From long-time link contributor Larry (who has a great blog The Fire Wire), comes a strange and amusing website that creates musical tracks based on URL content. Try out all your favorites and see the differences (mentalfloss.com is the best I’ve heard yet, of course).
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Who doesn’t enjoy a fail boat of, well … good old fashion fail? The folks at Urlesque were happy enough to compile the “money shots” of videos chronicling The Top 10 Worst Attempts at Cutting Down a Tree (Video Compilation) so that you don’t have to sit through the full thing (shucks).
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Terrifying Spiral Staircases.
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Even though rampant cuteness is destroying our culture, sometimes you just need a daily squee: so cute, so tiny, so squee!
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Squee with a purpose (er, sort of): Sushi Cat — the strangely fun game that involves cute, animated sushi (Really)
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From the squee to the serious – Merinda sends in an interesting link to a commentary on “How The Newspaper Business Killed Itself.” For anyone, like me, working in print media these days, it’s a must-read.
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A thought-provoking sociological piece on the “Smurfette Principal,” or, what’s the deal with the token chicks in animated series? Very interesting, though I’ll throw out a mild “language” flag on this one.
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Every so often Robert from Oddly Enough News does a post on “jobs to avoid,” yet always manages to throw a dig in there about my chosen majors, Creative writing and film studies (harrumph) … Any fellow majors past, present and future out there feeling the burn? It is tough!Â
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Though we missed March 4th as National Grammar Day, here are some ways to celebrate (and, well, learn) excellent grammar all year long. (Thanks Jan!)
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Notion of the Day: Ripping Band-Aid off is less painful… proven scientifically!
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Still need more links or tools for procrastination? This site links off through various icons to other strange sites, whose effects can be manipulated and transformed with your mouse. And for even more links, check back here tomorrow for the Sunday Edition!
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My computer issued a trojan virus alert when redirected to the sushi cat game.
posted by Roger on 3-6-2010 at 12:58 pm
@ Roger -
That’s really interesting…
I was using the MAC computer rather than my PC when I tried to get this site to work yesterday. It sort of came up, but kept flashing on and off and I couldn’t get it to play, so I got out of it
No Trojan Virus Alert came up, not that I think one *would* since this machine doesn’t have Norton, etc because my tech ‘expert’ claims Macs are usually not susceptible to many problems
System seems okay and unharmed a day later… I hope so!
posted by Anon Emous on 3-6-2010 at 2:41 pm
You can find it on Kongregate.com as well, that’s where I found it. I never get a bad rating from WoT or AVG at Kongregate.
posted by MamaBug on 3-6-2010 at 3:41 pm
Strange! Sorry guys – it worked fine for me when I tested it out; thanks MamaBug for the alt link :)
posted by Allison Keene on 3-6-2010 at 4:08 pm
The ‘ripping the Band-Aid off quickly’ is not so good for me. I have a sensitivity to Band-Aids and the last time I ripped one off quickly, I took MANY layers of skin off with it. I wound up with a worse wound than I had in the first place.
posted by cmfalls on 3-6-2010 at 5:54 pm
About those jobs to avoid: it is funny how they added that film studies and creative writing thing at the end. My college major was film with a minor in creative writing. And my current job of the past three years has nothing to do with either film, writing or creativity. Just like all the rest of us chumps who dumped all that money into art school, I work a job that makes the rest of these on this post look pretty damn interesting. When someone asks me, “So if you majored in film and creative writing, how did you get into copy machines?” My answer, “Because I majored in film and creative writing.” Think about it.
posted by Eric on 3-8-2010 at 1:20 pm