Line Rider has been floating around the office lately - many offices I assume - and I finally mucked around with it for a while today. It's wicked fun for some oddly perverse reason, and looking at YouTube, it seems like a load of other people have found it mesmerizing and strangely addictive to boot. It's like a simplified and less-technical version of MIT's Digital Drawing Board that always ends with a tiny little man plummeting to his death. I can only imagine how much better Road Runner cartoons would have been if Chuck Jones had had either of these pieces of software.
I only got to mess around with it for an hour or so after work, but some of these people seem to have spent weeks working on it. Some of these videos are almost three minutes long. I remember reading once that 'every great punk song is 2 minutes and 56 seconds long' - I think it was Lester Bangs who said it during a recording session with The Clash, or maybe he was the one writing whatever it was I read that I can't find now. Maybe I'll get around to figuring out which of the dozens of 2:56 punk songs in my collection provides the best soundtrack to this.
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