Ahh, the Cornish summer... I'm just hoping it might start eventually.
Still, there are worse things to be doing on a rainy day than messing around on the internet looking for diverting links to bring you:
YouTube
Hammer Horror is back. And this time it's on the net...
From the undead to a house that staves off death.
Adam Buxton removes the original subtitles and tries to work out what on earth (or in Heaven) is being sung about on Songs Of Praise (should anyone be unfamiliar with the programme, it's basically karaoke for Christians).
Games
The one I seem to have been playing most often recently is 'guess whether you'll need a jacket.' Too rainy even for that one, though, today. Sigh.
Oh well, I'll Google for some browser games that involve rain:
First result: Rain (predictably enough, I suppose). Actually, more of an interactive sound art thingy, really - pleasant way to pass a few idle minutes, though.
Alphabet Rain isn't really a game either... but I suppose there are worse ways in which to spend a rainy afternoon than learning to type faster.
Erm, actually, Googling for games involving rain really isn't proving all that successful, is it? Still, I did discover somewhere that lets you make your own, should you get the urge: Fyrebug.
Lego Art
Famous photos recreated in Lego.
The Little Artists take on artists, as well as their art: in this photo they're upsetting a Lego Tracey Emin - wonderful :)
Some Rubik's Cubes seem to have got in on the act at this site.
You can even find entire movies shot in Lego: originals, parodies, remakes, they're all at Brickfilms.
Book stuff
The publisher Hamish Hamilton has a new downloadable (and free) literary zine type thing: Five Dials.
In collaboration with HarperCollins, Amazon has launched Authors in the spotlight. Essentially, new author interviews and extracts (actually, essentially, it's just promotion, but you know what I mean).
Some interactive stories by the person responsible for that musical Rain game above [click 'Stories' in the menu at the top, and also use that to select the stories - the sidebar menu doesn't seem to work].
And finally...
Perhaps, one day, we'll find ourselves having to ask, "Is it really raining, or just an advertising stunt designed to make us look up at the clouds?"
Still, there are worse things to be doing on a rainy day than messing around on the internet looking for diverting links to bring you:
YouTube
Hammer Horror is back. And this time it's on the net...
From the undead to a house that staves off death.
Adam Buxton removes the original subtitles and tries to work out what on earth (or in Heaven) is being sung about on Songs Of Praise (should anyone be unfamiliar with the programme, it's basically karaoke for Christians).
Games
The one I seem to have been playing most often recently is 'guess whether you'll need a jacket.' Too rainy even for that one, though, today. Sigh.
Oh well, I'll Google for some browser games that involve rain:
First result: Rain (predictably enough, I suppose). Actually, more of an interactive sound art thingy, really - pleasant way to pass a few idle minutes, though.
Alphabet Rain isn't really a game either... but I suppose there are worse ways in which to spend a rainy afternoon than learning to type faster.
Erm, actually, Googling for games involving rain really isn't proving all that successful, is it? Still, I did discover somewhere that lets you make your own, should you get the urge: Fyrebug.
Lego Art
Famous photos recreated in Lego.
The Little Artists take on artists, as well as their art: in this photo they're upsetting a Lego Tracey Emin - wonderful :)
Some Rubik's Cubes seem to have got in on the act at this site.
You can even find entire movies shot in Lego: originals, parodies, remakes, they're all at Brickfilms.
Book stuff
The publisher Hamish Hamilton has a new downloadable (and free) literary zine type thing: Five Dials.
In collaboration with HarperCollins, Amazon has launched Authors in the spotlight. Essentially, new author interviews and extracts (actually, essentially, it's just promotion, but you know what I mean).
Some interactive stories by the person responsible for that musical Rain game above [click 'Stories' in the menu at the top, and also use that to select the stories - the sidebar menu doesn't seem to work].
And finally...
Perhaps, one day, we'll find ourselves having to ask, "Is it really raining, or just an advertising stunt designed to make us look up at the clouds?"
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