Tom Scott

Some are funny, some aren't. Some are appreciated, some aren't. Either way, here are all the videos, animations and other odd stuff that I've put on the web.

Most Popular

• Real World Racer – a Google Maps racing game.
• The Coruscant Juggling Club: Jedi jugglers juggling lightsabers, plus other spectacular feats of Force dexterity.
• Be A Safe Ninja This Winter – a PSA for the more stealthy among us.
• You Cannot Remove Your Fingerprints With Pineapple – it's true.
• Students' Union Induction Talks: in which I dress like a pirate and make the greatest entrance of my life.
• Breakfast: Fortified with Iron – cooking bacon and eggs... with an iron. Featured on BBC One.
• Pastaaaargh – in the same vein, pasta and sauce cooked by kettle.
• Extra Light Pancakes – and finally, pancakes cooked using nothing but a big light.
• Salmon in a Dishwasher – is it possible?
• Guitar Hero: Status Quo – Some jokes never get old. Just like Status Quo.
• Talk Like A Pirate Day – the British Headquarters for the glorious day o' pirates, yarr.
• Real Life Mario Kart – Sometimes playing on a screen just isn't enough. With bonus Thwomp Bowling World Championships.
• OwnTerms.org – Creative Commons licensed legal documents.
• Trapped in Sticker Factory, Send Help – these stickers went all over the world.
• Twendle: a Twitter game. Win stuff by predicting what the internet will be talking about tomorrow.
• Fun With A Giant Slingshot – an old monitor, a giant slingshot, and ripe fruit.
• Going Viral: how to get ideas out of your head, onto the web, and into other people's heads.
• Fluffy the Penguin Goes Skiing – I have no idea why this is popular. It shouldn't be, by all rights; it was my first attempt at a proper cartoon in Flash, and it shows. But for some reason, people like it.
• Extortr – It's what Flickr would be if Flickr were evil. Presented at the Paraflows exhibition, Vienna.
• The Semaphore Ninja – Give him a message, and he will deliver it with honour. And flags.
• Tea Party in a Transit – scones, jam and cream at high speed.
• Tesco Value Spiderman: how much sticky tape does it take to be Peter Parker?
• The Yahoo Oracle – Yahoo Answers, reincarnated as a mystical oracle.
• Preparing for Emergencies – From mid-2004: Remember the British Government's terror advice leaflet? This isn't quite it. The British government were "considering legal action" over this at one point, but decided not to after the Guardian, Daily Mail, BBC, and a whole lot of other news media got interested...
• MP3Gif – hide MP3s in GIFs: music and pictures in the same file!
• I'm Feeling Spendy – enter a price, see a random product at Amazon.
• Camptown News Greasemonkey Script – doo-dah, doo-dah.
• Bodysailing – I invent a new extreme sport. It doesn't really work. And it hurts.
• Freeload – Any ringtone on your mobile phone for free. No, seriously.
• Timelapse: 1,000 Balloons in 6 Hours, filling a room to a depth of four feet.
• The Ninja Fizz Test – Finding out whether tapping a shaken cola can really stop it exploding. Features me getting sprayed with large amounts of cola. Warning: contains ninja.
• Appalling Visual Puns #1 – the first, and possibly last, in a series.

Old and Embarrassing

• Humphrey and Duncan – Stop motion animations of an owl, a duck, and some hedgehogs. Possibly the most "cute" thing on the site.
• The Commissioning Editor – this is how TV is made these days.
• Matchstick Art – playing with matches. Don't try this at home. It didn't work anyway.
• Instructions for Entering the United States – A parody of a US government leaflet.
• The Pigeon Street Massacre – Oh dear. This is based on the 80s children's TV series "Pigeon Street", only with a shotgun to shoot the pigeons with.
• Jim'll Fix It Badge Maker – There's comedy potential here. But not much.
• David Blunkett's Blind Panic – Surprisingly, this game isn't really that tasteless at all – although the joke is going to age very quickly indeed.
• Dive! – a tribute to the greatest actor ever.
• Giant Amazonian Duckling vs David Attenborough.
• Am I Brian Blessed or Not? – I'm not sure why I'm proud of this one, but I am. The last level's a bit too difficult, though.
• David Beckham's Penalty Shootout 2004 – it's a quick, cheap joke that hasn't aged well, but it still gets me some rabid emails from Beckham fans.
• Rubber Band Aid – From the "Department of things that I'm almost certainly going to regret doing in a few years' time".
• Tony Blair's Switch Ad – Advertising parodies age quickly; political cartoons more so. So, this joke about the "new iRaq" died very quickly indeed.

TV Stuff

• The Presidential Races – For the end of the 2004 series of Channel 4's Bremner Bird and Fortune, I made a 45-second animation in 48 hours, recasting the US presidential race as an episode of Wacky Races. It got laughs – and in the end that's what counts. For copyright reasons, it's not online.