Neave

Paul Neave seems to have worked hard to come up with his share of amazing flash websites which is a collection of unique flash games to keep you engrossed.

Papervision3D

Tickle the fishes and they run away. Enjoy the under water life in this flash-based website and remember to tickle the shark out there. You might not get such a chance in real life.

Bio-Bak

One of the most bizarre ideas that could have hit a web designer. This website is the result of lots of hard work and planning. For you it will surely be fun and nice way to kill time.

Donnie Darko

You must have seen plenty of movie websites but none would have been planned the way this one was. The website is full of mysterious stuff and attracts the visitor. Though you might find it a bit slow when compared to the rest in this list but I guess that the movie was also mysterious and slow!

Google Gravity

This website does not have much to have fun with but it must be visited once. Especially those who always wanted Google to fall once. See your dream come true, almost!

Ball Droppings

Ball Droppings is an unusually engrossing flash-based game where you get to save lot of balls that keep popping up. I was lost in the website for almost 15 minutes when I realized that I have to wrap up this list.

Bank of Imagination

Bank of Imagination is a unique flash website where one can leave his/her own idea of what the world could be or anything else. Really, check the portal to see what all the world is imagining.

Salt Films

Salt Films had their website full of salt and still it tastes delicious. The creative animation and plenty of options will keep you busy for long.

Forgotten Bookmarks

Forgotten Bookmarks isn’t one of those flash-based web games but it surely has enough to keep you engrossed. See how far human imagination can go when it comes to designing bookmarks.

Bean Crusher

Did you ever think that crushing beans could be fun? Well, it will be once you visit this flash-based website. These beans will surely become tough to hit once you start moving ahead in-game.

Why Do You Stay Up So Late?

The question is obvious. Why do you stay up so late? The flash-based website is a blend of poetry and flash animation. Something that makes you fall in love with it.

The Infinite Oz

You know, I had this website open for almost an hour and it kept showing something or other that was of interest. The flash, the planning and the execution of this website is by far the best I have seen till now. Surreal.

Neon Bible

The interactive video can be attractive and might just catch you staring at it for long. Be warned!

Incredibox

Bored? How about you launch your own band. I mean, just for fun and just for sometime you surely can enjoy your own band. Right?

Conclusion

As a wrap-up, let me warn you that internet is full of stuff that can be interesting but of no use. These websites can be good for sometime but don’t spoil the important things that matter to you the most just because you were lost in these weirdly amazing websites.

Brace yourselves, programming jokes are coming. Even Eddard Stark says so!

Anecdotes

The following are short jokes about programming, all taken from reddit (because I freaking love that place). I’ve chosen the best jokes for you, if you want to read more just follow the link!

An engineer, a manager, and a programmer are riding in a car. They come to a hill and their brakes fail. After careening down the hill and finally coming to a stop they get out to decide what to do. The manager says “We need to have a meeting to form a committee to see what we should do next!” The engineer says, “Screw that! Give me a pocket knife and some duck tape and I’ll have us going in no time!” The programmer looks at them both and says, “Lets push it back to the top and see if it does it again.”

An int, a char and a string walk into a bar and order some drinks. A short while later, the int and char start hitting on the waitress who gets very uncomfortable and walks away. The string walks up to the waitress and says “You’ll have to forgive them, they’re primitive types.”

A programmer’s wife sends him to the grocery store with the instructions, “get a loaf of bread, and if they have eggs, get a dozen.” He comes home with a dozen loaf of bread and tells her, “they had eggs.”

God summons the devil and jesus, and he challenges them to a programming contest. God gives them the spec and they begin. Jesus and the devil write their code furiously. As the contest reaches the end, the power suddenly goes out for a moment, both of their monitors go blank, and reboot when the power comes back on. God asks to see the two programs. The Devil says that he had a good program, but he lost it when the power was out. Jesus had no such problem, and won the contest, because Jesus saves.

A man was crossing a road one day when a frog called out to him and said, “If you kiss me, I’ll turn into a beautiful princess.” He bent over, picked up the frog, and put it in his pocket.

