OK, so this is perhaps not as bookish as usual for a GU Books site of the week and, ok, so it doesn't involve books at all but Uncontrollable Semantics does have words in it and it's great fun and dreamy and the perfect way to while away the hottest afternoon of the year if, as it happens, you're forced to spend it in a sweltering office rather than on a beach somewhere. A stark intro page contains features the title and the words
"Within your mouse flows all directions. Create from your wrist, your hand, a tense and sleepy world. And their shapes arrived Missing and rideless in the snow. Play, oh play,"
Click on 'play' and take it from there, in a whirl of words and colours. According to its creator, "Each environment offers four directions to four terms, four semantics, four named creatures." More usefully, he suggests "explore and play and confuse yourself". Go on, do as you're told.
