Chinese Pictionary

Here's a game which our cell last year played lots, and which we called Chinese Pictionary. They've called it The Sentence Game, but it's still the same thing. Draw a picture to match a caption, or write a caption for an existing picture, this repeats until the start and end captions are completely different, and then the results are published in the archives folder.
Brilliant!

Surname Map

Plot maps of surname frequency. See how your surname has dispersed between 1881 and 1998. Probably most people will think this is really sad, but I thought it was neat. Bonus points for anyone who can work out who's surname is in the picture here!

 

Clock Patience

The world's most pointless game brought to you here as online entertainment. Be enthrawled as you match the card to it's corresponding hour marker, gasp as yet another king comes crashing down and cheer as you finally manage to get round to closing your browser and throwing your computer out of the window.

 

Hike24 - It's happening again

It's back again. For those of you that missed the first or second hikes, here's your chance to support Team Hike 24 as they raise much needed money for a trip to work on an orphanage in Recife, Brazil this Summer. They set off on the hike on the 3rd of June at 5am, so keep yourself glued to the site for all the latest thrills and spills.

 

The Ultimate Film Desktop

You may well remember the Virgin music quiz thing where you have to find as many band names in the picture as you can. Well this is very similar, but with film titles. I liked it a lot more, because on the whole the films aren't all that obscure (whereas I'd never heard of maybe half of the bands). Anyway, there's 100 to find, go knock yourselves out.
 

Ask a ninja

This site is possibly the worst laid out site I've ever seen, but the videos are really funny. If you have anything you've ever wanted to know about ninjas then this site is the place to ask. I think the easiest way to get to the videos is to go to http://www.askaninja.com/tags/question-1 then change the number in the address to whatever question number you wish to view.
 

Time For Bed?

How much sleep does the average child need in comparison to a variety of animals? Complete with realistic sound effects and exciting facts.

Grat.
 

Face transformer

Ever wanted to change the way you looked? Well now you can! You need a photo of a face on your hard drive to upload, and away you go.


 

Pimp My Snack

A site based on a genius concept - take everyday snacks and make them HUGE. Be sure to check out the jaffa cake and the jammie dodger. I found that looking at most of these things made me hungry, with a few exceptions that made me feel slightly nausious (think of the sugar content!)

 

Hike 24

Have a look what these crazy guys are doing! Hiking non stop for 24 hours from Egham to Oxford and beyond!



 

Don't Shoot The Puppy

RRRRThats5Rs presents the genius that is Don't Shoot The Puppy!
There are 15 levels in all, how far can you get?


 

ReadPlease

I hate to do this, because it's a shareware program, not freeware, but this is a tool which I've found most useful for 'reading' excessively long blog entries (*cough* Sarah *cough* Laura *cough* Naomi *cough* Paula *cough* etc...) Just copy and paste the text, and away you go! The woman has an annoying american voice, and sounds like a bit of a harlot, but you can download a British add on pack.

Blue ball machine

Sit in awe as the little blue balls get transported about, bounce off things, get cut in half, glued back together again, etc. etc. etc. I must have watched this for at least 5 minutes, and would you believe it's animated in only 30 frames! I think it has music with it too, but I've not listened to that.

Teen Girl Squad!

Internet cartoons don't get much funnier than this! Tales of four stereotypical teenage friends. Genius, just genius!

Silly Tube Maps

An entire page of pictures of alternate Tube Maps. Maps showing actual locations of stations and lines, maps showing which parts of the Underground are underground, even maps showing where to go if you need the loo on the tube!

 

The Brick Testament

No doubt lots of people will have seen this before, but I thought it was worth adding here (if only to pretend there's still some kind of life in this blog!) Many thanks to Big Chris for reminding me of it!

Christmas Carol Maker

Click on notes at the right time to write a Christmas carol, listen to a load of elves sing it, then send it to a friend.

The Infinite Cat Project

Someone put a picture of a cat on the net. Next someone put a picture of their cat looking at the picture of the first cat on the net. Soon there were cats looking at cats looking at cats looking at ...

Tontie Version 1

So it turns out the old version of Tontie was Tontie Version 0. The updated version now includes treasure chests, new enemies and a ray gun! It also has more levels, and gets pretty tough to follow what's going on by level 12 or so. I'm still not convinced of what everything does (eg. the frozen heart thing?)

Heli Attack 3

I've never seen Heli Attack 1, but Heli Attack 3 is much like Heli Attack 2. The improvements are an introduction of a level system, some new guns, advanced controls and new types of enemy. There's not really much to it (it's quite short), but it's more fun than biting your leg off.