5k finalists (as of April 9th)

Many people seem to be linking to this page without explaining that the judging is not complete. About 40 more entries will be added to this shortlist and judged as well, and then the winners will be announced May 1st. These entries are not necessarily the winners. For more information, go here.

Title: hungry little frog
Size: 3749 bytes

URL: http://www.sylloge.com/5k/entries/6/index.html

Author's Description:
This little frog is lost in the swamp and is very hungry. Please help it out by feeding it some flies. Just drag-n-drop a fly to the frog's mouth, and he will eat it.

Because of the DHTML-techniques used, this entry might not work on any browser other than Netscape Navigator 4, Internet Explorer 4 or Internet Explorer 5 (recommended).

Title: s i z e m a t t e r s
Size: 5109 bytes

URL: http://www.sylloge.com/5k/entries/15/index.htm

Author's Description:
that appears to be the title although you won't find that anywhere in the site. i just squeaked in with 11 bytes to spare. it's a purely educational piece and may be enlighten anyone concerned with techno prefixes. all i know is that when i close my eyes all i see are individual pixels and i'm using my pencil tool, designing at a microscopic level.

Title: Lightswitches
Size: 4668 bytes

URL: http://www.sylloge.com/5k/entries/16/lightswitch.html

Author's Description:
This page comes from some paintings of lightswitches I had been working on. The idea of the painting was that there was so much hidden behind the walls of the lightswitch.

So I made a lightswitch which, unlike the paintings, actually has something behind it. And as a plus, it documents itself when you turn it on.

Title: War
Size: 3619 bytes

URL: http://www.sylloge.com/5k/entries/17/index.html

Author's Description:
This application serves both as a frightening reminder of the resources wasted on war during our childhood, and a warning to future generations of war's ultimate futility. It also strictly adheres to Hoyle's rules of play and beats searching for extraterrestrial life.

Title: iris.
Size: 3265 bytes

URL: http://www.sylloge.com/5k/entries/83/iris.html

Author's Description:
The piece opens with a circle irising in and out, revealing a portion of a poem by D. H. Lawrence [ http://www.bartleby.com/128/4.html ]. It's a weird way to read something, because it forces your pace (which may be faster or slower than your normal reading speed), and makes you (me, anyway) tend to read from the middle of the line, instead of from the left. It probably just serves to ruin the poem.

Then the circle gets bored with all this art crap, and the user gains control. By moving the mouse, you can control the speed of rotation, direction of rotation, and the radius of the circle. Clicking changes its center. The speed is regulated by the cursor's distance from the x-axis of the circle, the direction is decided by what side of the x-axis you're on, and the radius is determined by the cursor's distance from the circle's center.

Requirements:

A DHTML browser - IE4/IE5/NN4 for Mac/Win were the only browsers tested.
Anything else is unknown.

A pretty fast computer - It looks like crap on a P200, but looks sweet on a PII or a G3. It runs faster in NN than it does in IE, and that difference is even greater on the Mac. Dunno why.

Notes:

The points on the circle come up as question marks on a Mac, and as a neat symbol on Windows. I was going to throw in some detection to handle that, but thought maybe the question marks would add some kind of mystery to it. Hah.