Ever wanted to completely destroy the University homepage? Of course you haven't! But now you can if you like, just for fun, Katamari-style.
Tech blog Engadget has a story about a genius bookmarklet that transforms any web page into a rollable Katamari landscape. If you've never heard of Katamari Damacy, it's a Japanese video game with a plot too bonkers to describe but which involves rolling up ever larger objects in the manner of rolling a snowball (see youtube for visuals). This bookmarklet lets you do likewise to a web page, and even features the same jaunty music as the game.
How is this relevant to a Web Office blog? Hardly at all, but it's fun :) On the technical side, it's a very powerful demonstration of what can be done with Javascript and advanced CSS transforms in a modern browser.
Check out the video below of me having a go, or see the Engadget link for the code to try it yourself (you'll need a decent browser - Chrome or Firefox4 are recommended by the developers).
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