Is this thing even a game?

Goal-less and experiential like the Japanese Nintendo DS hit Electroplanton, the new PC game “Crayonphysics” is amazingly engaging, brilliant, and simple game/experience/art.

Every hour Google Labs determines the fastest rising search terms entered in the United States. The result is a fascinating snapshot of the national zeitgeist.

Google makes this data available on its Google Labs site. I thought it would make an interesting screensaver, so I have created a process on the BureauFive server that fetches the top search trends every hour and publishes a feed that is usable by the “RSS Visualizer” screensaver that ships with Macintosh OS X.

You can run this screensaver on your Mac by entering the RSS feed address below in your RSS Visualizer’s “Feed URL” box.

http://bureaufive.com/b5/trends/google_trends.rss

Be sure to remove leading and trailing spaces when you copy-paste this URL in the “Feed URL” box (see below).

Then just click “Done”.