@e271: Fixed, as this was a game-breaking bug. Hold 'R' to respawn if you get caught.
@densch: It's a distress beacon from a bygone age, when all pixels sparkled like our hero. Or, erm, it's just a misplaced on/off death trap. You can decide which answer you prefer!
The game pauses when you move the cursor outside the frame.
The game's kinda fun, but there were too many lives for my liking - felt like it'd never end...
It's odd - names, passwords and the rest all work fine for me, in both Firefox and IE.
Plus I can't see a way to finish level 8 in one move - how's it done? The + shaped pipe is two corners, so it can go left to up and right to down only.