Tuning in to the bouncing ball
p2pnet news view Advertising | Cool:- Giant advertising company Google never does anything without expecting a return of some kind.
But once in a while it comes up with something which really does add value for the user.
Its Chrome browser is one of its newest attempts to make sure nobody does anything online unless it’s in some way connected with Google, and this time, it’s come up with “Chrome Experiments – Not your mother’s JavaScript”.
In slick (or so Google believes) adgab, “We think JavaScript is awesome,” it says, going on, “We also think browsers are awesome,” going on, “In light of these deeply held beliefs, we created this site to showcase cool experiments for both JavaScript and web browsers. These experiments were created by designers and programmers from around the world. Their work is making the web faster, more fun, and more open – the same spirit in which we built Google Chrome.”
Actually, Google’s ultimate goal is to lock the Net up tight via a whole slew of applications designed to rigidly control where surfers go, and what they do when they get there.
But this can cut both ways. How does it go? You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink?
So whether or not its Chrome browser thingy actually snares anyone, it does have some pretty interesting items, in particular, Josh Nimoy’s Dropping the Ball, which really is fairly awesome (IOHO).
Says Kotaku »»»
The premise – balls drop from a point on the screen, and you create boundaries off which they rebound. When they do, depending on the ball’s speed, it creates a tone. It’s an experimental game/application for Google’s chrome browser but it works in most anything. You can mess with the gravity and the drop rate to create some spooky-sounding tone patterns.
It’s a lot of fun. 
Nimoy says he’s a, “project-based creative technologist who has collaborated with different industries, mainly as a programmer-artist, sometimes as a graphic designer or physical computing artist” who, “pushes the boundaries of each media in which he works, approaching problem-solving interdisciplinarily, combining wisdom across fields.”
(Cheers, Scott)
Kotaku – Sunday Timewaster: Dropping the Ball, March 22, 2009
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