I'll think of a good title later

Presenting my pet Snake.

So what if there are a lots of other snake clones on the net?

Why should you play this one over all the others? Well:

1. The snake looks cute.
2.
3. Profit.

Controls:

Enter to play
Arrow keys to change direction
P to pause.

You can now test your knowledge of the United States of America!

This new page uses the exact same code that I used for the world countries page detailed in my last post. All I've done is change the data, the code for choosing random states, highlighting, keeping score etc. is pretty much identical.

Update 21/01/2007:

Thanks to help from Jeff we are now fully functional in IE+ASV as well!

We also have a much smaller Compressed svgz file of the game as well.

My mum loves doing codeword puzzles(1). She goes through quite a few of these codeword books & often comes across new words she doesn't know & enjoys looking up their meaning. she often complained that kept coming across words that weren't listed in her current dictionary so I bought her one of those dictionaries that you could seat a family of 4 at for dinner.

A recent conversation went like this:

Mum: One of my puzzles today had a word that wasn't in my big dictionary.
Me: Really? What word was that?

Mum hands me the book & points out the offending word. I was all set to scour the internet for this rare & beautiful word's meaning when...

Me: W-H-E-N..WHENOMENA!? Mum, do you not think that should be a 'P'?
Mum: ...Oh, I suppose it is.

A friend of mine remarked that it could refer to the time that something extraordinary happens...

(1) Not many examples of these online but here's a simple puzzle for those of you that don't know what they are: available as a point 'n' clickable java applet or in printable format for those of you without java (they're both the same puzzle).

The instructions on that page tell you that each letter of the alphabet is represented by a number 1-26, & from that I'm sure you can work out that once you've found a letter that goes in a box labelled 9, you fill every box labelled with a 9 with that letter.

It doesn't tell you how to use the applet though. Click on a box to select it (it will turn yellow) then click on one of the letters in the alphabet below the puzzle - this autofills every corresponding box with that letter. Make sure you get it right though because there is no way to undo a mistake other than by clearing the whole puzzle with the 'revert' button.