Archive for the ‘web toy awesomeness’ Category

CrappyCat is Awesome Fun

Thursday, September 25th, 2008 | No Comments

Not exactly a game, more of a flash-webtoy-fun-time-sink. I enjoyed it enough to make this brief screencast.
Play CrappyCat!

[Thanks, Julien!]

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Background Sound Mixing Site

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 | 2 Comments

So, I asked the Twitterverse for the sound of the ocean and got a recommendation for Soundsleeping.com. The image below is a screenshot of the mixing tool that lets you create your own background ambient music.

You can choose from oceans to creeks, bird song, bonfires, crickets, etc. Very nice. Very nice indeed!
[Thanks, Dave [...]

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WalkScore - How Walkable is Your House?

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 | No Comments

WalkScore is one of those nifty web services that uses map data to give you an idea of how “walkability” of a particular address. You just pop in the address you want to look at and WalkScore grabs all of the local business information to determine how much walking you’ll be able to do [...]

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Dialectizer and 404 Fun

Friday, February 15th, 2008 | No Comments

“The Dialectizer takes text or other web pages and instantly creates parodies!”
Behold the power of the Dialectizer!

make bigger
[Thanks, Sam!]

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