tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240959872024-03-12T23:59:46.460-04:00ribble'sBetter living through <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone>references</a>, from BrooklynUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger395125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-75088920128204215702011-02-16T00:01:00.001-05:002011-02-16T00:01:01.310-05:00Internet Time Waste #44: Fortune Cookie ChroniclesFinally, a new way to waste your time on the internet.<br /><br />Tonight's internet time waste: Jennifer 8. Lee's <a href="http://www.fortunecookiechronicles.com/">The Fortune Cookie Chronicles</a>.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://fortunecookiechronicles.com/book.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 161px; height: 239px;" src="http://fortunecookiechronicles.com/book.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a> <br /><br />Fortune Cookie Chronicles is one of those classic modern ideas - take something all Americans have some kind of relationship with (American Chinese food) pursue the idea to the ends of the Earth and then smear it across a plethora of mediums (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446580074?ie=UTF8&tag=thefortcookch-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=044658007">book</a>, <a href="http://fortunecookiechronicles.com/blog">blog</a>, and upcoming <a href="http://www.artsengine.net/fs/current_projects/the_search_for_general_tso/">documentary</a>) like so much garlic sauce on so much stir-fried chicken.<br /><br />Great, now I'm hungry.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-26034630300368592942011-02-15T16:01:00.000-05:002011-02-15T16:01:00.381-05:00Internet Time Waste #43: Photoshop DisastersFinally, a new way to waste your time on the internet.<br /><br />Today's internet time waste: <a href="http://www.psdisasters.com/">Photoshop Disasters</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EHZsoUS6SIA/TA1c0udHeGI/AAAAAAAAHBk/ELxCW94Z0QU/victoriasbloodysecret3646.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 590px; height: 666px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EHZsoUS6SIA/TA1c0udHeGI/AAAAAAAAHBk/ELxCW94Z0QU/victoriasbloodysecret3646.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.psdisasters.com/2010/12/top-20-photoshop-disasters-of-2010.html">Here</a>'s their best of 2010.<br /><br />Once you get used to these, you start looking for them everywhere. Reminds me of Jesse Epstein's "Wet Dreams and False Images."<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/h5_AFk9aOAA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-15395170250276982772011-02-15T08:01:00.000-05:002011-02-15T08:01:01.027-05:00Internet Time Waste #42: This is Why You're FatFinally, a new way to waste your time on the internet.<br /><br />Today's internet time waste: <a href="http://www.thisiswhyyourefat.com/">This is Why You're Fat</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.thisiswhyyourefat.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1874.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 553px; height: 500px;" src="http://www.thisiswhyyourefat.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_1874.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Funny story: since I started reading This is Why You're Fat, I've lost 15 pounds.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-11255404461305538972011-02-15T00:01:00.003-05:002011-02-15T00:01:03.582-05:00Internet Time Waste #41: Mental Floss MagazineFinally, a new way to waste your time on the internet.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.mentalfloss.com/magazine/issues/images/1001_cover_side.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 202px; height: 265px;" src="http://www.mentalfloss.com/magazine/issues/images/1001_cover_side.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Tonight's internet time waste: <a href="http://www.mentalfloss.com/">Mental Floss Magazine</a>, "Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-53405648203817102762011-02-14T16:01:00.004-05:002011-02-14T16:01:00.497-05:00Internet Time Waste #40: The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow PlayersFinally, a new and unique way to waste your precious time on the internet.<br /><br />Today's internet time waste: the various <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/slideshowplayers#p/c/BDAB01C43094D2A5">videos</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/supercute">spinoffs</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Trachtenburg-Family-Slideshow-Players-Official-Page/220705489718">Facebook pages</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachtenburg_Family_Slideshow_Players">Wikipedia entries</a> of the <a href="http://www.myspace.com/slideshowplayers">Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players</a>.