Not everybody who reads my blog also reads Jon‘s blog, but people who read my blog might want to take a look at the picture on Jon’s recent entry: Think Anal Sex Hurts? Try Having A Kid!
It made Jon and I giggle, but not Claire. Take it as you will.
Tag: fun
Photopia
Ever played a text-based adventure (interactive fiction) before? If so, this is a must-see. If not, now’s the time to start. I’ve just finished playing a short IF called Photopia, which won two prestigious (in IF circles) XYZZYnews awards back in 1998.
It’s not… great as an adventure game, but it’s amazing as a story. It’s… so amazingly clever and well thought-out. If you’re an experienced text-adventurer, you’ll be able to
see it all in under an hour (and there is, of course, a SAVE and LOAD function). Wow. Just… just go play it. Go on.
Two good ways to get it:
- Option 1: Download photo201.zip, packaged for Windows – download, extract to a folder, run the batch file (“play_the_game”, or something) – do this if you’re not experienced with setting up your IF enviroment.
- Option 2: Get Photopia 2.01 (Glulx Edition) and a Glulx interpreter for your favourite operating system. You’ll work out the rest.
The Revenge Of Zanatoth
The Revenge Of Zanatoth is a new WikiGame on the RockMonkey wiki. And for those of you who remember me publicising TromaNightAdventure, my first adventure-based WikiGame… well: The Revenge Of Zanatoth kicks it’s arse. It’s a wonderful little (heh) WikiGame that sends you on a quest to save Peter Hain from Zanatoth. During your travels, you’ll imitate oral sex in a gay bar, try to knit with goat’s wool, swap random items for all kinds of crap (hmm… very “Union Roof Scene” from TromaNightAdventure, there…) with Paul, buy beer from pet shop owners, eat fig rolls… the list goes on.
It’s an epic quest from the fevered imagination of Andy R. Go play it (you’ll need a [free] RockMonkey account – register here).
Links I Promised People
Promised various people I’d put these online, for their… enjoyment:
- VegPorn – Porn For Vegetarians, By Vegetarians – all their models are vegan, and they also sell “cruelty-free” toys and stuff. Weird.
- Overheard In The Office and Overheard In The Office and Overheard In New York – especially for Strokey Adam
Have a great weekend.
80’s Estonian TV Commercial
- Have a spare pair of underpants ready. Do not be eating anything.
- Be sure that you are not under the influence of any hallucinogens. Put that pint down, too.
- Take a deep breath. Remind yourself that you are in a safe place, and you can turn off your computer at any time.
- Watch this 80’s Estonian TV ad (about 5.3MB). I think it’s supposed to be shot from the perspective of a chicken on a bad LSD trip.
Sociologists Write Flirting Guide
I have some friends who’d probably appreciate this: The SIRC Guide To Flirting.
Rugby Fan Celebrates By Removing Balls
A Welsh rugby fan cut off his own testicles to celebrate Wales beating England at rugby, the Daily Mirror has reported.
The Subtle Art Of Beer Snobbery
Thanks to Jon for showing me The Subtle Art Of Beer Snobbery. Can’t help but feel that our favourite TastyLager guzzler is trying to make a point, hmm?
Went out few a few last night with Andy R, Claire, and Bryn to welcome Strokey Adam and Emma into town (they’re visiting this week – but not staying for Troma Night <shocker>). It was great to be able tp tag-team with Andy in an effort to make Adam laugh so hard that he wet himself. We didn’t quite manage, but we came pretty close.
Poor Strokey. He’s no less terrified of me than he ever was.
Card Protector
Feel free to put this ad banner on your own web site or weblog. And make sure you take advantage of this great service, yourself, too. (by the way, you can’t see this post on Abnib, you’ll have to click here to see it).
The content of this post depended upon Flash, a now-obsolete technology. The joke was that it was a “banner ad” style form advertising a
service that checked if your credit card details had been stolen online; all you have to do is enter your card details into this strange suspicious form and it’ll tell you whether your
card details have been stolen!
Inanimate Racer 3D
The only game that lets you race inanimate objects: Inanimate Racer 3D!
Walk Into Mortor
One does not simply walk into Mortor…
![Lord Of The Rings Animation - 'One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mortor [sic]'](http://waxy.org/random/images/weblog/mortor.gif)
More Flash: “Second Term”
Jon has posted to his blog about "Second Term", JibJab‘s most recent parody of the American policial system (you’ll remember It’s Good To Be In D.C. and This Land, which I blogged about earlier). In any case, the versions you’ll find on JibJab and Yahoo are surrounded by advertisements and can’t easily be resized (hey; if you’ve got the processing power to run it full-screen, do so!), so I’ve made a copy of it here for you to watch.
- Watch "Second Term" on Scatmania (you’re in control!)
- Watch "Second Term" on JibJab (compatability)
Freedom Sport And Surf
There’s a lesson here for any business with a web site:
I’m sure that you may be familiar with Freedom Sport & Surf, the sports goods shop on Alexandra Road (opposite the carpet shop formerly known as Rumbletums Cafe). Well; they had a website – FreedomSportAndSurf.com. But they let the domain name expire, and it’s been picked up by a porn site: take a look.
In any case, the owners of the store aren’t internet-savvy, and had completely forgotten they had a web site. Similarly, most of the staff weren’t aware of it, either, until a lady came in, recently, and informed the staff member at the counter they she thought it was “disgraceful” that the shop had “things like that” on it’s website, where “children could view it”.
Today, staff at the shop are frantically scrubbing the web address from their carrier bags. Hilarity.
Bill Gates Is Dead
Have you seen the tribute site to the life and death of Bill Gates: Bill Gates Is Dead.
The Ad Graveyard
The Ad Graveyard collects some of the best and funniest rejected and cancelled advertisements in the world.
