Classic Cinema Online

If you haven't been following this fantastic site since I posted it a few weeks ago (and why not???) I just wanted to share with you some of this weeks updates:

1984 - with Michael Redgrave and Donald Pleasance
Duel - with Dennis Weaver
The Candidate - Robert Redford
Soylent Green - Charlton Heston

Quality all the way, and the other few weekly updates are no slouches either. I suppose Wild Women of Wonga was just a phase it they were going through!

Cute thoughtful game

Help!!! Heeeeeeelllllppppppp!!!!! My Mother announced she was coming to stay with us. We haven't seen her in two years despite her repeated trips back to the UK, so it was a bit if a shocker to get a phone call mid-week - "We're coming up, can we stay with you Friday?"
One very clean house later, they duly arrive, only to announce that they are staying for the whole weekend. Gaahhhh! Heeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllllppppppppppp!!!!!

Which is why I find myself hiding away playing on Stumbleupon and blogging (actually, they've gone to bed - our bloody bed - so I don't feel so guilty - wifey and I on camp beds in the front room).

So, games. I probably play too many games, and always enjoy a new a thoughtful one when it comes along. Sprout is just such a game, akin to the Grow series of games that required certain environmental factors to be turned on in the right sequence. Sprout takes a few turns to get right, but rewards you at the end with a short animation, and is fun to play. It only took five minutes to complete.
Enjoy!

http://www.smart-kit.com/games/sprout/

Street Theatre

Well you've probably seen those wonderful viral e-mails (not an adjective that can be applied to 99% of them!) where a group of "passengers" on a train station suddenly start singing and dancing, and before you know it there are 200 of them involved in a great piece of free theatre.

I was delighted, then, when Stumbleupon popped this one into my browser - it's a video diary of a bunch of New York improv artists, and there are some quite fantastic moments, the best of which may well be "I Love Lunch! The Musical"

Really, really, enjoy

http://improveverywhere.com/

I Am Awesome!!!!

No, not me. This bloke. So, what website would you register simply in order to leave a one-liner hanging in cyberspace? How about www.hesbehindyou.co.uk with the text Oh No He's Not! on the site?

Enjoy both of these...

http://community.anarchy-online.com/

http://www.iamawesome.com/

Then and Now

What a lovely idea - get an old photo of you as a child, and recreate it with your current adult self. I have just the snap in mind of me as a baby sitting on my uncle's knee, him wearing a rather silly party hat and me looking startled because he had a horn growing out of his head. We are positioned in the bay window of the flat he still lives in 44 years later. Only trouble is I might kill him if I sit on him these days!

Oh what the heck - here it is.

Enjoy!

http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/131311/Then+and+Now/

Role Playing Virgin

I'm brand new to this role playing lark - rolling dice and all that. Well, not 100% true, I did go through a period of playing a card game that was kind of similar - its still going strong and you can read about it here: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Multiverse/

Anyway, I'm new to this role playing lark - all the dice, choices, sliding doors kind of thing. So when I stumbled into this text-based multiple choice game earlier, I surprised myself by playing it to its conclusion. My dragon eventually got the crap beaten out of it by a wizard, but I did die rich with 14500 gold thingamies.

Can you do better? Enjoy!

http://www.choiceofgames.com/dragon/

Truly Disturbing

This is Truly Disturbing. You probably won't enjoy.

http://www.tom-phillips.info/flash/dexter.screen.cleaner.swf

Where's RFB????

The bloke below might not be so clever at painting after all. In this photo I used brilliant painting techniques to make me look badly and hurriedly Photo-shopped...oh, and cleverly changed the scaling so it looks like I'm standing next to a giant gate in land of the giants. Or something.

Ditto Last Post - Too Much Time!!!!!

This is ludicrous - is he paid for this?????

http://www.binscorner.com/pages/s/spot-ths-man-see-the-creativity.html

Some People Have Too Much Time...

If some of the inventiveness and creativity on the Net could be harnessed and turned into usefulness, there would be no war, poverty, starvation, disease. There would be huge overcrowding because of this, fuel prices would be double or triple its current high watermark - and worst of all we'd all be bored to death because all the creativity and inventiveness got canned and re channeled.

Which is why, morally at least, I am in favour of Lolcats (if you don't know, Google it - on which note, laugh of the day earlier. My beautiful and woefully young daughter was watching a news item about Google withdrawing from China. "Never mind" she said "They can use Ask Jeeves")

And all this preamble brings me to something which I would file under 'Pointless, valueless, and interesting for about ten minutes, but I might try it myself'. I Stumbled upon an article headed Transparent Monitors. Really? I thought - no, not really, just some clever photoshopping and applying a wallpaper of the ,,well, wall. Enjoy!

http://www.listropolis.com/2008/04/mind-blowing-see-through-mac-monitors/

Shape Photo Collage

There isn't much on the web that is truly free - nothing that you'd want anyway.

Here's one I stumbled upon a few weeks ago, and we've been having fun with it ever since. Simply load all the photos/pics you want into the left hand window, pick any shape you can think of (you can even use text shapes or numbers, or even free-draw your own shape), click 'create' and the software does the rest. Here's one I did just now (took me about five minutes) of cat photos in the shape of a cat - well why not?

Unusually, and pleasantly, although the free version asks you to upgrade every time you start the program, it doesn't nag you again or time out, or keep telling you "this option only available in (insert software name here) Pro"

Hours of fun - enjoy!

http://www.shapecollage.com/

Classic Movies for Free

Stuck working at home again today as I didn't fancy the icy slide into Manchester. The car thermometer read -9.5 deg C at about 8am. Brrrrrr, and the news mentioned un-gritted roads into town. I slipped and slid into school with Boy only to be called 20 minutes later - he has gone pale and pukey so could I collect him please. He is now cuddled up with a hot water bottle and a bucket watching CBBC, and I'm blogging. Guess who's going to be working this weekend to catch up?

So, I know what you're thinking - just where can I get a copy on DVD of the 1968 B-Movie classic "Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women?". It seems not to be on in any of the cinemas, and even the reasonably comprehensive Love Films doesn't stock it.

Classic Cinema Online has the answer - hundreds upon hundreds of movies that you might not want to watch, but plenty that you would. I really enjoyed the 'Trinity' spaghetti westerns, and recently enjoyed a re-watch of "They Call Me Trinity" - worth it just to see Trinity eat a pan of beans.

Enjoy!

http://www.classiccinemaonline.com/1/index.php

5 Second Movies

I've mentioned before that I love a good project website - come up with a (preferably completely pointless) idea and see where it goes. So why not see what happens if you make 5 second movies? What can you do in 5 seconds??? Quite a lot as it happens.

http://5secondfilms.com/watch/the_day_before_yesterday

Science IS Fun

Well it is.

A good indication of how I feel about a site is how long I spend there. I wasted an hour of my life on this one, watching all the brilliant little videos from academic staff at Nottingham University. A fantastic example of altruism and desire to teach that makes me love the internet. Just click on a symbol and sit back (speakers on!)

http://www.sixtysymbols.com/

BTW, I have just been hit with the thing I hate most about the internet, a bloody virus attack. My freebie AVG software saw it off, but now my Stumbleupon toolbar is permanently set to only show sites from - Blogspot!