<br /><br />These guys are just a tiny bit harder to blog about then the motley bullshit I've been posting lately. They're a family of musicians (husband, wife, daughter) who mostly write songs about boxes of slides they pick up at garage sales and such like, then play along with the slideshow. <br /><br />Now, in my big, secret list of personal time wasters from which I'm getting my big, public amalgamation of <a href="http://ribbles.blogspot.com/search/label/Other%20Time%20Wasters">time wasters for you</a>, I just have this link to the video for the Trachtenburg Family song<a href="http://edit-video.com/video/MT.html">"Mountain Trip to Old Japan"</a> (it's even a bit higher quality than the embed below.) <br /><br />Where did I find this thing? Who knows?<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/J6sEdodZEg0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Now, I'd say this is a pretty representative video, but of course I started poking around. Predictable, as a kinda cute, kinda indie established mid-level act, the TFSP have a wide and diverse internet presence. <br /><br />So then the question becomes, just how much do you want to know about this family? I mean, daughter Rachel has been an active musician since she was six years old. Of COURSE you're going to be able to find video of her ragging on Bloomberg in a public hearing. I'm not linking to it, though, because we are here to waste your time - not to watch other people waste theirs.<br /><br />Then the issue is, what do I link to? I say, let's keep things simple. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oxF-0wphKI">Let's Go On Tour With Kate</a> (i.e. Nash) is my favorite TFSP song so far, so here ya go:<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5oxF-0wphKI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-57362031510851341782011-02-14T08:01:00.001-05:002011-02-14T08:01:00.078-05:00Internet Time Waste #39: TaneFinally, a new, if inexplicable, way to waste your time on the internet.<br /><br />This morning's internet time waste: <a href="http://tane.us/">Tane</a>.<br /><br />(Put on those headphones for this, boy.)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-78265613022473297532011-02-14T00:01:00.002-05:002011-02-14T00:01:07.082-05:00Internet Time Waste #38: Greatest Movie MurdersFinally, a new way to waste your time on the internet.<br /><br />Tonight's internet time waste: <a href="http://www.angryflower.com/">cartoonist Stephen Notley's</a> brother Paul's list of the <a href="http://angryflower.com/paulsmurders.html">100 Greatest Movie Murders</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-41890891292239686352011-02-13T16:01:00.000-05:002011-02-13T16:01:00.391-05:00Internet Time Waste #37: Dozens of Interviews with Nathan FillionFinally, a new way to waste your time on the internet.<br /><br />Today's internet time waste: dozens of interviews with <a href="http://www.nathanfillion.org/category/interviews">Nathan Fillion</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z8V04LCjF6k/TVSV_2DWtuI/AAAAAAAAAW0/NW5rY8Lk_CM/s1600/fillion.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 220px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z8V04LCjF6k/TVSV_2DWtuI/AAAAAAAAAW0/NW5rY8Lk_CM/s320/fillion.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572243563038029538" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-22510614025107552552011-02-13T08:01:00.003-05:002011-02-13T11:04:54.900-05:00Internet Time Waste #36: Sawbuck GamerFinally, a new way to waste your time on the internet.<br /><br />This morning's time sink: the collected <a href="http://www.avclub.com/features/sawbuck-gamer/">Sawbuck Gamer</a>, gathering years of AV Club columns about cheap games.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://a.onionstatic.com/images/articles/article/49740/onechance_jpg_627x325_crop_upscale_q85.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 627px; height: 325px;" src="http://a.onionstatic.com/images/articles/article/49740/onechance_jpg_627x325_crop_upscale_q85.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />I know Sawbuck through <a href="http://www.avclub.com/users/john-teti,9578/">Teti</a>. Ages ago, Teti wrote a blog called [Blank] of the Day, which he's since largely taken down. With a lot of dedication, you can read through the archives, post by post, by following <a href="http://www.blankoftheday.com/oftheday_mt/archives/2005/03/day_im_not_sorr.html">this link</a> to a post Teti wrote where he explains why he isn't apologizing for not posting the day before and clicking the links below.