From the category archives:

Time Sink

Flipbook

by Eszter Hargittai on July 22, 2005

Timesink

Create your own flipbook or browse others’ from the archive containing over fifty thousand.

Untangle the dots

by Eszter Hargittai on July 12, 2005

I have accumulated quite a list of fun sites. So far I have protected CT readers by only posting these occasionally. But I have so many now that I think I am going to make it a weekly feature. As additional warning, I have created a little button to signal these posts. The point of the button is to note: you have been warned, I take no responsibility for the amount of time you end up wasting due to clicking on these links.

Planarity Flash Game

Your job is to reposition the nodes so the links do not overlap. After posting a link to this on the SOCNET mailing list yesterday, a friend of mine remarked: “LOL! That is why we have software Eszter!”. Afterward, a serious discussion about visualization software ensued. Who says games are just for wasting time?

After level 10 I decided it was time to get back to work. [UPDATE: I’ve now gone to level 13, see link to images in the comments section.] That amount of game time made me start seeing the dots and lines even when not at my computer. You have been warned.

Tuesday may not be the best time to post such links, I realize, maybe I will make it a weekend feature in the future.