Silent Hill

After seeing movies like Alone In The Dark, which should have never ever been made, I had doubts about the Silent Hill movie. Althou the games are superb and the whole idear behind them is great, a movie can turn things around. Fortunatelly it not the case cause Silent Hill is one of the best game-to-movie adaptations so far. The story is the one of the first Silent Hill with some minor differences. The monsters are awesome. They become even more creepier once you learn some of their background, like in the case of the janitor you is tied up in bard wire. The coming of the darkness is also a very well done. Long story short, Silent Hill is a two-thumbs-up movie. Highly recommended.

EntropySwitch

Yep, it’s another Flash experiments site. Entropy take a bit more on the funside of ActionScripting and Algorithms and believe me, the results are great. Some of the experiments are visualy appealing while others require a bit of knowledge to understand their beauty. Still, all of them are fun to interact with and are worth the time spend on the site.

•  EntropySwitch Flash Experiments

Coding Guide

Every software developer tries to write his code the nicest way he can. All the books and great minds of programming tell you so. But what if you don’t want to have clean and maintainable code? What if you just want to make the life of the guy who debugs or codes updates for your project a living hell? Well, don’t worry, cause here you can find the ultimate guide to writing unmaintainable code and believe me, naming your variables Fred and Barney is just scraching the surface.

• Guide to writting unmaintainable code 

Levitated Experimental Flash

Ever wondered at the possibilities of ActionScript? Here’s a chance to marvel again. Levitated features some crazy flash experiments. Some of them are: legged creatures, mycelium model, fractals and others. The experiments can be sorted by complexity or category and are accompanied by comments and explanations.

• Levitated Flash Experiments

Half-Life 2 360 Panoramas

Without question Half-Life 2 is one of the best games made so far, featuring story, action and characters of the very best. Least but not last the visuals are stunning and thanks to JavaVR and QTVR you can visit them anytime. Panogames features a large gallery of 360 Panoramic in-game view at very high quality. The places are from all Half-Life 2 games, including Episode 1. If you played Half-Life, then this site is a chance to revisit the greatest places of the game.

• Half-Life 2 360 Panoramic Views

unCONTROL

Like Math? How about algorithms? Even if you don’t you shoud check this site out. The algorithmic art, featured on the site, is created by following a set of visual and logical instructions. The results are not only amazing but also interactive, meaning that you get to modify certain parameters of the generating algorithms by using your mouse leading to some awesome effects. The posibilities are virtualy infinite as each interaction will generate a unique visual response. A must see.

• unCONTROL experiments 

Windows-like DB Administration tool

Ever since the birth of AJAX, web development and web applications reached a turning point. Various frameworks and APIs allow the creation of desktop-like applications for the Web. One of these is TurboDbAdmin. Althou it is still in a early phase of development, the database administration tool looks just like a Windows application and behave the same. It has it all: treeview representation of database and tables, data view, schema view, exporting tools and query window. It even has theme support and 2 themes. Web developers, you might want to check this one out.

• TurboDBAdmin Demo
• TurboAJAX Website

Star Wars VFx

Star Wars fan or not, you must appreciate the superb sceneries created for the movies. For those of you who would like amore detailed look at the artworks, visual artist Yanick Dusseault has put up some of the his works. The pictures are panoramic views of some sceneries from Episode III and some of them are featured in high resolution. So, go and have a look at the VFx that helped creating the world of Star Wars.

• Star Wars: Episode III Scenery