The frog spoke up again and said, “If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will tell everyone how smart and brave you are and how you are my hero.” The man took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it, and returned it to his pocket.

The frog spoke up again and said, “If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will be your loving companion for an entire week.” The man took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it, and returned it to his pocket.

The frog then cried out, “If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I’ll stay with you for a year and do ANYTHING you want.” Again the man took the frog out, smiled at it, and put it back into his pocket.

Finally, the frog asked, “What is the matter? I’ve told you I’m a beautiful princess, that I’ll stay with you for a year and do anything you want. Why won’t you kiss me?”

The man said, “Look, I’m a computer programmer. I don’t have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog is cool.”

A SQL query walks up to two tables in a restaurant and asks: “Mind if I join you?”
Eight bytes walk into a bar and say to the bartender: “Make us a double.”
Two strings walk into a bar. One says to the bartender: “I’ll have a beer*7jd@jh.” The other says: “Excuse my friend, he’s not null terminated.”

A man walks into a pet shop containing various different types of animals, and notices that they’re very expensive. He points at a monkey, and asks the pet shop owner “This monkey costs £40,000! Why is it so expensive?” The pet shop owner replies, “Ah, that’s a special monkey, that – it can program in Java – good for enterprise programming and web stuff.” The man looks around a bit more, and notices another more expensive monkey. He asks the pet shop owner “This one costs £50,000 – what does this one do?” The pet shop owner says “That’s a C++ monkey. More advanced, low-level and faster code.” The man accepts this and looks around the pet shop a bit more. He then sees another even more expensive monkey. “Good god – this monkey costs £70,000 – what on earth does it do?” he asks. “Well, I’ve never actually seen that monkey do anything,” said the pet shop owner, “but the other monkeys call it the project manager.”

A programmer goes out with a chick. Next day he tells his friend how the date went: “It was raining, we were soaked. We went to her place where she started to undress before me… Then she threw the wet clothes on the computer” – “Wow… what kind of computer?” – the other says.

Other Funny Comics and Videos

To lighten up the mood I have compiled several funny comics and videos related to programming that programmers will surely love! Don’t forget to add your favorite jokes and “excuses” too!

How does a Programmer become a Brogrammer?

This question was asked on Quora a couple of months back, and today there are plenty of people who have answered. Most of them are hilarious, going off the track of a stereotypical programmer, such as hitting the gym, doing push-ups in between coding, and many others. Below is a sneak peek of what you’ll see when you follow the link above.

Who Wouldn’t Hire Him?

Just so you know, clicking the image will open the source on a new window, there you can read more of things like this and, if you want, you can even buy his book!

10 Excuses of Programmers to a Non-technical Boss

1. “That’s weird.”
2. “But it worked yesterday!”
3. “It must be a hardware problem.”
4. “It works on my machine.”
5. “Your computer might be infected with a virus.”
6. “Someone must have changed my code..”
7. “It really does that.”
8. “Oh my God you broke it!” –  very effective for warding off the boss.
9. “Almost done.”
10. “Compiling!”

5 Things Programmers Wonder About Their Own Code

1. “Why are you not working?!”
2. “Why are you working?!”
3. “Where’s the missing semi-colon?!”
4. “What just happened?!”
5. “Who coded this sh@t?!”

Top 5 Words Commonly Uttered by Programmers

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Question and Answer

• Q: How many programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?
• A: None. They won’t touch it because it’s a hardware problem.

• Q: What do cats and programmers have in common?
• A: When either one is unusually happy and excited, an appropriate question would be, “did you find a bug?”

• Q: What is the most used language in programming?
• A: Profanity.

• Q: Why do programmers confuse Halloween and Christmas?
• A: Because Oct 31 == Dec 25

• Q: How did the programmer die in the shower?
• A: He read the shampoo bottle instructions: Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

• Q: Why did the programmer quit his job?
• A:Because he didn’t get arrays.

• Q: How do developers create shaman spells?
• A: Using a hex editor.

