Send a message to your future self with Email Capsules!

Email Capsules

This is a very simple but rather good web site which is an updated technological version of writing a letter to yourself in the future. You write something to your future self and this automated system will email you on the date you specify way in the future! Be sure to write something inspiring as you never know where you may be in 20 or 30 years time! Try not to disappoint your future self!



http://www.emailcapsules.com/

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Samorost flash game

This is a very entertaining if a bit surreal flash game and should keep you entertained over Christmas if all you get is another novelty tie or underwear! The hero Samorost has his dog kidnapped by aliens and must travel to their world to get him back. The backgrounds and interactivity with this flash game are very trippy and surreal. This game rightly won the designers a 2007 Webby Award!

Have a play around with this. The images below are taken from Samorost 2. Click on the links and try to solve the puzzles to get that dog back! Great fun! You can play online or download from http://amanita-design.net







http://amanita-design.net/samorost-1/

http://amanita-design.net/samorost-2/

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Acrobots V Feed The Head!

This application is quite entertaining. The Acrobots almost seem to have a personality as they wildly sucker anything their little suckers can grab onto! Increase gravity or turn their world upside down make plus them appear and disappear! Should be distracting for all of 5mins!

Acrobots



http://www.acrobots.net/

Slightly more distracting is the application 'Feed the head' which is found at http://www.feedthehead.net/ pull the nose off the head a few times a feed it with balls tosee what happens! Has the feel of being trapped in the Beatles Yellow submarine film!

Feed the head








Vector Park



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Yeti bubbles (I suspect Yeti balls has more of a ring to it!)

Need a distraction thats going to have you spending the whole afternoon in a trance much like Tetris? Well Yeti bubbles or Yeti balls as I prefer to call it could be your answer! It's very distracting and will have you whittling away at least 1/2 an hour!

It's suitably festive with the ice and snow and the cute Yeti and penguin looking on and is of course addictive as many arcade games are!

Thinking about this game however Penguins are restricted to the Southern hemisphere and the Yeti is reported from the Himalayas so thats a little misleading lol!

You can download this arcade game here for free CLICK HERE

Screen shot of the game:



There are many other free great games available from http://www.gametop.com/ which is where this game originated.


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Is this your name?

Is this your name?

If you've ever wondered about the origins or meaning of your own name then this site is certainly for you. Type your name into the search engine and it instantly reveals a wealth of information about your name.



http://www.isthisyour.name/


It proves to be quite entertaining and certainly very distracting! Here is an example:

Etymology for the name Jason Feather

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Forename:
Origin: Greek
Meaning: Healer

Top 5 Facts:

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42% of the letters are vowels. Of one million first and last names we looked at, 22.8% have a higher vowel make-up. This means you are well envoweled.

1. Backwards, it is Nosaj Rehtaef... nice ring to it, huh?
2. In Pig Latin, it is Asonjay Eatherfay.
3. In ASCII binary it is...
   01001010 01100001 01110011 01101111 01101110 00100000 01000110 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010
   

3 Things You Didn't Know:

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1. Your personal power animal is the Grizzly Bear
   
2. Your 'Numerology' number is 5. If it wasn't bulls**t, it would mean that you are adventurous, mercurial, and sensual. You seek growth through adventure and different life experiences. Although you are a critical thinker, you can sometimes over-ponder an issue.
3. According to the US Census Bureau°, 0.662% of US residents have the first name 'Jason' and 0.001% have the surname 'Feather'. The US has around 300 million residents, so we guesstimate there are 20 'Jason Feather's.

Name-based Search Stuff

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These open in a new window...

1. Find your family tree on OneGreatFamily ...
2. Search for 'People Finder' services on Google...

   Enter your search terms Submit search form

3. Or, do a residential phonebook search in the USA...
   Select name and state, then click "Go!" to search.
   [Name] Jason Feather Jason A Feather Jason B Feather Jason C Feather Jason D Feather Jason E Feather Jason F Feather Jason G Feather Jason H Feather Jason I Feather Jason J Feather Jason K Feather Jason L Feather Jason M Feather Jason N Feather Jason O Feather Jason P Feather Jason Q Feather Jason R Feather Jason S Feather Jason T Feather Jason U Feather Jason V Feather Jason W Feather Jason X Feather Jason Y Feather Jason Z Feather [State] Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Nth Carolina Nth Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Sth Carolina Sth Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington Wash. D.C. West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Go!

