Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Older versions of favorite applications
Particularly useful if you have older hardware/operating system that are unable to handle the newer software. Or simply if you don' tlike 'features' in newer software versions.

Old Version.com

Hilarious web comic covering such varied and controversial topics as:

Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang meets the Flying Nun


The Hanging of a Lego man


A Wild West gun fight with a T-Rex


The Pillsbury Doughboy warming himself in front of the fire


If the nuns from The Sound of Music had been killbots


A Muppet version of a Clockwork Orange

I can't help but feeling that this is the comic Gary Larson would have made if he was a better artist and branched out of the single frame premise.

Truck Bearing Kibble

How many times can you click a button in 30 seconds? The more you can, the more caffeinated you are, or so the saying goes.

Caffeine Buzz Tester

Recommended by Ben Arciniega

The world's smallest Pacman game - probably about 20X20 pixels:

One Pacman, one Ghost, small and simple maze; but the Ghost moves faster with each level.

World's smallest Pacman

A recut trailer that makes West Side Story look like a Zombie flick!

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

You don't need to have a Shazam! enabled iPhone to be able to find out the name and artist associated with a song:

Do you know how a song goes, but don't know the name of the song or the artist? Go to songtapper.com and tap the rhythm of the song on your space bar. Going off of just the rhythm, Songtapper can usually find any song you are looking for.
Song Tapper

Hum or sing a song into your microphone and midomi will tell you what it is.
Midomi

Tunatic will listen to music through your microphone, much like previously mentioned Shazam! and tell you what the song and artist are.
Tunatic

Old Warner Brothers, Hanna Barbera, Betty Boop and other videos that are either 'banned' or no longer in syndication due to offensive or controversial content. This site really just contains descriptions of the videos, then points you to a link where these videos can be downloaded. Of particular interest is the second section, the American WWII propaganda films. 'Commando Daffy' is a longtime favorite of mine. Some of these videos really are offensive, so be warned. I find it very interesting how much the real history of animation has been sanitized, hopefully you will, too.




Banned and Politically Incorrect old videos