Videos

GUI interface using Visual Basic to track the killer’s IP address

Well, you know, why not call the killer’s ISP instead? I’m pretty sure they’d get a warrant for that. And Visual Basic? Seriously?

It’s a Unix system

//No comment

Interview for a C++ programming position

Although this animation is intended to be funny, there’s still a lingering taste of sourness because it happens in real life. After graduating college I was really looking forward to getting hired as a programmer. Job postings said “entry level” and “fresh graduates are welcome to apply”, but then they require applicants to have a “solid 2 year experience of working knowledge” in “many things”. What about compensation? Well, a peasant would be glad he’s a peasant.

So I got in for an interview after submitting my CV to several companies. Turns out, it wasn’t a programming job or anything related to information technology. I ended up with an engineering job, maintaining ICs. Now I’m here, and I’m loving it!

Angry Programmer?

Seriously, during my second class of programming in college this is how I almost reacted every time an error flashes on my compiler. One thing I had to do, when my buddy was with me working on a final project, was I left him for three hours inside my room while I went to the nearest shopping mall (1 hour away) just to chill, all because I didn’t know what to do with pointers (yeah, I’m a lazy one).

Time Lapse of a Programmer Hard(ly) at Work in His Cubicle

I don’t know why I watched the whole thing, I guess part of me can relate! How about you?

Comics and Images

Ballmer Peak

Truth be told there’s truth in this, not only within programming but it also applies on almost anything! And I’m about to share you a dark secret I’ve kept for years..the first OS I’ve used for my PC is Windows ME. ಠ_ಠ

Compiling

I really never got the chance to say this during my programming days because there are just a few hundred lines to compile (which only takes about 3 seconds to 5), but I can relate to the sword-fighting part. I mean, every programmer dreams of being Obi-Wan Kenobi, right?

Standards

It’s like saying, “let’s create the new Facebook killer!”

Good Code

Good code only happens during the first half of the coding, the rest is pure misery.

Open Source

For a much safer night you can have a cat.

Exploits of a Mom

Pointers

Ah, pointers, this is where my hell began during college.

8 Websites You Need To Stop Building

Always Put Enough Comments in Your Code!

Bracket All The Things!

Programming Reality

Tan Lines of a Programmer

Typical Project’s Completion Timeline

Hello World and Jackie Chan

Your turn to share your favorite jokes, comics, videos, and stories!

I know that many of you guys are stressed or bored (or stressed and bored), that’s why you should check the following and let your mind be blown away!

Are you ready?

FUNNY

1. www.nooooooooooooooo.com

Upon learning that Padme is dead, Darth Vader ended the Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith with a heartbreaking, anti-climatic “Nooooooooo!”
Well, this website will be of much use someday when you learn something very troubling…like being permanently banned from Google Ads. “Press in dire situations”

2. Is it Tuesday?

Are you not sure if it is Tuesday? Visit this site to be certain, it bears the truth!

3. Snap Bubbles

It is said that bubble wraps can calm even the most angered soul in hell. You’d be lying if you say that you’ve never, ever, snapped a single bubble! Although the feel and sound of this is not like the real one, at least there’s an alternative to it during bubble wrap scarcity right?

4. Crush Checker

Deceive your friends to know the person of their dreams! Shame it worked on me once. *laughs*

5. Zombo.com

This one I found at Reddit.com over a year ago. There’s a little charm in this website that made me share it with people I know and before I know it they’re all imitating what Zombocom is repeatedly saying. What is Zombocom? Click and know! I provided the script below in hopes that, one day, I’ll be hearing you say it too. *laugns*

I don’t know how to take a better screenshot for this because the site only has a banner and several circles, inches apart. Not quite a good use of white space.

The booming voice, like an evil genie, repeatedly says: “This is zombocom, and welcome to you who have come to zombocom! Anything is possible at zombocom. You can do anything at zombocom. The infinite is possible at zombocom. The unattainable is unknown at zombocom. Welcome to zombocom, this is zombocom!”

