Moved from the now defunct group called Interesting / Fun / Bizarre Sites, here, gathered together are a few sites I found:
What do People Really Think of Famous Brands
I warmed to this site when the tag results for BMW faetured Asshole as one of the favoured associated words. Check out
Brand Tags.
Build Your Own Fonts on-line
Kinda cool,
Fontstruct
Cool - use your mobile phone to play Tetris ON the Bibiliotheque Nationale
Don't know why, but this appeals to me.
Bottle Blade Mozart
A guy rollerblades through rows of partially filled bottles, hitting each bottle and reproducing Mozart's 40th symphony.
Worth a look.
Stwange.......
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have a look around
Fun/interesting - no idea why this works!
http://www.johnsadowski.com/big_spanish_castle.php
I Challenge you not to be at least a little enchanted.....
http://svt.se/hogafflahage/hogafflaHage_site/Kor/hestekor.swf
Wierd Illusion
http://www.grand-illusions.com/amazingdots.htm
Where shall we meet?(Posted by
Lynn Wood)
Enter your address/post code, and that of your friends or business contact and
this site will bring up suggested meeting places of your choice (i.e. pub/restaurant/hotel etc) half way between the two of you.
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nteresting/Useful - London Property Blog
If you just have to know what's what with London Property, log in to
Rat & Mouse
Interesting - Visual Thesaurus
If you need words at your fingertips, have a look at this:
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
Interesting - Quintura
One of IBM's top guys put me on to this during a brilliant one hour phone call - a great variation on Google making great use of tag clouds to create a range of new search possibilities.
http://www.quintura.com/
Interesting - Pimp My Rice Paddy
Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture in Japan create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety. Have a look here:
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/07/pimp-my-rice-paddy/
Animation - Tiny Grow
I dunno. You explain it to me!
http://www.box7box.com/tinygrow.html
Animation - Man in the Dark
As pointless as the rabbit, but so much more relaxing:
http://www.maninthedark.com/
Animation - Crazy Rabbit
For a mindless few minutes, watch the rabbit chase your cursor pointer at:
http://andrius.esu.lt/10/go2.htm