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Want to dip your toes into another dimension or explore the spacious wonderment of history? Today in the Funhouse you can play a unique point-and-click adventure about Beethoven’s Life; or you can spend some whistful minutes in the strange world of the Tele-tubbies; or discover how to percieve yourself in the 10th Dimension.

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Beethoven’s Hair

Game of the Day

Boohbah

Fun Site of the Day

Imagining the 10th Dimension

Video of the Day

Beethoven’s Hair - Live Beethoven’s Life as a Bug

This masterfully crafted experience plays partly like a point-and-click adventure and partly like a flight simulator and partly like a shooter and more. It’s really a light puzzle which allows you to explore various historical moment’s in Beethoven’s life including his association with Napolean and his musical inspirations involving World War 2 and Nazi Germany.

The game starts when your cursor releases the spirit of Beethoven and turns into a fluttering butterfly. The butterfly moves using your mouse and can lift higher or lower with the up/down arrow keys. I noticed on some browsers, you can hold the keys continuously to raise, but on Firefox you must repeatedly tap the keys to raise or lower. (Take note of that if playing in Firefox otherwise, you will get stuck early in the game).

Once you guide your butterfly through the keyhole you will be in a wonderland of music, imagery and notes from Beethoven’s life. Question marks float along the pathways offering historical facts, but the story of Beethoven gradually gets told in a very atmospheric and original manner. The beutiful graphics and highly unique gameplay make this a good endeavour. If you stick with it past the first few puzzles, you can finish the entire thing in less than 20 minutes.

The exploration is interesting and all, but I found the controls with the butterfly to be kinda difficult to manage. The butterfly stubbornly flies past areas you want to stop at, but after playing for a few minutes, you get the hang of it and by the time you do, you don’t need the butterfly anymore. This game is definitely worth a look if for nothing else than its artistic merit.

Boohbah - Tele Tubby Fun

From Beethoven to Tele-Tubbies, what a segue. Normally I wouldn’t present a site for toddlers, but this website offers a great deal of stoner appeal. You land in a colorful rainbow land with floating bubbles and the Boohbahs. Click on the bubbles for psychadelic graphics you can manipulate and play with or follow the rainbow trail to the delightful gift in the center of the screen for random interactive activities, like jumping on a trampoline or shifting people’s bodies around.

Break out the psychadelic drugs and give yourself 15 minutes to play with this unique interactive site for kids.

Imagining the 10th Dimension - A Trip Into Multiple Dimensions

This fascinating video will give you a visual exploration (using a simple black and white cartoon) of the various dimentions of space/time beyond what we can percieve. Based on modern concepts such as quantum mechanics and string theory, this video will help to visualize what is difficult for most to put into words or even wrap their head around.

If you’ve enjoyed the classic piece of literature, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin A. Abbott, you will enjoy this movie, which uses many of the same principals discussed in Flatland and goes way beyond the book.

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