Make a collage with old magazines in your browser

We love a good internet toy here in the Jank yard. Clipart.studio is a time-wastin' gizmo by designer Sami Smith that lets you cut out bits from old magazine PDFs saved in the Internet Archive, and stick them together on a canvas in a work of collage art. The digital-only downside is that you cannot later peel the dried PVC glue off your fingers like a big snake molting its skin in the desert. Ah, well.

The magazines are many. You can clip the curls out of Cosmo, the singers out of Smash Hits, and the parasites out of Popular Science. But of course there is a solid core of 1990s-2000s videogame mags to rip and/or tear from. PC Zone, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Nintendo Power, and Play are the ones that show up the most. You can also add your own PDFs to snip from, if you are so inclined.

The tools are simple - slice and dice, click and drag, undo, and shift the clipouts from front to back. Export your final collage when you're done and show off to friends who I guarantee will not care about your finished masterwork but will care that they can go and make their own. Creator Sami Smith is also responsible for making a site where you can browse Wikipedia as if it is an old Windows desktop. If you're too cool for collage. Pfft.

I made an advert for Jank. It is loud. I'm thinking of printing it out and distributing it by hand on the bus this evening.

Like I say, we love a browser-based internet toy that you can muck about with while your boss is not looking. The emoji-smooshing of Infinite Craft and the word-fiddling of Fridge Poetry are two of our favourite games of the decade so far. And I recently enjoyed a zoom about in Google's web browser flight sim, mostly by crashing straight into their headquarters.

All these are yet more proof that you should probably stop buying graphics cards and RAM (as if you even could right now). PC gaming does not require the big rig to be pumping out all the frameses pers secondses and choking your room with blue smoke. It can sometimes just be about running silly playthings in a secret tab.