while”. It means “to spend time idly or pleasantly”, as in “I’m whiling my time away perusing your site.”

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