Articles Tagged "Fun"

Beating the Chat Noir Kitty

The game called Chat Noir, which can be found in my Ten Fun Flash Games article, was driving Wilhelm crazy so I thought I’d show him that the “frickin cat” can indeed be boxed.

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Ten Fun Flash Games

These are the best Flash games from Neatorama.com. They’re easy to learn, easy to play, and each one is guaranteed to provide at least 1 solid minute of entertainment. Enjoy!

 


 

Chat Noir#10) Chat Noir

Kitty! This cute little kitten is probably smarter than you. Try to box him in with dark circles before he bounds off-screen.
 


 

Shuffle#9) Shuffle

A super simple billiards type game. Knock all of the other balls off the table to win.
 


 

Spin Black Circle#8) Spin the Black Circle

This game turns the world around… and around and around. Spin the big black circle clockwise or counterclockwise to let gravity guide a ball to its goal. This simple and unique concept offers fun gameplay (to a point). Some mazes can be maddeningly frustrating and I would have liked this game much more if there was a way to save my position midway through a level. Restarting from the beginning after getting SO CLOSE was only fun the first 800 times.


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AdSense Content Relevance

I’m not sure what to say about the Google advertisement placed near my recent Chicken Soup Incident article:

Pot: Buy, Sell or Hold?

Pot: Buy, Sell or Hold?
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Still Baffled by Thermodynamics

Those who know me, know that I make some bad-assed Buffalo chicken wings. It’s a hobby of sorts. Well lately I’ve been saving the very tips of the wings (gross nasty parts you don’t want to eat) to make chicken soup. The idea is to boil the wing tips in water for a while, wait until everything breaks down, strain out the yucky chunks and VOILA! you’re left with a yummy yummy chicken broth. At least that’s the theory anyway…

Things were progressing rather smoothly, I’d boiled the wing-tips for a couple hours, let everything cool down and strained the chunks of chicken bits from the broth. Unfortuantely the act of removing the chicken chunks caused all the yucky little fat droplets to mix back in with the broth. I’m not a big fan of fat so I figured I’d heat the broth again until the fats and oils coalesced on top, cool the whole thing down, and then skim off the hardened fats. Seems like a good idea, right?
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Box Bender

Here’s something to vacantly stare at while pretending to work.

Clicking will cycle through dark, bright and all colors.

Nano Frost

This colorized scanning electron micrograph shows frost formed by a stream of silver iodide precipitate flash-freezing on a nano-scalar surface layer of C60 fullerenes…

Nano Frost Cropped


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High Performance AS3 3D Ornaments

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I was reading Neatorama today when I saw a SWF file which I’ll call Ornaments (since it’s getting to be that time of year).

I tried to learn more about the file and its author but the page featuring Ornaments is written in Japanese and the BabelFish translation didn’t really provide much more insight. Whoever created the Ornaments file sure knows their stuff.

It starts out with 512 ornaments/particles rearranging to form various geometric configurations as the camera flies around to show it all off. You can click and drag inside the SWF to affect the camera view and you can make it a bit more interesting by pressing the plus sign to add more particles. I got to about 5,000 ornaments before it was a little choppy.

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