Interactivity is the name of the game at the moment. Here are 10 websites that are a combination of the fun, the weird, the educational or the simply bewildering. Prepare to be awed.
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Alien Empire
Although this website is primarily aimed at kids there is so much information here about the alien empire that is the world of insects that adults will want to explore it for hours! You may want to take a look at how insects are designed and how they go about the sometimes dangerous act of reproduction. There is a look at the wars that go on among insect communities and it also features the ways we and the bugs co-exist – or not!
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The Universcale
Size matters, or so this website will have it. This amazing site shows you scale as you have probably never seen it – from the smallest speck to the largest asteroid and beyond. Fantastic graphics will give you a real idea of your place on the planet – or indeed the universe.
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Make a Flake
Something a little less noisy and strenuous. If you like the myriad shapes that a snowflake can take and find it fascinating, then why not make your own? You are given a piece of paper and a pair of scissors – virtual ones of course! Then you can chop up the paper and create your own snow flake. Hugely enjoyable fun, you can even save the flakes you create so that others can view your handiwork.
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The Mini-Mizer
Have you ever wondered what you would look like in plastic and miniaturized? No, well, maybe you are reading the wrong web page! This site allows you to build up a picture of yourself as you would appear if you were three inches tall and made of the rubber stuff! You could even make little versions of your whole family to give them a momentary laugh from something that took you five hours to do!
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Interactive Radio
This is music to match your every mood and takes the shape of an astounding interactive radio station. You can choose the genre, the mood of the music and the era from which it should come. The website will then give you a very specific selection of the type of song that you have requested. So, whether you are looking for swinging tunes from the fifties, brooding jazz from the sixties, pop from the seventies straight up to contemporary music, this is the site for you!
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Neave Television
Click on to this sight only if your PC can take a little action! You will need broadband and a desire to be completely bewildered. If you enjoy channel hopping then this might be that ultimate experience you have been waiting for. Click on the screen to start hopping and when you are fed up of one channel click again to hop to the next. Utterly barmy and strange fun!
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Kaleidoscope
This could keep you busy for hours. The block on the left gives you a choice of shapes and colors which you drag in to the circle. A blue pie shape sweeps past the objects you have placed on to the circle. The block on the right then shows you the kaleidoscope effect that this sweep produces. Hypnotic and mesmerizing fun!
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Neon Bible
This will knock your socks off! A music video that is interactive? Possibly the shape of things to come, this will certainly have you scratching your head and wondering how on earth they did that!
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Mr. Picasso Head
Have you ever wanted to paint like Pablo Picasso? Here you get the opportunity, with a huge variety of permutations and combinations that can come together to give you your very own take on the great man’s style. Once you are done you can save the Picasso style drawing that you have created it and email it to your friends – or possibly some of your enemies too!
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Autopsy
This website is definitely not for the faint hearted or for those who do not like the sight of a little blood. It is a step by step guide to what happens during an autopsy procedure. Watch with glee or your heart in your mouth as the first incisions are made and the bodily organs removed. A superb guide to what goes on in the autopsy room, but don’t blame me if your dinner makes a reappearance!
June 22nd, 2008 at 4:40 am
These are going to be fun for some of the children in my class RJ. Thanks. Will stumble and digg it for future reference.
June 22nd, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Gimme More..so here
FreeTube ( http://www.freetube.us.tc ) – Live Streaming Television
This website features a couple hundred channels from across the world, majority of which are in English. Watch all sorts of news, weather and entertainment channels. Your very own private internet television set.
Pandora ( http://www.pandora.com ) – Music Genome Project
This website lets you select a song, and it’ll recommend similar songs that you may like by the same artist or another band. It only works for US unfortunately.
Feed the Head ( http://www.feedthehead.net ) – Interactive Head Thingy
This website is weird and random like an episode of family guy on acid. Start plucking at the guys head and things keep happening just try it you’ll see what I mean.
Samorost ( http://amanita-design.net/samorost-1/ ) – Online Game
This is a really fun game with great music and design. It’s a point and click adventure but theres really great ambience in it. Try the second one when you’re done, you really have to check this out and enjoy the trippy effects and music.
YTMND ( http://www.ytmnd.com ) – Short Funny User Made Clips
This site is for anyone who wants a quick cheap laugh. The jokes are mostly taking two cultural references and mixing them together usually an image with a looped song byte and some large text. Some really funny and weird things here.
June 22nd, 2008 at 6:39 pm
East Meets West (http://eastwestprofile.com) – Funny Interactive Personality Profiles
This site combines eastern and western astrology profiles to make funny personality profiles, and wraps them up in a fun to use site with lots of music, animation etc.
June 22nd, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Wow, those are some VERY cool websites. I like it.
JT
http://www.Ultimate-Anonymity.com
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:07 pm
The original (and better) snowflake creator:
http://www.popularfront.com/snowdays/
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:05 pm
These look interesting even to me and I am not a game person.
