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Category: Amusements

  • BibliOdyssey (the book)

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    Ephemera is defined as printed or written material that isn’t intended to be preserved. Magazines and newspapers, for example, are meant to be transitory, disposed of once read (the pile of National Geographics in your grandfather’s attic notwithstanding.) Even many books are meant to be ephemeral; computer instruction manuals, for example, are out of date…

  • Netdiver

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    I hope today is a good day for you to get lost in a time-sink, because here’s another major one. Netdiver is a site that collects and displays links to websites that the author, Carole Guevin, aided by her techie co-founder Jean-François Simard, has selected as particularly appealing and well done. The overall emphasis of…

  • Etch-A-Sketch at 47

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    Short of crayons, maybe the Etch-A-Sketch, which turns 47 this week, has earned it’s tagline of “World’s favorite drawing toy”. We’ve all done it, right? Artists and non-artists alike, twirling the little plastic knobs, trying to make diagonals and curves, which was a little like patting your head, rubbing your stomach and chewing gum at…

  • Line Rider

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    Did you ever find yourself doodling and daydreaming that a line you were drawing was something physical, like a hill you could slide down? Perhaps you found yourself imagining that the line would become reality, á la Harold and the Purple Crayon, and you could roll or slide away from whatever it was that you…

  • Mr. Picassohead

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    If you’ve ever said to yourself: “What I really need is a nice cubist time-sink.”, this is the site for you. Mr. Picassohead lets you create your own Picasso-esque faces with drag-and drop eyes, lips, ears, etc. that you can move, resize, recolor and rearrange in a nicely crafted Flash interface. You can save your…

  • Ryan Terry’s Ry-guy.com

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    I’m not a fan of most “clever” web site interfaces because they usually sacrifice any shred of usability on the altar of coolness. Ryan Terry’s Ry-guy.com is so clever, however, that it becomes an entertainment in itself. This is one of the most fun Flash interfaces I’ve ever seen on the web. The site is…