"The Night of Melvyn's Murder" is an engaging web project that describes the activities of numerous people on the night of a man named Melvyn's homicide. I'm not sure whether the small stories are clues meant to point to the culprit, or if the project is meant to be a brilliant feat to be marveled at rather than solved. In any case, the layout of information--a network of people connected to each other through linked activities--is both dizzying and impressive.
When I read the first bit of story, I was a little bit confused as to what I was meant to do. After clicking on one of the names in the story, though, I quickly discovered both how to interact with the project and exactly how vast it was. It's the sort of thing that makes a person want to create an information web to keep all of the information straight (or maybe I'm just OCD). Every time I started to think that I had nearly read every person's story, five new characters would present themselves.
I do think that this is the sort of project that's far easier to create than it is to read and comprehend, like how a necklace can become impossibly knotted without much effort, then take an hour to fix. The complexity of it is great, and I'm tempted to sit down and actually try to find out whether the murderer can be found, or if Melvyn and the circumstances of his murder are even explained.
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