Friday Time-waster: 40 inspirational speeches in 2 minutes
Posted by Doug on December 19, 2008
My daughter sent me this–if you need a quick lift, here you go…
Friday Time-waster: Paper Transformer
Posted by Doug on December 12, 2008
You’re going to want to try this:
Unbelievable! Paper Toy Transformer … – video powered by Metacafe
Friday Time-waster: Lego Guitar Hero
Posted by Doug on December 5, 2008
If you have ever played Guitar Hero, or if you have ever played with Legos, or particularly if you have done both, then you’re going to be amazed at this video. It’s brilliant, creative, spot-on accurate (according to my Guitar Hero-playing teenage son), and definitely worth a few minutes of your downtime today.
The producer spent nearly two months producing this stop-action animation, which is composed of more than 34,000 individual frames. It’s really a remarkable piece–enjoy!
Friday Time-waster of the week: Blifaloo.com
Posted by Doug on November 14, 2008
Shadow-puppets at blifaloo.com
I happened upon blifaloo.com via StumbleUpon recently–the page I saw was about how to make shadow puppets of various types (always handy in meetings when the presenter is having a hard time getting the Powerpoint presentation to work), but this site is absolutely chock-full of all kinds of interesting and amusing stuff. You’ll find information about games, magic tricks, optical illusions, cartoons and jokes, and a whole lot more, and unlike many similar sites, blifaloo.com is pretty much free of pop-ups, spyware and other such annoyances.
The subtitle of the site is “Temporary Boredom Relief,” and blifaloo.com delivers on that. If you’re temporarily bored and you’ve got a little time to kill, check it out.
Friday Time-waster of the Week: Feed the Head
Posted by Doug on November 7, 2008
http://www.feedthehead.net
Just go visit Feed the Head and move your mouse and click around until stuff starts happening. You’ll figure it out. Brilliant.
Friday Time-waster of the Week: Doodlage
Posted by Doug on October 31, 2008
Doodlage: http://www.doodlage.com
This week’s Friday Time-waster is Doodlage, a fascinating site about doodling. (And by happy coincidence, today is the last day of “Doodle Week,” according to the Doodlage site.) If I look through notebooks and planners I’ve used over the years, there are certain pages (usually corresponding to certain boring meetings) that are filled with all sorts of mindless little drawings and scribbles, made in order to keep myself awake, or to get my mind onto something somewhat less mind-numbing than the content of the meeting.
Not only will you find some interesting and fun examples of very creative doodling, but there are also links here to other doodling-related sites that are fun to explore. Careful–I spent way too much time there, and ended up with an overwhelming urge to doodle, too.
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.
LiquidMac
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.
