REALLY weird (potatoland.org)

Member Name: cathy

Product:	potatoland.org
Date:	27/09/00 (53 review reads)
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Advantages: ...er...

Disadvantages: ...slow, migraine inducing, possibly pointless

I don't understand Potatoland. Maybe I am deeply uncool. Maybe there isn't that much to understand.

On arrival a large square cursor sweeps round a blank grey screen, illuminating scrambled, layered text where you can just make out the odd word. There may or may not also be a faint green bouncing ball. Possibly it's an optical illusion brought on by the strongly contrasting colours. Possibly it's more significant than that - but I didn't discover its hidden meaning if that's the case. Anyway - you may as well click here and get inside.

Pond scum green background, ornate gilded picture frame, chaotic, random, almost meaningless links swell and shrink and change. What does it all mean, I ask myself? F****d if I know, I reply.

Possibly by accident, possibly by some subliminally induced impulse I clicked a link - and went off to build a c-bot. A bit like the old-fashioned Mr Potatohead game
(is that where the name comes from, I wonder) but much slower and a lot less fun. You can select eyes, ears, mouth, arms legs and other bits of spare part surgery images to build your own bot. There seems to be a preponderance of breasts and a total absence on penises,(penii?) - what does this tell us about the builders? (Answers on an attractive, animated, musical e-card please to cathy@comic.com stupendous cyber-prize to the sender of my favourite - the judge's decision is final). You can now view the fruits of my labours in the Gallery - it's called cathy dotcom.

Another link provided me with an image of a potato which you can explore in depth by clicking on the bit of the spud-u-like.

You can also look at a gently rippling picture that could be water. (But if you want to see a really good rippling picture go to htmltricks.com where you will also be able to learn how to do that yourself to your own images - looks really good with night-time cityscapes).

And then I suddenly got really bored.
There may or may not be lots more exciting things to discover on the site but it's slower than God and I suspect it might not be worth the wait.

Possibly it's art, possibly it's a bunch of adolescent geeks who have lost the ability to communicate effectively with human beings. The decision is yours! Suck it and see.

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