3.3.03

What hope for humanity?
I've spent a very strange morning going through the archives of b3ta. Although much of it is already known to web addicts, I thought people might need reminding of the kind of thing we're using the web for.

Take The Everyday Adventures of Weebl as an example of the new art forms being created online. If you go back far enough in the archives, you get to see real character development between those and the later ones. The episodes Art, Bag and Bob's Week in France Part 7 are particular favourites. I got quite engrossed. And this Tribute to Ray Harryhausen is just bizarre.

Then you've got games like Feed the Nine-Mouthed Baby (scary and tough), Dress your Gay Dog, Yahoo's addictive Alchemy game, and the National Missile Defence test.

And then there are the companies that make use of the seemingly infinite amount of bandwidth to puff their stuff: Semen Test, anyone?

Don't get me wrong, it's all good, but... isn't anyone else a little worried that all this creative effort and technology is going to waste? And what's going on when we're not watching? Answers on a comment, please...

(p.s. I've now missed the movie I was planning on seeing. The web wins again.)

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