Tag Archives: pac-man

Friday Links: Hovering art directors & honest logos

• Hovering art directors. Exactly what you would expect.
• I have a sneaking suspicion that there’s a high incidence of nerds in author Neil Gaiman’s fan club. Acting on that suspicion, I will share this: You can win a role in the audio recording for American Gods.
• The World’s Biggest Pac Man Game.
• If logos were honest.
• Why the Internet is no substitute for the library.
• Complain about how other people make software by making software.
• 20 most inappropriate songs ever used in commercials.
• Speaking of commercials. This 1980s StarWars Underoos commercial made me laugh.
• 30 nerdy wedding invitations.

Friday Links: We didn’t start the fire edition

• Google Instant + Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” = awesome.
• 10 marketers who transformed American culture.
• The xkcd wedding cake is nothing short of awesome.
• Proud geek parent bumper stickers.
• You just have to go look: domestic conflict, explained by stock photos.
• Stop motion human Pac-man.
• Jim Henson circa 1969: How to make a Muppet.

PAC-MAN Hack

Once we realized that the PAC-MAN game on Google’s homepage was all Javascript, we (Ken) couldn’t resist modifying it. In our version the ghosts can’t move. We also disabled Blinky (the red one) so you can pass right through him.

Here is how to run our custom version.

1. Use Firefox
2. Install the Greasemonkey plugin
3. Run this script which will use our code instead of Google’s
4. Go to Google and start racking up a high score without the fear of dying

Earlier today, Google tweeted about getting to level 256. I don’t know if they’ve hidden something secret in there, but now you have got a chance at getting that far.

If you are ambidextrous, click the Insert Coin button one more time and you can play as Ms. PAC-MAN with the WASD keys and still control PAC-MAN with the arrow keys.