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That Video Site. Wild Mood Swings - Surf the web on a whim. (C) Sean McManus. <p style="font-size:x-large;">Oh no! You don't have Javascript enabled. Please <a href=" Javascript now</a> or the only moods you'll experience will be boredom and frustration. </p><hr noshade> Pick your mood, click the button and Wild Mood Swings will open an appropriate website in a new window. What is Wild Mood Swings? It's a simple game and online web experience: you select a mood from the pull-down list, click on 'take me away' and it'll whisk you away to an appropriate site. Each time you reload the page or click the shuffle moods link, the moods are sorted into a different order, adding an additional element of serendipity. What do I need to work it? Some of the links will take you to sites that require the Flash plug-in or Chrome browser.

If it's not working, it's possible you have a pop-up blocker installed that is stopping Wild Mood Swings from opening your destination site in a new window. Why was it developed? When was it launched? Explanation of ESP Experiment. I feel theres so much more i should tell you but u may already know what im trying to say.Well please write back - hope youre not too busy. sorry for all errors in this message It's all the little trig functions and the ParametricPlot that bug me.

I notice the cards are always in the same order. Oddly, I notice whatever card I pick that the name of the image displayed on the second page is always the same even though the image itself changes. But I see no code that could do that so I'm wondering, "Where is the hidden code? " I did try pulling the source, out of cache, into BBEdit and playing some games with it. Deleted 8-bit characters, line breaks and so on.

At any rate, I'm still working it out but that javascript sure looks strange. But, even then, what would it do? But I must admit that I'm pretty baffled. Thanks for the brain twister, Anthony C. Your experiment really works. If I were to attempt to create such a program, I would try to make it learn by trial and error. Ten Most Extreme Substances Known to Man | Ten Most. Blog » The Crazy World of Visual Hallucinations. Cool Art Stuff, Visual Eye Candy.

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Theworldthatis. Stumbled Upon. The Sliding Rocks of Racetrack Playa Mystery. One of the most interesting mysteries of Death Valley National Park is the sliding rocks at Racetrack Playa (a playa is a dry lake bed). These rocks can be found on the floor of the playa with long trails behind them. Somehow these rocks slide across the playa, cutting a furrow in the sediment as they move. Some of these rocks weigh several hundred pounds. That makes the question: "How do they move? " a very challenging one. The truth: No one knows for sure exactly how these rocks move - although a few people have come up with some pretty good explanations. Let's learn how they are thought to move.... About Racetrack Playa Racetrack playa is lake bed that is almost perfectly flat and almost always dry. The climate in this area is arid. Are They Moved by People or Animals?

The shape of trails behind the rocks suggest that they move during times when the floor of Racetrack Playa is covered with a very soft mud. Are They Moved by Wind? This is the favorite explanation. Are They Moved by Ice? Whimsy. Worldclock.