Like a globe trotting big game hunter, I track down the strangest, the most bizarre and the stupidest sights and sounds online. Just for you.
A daily dose of diverting doo-dahs from the Web User team.
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Remember that lovely feeling after England won The Ashes (not forgetting the terrible hangover the next day)? Well it's our duty to protect the cricket trophy from the Aussies - yes, it's time to play
Defend The Ashes!
SwarmSketch is a breathtakingly impressive online sketching project using the collaborative powers of the web. Each day the site sets a theme and invites users to contribute to a drawing. To get started
click here.
Remember Mad Lizzie and her absurdly energetic morning workouts on TVAM throughout the 80s? Well,
click here to watch a truly bizarre American equivalent, with a routine so weird it would’ve sent most viewers scrambling back to bed.
If you’re wondering what hailstones look like on Mars, then this game should give you a good idea. Stop these giant spheres from crashing into this red planet by
firing missiles from the base. You might want to turn the music off, as it’s insanely annoying.
Which kind of hideous noise makes your ears throb and gives you a headache that could floor a diplodocus? Listen to the jukebox from hell
here and vote on the spiteful sounds.
What’s “bless you” in panda-speak? This baby panda scares the living daylights out of its parent with a sneeze so loud it’s still echoing round the world now. Watch it
here.
This Sunday we'll be commemorating the capture of Guy Fawkes with bonfires and firework and by playing
Firework Frenzy.
I guess we haven't featured a video of cute animals for a while. So here's a
video clip of some exuberant young kittens having a good old scrap.
This is an oldie but still a goodie - the challenge is to see how far you can help this drunken man walk along the road. Keep moving your mouse from left to right to keep him walking in a straight line. Apparently the record is 82 metres!
Click here to play.
Have you ever wondered what happens when you combine an innocent little mint with a spot of diet coca cola? Well you can
find out here. It's explosive stuff!
Your mission is to help Pacman the grumpy groundsman keep his football pitch clear of mischievous moles and turf stealing fans. Yes, it's time to play
Perfect Pitch.
You don't have to be French or an Arsenal fan to have an admiration for striker Thierry Henry. But while we all know what he is like on the pitch, you can find out more about the man with this
video clip - apparently he is "totally different outside the pitch", well we find out he likes playing basketball.
I've signed up to the Collins Word Exchange newsletter, and each edition brings you some of the words its forum members are currently debating - at the Exchange website you can add your own words to the dictionary - and there are some good ones this time. How about becoming a "gheetotaller: one who practices total abstinence from fatty or oily food"? Or are you suffering from "hypoantisocialiunnutritionalism: when a person/persons do not conform to any socially acceptable eating standard, manner or etiquette"? Log on the Collins Word Exchange
forums for more fun.
Once in the Web User office, we took part in our own CD Olympics, which involved trying to balance as many CDs as we could on our elbow before flipping them up and catching them. It bought hours of fun.
I expect the people behind this spectacular
giant pound coin domino event must have felt that same thrill we did to see their efforts produce such a marvellous show. Just watch as 10,000 pound coins topple down around a house.
This video is designed to help men gain an understanding of the correct etqiuette of restrooms. The ten-minute guide is certainly a thorough one and covers the likes of: "what to do with an unflushed comode" and advice such as "never, ever, under any circumstances say a single word in a gentlemen's restroom" - as if this etiquette is not strictly adhered to... it can lead to the destruction of organised society as we know it.
Can you name the 50 "dark" movies (such as horror flicks, dark drama, film noir and so on) in this
M&M painting?
German artist
Carsten Höller has transformed Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in London into a giant playground with huge slides. Apparently, what interests Höller is "both the visual spectacle of watching people sliding and the ‘inner spectacle’ experienced by the sliders themselves, the state of simultaneous delight and anxiety that you enter as you descend".
And you thought cats had problems with mice? No, wrong computer peripheral - it's
printers they have an issue with.
This
Dove "Evolution" advert shows in quick-time the steps it takes from a plain woman to a billboard supermodel. We watch the girl have her hair, makeup and lighting teams transformed, then her picture is digitally retouched.
Yesterday we told you how you could send a message to your friend from a spoof CEO. Today we tell you about a fabulous service that lets you build your own
Monk-e-mail. Huzzah. Choose a chimp and personalise him with new clothes, a fancy hairdo and even glasses. Then, you can select a voice track or type a text-to-speech message and your monkey will read it out loud. This is why the internet was invented.
Feeling bored? Why not send a personalised message to your mate, pretending it's from their hard-hitting chief executive officer (hopefully, they've never met their top boss before to know what they look like!). Personalise the message and add a few of your friend's characteristics and away the message will go. It's pretty poor really but if you're bored..... try
The Big Cheese Memo.
I suppose we should have guessed by the title that
DigYourOwnGrave wasn't exactly going to be about a Teletubbies picnic. There's plenty of blood (well, blotches of red pixels to be more precise) flying around as you blast the unfortunate stick men to pieces. Not for the squeamish, or those afraid of red pixels.
Ever wondered what would happen if a crocodile tried to eat a baboon whole? Yep, us too. Fortunately we found the answer on YouTube, and it’s a surprising one. Not only does the baboon receive help from its primate pal, he also manages to escape relatively unharmed. Watch this mighty tussle
here.
Web User towers is a pretty chilly place this time of year, so in our search for body-warming ideas we stumbled across this guy who now holds the record for the most T-shirts worn at one time.
Watch him in action here. We're more interested in the jumper/pullover record...
This site claims to be the world's first online museum of marmalade, and we think it might be telling the truth. Take a visit to
Marmaland.
Have you noticed how all these strange rooms we find ourselves trapped in nearly always have a red sofa? Anyway, if you’re a newbie to escape-the-room games,
The Bonte Room should ease you in nicely - it took us just under ten minutes to solve a few problems and make our dash for victory.
There's nothing worse than waking up on the train home only to discover you have missed your stop entirely and you need to find a taxi home in the middle of some town you've never been to.
Here's where these useful stickers come in handy. Each £4 pack contains two sheets of stickers featuring the most frequently used tube stations.
Last week we told you about a sweet but quite tricky online toy called
Line Rider. Well someone with a lot of spare time has shown us how to really use it.
Click here to watch the video.
According to this website, poaching fish in the dishwasher is a virtually foolproof way to shock your friends, prepare a succulent meal and do the dishes - all at the same time. It claims that although temperature and cycle durations vary with each machine, a little more or less "washing" doesn't greatly affect the results of
poaching a salmon.
Missing
Lost already? You can watch a trailer for the next series online at
YouTube.
Addicting Games lives up to its name by offering free online games that you can't stop playing. The Helicopter game involves keeping a chopper flying for as long as you can, while avoiding the many obstacles. This may sound simple, but requires quick fingers.
Click here to play.
Line Rider is rather sweet. As its creator states, it's not a game as such, more a toy to play with. Draw lines from right to left to create a kind of rollercoaster for the little man to ride along. Give it a go to see what we mean.
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