Are you afraid of the dark?

I think most of us are in some form or another, though usually it take the form of a fun sort of scared. Sort of like a roller coaster minus the motion sickness, and well, lacking the use of the sense most humans rely on the most obviously.

Speaking of obvious, how this paragraph is related to the previous isn't. Ideablob is a site i tripped over a while back. it is an ongoing contest sponsored by a bank. Contestants post an idea for a business, and users of the site vote on the ideas, winner for any given month gets $10k to try to develop that business, doubled if the winner hold a corporate card from that bank. It is sort of an experiment in democracy, hope, and the idiocy of crowds. One thing i have noticed is that most of the people who have ideas posted don't seem to be big on posting helpful advice or comments to the ideas of others. And a lot of those who DO post advice etc, have no ideas posted. I am sure you can guess which users i am more likely to see as worthwhile human beings. (hint: This is not worthwhile.)

When i was younger, myself and a few reprobate friends used to play a macabre variant of hide and seek. We called it "Murder in the Dark." We would kill every light source in the house and all but one would scatter. The last player, the hunter, would wait a bit while charging up a glow in the dark hockey mask to max brightness using a blacklight, and then systematically hunt down the rest as the glow from the mask grew dimmer and his (or occasionally her) night vision improved. Last one "killed" donned the mask for the next round. There were sometimes freakouts on the part of folks new to this game especially when i played as the hunter, as most would make noise, mimicking bits from horror flicks... i was generally as silent as i could manage. One variation we never got around to trying was adding things like photo strobes in the hands of the "victims" to use in disorienting the hunter and aiding in escape.

Which brings us to this (hey it isn't spam if it is my own damn blog right?) You need to register for the site to comment or post advice to it... let alone to vote. And hell, i am not going to ask you to, though i would appreciate it.

The idea i posted is just something i want to see happen, a way to return to a past time i bloody well should have grown out of by now. So i hereby promise not to sue anyone who manages to implement the idea, all i demand is a reciprocal promise not to sue may ass if i manage to implement it after you do. Finding a way to bring me out to wherever this is built would definitely be a bonus.

Please someone, make this happen, because we are all a bit scared of the dark, and i love being scared... especially if i also get the chance to freak someone else right the fuck out.