Turn any page into Katamari Damacy

Woo - nice to see this on HN (I'm one of the creators).<p>EDIT: We're serving this off ec2 + apache. It's all static html + js. Any quick tips for speeding things up?

I thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping me fall into a haze for about 45 minutes. That was remarkably ingenious.<p>Rolling around on a huge page like the Wikipedia article for World War II (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war_II" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war_II</a>) caused a pretty significant slowdown. Interestingly, once the ball got to the size to pick up larger images, the rest of the ball would clear and there would be a noticeable boost in speed. It was intriguing to observe the dynamics of the ball rolling on different sized pages.

I loved this a lot more than I probably should have.

Awesome! Even works on an iPad.<p>And if you like this, check out this other amazing bookmarklet game:<p><a href="http://erkie.github.com/" rel="nofollow">http://erkie.github.com/</a>

This thing is hilarious! I love how this renders the picked up objects so well; it really shows if you try to pick up images! Nice work!

This is amazing. I'm definitely going to keep this in my bookmarklets collection! That said, can you give us a way to re-generate the grid data? I want to roll up everything in Google Reader. (Maybe when the bookmarklet is run, if it's already active, re-generate the grid. It currently creates a second Katamari, which is also awesome.)

New update out: Now you can select controls (left/right click, or touch). Try running it twice, once with right-click, and again with left-click.<p>Also for dynamic pages, run the script after the content changes and click the "x", and the new content should be pick-uppable.

Very entertaining, especially when it picks up images. Too bad it loses them too fast. Can you please add an option to keep images for longer? I love Hitler spinning around.

Multiball works!

I helped teach and judge at about 10 of the Hack-U competitions while I was at Yahoo and it always amazed me how ingenius the students are.<p>Congratulations to the team on a great project and it's really nice to see how savvy about web technology the students at Wash-U are.

Is there any way to play this on a Macbook trackpad without connecting a USB mouse?

#winning