Comments on: Qlam

Qlam

panoptican — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:06:43 -0800

How about some pre-Friday flash fun? Nothing to win here. Just a lot of bouncing boxes.

By: loquax

loquax — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:11:30 -0800

It doesn't seem to like me. Or Firefox 1.5.

By: nevercalm

nevercalm — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:30:05 -0800

Yeah, had the same problem here. Or maybe we're both not likable....

By: JPowers

JPowers — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:31:14 -0800

Works on my 1.5.

By: Maxson

Maxson — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:32:39 -0800

Hm... I'm using 1.5 and it's running fine. If you're using Adblock, be sure to upgrade to the latest version, or your Flash will get blocked (the automatic update didn't work for me). A nice distraction for a few minutes, which I just happened to need. Thanks.

By: kosem

kosem — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:35:04 -0800

[Lil Mo (Lil Bow Wow)] Come on everybody won't you bounce with me (Check me out now) Cause a party ain't party unless you bounce with me (Girls back it up now) Ladies throw your drinks up Playas throw your dubs up Everybody let's get the club crunk (Everybody get crunk in the club when it drop) (In the club start actin' up) Come on and bounce with me

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:38:52 -0800

Works fine for me in FF 1.5 (OS X)... Lots of fun!

By: loquax

loquax — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:40:27 -0800

Hmm, updated adblock (and everything else), still nothing, just a black page. I suppose I shall never know the joy of bouncy springs and scissors...

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:46:26 -0800

Lots of fun, meaningless or no. I like the evolving-optical-illusion effect you can get with the spring slider all the way down and damper all the way up (i.e. lots of spring, no damping).

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:46:50 -0800

Holy crap this is awesome.

By: kafziel

kafziel — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:51:33 -0800

Note: if you start something moving with little or no damping, then move the Spring slider up and down a bunch, you break it.

By: Malor

Malor — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:52:34 -0800

I had all kinds of problems with the Firefox upgrade... somewhere during the beta process, something was broken, and many pages (like Google video) wouldn't render. What I ended up doing was removing Firefox, salvaging my bookmarks.html (in "c:\documents and settings\username\application data\mozilla\firefox\profiles\some random name\bookmarks.html"), erasing the entire Mozilla folder, and reinstalling. That fixed everything right up. You'll, ahem, toss your cookies by doing this... you may be able to save the cookies.txt file too. But I cared only about my bookmarks. This is a cute link. There's enough blocks that, if you're patient, you can make a passable spiderweb. The cut-spring tool is annoyingly random, however, so if you do like I did... build a basic lattice, add in the spiderweb, and then remove the lattice... you'll get a lot of wrong cuts and will have to reattach many springs. Note that you can also do multiple springs if you want a given one to 'pull harder' than other ones.

By: panoptican

panoptican — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:55:28 -0800

Yeah, I blew it up too. But I did that by adding about twenty springs between the middle block and one of the anchor blocks. It pulled the whole web off the screen and then crashed my browser.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:23:38 -0800

A few thousand more nodes, a blue background, and some springs that explode under tension, and you've got a great dynamic logo for MetaFilter.

By: Stauf

Stauf — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:23:42 -0800

Neat. But with no score or anything how am I supposed to compare myself to other mefites and figure out who is a better human being?

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:26:35 -0800

I killed it halfway on my journey to connect all the nodes to eachother. My second try was more fun, I lowered K and C all the way down, then snipped all the strings and reapplied them to make a diagonal lineup of balanced ones. Interesting note: Adding a spring where there's already a spring doubles up the force between the two nodes.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:29:51 -0800

But with no score or anything... At first glance I thought you meant "musical score". Now that would be cool.

By: jeblis

jeblis — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:43:32 -0800

Lots of fun. Thx.

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:11:24 -0800

I should have known better than to click on this link before going to bed.

By: thisisdrew

thisisdrew — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 23:25:56 -0800

for some reason I have this weird craving to trap and eat bugs.

By: Stunt

Stunt — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 23:58:59 -0800

Stupendous! For awhile I was worried that I wouldn't have anything to prevent me from going to sleep and monopolize my every waking moment! Thank god that was solved. Seriously, this is fantastic. Tons of fun to be had.

By: cbrody

cbrody — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 09:21:47 -0800

Doesn't work for me (FF 1.5, Flash 8). I can drag the boxes OK but can't cut or create springs. What gives?