6. Gay Test

Do not lie to yourself and take this test only ONCE! Taking it twice suggests that you doubt yourself, ha!  Some things are not suitable for children like the following words…you actually thought I’m posting them here? *laughs* (Yes, I love laughing)

INTERESTING

7.TackFilm

Surprise your friends with a worldwide sensation: You! Just upload your photo and wait until it is processed then send it to your friends and see their reactions! Although I don’t understand the language (I think it’s one of Switzerland’s languages) you won’t get lost because there are only two options to choose from at a given time. The photo I uploaded is a real sensation in his country. *laughs*

8.The Mobile Tracker

Enter a mobile phone number and let The Mobile Tracker do the job. Very surprising technology!

9.We Are Autobots

Bumblebee is in trouble, who’s he gonna call? Not ghost busters but you! Help him using your webcam.

10.ie6funeral.com

Oh the good and the bad memories when IE6 was still walking with us compiled in this website to express users’ and developers’ sorrow and delight.

One must not speak ill of the dead so I’ll say “Nice try!”

11.Virtual Piano

Into piano but you don’t own one yet?  Easy, with Virtual Piano all you need is a computer with an internet connection and you’re good to go. Who knows, a Bach might be inside of you all along.

12.Cleverbot

This chat AI really knows how to respond to things most of the time, it gets too clever it creeps me out of my skin!

STRANGE

13.Neon Bible

This one’s purpose is already known but it is still very strange. The guy in the photo, Win Butler, is singing Neon Bible. Not only that the song is sort of creepy, you can actually interact with him by clicking the hands and eyes (creepy effect, I’d say!). This can be inspiring in terms of how you can do promotions. I find this one very creative.

14.Hell.com

This is the first mysterious website I’ve seen, and from there on I started searching the internet for answers on what is inside. I stumbled upon a discussion board where a poster mentioned that he, allegedly, actually paid $100 for the chance of getting access and several months later the poster received an e-mail with a unique link to a section of the website. The e-mail said that they will give no answer to what Hell.com is about, that there may be no answer at all.

According to other people Hell.com is a place where artists meet. But let’s end the speculation here and I’ll shed some light, at least in an interview which can be read here: Click!

Over time the flash at Hell.com changes, before this maze-like logo there was an ominous vampire-like eyes. You can use the WayWayBack Machine to see the changes over the past several months.

15.Heaven.com

If there is Hell.com there’s also Heaven.com. There is a question in the homepage asking “Where is Heaven?” and it bears the promise to notify subscribers when Heaven comes to Earth. The screenshot below is taken after I subscribed. One question remains about the answer is, where’s the farthest reaches of the North?

I guess there’s only one way to find out, so I subscribed. Further research about Heaven.com only led to spiritual websites about Heaven.

I wish you had fun with all (or at least some) of the websites I featured. It’s your turn to share!

Throughout this year several new fun websites have been released and become popular. After heavy research this is what I could come up with! Enjoy, take a rest and have a fun time!

1. Picjoke

In Picjoke you can choose from many cool effects to apply. Just choose picture from your computer and it will do the rest.

2. Cardgame

Create your own personalized playing cards at the click of a mouse button.

3. Condenent

Design your own Wired magazine cover.

4. Blibs

Here you can find lots of effects including animation, adjustments and even kaleidoscoper.

5. Imagechef

In imagechef you can easily create anything from word mosaics to football shirts. With over 100 templates it’s a great place to have fun with your photos. After you have created your photo you can share it social networks.

6. Anymaking

Anymaking is a great place to edit your photos online. Here you can find all the necessary tools for picture editing. Cropping, rounded corners, shadows, frames – it’s all here. There are also some cool effects to have fun with like wanted poster.

7. Frontpage

In 3 easy steps you can create a unique and fully personalised magazine cover for yourself or someone special. Use the magazine covers on your Facebook, MySpace profiles or on your own web site for free. You can even send the cover images to all your friends and family easily and quickly with the email options provided.

8. Maronface

Moronize your photo.

