{"id":350,"date":"2006-12-23T13:01:32","date_gmt":"2006-12-23T20:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2006\/12\/23\/office-time-killer\/"},"modified":"2018-03-15T12:58:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T16:58:52","slug":"office-time-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/office-time-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"office time killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>looking to kill time while at the office?<\/p>\n<p>might I recommend flOw:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\"  codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0\" id=\"gtembed\" width=\"480\" height=\"409\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"sameDomain\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.gametrailers.com\/remote_wrap.php?umid=28413\"\/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Originally developed as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crazygames.com\/game\/flow\">a flash game for the web<\/a>, now available for download on Mac and PC, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/ps3\/puzzle\/flow\/index.html\">soon-to-be released on the PlayStation3<\/a>, flOw is a game that uses low-fi concept for high-fi returns: eat other lesser-organisms to gain abilities and strengths, and advance through the layers (red to go down, blue to go up) of this aquatic arena at your own pace &#8212; you can speed through holding your left mouse button to zip along or let go and just let the ripples carry you lazily along.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by graduate student Jenova Chen of USC, flOw is based upon <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi\">Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi<\/a>&#8216;s concept of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flow_%28psychology%29\">flow<\/a>. Zen-like&#8230; sure, office-time-killer&#8230; helllllss yeahhh!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related websites:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jenovachen\/140932844\/in\/set-72057594126324168\/\">flOw concept art<\/a> over on Flickr (jenovachen&#8217;s account)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/interactive.usc.edu\/members\/jchen\/\">Jenova&#8217;s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>looking to kill time while at the office? might I recommend flOw: Originally developed as a flash game for the web, now available for download on Mac and PC, and soon-to-be released on the PlayStation3, flOw is a game that uses low-fi concept for high-fi returns: eat other lesser-organisms to gain abilities and strengths, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[440,1235,439],"series":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuffs","tag-flow","tag-games","tag-office-killer"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-5E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19374,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/19374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}