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This is pretty funny. Link courtesy of Spoons.

(Sort of work-safe: You need to hear it, and you'll want to crank up the volume and pogo-dance around the room with the thrilling "Song of Trogdor" or whatever it's called.)

"Cute"? This blog doesn't do "cute". In fact this blog denounces "cute," such as this,
which this blog meant to denounce last week, but forgot, because this blog was busy stomping on little bunny rabbits or something.

Warning: "Cute" music.

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Or you could check out the amazing dancing badgers instead. More fun than a, er, barrel of badgers.

I don't know what it's about, and it soon enough collapses into standard kaleidoscopic psychedelia, but the opening scenes of this are quite beautiful, and I wish the animator had explored them more fully.

Worksafe, with a couple of caveats -- there's music and other sounds, so you might want to turn down your speaker. And I didn't watch the entire thing (it does go on for a long time), so I can't guarantee that naked midget wrestlers won't appear at some point.

If by some chance, naked midget wrestlers do appear in this, please let me know so that I can add it to my collection . . . alert the police.

Yes, so I can alert the police. That's the ticket.

Newly-discovered punishment in Dante's First Circle of Hell: Afflicted by melancholy; desire without hope; being immortalized in a crappy Flash game.

These are fightin' words (and assorted alphanumeric characters). There's (quite catchy) music by the German band Rammstein.

Via . . . um, somebody. (Forgot to tag the source when I ran across it a couple of days ago.)

If it's Friday, it must be time for another incomprehensible, if visually dazzling, flash animation!

Seriously, I have no idea what this is about, but it is very well done. There's music, so you might want to turn your speakers down if you're at work.

in the town where I was born
lived a man who sailed to sea
and he told us of his life
in the land of submarines

the beatles

There doesn't seem to be much of a point to this, but it is beautifully done. There's a (somewhat yellowish) submarine and two islands and some sea creatures, and no secret passages or magic buttons that I can find.

So I'm guessing that it's just a one-off project by some flash programmer exercising his chops.

Showoff.

(Note: There's music and regular sonar "pings," which may not be suitable for your office. Unless you work in an office equipped with sonar, like, say, in a submarine, in which case probably nobody will notice.)

Everybody and his dog has already linked to this, which is my cue for bringing it to your attention. It's a weird little flash piece showing a bikini-clad woman falling through an endless array of spheres. She's very acrobatic, possibly as a result of having no bum. If she gets stuck, you can click and drag on her to send her on her way.

It'd be neat to convert it to a screensaver, but I don't know if that's possible.

Because a day without a pointless Flash thingy is like a day without, um, a pointless Flash thingy.

Click on the small picture, then one of the floating upside-down helmets (?) to start.

It's somewhat interactive; move your cursor over the galloping horses, for example.

This sounds like a lot of work for a pointless Flash thingy; but trust me -- at the end of it you'll say, "Now that was a pointless Flash thingy."

Warning: Music.

You might find this of fleeting interest. It's in Japanese, but it recognizes the international language of point and click. Warning: Music and sfx.

Kate had this up on her site a few days ago, a so-called "screen cleaner.". Now it doesn't appear anywhere on the front page, though if you go to the original address, it still turns up. What is it that Kate is afraid to show you? It is this.

Via SDA

The Shatnotron.

Warning: Music and sfx. Possibly NSFW.