Strangely Uplifting Flash Animation

September 18, 2001 10:23 PM

Strangely Uplifting Flash Animation Did you ever wish you could have a giggling baby attached as though via a cable to your mouse. Twirl him around the screen, make him laugh, strangely compelling (via The Screen Savers)
posted by willnot (18 comments total)

Actually, it looks like maybe it's not flash, but it does say that it requires IE.
posted by willnot at 10:28 PM on September 18, 2001

ixnay on the crying-baby-attached-to-your-mouse-pointer-ay (my new torture device?)

although some people may enjoy this application with some different content.
posted by physics at 10:30 PM on September 18, 2001

Flash or not, that is strangely uplifting.

I'm not around babies very often (read: ever) so the sound of one laughing hysterically is great.


P.S. - it is dHTML
posted by TiggleTaggleTiger at 10:33 PM on September 18, 2001

Cool. (And addictive...I found it difficult to stop hearing the kid laugh...)
posted by Kikkoman at 10:44 PM on September 18, 2001

I don't like children.
Found myself whipping the pointer around, hoping it would smack into something.
posted by Su at 11:08 PM on September 18, 2001

I love kids, but I found that one to be kinda scary. How do you make him laugh more than once?

It reminds me of one of those kiddie leash things you see on kids at the mall, which aren't really funny at all.
posted by lnicole at 11:41 PM on September 18, 2001

it would be cool if swinging the kid around made him laugh rather than just a laugh track repeating over and over. kid doesn't swing he is quiet, cries or asks for attention. swing the kid and he's happy and laughs. swinging him into stuff would be fun too. baby go boom!!
posted by suprfli at 12:08 AM on September 19, 2001

after a while it gets creepy.
posted by arrowhead at 1:43 AM on September 19, 2001

Who stole from who?

I knew the sounds were familar...

This *isn't* a baby at all, according to this, it's Stefan:

Distance Tickling of my Kid

When I found this a while ago from the Useless Pages, I thought it was disturbing....
posted by dawiz at 2:41 AM on September 19, 2001

it's not as good as the real thing!
posted by Spoon at 3:07 AM on September 19, 2001

--Did you ever wish you could have a giggling baby attached as though via a cable to your mouse--

NO!
posted by HTuttle at 6:26 AM on September 19, 2001

Cool! It's like a digital Louise Woodward!
posted by bondcliff at 7:21 AM on September 19, 2001

-- shudder --

mutant children and grating soundbites != uplifting
posted by atfrost at 7:45 AM on September 19, 2001

You have to wonder what this person was thinking when s/he sat at home that night and mused, "hey, this would be cute".
posted by tpoh.org at 7:55 AM on September 19, 2001

It would be cuter if the baby was cuter. The baby has a kind of "Chuckie" thing going on.

I like the idea, though.
posted by amanda at 9:27 AM on September 19, 2001

uh... that's exceptionally annoying.

But then again, I think the Internet shouldn't have sound at all.
posted by Orkboi at 9:41 AM on September 19, 2001

It's not flash.

It reminds me of one of those kiddie leash things you see on kids at the mall, which aren't really funny at all.

*sigh*
posted by glenwood at 8:17 PM on September 19, 2001

There is something like that at www.nintendogamecube.com, go to menu, then archives.
posted by VanRoosta at 7:00 PM on September 21, 2001