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Incidental Intercourse Inversion

Pixelwit — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:25:02 +0000

I searched the web far and wide but I couldn’t find the phrase “incidental intercourse inversion” anywhere. I’m guessing it’s just a minor f*ck up.

You can use it in a sentence like so:...

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Butterfly and Zebra Skin

Pixelwit — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:39:07 +0000

I have this thing for black and white patterns.

Click the butterfly.

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4 Fun Flash Games

Pixelwit — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:28:26 +0000

These fun Flash games have great time-wasting potential. One game has been a favorite of mine for a few years and it’s fair to say I’ve lost more than a few days playing it. Give these puzzles and brain-teasers a try, you might find a new favorite Flash game of your own.

Net by Pavils Jurjans

Once I got the hang of this game I found it to be as addictive as simultaneously smoking crack and popping bubble wrap. The goal is to spin as few tiles as necessary so every red device has a path leading back to the center square. The key to getting a high score is to solve the puzzle without making any extra turns (which you can do because every game has a logical solution and you’re never forced to guess). I haven’t found a game that couldn’t be solved yet and I’ve played MANY times. In fact, I’ve played so many times that on a good day I can finish the biggest boards in about 2.5 minutes in “Normal” mode and 5 minutes in “Wrapping” mode without going over the “Minimum Turns”. Can you beat that?

99 Bricks

This playful little game is a cross between Tetris and Jenga. The seemingly simple goal is to stack the pieces as high as possible but the 2D physics engine makes it a little more challenging than you might expect.

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Flash Continue Time Clock

Pixelwit — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:08:15 +0000

After seeing the Continue Time clock on YouTube I simply HAD to reproduce it in Flash. As it turns out, Johan Bisse Mattsson already beat me to it and (according to one comment by AM) may have inspired Sander Mulder to build his real-life brass and aluminum version. I like Johan’s virtual Hand in Hand clock because you can drag the hands around and watch them flail about. On the other hand, so to speak, it doesn’t show the hours, minutes and seconds when clicked on like mine does. So I’ve got that goin’ for me.

How Good is Your Eye?

Pixelwit — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:00:06 +0000

This neat little Flash app tests your ability to eyeball (estimate) geometric angles and distances and then compares your results to the last 10,000 people who took the test.

I got the following results:


Parallelogram	7.6	3.2	6.1
Midpoint	1.4	7.3	4.5
Bisect angle	0.9	4.8	3.5
Triangle center	2.2	1.2	3.0
Circle center	5.1	1.0	1.4
Right angle	5.5	0.6	4.2
Convergence	10.0	2.0	6.4

Average error: 3.90 (lower is better)

How did you do?

Do you think this sort of skill correlates to your design sensibility in any way or helps you perform design related tasks?