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JUST FOR FUN
BY MARYANNE MURRAY BUECHNER
If you're in the market for new ways to waste time, you're in luck: we found some marvelous examples of flash animation, a rather odd public art installation and one bad-ass movie site, among other worthwhile distractions.
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The foul-mouthed denizens of South Park bring their wicked satire to the Web at
Comedycentral.com
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Accessproject.net
An interactive art installation created by Marie Sester, a media artist based in New York. Video clips and still images show anonymous individuals tracked in public places by a robotic spotlight that responds to sound and motion. Interesting and creepy at the same time.
Comedycentral.com
Watch the best bits from South Park, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and other faves, both current and classic (there's some great old stuff from the Kids in the Hall). Or try your hand at games like Reno! 911 Petty Theft Bicycle or Insomniac Bar Hopper. For Chapelle's Show fans, there's Sound Board, where you mix and match your favorite character quips to a background beat.
eBay.com
Funniest eBay post ever: A few months back, a tattooed biker from Seattle poses in his ex-wife's wedding dress hoping to raise enough dough at auction to buy Mariners tickets and a few beers, and ends up netting close to four grand.
Newseum.org/newsmania
Try this trivia quiz from the interactive museum of news. There are three levels: intern, reporter and editor, and if you don't answer fast enough, host Rita will scold you.
Puzzlepirates.com
In this multiplayer online role-playing game, you're a pirate that solves arcade-style puzzles to win treasure and further the story of your character, your crew and the virtual ocean world around you. Fans call it addictive; even game snobs admit it's amusing. Yo ho ho!
Sonyclassics.com/badass
A study in how to promote a movie, this highly entertaining site is sure to help turn Mario Van Peebles' new movie, Baadasssss! (based on a true story about his filmmaker dad, Melvin, and the birth of independent black cinema) into a cult classic. Watch the trailer, read the production notes or just let the theme song play.
There.com
A chatroom with a twist: instead of just reading each other's text, you get to meet people in the virtual flesh. Type in what you want to say and it appears in a speech balloon over your onscreen character's head. You can do stuff like shop for clothes and race dune buggies, or just hang out and socialize.
Trevorvanmeter.com/flyguy
A delightful bit of interactive flash. Wait a moment for the page to load then use your arrow keys to send the nice line-drawn guy with curly black hair gliding among the clouds. Stay close to Earth and you'll encounter various other flying objects and individuals, or head straight up into outer space. Eventually you'll find yourself on a tropical island with a girl and a monkey dancing the hula. It's not a bad place to be.
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