Do you spend entirely too much time online? Feel like some of the major websites are your friends? Wonder what it would be like to go to a party with them? Wonder no more!
And the sequel:
Abridged scripts from the editing room are great 2-3 pages versions of popular movies. And by abridged, I mostly mean 2-3 pages that narrate the plot and key scenes of the movie, while making TOTAL CRAP out of the MOVIE, while using STANDARD SCRIPT FORMATTING.
They’re pretty funny, especially for ones you’ve seen- most of them are mocking enough that you need to actually have seen the movie for them to make sense. The Dark Knight is a pretty good one, though I’m not sure why they feel the need to make fun of Maggie Gyllenhaal, I think she’s kind of cute.
So, High Times magazine is sort of amusing on it’s own for being a magazine solely and blatantly about pot. Their website is even funnier for the fact that it take your normal website with flashing banner ads full of half naked women and replaces them with flashing banner ads for pot and naked women half covered with buds. What’s even funnier (at least to me) is that not only do they have podcasts, but that they refer to them as potcasts.
Damn Interesting is a great site, which is unfortunately undergoing a bit of an extended period of inactivity. It has great articles (even the old ones are still good, I know, amazing in this new ever 5 minutes internet) which combine reporting on obscure events and locations with a wonderfully dry sense of humor and an engaging narrative style.
This one came to mind because they’re not only interesting articles, but they stick with you. A few days ago I was discussing websites with a friend from work, and we both remembered a particularly line from a particular article. This article. To not spoil the particular line, it comes immediately before “When airline mechanics finally arrived…” very near the end of the article.
There’s plenty of other great stories on the site, that one just happened to stick out in my mind. A great site to spend some time reading. I believe they also have a book out as well.
Radio Locator is a kind of handy site. It’s basically a search-able list of radio stations everywhere in the US, and some foreign countries as well. I know it’s way cooler to listen to your iPod and download songs for a dollar a piece, but I still love the radio and listen to it pretty much all the time. You can also search for stations that stream online, in case you want to listen at work, or want to listen to radio stations from other places (like if you found one you love while on vacation.) Not life changing or anything, but a handy site none the less.
Stressed out?
Warning – both have sound when you pop the bubbles, in case your speakers are turned way up.
Some of the prettiest non-functional weaponry I’ve seen out there.
Via Web Urbanist
Ever have one of those moments at work where you read something really funny, and have to stifle bursting into hysterical laughter to avoid funny looks, and, more importantly, having to share with anyone the item that made you laugh? I had one of those moment with this, big time.
Occasionally just the title pops into my mind while at work for no apparent reason, and I have to stifle giggling.
Ever want to know what it’s like to do drugs without having to go through the whole nasty bit of actually doing drugs? Erowid Experience Vaults is a huge catalog of reports from various people who have taken just about every type of mind/perception altering substance there is out there. These cover the good, the bad, the ugly, the mundane, and the downright frightening.
I haven’t read all of them by a long shot (there’s something like 20,000 articles on the site), but they are sort of interesting to see what various substances do to you, how people’s experience differ, and all the various specifics in each story. Needless to say, since these are user submitted stories, the quality of writing varies wildly, as does the credibility.
The other fascinating thing that struck me right off the bat is the huge variety of things that people will use to try to get high and the absolutely profoundly long list of different substances. They doesn’t just cover the usual suspects, it covers basically any substance or activity that can notably alter your perception, good or bad, intentionally or unintentionally. From the standard suspects (cocaine, pot, heroin, acid, meth), to the medically acceptable/endorsed (morphine, nitrous oxide, lithium, paxil, viagra (one of the only times you’ll see that on the web and have it not be spam), and many more), to the physical (fasting, hyperventilation, sleep deprivation, sweating), to the basically socially acceptable (caffeine, chocolate, tobacco, gensing, alcohol), to the “really?” (ginger, cheese rind, tea, vitamin C).
Needless to say, some of the articles are more than a bit distrubing, and most are something less than a pick me up.
In case my previous post on terrible tattoos didn’t scar you sufficiently, here’s another site chronicling life long mistakes. Oh, and Elizabeth, this one’s NSFW too.
Via Fail Blog.
Wow. Just wow. There are some insanely bad tattoos in the world. And they’re cataloged on a site called LOLTATZ.
I bookmarked a Savage Chickens comic a long time ago, and just started cleaning out my bookmarks, and was reminded how much these make me giggle. Such a great, goofy, off the wall, sort of dry sense of humor, … plus chickens (which generally aren’t so good dry, but it seems to work here). A few favorites:
Urban Camouflage is a cool website / art project that explores how to hide in urban and commercial spaces, instead of the usual woodland / desert camouflage.
Via Swiss Miss and Boing Boing
Only 3 projects up so far, but looking forward to more. I could see it being a little unsettling being in a store where they were doing this, but a really interesting concept none the less.
WebUrbanist also had an interesting (and somewhat NSFW) collection of urban camouflage, painting, art, clothes, etc. Kind of trippy and cool.
Both sort of interesting for looking at how people in urban environments tune out so much of their surroundings, and how to play with that.
Youngme / Nowme is an art project where people post pictures of themselves now, recreating pictures taken of them when they were young. They’re a bit hit or miss, and there’s a fair number of missing / broken pictures, but a few of them are absolutely great.
A few favorites (I know, lame link text, but I don’t want to give them away): here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Kind of makes me want to dig up some baby pictures. Whole collection here.
Zappos is an online shoe retailer with a mind-blowingly good reputation for great customer service. I’ve never actually bought anything from them, but I’ve read many, many articles about how good their customer service is, and how great of a company they are to work for.
They now have a map online that shows in real time what is being bought on their site, and roughly where it’s being shipped to. It’s strangely fascinating. You can also click on the images of shoes that pop up and see more details about that specific shoe.
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