<br /><br />Know how I said I was here to waste your time, not mine? Well, I've read through those archives twice. Quick summary: funny.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-44134564000809289122011-02-13T00:01:00.002-05:002011-02-13T00:01:03.186-05:00Internet Time Waste #35: The Longest Poem in the WorldYes, this is it at long last: a new way to waste your time on the internet.<br /><br />Tonight's internet time waste: <a href="http://www.longestpoemintheworld.com/">The Longest Poem in the World</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/hs458.snc4/50553_86830827449_322966_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 158px; height: 158px;" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/hs458.snc4/50553_86830827449_322966_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />From the about page:<br /><br />"<br />"The Longest Poem in the World" is composed by aggregating real-time <br />public twitter updates and selecting those that rhyme.<br /><br />It is constantly growing at ~4000 verses / day.<br />"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-7494123216625661952011-02-12T16:01:00.003-05:002011-02-12T16:01:00.354-05:00Internet Time Waste #34: The Michael Showalter ShowalterFinally, a new way to waste time on the internet.<br /><br />This afternoon's time waste: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlPZq8llJJ4&feature=related">The Michael Showalter Showalter</a>.<br /><br />I saw this guy in a coffee shop in Cobble Hill very, very early one morning and freaked him out by staring at him.<br /><br />ribble: the picture of class.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-5301134111544141912011-02-12T08:01:00.002-05:002011-02-12T08:01:00.722-05:00Internet Time Waste #33: Angry Zen Master & Monkeys for HelpingFinally, a special and unique way to fritter away lonely hours online.<br /><br />This morning's internet time waster: <a href="http://www.angryzenmaster.com">Angry Zen Master</a><br /><br />Angry Zen Master is a nerd entertainment aggregator blog. It kinda reminded me of <a href="http://monkeysforhelping.blogspot.com/">Monkeys for Helping</a>, which I've linked to before but not in this context. So I went and checked MfH again and, low and behold, both linked to this extraordinary Bollywood terminator derivative:<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/svOlz2ei4Yk" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen></iframe><br /><br />Enjoy.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-25217870475003597412011-02-12T00:01:00.001-05:002011-02-12T00:01:03.659-05:00Internet Time Waste #32: Freakonomics BlogFinally, a new way to waste your time on the internet.<br /><br />This internet time waste is <a href="http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/">The Freakonomics blog</a> hosted by the New York Times.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-77288103837259290072011-02-11T12:01:00.001-05:002011-02-11T12:01:00.169-05:00Internet Time Waste #31: Eliza SkinnerFinally, a unique way to waste time online.<br /><br />Today's internet time waste: the fucked-up mind of <a href="http://www.elizaskinner.net/">Eliza Skinner</a>.<br /><br />We showed one of Eliza's videos at <a href="http://ironmulenyc.com/">Iron Mule</a> back in the day. I picked up the DVD from her and I was all implying she should be all excited to see her short in front of an audience and she was all "yeah, I did that motherfucker on STAGE, <b>BITCH</b>!!" <br /><br />(I'm, uh, paraphrasing.)<br /><br />And then she quit her day job and went pro, so, BOY. Egg on MY face, I tells ya.<br /><br />At time of writing, Eliza's latest project is <a href="http://www.nastycute.com/">Nasty Cute</a>, in which she writes inappropriate stream-of-consciousness captions for photos of animals, from the animals' perspectives. <br /><br />Here's that particular short in that I may pique your curiosity:<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nFSy2Gl8YnM" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-12368102762210450742011-02-11T00:01:00.001-05:002011-02-11T00:01:02.564-05:00Internet Time Waste #30: Ukulele LessonsFinally, a new way to kill some time on the internet.<br /><br />Tonight's time waste: Learn to Play the Ukulele.<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/78nr8QMaUbI" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-60779525742071132442011-02-10T12:01:00.000-05:002011-02-10T12:01:00.340-05:00Internet Time Waste #29: The Unshelved Book ClubAt long last, a new way to waste time on the internet.<br /><br />Today's electronic time sink: <a href="http://www.unshelved.com/bookclub.aspx">The Unshelved Book Club</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://get.unshelved.com/books/AmericanHeritageDictionary.