A German-speaking Web show host imitates Carl from Turdhead.com's "Guess Which Hand" game in this video roundup of Web anomalies today. Thanks www.ehrensenf.de, although we have no idea what you're saying.

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You never know how people are going to respond to things you post on the internet. Last week, I was running behind and fretting about what to do for a February Flash game (I'm bound by the Law of New Years to post at least one each month), and I jokingly told one of my coworkers, "At this rate, 'Find the Fish' or 'Guess which hand?' is starting to sound good enough." Fast forward a few days, and suddenly "Guess Which Hand?" (admittedly, still a dumb idea) was a reality. It took about six hours to complete start-to-finish.

So I posted "Guess Which Hand" featuring "Carl the Bus Stop Guy" just before midnight on Feb. 28 and faded off to sleep, ashamed but satisfied that I'd made my deadline. I didn't bother announcing it or notifying any of the usual weblog aggregators of its existence.

The next morning, Carl had set a record for "least visited post on Turdhead… ever." In fact, only 18 people had bothered to come check out Carl's lonely game during the night. So I felt bad for him, and dropped a note on MilkandCookies.com announcing his arrival.

A day later, the logs looked healthier, but lackluster — as could be expected, Carl was getting about 1/2 the traffic January's game, Cosmic Bounce, had seen from a similar link. And perhaps also as expected, the reviews on MilkandCookies ranged from "Total crap" to "Whatever."

But then something happened. Something amazing. Something that forced me to buy more bandwidth access and question my very existence.
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