Scuttlebutt

This Flash app shows you the violence in Iraq from late March 2003 through late March 2006, in the form of an animation. Each frame represents one day, and little explosions show up whose size indicates the number of deaths and the location is, well, the location.

I don’t want to give a picture here, because the animation is too damn cool to spoil by showing you what to expect. It’s a semi transforming into a robot. I am the last person on earth (well, somewhere in the bottom 10% anyway) to be impressed by a fucking semi truck transforming into a robot, but this is just cool.

The movie (divx – if you don’t have a divx codec installed, install one). The movie is only about 10 seconds long.

Forum discussion (includes pics – if you don’t have divx and you want to see what this is about, looky here. Otherwise, I recommend watching the video first).

At least, if this guy’s your friend, you can. He has a handy flash app to facilitate your nose-picking experience.

It’s interesting for all of 30 seconds, but interesting nonetheless.

This neverending rain of zombie fu is brought to you by Paul Roberton’s Journal. He has tons of other great animated gifs there.

My sister sent me this video of a baby who really likes the sound of running water. It’s well worth watching – I wish I could think of a way to describe it that doesn’t spoil it.

Sound helps, but you can get the effect just fine with it muted.

Thanks, Tina!