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:11 pm
AWESOME 3D website here : http://www.screenvader.com/root.html
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:14 pm
The Musicovery site is amazing, but it’s unbelievable that there are “FREE IPOD NANO” ads that speak everytime you skip a song…
June 22nd, 2008 at 10:39 pm
See your Webpage in 3D (then decorate it and meet and chat to people there)
http://www.exitreality.com
June 22nd, 2008 at 11:50 pm
i like it… i like it… i like it…
http://www.raghav4web.com
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:05 am
http://www.thefwa.com
the bible of flash sites
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:28 am
Interesting.
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:24 am
I like this.. putting u on my blog.
http://bhagwatgm.blogspot.com/
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:25 am
HI JR, you done it again! Thanks for the entertainment… lol
June 23rd, 2008 at 3:01 am
very cool
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:02 am
That Arcade Fire video is brilliant, nothing less can be expected from such a great band. And “Beonlineb” from the url, is an anagram of Neon Bible, their album from last year
June 23rd, 2008 at 5:11 am
Another video from the band Arcade Fire (Neon Bible) titled “Black Mirror”. This video is also interactive.
http://www.rorrimkcalb.com/arcadefire.html
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:32 am
Interactive?
http://www.superbad.com
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:15 am
Really nice list mate.very different ideas then seen before.
good collection i must say
Parth.
http://www.techlads.com
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:53 am
What about Exitreality…?
See ‘this’ site in 3D… http://www.exitreality.com/seein3d/
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:51 am
You missed this one: 3DSN.com – interactive digital content search for 3d and creative graphics:
http://3dsn.com/#keywords=iphone&category=0
A must-have link if you are in web design business
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Obviously a lot of these sites are really pointless and random (and fun anyway)…but musicovery is the best site EVER! Thanks so much for suggesting it!
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:26 pm
wow, crazy…so many options online
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:57 pm
I love the Neave TV one. I like channel hopping. lol
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Wow, interesting! Thanks!
June 24th, 2008 at 3:52 am
Great stuff! Spent a good hour digging into all the links… think it’s about time to add some interactive elements to my website
Drk
http://www.newviewit.com
June 24th, 2008 at 7:28 am
http://www.superbad.com
June 24th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
All these sites are quite old. The Nikon one is fantastic.
http://www.turtles.fr
June 24th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Some really cool sites which will keep lots of people interested for a long time.
Great article.
June 24th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Thanx for giving me more things to entertain myself with on the internet! Like 8-10 hours were not enough already!!
I am going to save this list on my computer.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Lots of cool sites Lol
June 24th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
This is a fantastic article. I already knew of a couple of these sites, but not all of them for sure. I really like the way that you told a story that in a way stringed from one article to the next one.
I forget sometimes how important it is for writers to tell a story when they writer whatever they are writing. Writing stories is what I really enjoy doing, but here lately my current writing style has been mostly descriptive to technical. I’ll try to start telling better stories and see if my readers like the style and if not I return to my old writing style.
This article should do very well on the Internet and on Triond. I would venture to take a guess – 11 days. Of course, I am betting against my own articles’ success, but you have written a very interesting and entertaining article.
Much Success, R J Evans.
God Bless,
Nelson Doyle
June 25th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Nice to know about these websites. Thanks RJ.
June 25th, 2008 at 5:45 am
Great stuff! Spent a good hour digging into all the links…
June 25th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Neon Bible freaks me out…and now that ridiculous song is in my head. But I love it! thanks for the fun!
June 25th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Nice read, nice article, as always. Cheers!
June 26th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Hi there!
Loved your sites (although I already knew a couple of them)… Have you tried http://www.faceinhole.com? It’s a must see.
Cheers
June 27th, 2008 at 1:49 am
Cool 3D flying router game – http://www.cisco.com/go/edgequest
June 30th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Just Stumbling through!
http://www.electricoyster.com/electric3d/index.html
July 1st, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Those are awesome sites! That takes a lot of creativity
http://www.leetwebmasters.com
July 4th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Interesting and truthful for sure!
Great Article!
-=koyin=-
P.S. You should take a look at some of my articles
July 17th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Great sites! I’ll digg this.
http://www.xpirtdesign.com
August 7th, 2008 at 2:00 am
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September 12th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
These suck.
September 28th, 2008 at 11:14 am
how did you make the comment box
October 8th, 2008 at 3:07 am
Very useful things.
http://www.pegem.net
February 21st, 2009 at 9:33 am
i am 13 and non of these games are cool. i want something interactive (sry bad speller) but with no cussing on it thanks and have a gods blessed day lol
April 4th, 2009 at 3:21 am
superb
May 24th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
I’m going to check several of these out for my students and for my examiner.com website review. Thanks.
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June 8th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
I have so much things 2 do!!
But 2day I got a rest.And i’m 20 and I think these games r awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thx!!!