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Bad day for the defense
By: Admin on 28 Nov 2006
Phoenixville News, PA - Nov 20, 2006 By JASON FEATHER, Weekly Column. Well, two weeks have passed since Decision 2006, and two weeks have passed since volunteers for. 'Alexander's' bad day good for Col Hollywood Reporter, United States ... ->

A bad day for County clubs
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life continues to be an existential dilemma
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(and yes, life continues to be an existential dilemma, according to Jason Feather, from http://jasonfeather.blogspot.com/ ). The hair on this cat looks a bit stiff and unlovable. But if this cat were sleeping she would look like this . ... ->

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Dance Monkeys Dance By Ernest Cline

Dance Monkeys Dance

This short flash movie is fantastic and will certainly bring a smile to your face and give you something to think about! It was originally hosted at http://www.ernestcline.com/ You can watch the movie direct on the site by clicking above link (Dance Monkeys Dance) or on the image below or watch the Youtube version here on this site.






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Odd facts that happen to be true

No fancy graphics for this review of a 'distracting' website however this site will save you from boredom as some of the trivia listed here is endlessly fascinating and is the kind of thing that sparks controversy in the bar or office or at the dinner table. I'd recommend memorizing just a few of these amazing facts to sprinkle into the conversation over Christmas and you wont be bored!

Odd facts that happen to be true

Here are a few samples of some of the facts on this trivia site:

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so the called themselves Motorola.

My favorite has to be the gem

Shaggyfrom scooby Doo is a vegetarian by force. He never gets to eat meat in the show. That is because Casey Kasem is a vegetarian and requested that Hanna Barberra make Shag one also.



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Soda creature constructor

'Sodaconstructor is a construction kit for interactive creations using masses and springs. By altering physical properties like gravity, friction, and speed, curiously anthropomorphic models can be made to walk, climb, wriggle, jiggle, or collapse into a writhing heap.'

To be honest I've had a play with this online and I couldn't get the hang of it! However it's like Meccano or Leggo online once you get into it and create a creature that works your hooked! I imagine that it's very distracting and if you do get the hang of it you'll never be bored again (you can be a God! I wonder if this is how our world started...Hmmm Matrix anyone?)

It is almost disturbing as you watch your creature writhe around trying to get a foot hold and start walking so you end up poking and prodding and changing gravity or muscle contractions until your thing gets up and starts to edge its way across the screen. Immediately you feel like Dr Frankenstein or God depending on your temperament!

My favorite creature that someone else had created and left behind was carefulslug but I think I almost killed it immediately by switching off gravity (it hit the top of the screen and when I switched gravity back on it hit the bottom of the screen and could no longer walk...I felt guilty and switched it off (put it out of it's misery!)...

I feel a bit dirty and guilty now...like when your a kid and you forget to feed the goldfish and they die and you suspect it was your fault and you see them gasping at you in the darkness of your dreams...OK I made that last bit up but you get the picture! Perhaps this is how God feels?

Do the starving, lost and lonely haunt his dreams?

There is a gallery of creatures that people have created and some of them are pretty weird, like the kind of things you find at the bottom of the sea or alien lifeforms clinging to some volcanic vent beneath the water on the moon of Europa! Have a go but come back and show me your creature!



Click image above or below to go to Soda Contructor



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Draw amazing Kaleidoscope images in seconds!

This fantastic little application should keep you from getting bored for at least a few minutes but I ended up spending 20 mins making lots of designs. I may print them off and use them as greetings cards! If you want to save the images you have made then click the print screen (PrtScr) button on your keyboard top right and then paste the image into paint or similar image software.

Kaleidoscope maker










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Distract yourself with a good read this Xmas. Book review: The Xmas files. The Philosophy of Christmas by Stephen Law

Last year I had to reveiw this book and I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's the kind of book that you just cant help reading out extracts of much to the annoyance of everyone around the remains of the Christmas Turkey!

The author asks in a secular society, does Christmas mean anything anymore? As we stuff ourselves with plumped-up turkeys, unwrap the latest useless gadget, and gather round the family tree, what real relevance does the festive season have and why do we perpetuate it? "The Philosophy of Christmas" is designed to be a fun book but one underpinned by an exploration of serious philosophical issues. The way we celebrate Christmas says a lot about the way we relate to each other, our society and values.

There were some bits of the book I took issue with for example Santa's outfit was red and green and many other colors in many cultures before the coca Cola company got hold of him so it isn't strictly true that Coca Cola hijacked Santa!

Stephen Law also takes a look at such things such as the virgin birth (David Hume's theories on miracles), Bertrand Russell's turkey, the existential angst of Santa, and peace on earth to produce a humourous, varied and thought-provoking collection. Click below to find it in the distractions - Amazon store...

The Xmas files. The Philosophy of Christmas by Stephen Law

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