Friday Time-waster of the Week

Posted by Doug on October 24, 2008

If you’re like me, you get into a pretty intense mode when you’re working on a project.  When I’m really engaged in my work, sometimes I’ll look at my clock and realize it’s 2:30pm and I didn’t take a break for lunch.  (This isn’t necessarily a bad thing–although I’ve lost a lot of weight recently, I can still afford to miss a meal now and then, if you know what I mean.)

But there are those moments during the work day, occasionally, when you just need to get your mind off of what you’re doing and kill a little time doing something fun–something to distract your brain long enough to allow an elusive solution to bubble to the surface of your mind.  That’s what the Friday Time-waster of the Week is for.  Each Friday I’ll try to bring you an example of something I’ve found out there that is interesting, funny, clever, odd, bizarre, quirky, and most likely a waste of time, but awesome nonetheless, and worth taking a few minutes to see.

This week we’ll kick things off with a time-waster for users of Mac laptops that have the built-in motion sensors.  LiquidMac is a little application that puts a window on your screen, filled with particles that behave like bb’s, or like liquid when you tilt your MacBook from side to side.  It’s hard to explain–you’ve got to try it.  You can adjust several parameters, such as the color and size, gravity, the rigidity of the particles, and other aspects.  Then you just tilt your Mac to one side, then the other, and soon you’ll be flinging virtual particles all over the place.

Geeky and awesome.  Enjoy.

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