Sherry Chandler

Are you bored at work?

Play Boomshine.

And if you figure out how it works, please tell me.

Courtesy of Harry.

You Are a Pear

You are independent, intelligent, and a free thinker. You can accomplish great things, especially when you do them on your own. You are direct, honest, and sometimes even a bit brutal. There’s not much that gets in the way of you and your ambition. While you are hard nosed, you do have a much sweeter side to you. It takes times for you to soften toward someone, but once you do, you’ll be their friend for life.

Found it at Blue Lyon.

I’m knocking my head against some code today, trying to get a page designed.

Meanwhile, you can amuse yourself playing Bloxorz at The Frown.

Or, if you’re a Tetris fan, try Stack the Cats. And that can count as my cat blog for the week.

Thanks to Morgan Williams for the link.

A Flash animation by Alan Becker.

An animator faces his own animation in deadly combat. The battlefield? The Flash interface itself.

A stick figure is created by an animator with the intent to torture. The stick figure drawn by the animator will be using everything he can find - the brush tool, the eraser tool - to get back at his tormentor. It’s resourcefulness versus power. Who will win? You can find out yourself.

Although this animation uses the Flash interface, it felt to me as though it were getting revenge on all those graphics interfaces that drive me bonkers.

Thanks to Peter Kuttner, whoever he is, for the link.

I am nothing if not predictible.

When I saw this over at Have Coffee Will Write just now, I had to guffaw.

I particularly appreciate that Condi is in the mix:

From the presence of Bill Frist and the amount of hair on Karl Rove’s head, I’d say this one has been making the rounds for a while but I hadn’t seen it.

In Liverpool, England, theater director Robert sculptor Richard Wilson has created a new temporary public artwork called “Turning the Place Over.” On a building to be demolished, Wilson has caused an 8-meter section of exterior wall to rotate in and out of the façade. The geometry of the rotation is complex and therefore the video is the only way for the virtual traveler to know a little of the work.

Link from Donna Marder.

Aping Harry, I thought I’d give you a few links to play with.

From Donna: Top Ten Most Annoying Alarm Clocks

Also from Donna: Type the Sky, also here.

From Jeff Hess, Online Etch A Sketch. Gallery of saved drawings here. (Some seem to be anatomically correct.)

And from Formalista: Edward Picot’s Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

A little late for this, I guess, but it’s still officially the Fourth-of-July weekend so why not try your knowledge — How many Presidents can you name in ten minutes?:

Link via I See Invisible People.

I got a paltry 32 — which would have been a D when I was going to school. Sheesh.

Predictably perhaps, my lacunae were in the 19th Century. I got all the 18th Century founders, up through Jackson, and all the 20th Century, and those Presidents around the Civil War, but early 19th century and late 19th century, nothing. But then my memory of American history is that we sort of skimmed between Jackson and Buchanan.