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 120px; height: 163px;" src="http://get.unshelved.com/books/AmericanHeritageDictionary.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.unshelved.com/">Unshelved</a> is a webcomic about librarians. For a long time, I thought all the book reviews were written by the author of Unshelved, Gene Ambaum. Turns out <a href="http://www.unshelved.com/bookclub/reviewers">there's a whole crew</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-67679074461129602592011-02-10T00:01:00.002-05:002011-02-10T00:01:02.551-05:00Internet Time Waste #28: La Pulcina PiccolaFinally, a novel manner in which to fritter away your hours on the internet.<br /><br />Tonight's installment: <a href="http://www.pulcina.org/Pulcina/Diaries.html">The Secret Diaries of La Pulcina Piccola</a> (Chicken Little.)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/sites/default/files/photos/large/v343_lg.jpg?1294732911"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 240px;" src="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/sites/default/files/photos/large/v343_lg.jpg?1294732911" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />La Pulcina is the star of an extended opera (in miniature.) You can hear the story of the opera in <a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/343/poultry-slam-2007">This American Life's 2007 Poultry Slam</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-55116263782797652312011-02-09T12:01:00.000-05:002011-02-09T12:01:00.180-05:00Internet Time Waste #27: Randy Cohen on McSweeney'sFinally, this, the wonderment of a way to use your internet connection in order that you may waste your own time.<br /><br />Today's internet time waste: <a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/1999/02/04cohen.html">Randy Cohen week on McSweeney's</a>.<br /><br /><br />I know Cohen from his podcast, The Ethicist, which you can <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/ref/multimedia/podcasts.html">find at the New York Times website</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-64884892944359693662011-02-09T00:01:00.003-05:002011-02-09T00:01:05.416-05:00Internet Time Waste #26: The Regret IndexFinally, the once-in-a-lifetime novelty of a new place to waste time on the internet.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.qwantz.com/regret/blank.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 1px; height: 1px;" src="http://www.qwantz.com/regret/blank.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Tonight's time sink: <a href="http://www.qwantz.com/regret/index.php">the Regret Index</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-54048588085373586872011-02-08T12:01:00.002-05:002011-02-08T12:01:00.123-05:00Internet Time Waste #25: The Book of RatingsFinally, you can waste time on the internet with little research or prelude.<br /><br />This afternoon's internet time waste: <a href="http://www.bookofratings.com/">The Book of Ratings</a>. These are one man's ratings of everything, with a particular focus on pop culture minutiae.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/scrappy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 74px; height: 97px;" src="http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/scrappy.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />I found the Book through the <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/">TV Tropes</a> page on <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheScrappy">The Scrappy</a>, which refers to <a href="http://www.bookofratings.com/scooby.html">this page in the book of ratings</a>.<br /><br />I am ballparking now and anticipating somewhere north of 100 of these posts, BTW. With my new, two-a-day pace that's, what? Another month and a half of content?<br /><br />That sounds about right.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-48323870239594611822011-02-08T00:01:00.000-05:002011-02-08T00:01:01.995-05:00Internet Time Waste #24: VideojugFinally, you as well as others can waste time on the internet.<br /><br />This post's internet time waste: <a href="http://www.videojug.com/">Videojug</a>, a collection of How-To videos.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q4BpBM8_OXU/TT8cPPev9PI/AAAAAAAAAWg/vbzbtB57g4g/s1600/Screen%2Bshot%2B2011-01-25%2Bat%2B1.12.35%2BPM.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 166px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q4BpBM8_OXU/TT8cPPev9PI/AAAAAAAAAWg/vbzbtB57g4g/s320/Screen%2Bshot%2B2011-01-25%2Bat%2B1.12.35%2BPM.