Working in December means being part of a skeleton staff body that sits around making jokes about how "you never know, something interesting might happen". Board games, office gossip, bad jokes and endless tea and cigarette breaks abound.
Depending on corporate environment, some employees have to pretend to have loads of work, while others are within their rights to take long lunches and read car magazines.
Georgina Guedes, Journalist, ITWeb
Depending on corporate environment, some employees have to pretend to have loads of work, while others are within their rights to take long lunches and read car magazines. Either way, it`s great to have a stock of entertaining Web sites to while away the hours over what would otherwise be a terribly dreary season.
This is a beautifully designed, funky, space adventure game. While the actual purpose of this creation is unclear, I had a great time solving the bizarre little puzzles and moving my little guy from screen to screen. I wanted to kick myself for my stupidity the couple of times that I missed obvious tricks, but the joy of completing each screen outweighs the frustration of getting there. Your bandwidth availability will affect your enjoyment of the game, but once each screen is loaded, things run pretty smoothly.
And whatever it is that the dude in the second screen is smoking, I`m pretty sure the creators had their fair share.
As a child, I frequently used to lie awake at nights trying to wrap my mind around the concept of infinity. I would try to accept that the universe could continue forever. Failing that, I would try to imagine it as being bound. My addled brain was equally poorly equipped to deal with either. This site provides a journey from the furthest reaches of space, magnifying each step by 10, down to the tiniest, most minuscule component of the atom. It`s quite satisfying to have it all contained in manageable exponents.
I often come to work with some hazy recollection of a bizarre series of events that my brain managed to conjure up while I was sleeping. After one or two cups of tea, and an intense bout of newsgathering, these memories generally evaporate from my consciousness. But it`s apparently an interesting journey in self-discovery to keep track of your dreams. Swoon.com offers users the opportunity to keep an online dream diary, and even better than that, has a handy interpretation tool as well. My dream, last night, of giant rabbits in a pink castle apparently means that I will be taking on extra responsibilities with unusually great success in the not-too-distant future.
The paranoid part of my brain suspects that this site is actually a sinister McCarthyist plot to identify the communists among us, but it`s actually fascinating to do the quiz and qualify your own political alignment. The principle of the compass is that a single axis qualification of political orientation is not effective, as there are so many variables to an individual`s own alignment. Those willing to blow up buildings for a cause are very different to peaceful protesters, although both would be classified as "lefties". The Political Compass rates people from left to right on the x-axis, while rating them as either Authoritarian or Libertarian on the y-axis, and then compares them to political figures from history.
Although Rumsfeld won this year`s Foot in Mouth Award for the legend, "Reports that say that something hasn`t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don`t know we don`t know," George W Bush has been fairly prolific in his verbal faux pas. His consistent meaningless gabble prompted the makers of this site to create a Bush Speech Generator, so that anyone can, with the use of buzzwords and catch phrases, construct their own lunatic ramblings.
There will be more of these next week, unless, of course, something interesting happens.
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