9. flauntR

flauntR is a flash based online photo editor, where you can quickly edit your photos, add some effects, blend photos and create social network photos.

10. Tiltshift maker

Tilt-shift miniature style photos are pictures of real-life scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs.

11. Effmypic

Choose from over 30 cool effects to your picture

12. Avatar.pho.to

Upload your photo and create a cool avatar from it.

13. Seenow

In seenow you can find a lots of good quality effects and later share your outcomes.

14. Funnywow

Choose from over 40 cool effects to apply to your photos in good quality.

15. Wishafriend

Create photo effects, photo frames, name acronyms, fake magazine covers and much more.

Do you know more fun and free online photo editing websites? Share with us!

If You still don’t know – everything is possible with Photoshop and here You can see, what can be done with Photoshop power in it’s best performance!

1.Eye Drop By catfish08

2. Gold-Shark By ozlemarc

3. Bunny Buddies By pixel8r

4. SkyDumbo By tombarreto

5. Gator Boot By Lanegi

6. Elephant Man By damonfreemanza

7. Medieval Kitty By NomeDaBoy

8. Tortosaurous By payallin

9. Chihuahua By Deschain420

10. The Iceberg Castle By bpkelsey

11. Dreamscape By funkwood

12. Winter By pepiqeq

13. Faerie adventure party By solipsism

14. Apple House Of The Mouse By Bebo21

15. Broccoli House By Tonebarge

16. Dolphin racing By willyr

17. Voices By echoburst

18. Fear By Dziedzic

19. Tears of Love By Slime

20. Swiiiiiiiiiimming By laavy86

21. Leggo My Nut By tcthompson

22. Fire roller By magnusx2

23. Milkrose By beanfarmer

24. Rose-Swan By castiza

25. Usain Bolt By despiris

26. Mrs Rowan-Atkinson By HogHeaven

27. Trick Shot By bpkelsey

28. God By oilcorner

“I hope I’m not thinking too far out of the box, but I see God in the nature around me. That is, I don’t really believe in God, but I believe in the creative force that is the Earth. If you can’t spot him, this might help. ”

29. Mona Disel By NinhaBR

30. OLD BBOY By artb13

31. Break-A-Hip Dance By DerekBurns

“Never too old to dance.”

32. Ostrich By Dappers

“Ostriches have been sticking their heads in the sand for ages. But now -after many experiments- scientists finally succeeded in creating an ostrich that dares to show its teeth!”

33. Cat Cocktail By Sassydeb

“There are no worms in Tequila in a world of cats…only goldfish.”

34. Hairy Wine & Bow By vanettenc

“A little white wine, a little red bow”

35. Tigegel By Tsirulnik

36. Pug Bug By BarMcGoohan

“Part spider, part pug, part mouse…all fun! It’s the pug bug.”

37. Speed Limit By Deplacent

38. Desert By robster

“For a little laugh on travelling through the desert…”

39. Palatable Cauliflower By Kwyjibo78

40. 0.25mm Gatling Pen By Scaramanga75

41. St0n3h3ng3 By beanfarmer

42. Family Picnic By Onepixel

43. Jacko-balloon By easterbeast

44. Grape O Lanterns By lucimine

45. Dragon Cloud By artb13

46. Happy New Year, Chuck! By JuniorWences

47. ApplePea By GeshaR

48. Waterfall By rasiresi

49. Tree of Death By catfish08

“A tree of death…I hope you can see it”

50. Spirit By biutifool

51. Baby Pear By FairMagda

52. Sushi Mermaid By Petrosini

53. Cheers! By misstrixie

54. Floating Fish By Alton

55. Scuba By Mandrak

56. Moto Splash By BonnySaintAndrew

57. Floating Forest By chris_

58. Tortoise Cake By JuniorWences

59. Safari run By Killington

“Get back here with my shorts!”

60. Camping By Onepixel

61. Smooth Landing By afeldman

62. Las Vegas By bosss1

63. Ladybird Computer Mouse By davidowens

64. Water Born By rasiresi

65. Moby dick By kpsunil7

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