Category: Playful or Cool

According to Slashdot, Arlo Rose is porting Konfabulator to Windows. The Konfabulator site now goes to a strange “notebook” essay on “Ten Days In The Wild” which pretends to have discovered two types of creatures in the wild (Macs and PCs.) To see what Konfabultator in Windows would look like see image here.
This came to me from Chris. See also a previous grockwel: Research Notes: Konfabulator blog entry.

Boohbah Zone is a neat little Flash site for what I assume is a kids TV show. Sent to me by Judith.

From join-the-dots, a blog I have been enjoying recently, is a link to Geometric Paper Folding: Dr. David Huffman (as in Huffman coding.)
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fuck sex granulation love the shit god

WORDCOUNT and its companion QUERYCOUNT are two text-art experiments by Jonathan Harris of Number27. (StÈfan Sinclair pointed this out.) WORDCOUNT uses the Britich National Corpus to present an interactive Flash view of all the words sorted by frequency (thus “The” starts the list of 86800 words.) QUERYCOUNT tracks the words people ask to see in the WORDCOUNT list, not surprisingly starting with “fuck” and “sex”, but followed (when I checked) by “granulation”. (There must be some group repeatedly asking for “granulation” or a bug for that to show up so high.) What does the list of words we look for (quoted at the start of this entry) say about us?
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morphases.com is a site that lets you place with faces. It is a much more sophisticated version of the interactive face of me that Kathy programmed in Flash.

Thanks to Ross Scaife for this link.

1000journals is a project where 1000 blank journals were sent out to work their way around being filled in. When finished and returned they are scanned and made available. Neat.
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halfbaker.com is a site for wacky ideas (some of which turn out to have happened.) Nice design and great idea itself.

“Ceci n’est pas un ideÈ.”

This site makes communal play out of what we do – fantasize about things that could be done (to make a million.) Such ideas are a rhetorical trope – a conversation starter (or stopper) independent from any desire to implement.

Historic Tale Construction Kit is a Web application which you can use to make a tapestry tale. Very neat.

The Devil’s Details by Chuck Zerby is a great little book about footnotes, from the first to the Web.

Christian Bˆk Eunoia Toronto: Coach House Books, http://www.chbooks.com/online/eunoia/index.html, 2001 is a book with Oulipian experiments. Eunoia is written with a chapter for each vowel. Each chapter works within constraints, one of which is to use all words that only use that vowel. The chapters also begin with something about writing. There is a Flash version of the Chapter on E online along with the full text of the other chapters.
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