Flickr is one of the biggest repositories of photographic images on the internet and it has its own search engine, it's true.  Throw in a little flash and you have something extraordinary.  So, if you want something visual that's not quite so, well, static, try this interactive site.  You type in a tag that you want - in this instance it is the word ‘internet' and you get the Flickr results for all of those images.  In this case there were over eighty eight thousand results.  If you pull your cursor out, you can see related tags to narrow your search down and find more specific result.  The site loads faster than Flick and is a new and interactive twist on a site that is renowned for the quality of the images rather than its interface.

    We Are All Going To Die

    Using flash technology, photographer Simon Hoegsberg has created a one hundred meter long image of people which he subtitles ‘100 meters of existence'.  Over the course of a twenty day period in 2007 he took pictures of hundreds of people from the same place on a bridge in Berlin, Germany.  These were then spliced together and this sliding view of humanity on their way who knows where is the result.  Slide along and people watch!

    Newsmap

    Newsmap takes the news and squeezes it in to little boxes - literally.  The flash drive site allows you to click on to the country of your choice and see what is going on there.  When you see something you want to read more about it, then you click on to the box and it will take you to the story.  Not only that, you can either go for all news categories or you can ask for stories from just one category.  The flash loads quickly and the links are equally fast.  Could this be the way newspapers will operate in the future?

    Ulechang

Ulechang is odd.  Very odd.  If you like Monty Python, Anime and information that is cool but not strictly speaking vital to your every day existence, then this site may well keep you occupied for a very long time.  You chose an avatar and begin your upwards experience, taking in the universe of very weird goings on as you do.  Substances you cannot buy over the counter in a drug store may possibly help with this site.

    Pretty Loaded

    When all PCs were dial up people hated the preloader.  Waiting for that one hundred percent mark to come often involved an awful lot of time - whole families have been created waiting for that magic moment.  This site is an archive of preloaders from across the ages of the internet.  You can choose the year if you so choose, but you may just want to sit back and watch the preloaders load.  It is perhaps suspect to call this an art form but the sheer creativity of some of these preloaders was a whole lot better than the content of the sites they were actually loading!

    Three Dimensional Navigation

    Screenvader could be showing us today what we might expect from the average website on the internet in the future.  The three dimensional environment is not, of course, but it gives us a good idea of the shape of things to come when the net becomes the cloud - perhaps.  This site loads beautifully and had some fairly cool content, too.  Although you may just say this is action script on acid, the truth is that the interface works fluidly and is very different from the usual fare out there.

    Subway Life

    Antonio Jorge Goncalves is an artist who draws people sitting in subway trains.  He spent over thirty weeks in total sitting on trains in various world cities and sketching the people he saw there.  He chose a variety of lines and time of the day and drew over three hundred pictures in each city.  Put them all in to a flash website and this is the awesome result.  Quite an amazing record of life on the move, who knows, you may even see yourself there.

    The Eco Zoo

    Environmental concern plus flash animation of the highest order combine in to this website to make it one of the more entertaining on the subject - both for children and for adults.  You can choose from a variety of different animals to learn more about how to protect the environment.  The flash is pretty whizzy and there is a lot of interactivity so you can leave it, go make a coffee and return without worrying about missing something.

    Fly a Balloon

    Don't worry when you hit this website about the fact that your browser has just reduced in size.  Let the two little guys sort it out for you!  Combining art, mime and some very clever script, this site will have you - hopefully - chuckling along once you realize that your PC is going to be alright!

    Cards

    Flash simply for its own sake - nothing more.  This extremely neat card ‘trick' was created for the launch of Flash CS4.  Only Adobe products were used in this animation, so nothing 3D has touched any of it.  With a little help from Photoshop and After Effects this short will blow your mind.  Takes some time to load so if you are dialing up - go make a baby or something while your connection handles this.