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566198712632341746" /></a><br />First video I watched here: <a href="http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-avoid-trapped-arm-whilst-cuddling-in-bed">How to avoid trapped arm whilst cuddling in bed</a>. I've tried a few of these techniques since, and I believe the key is to show the other person this video beforehand so they are unconsciously compliant once the time comes.<br /><br />Also: charmingly British.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-15784769123510634072011-02-07T12:01:00.001-05:002011-02-07T12:01:00.240-05:00Internet Time Waste #23: Stand for ChristmasFinally, something something time waste something.<br /><br />Today's internet time waste: <a href="http://standforchristmas.com/">Stand for Christmas</a>?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://standforchristmas.com/img/tchmd_pics/headerLogo.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 932px; height: 140px;" src="http://standforchristmas.com/img/tchmd_pics/headerLogo.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Finally (as of 2009), a site that dares to ask (and even rank) the Christmas-friendliness of retailers.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-17735727080711759862011-02-07T00:01:00.004-05:002011-02-07T00:01:02.778-05:00Internet Time Waste #22: Google Search StoriesFinally another of many ways to waste your own time on this, the internet.<br /><br />Tonight's internet time waste: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/searchstories?utm_source=gcn&utm_medium=con&utm_campaign=gcn_con">Google's surprisingly moving Search Stories</a>.<br /><br />I started this project because I had a folder full of internet time wasters and nothing to do with them. For some reason (possibly because as I write this in late January, I have been reading a lot of <a href="http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=001901">Homestuck</a>), I decided to post the links in this folder reverse chronologically, with the sites I bookmarked most recently at the beginning and the sites I bookmarked the longest time ago in our distant future. <br /><br />At this point, I'm posting something that even I remember getting overshared back when <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en_GB&v=nnsSUqgkDwU">the first one</a> came out. This is by no means a new way to waste your time on the internet - I'm actually slowly getting in to older and older ways.<br /><br />It turns out, though, that most of these time wasting sites I bookmarked oh so long ago have aged pretty well. Like this, for example: Search Stories turned out to be pretty moving despite the fact that we are talking about basically a giant ad (maybe because this is a new medium for our modern age? Or something about a missing narrator? I dunno whatever not the point.)<br /><br />The nice thing about posting a bunch of bookmarks that were no use to anybody, on this blog that I certainly wasn't using for anything for the last year or so, to an audience of nobody under headlines that already profess that everything contained therein is a waste of time: I am setting the notability bar pretty low.<br /><br />Of course, I reserve the right to give up at any time.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-45840035826807676732011-02-06T12:01:00.001-05:002011-02-06T12:01:00.655-05:00Internet Time Waste #21: MetafilterFinally, a new way to go about beginning to waste your time on the internet. A way, that is, which is new for you.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q4BpBM8_OXU/TT8TGHncr8I/AAAAAAAAAWQ/NV1g7KXdOPM/s1600/Screen%2Bshot%2B2011-01-25%2Bat%2B1.12.35%2BPM.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q4BpBM8_OXU/TT8TGHncr8I/AAAAAAAAAWQ/NV1g7KXdOPM/s400/Screen%2Bshot%2B2011-01-25%2Bat%2B1.12.35%2BPM.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566188660297871298" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/">Metafilter</a> is a crowd-sourced blog. Results: of interest.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24095987.post-53365770344612337782011-02-06T00:01:00.002-05:002011-02-06T00:01:01.994-05:00Internet Time Waste #20: Robot Unicorn AttackFinally, another way to waste time on the internet.<br /><br />Tonight's internet time waste: [adult swim]'s <a href="http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicorn-attack-twitchy-online-game.html">Robot Unicorn Attack</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i.cdn.turner.com/adultswim/games2/tools/img/game-thumbs/robotunicornattack/120.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 120px; height: 90px;" src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/adultswim/games2/tools/img/game-thumbs/robotunicornattack/120.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Enjoy trying to get that theme music out of your pretty little brain.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0