Sunday, January 17, 2010

Cursebird. "A real time feed of people swearing on Twitter." Pretty funny. And it comes with a graph.

Labels: interweb, Lists

00:32 bone daddy

Saturday, November 07, 2009

#1235200: "Today, I stuck a hand into my coat pocket and found five dollars. Wrapped inside of the five dollars, there was a note. 'You have just been reverse pickpocketed. Enjoy this five dollars in knowing that it was forcibly received by your pocket; take that, society.' I then proceeded to stick both the money and note into another victim's pocket.

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Labels: interweb

00:55 cdogzilla

Friday, September 11, 2009

Choose Wisely

Flickchart is either the best or worst thing to happen to making lists since ... well, since numbers.  The premise is simple: you make your list of favorite movies.  You do so by picking your favorite in a head to head match up.  The thing is, the match ups are sometimes surprisingly difficult.  That movie you loved and watched a dozen times in high school and can still quote from at length vs. that cool indie flick you caught a couple years back that got you thinking, deeply, about something you hadn't thought much about before -- which do you choose as your favorite?  They're totally different movies, different genres, maybe one's "art" and the other's not; but, the other's the one you and your friends saw together and use as a touchstone for shared memories.  One may be clearly better than the other in a critical sense but how do you separate your critical sense from your nostalgic fondness?  Should you even try?  The great thing is you have to choose one to move on.  The bad thing is you immediately get faced with another choice, then another, and before you know it hours have gone by and you're still clicking away.

Flickchart's database has been growing ... it used to pain me to see my list without The Maltese Falcon at the top because it just wasn't available ... and it's getting a little more social: you share match ups that intrigue you on Facebook now, as well as FriendFeed.  While there are social elements, the site is nicely designed in that they aren't in your face and you can rank to your heart's content without having to read how a bunch of idiots think The Dark Knight is the greatest movie ever made and anyone who doesn't think so obviously doesn't know anything about movies.  Yeah, the chuckleheads are there too but you can easily ignore them.  If you  score a beta invitation, try it out.  Then share your list with me. Update: You don't need an invitation any longer, they went live a couple days ago. So, do it.

Labels: interweb, Lists, movies

21:27 cdogzilla

Saturday, August 29, 2009

ABOUT 241543903 | 241543903.com: My freezer is on the bottom. So, I don't stick my head in it. If this meme had been around a few years ago when I had a top freezer and was always looking to see if there was a bag of Buster Bars in there, then I could've taken part in this meme. Wait! We have a freezer in the garage. I could ... eh, what's the point? I know we don't have any Buster Bars.

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Now playing: Sloppy Seconds - Ice Cream Man
via FoxyTunes

Labels: interweb

15:44 cdogzilla

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Why Streamy Could be the Next FriendFeed: I've got a feeling the sale to Facebook means I'm going to need a new FriendFeed. But, I actually think it's going to be Google Reader.

Labels: interweb

22:28 cdogzilla

Monday, July 13, 2009

Stuff White People Like (via To Wit)

Labels: interweb, shadowboner

20:38 cdogzilla

Saturday, July 11, 2009

The Social Network (Facebook Movie): I was disinterestedly nonplussed by word that Fincher was lined up to make a Fbook movie. Then, it turns out Aaron Sorkin's working the script. Sorkin has been off the radar way too long. So now I'm curious. But ... it's still Fincher (zzzzz...) and about the Fbook guy.

Labels: interweb, movies

20:46 cdogzilla

Friday, June 19, 2009

A Little Pre-Father's Day Bizarreness

GET MORE AT ManBabies.com!

Looks like a Slitheen.

Labels: interweb

21:17 cdogzilla

Thursday, June 18, 2009

New Features Added to Google Books

This is just a little test to see how it looks, but it is something I am meaning to get around to reading one of these days.

Labels: Books, interweb

20:50 cdogzilla

Friday, May 29, 2009

My Favorite Movies After the 5K Pole: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon looks like a lock to hold the top spot until The Maltese Falcon is added to flickchart's database. 

Labels: interweb, Lists, movies

16:16 cdogzilla

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Flickchart - Your Rankings And Charts Of The Top Movies Of All Time: Buggy, but fun. I'm sure it'll get better with time. I also wish I hadn't accidentally clicked on "Happy Gilmore" that one time. Word of advice if you try the site, you may want to click 'haven't seen it' for movies you've seen, but really don't want to be ranking all the time. Unless you really want to spend lots of time ranking crap movies you barely remember against each other.

Labels: interweb, Lists, movies

23:42 cdogzilla

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

The Stimulist: Not (just) another news aggregator. It aims to be a daily briefing (modeled on Obama's) that will be informative and provocative, but tightly focused.

Labels: interweb

22:31 cdogzilla

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Foodies flock to Twitter-savvy food trucks: Sure, the tech-marketing angle is vaguely interesting -- we can imagine dollar signs ringing up in the eyes of the entrepreneurial sorts -- but it's the idea of Korean-Mexican fusion BBQ served from a truck that intrigues me.

Labels: interweb, shadowboner

22:55 cdogzilla

Friday, May 15, 2009

Jumpin' Rope With You / Playin' Donkey Kong With You:

Love the Auto Tuning.

Labels: auto-tuning, Conservative Goons, interweb, youtube goodness

22:12 cdogzilla

Saturday, May 02, 2009

tini.us - create tini urls: URL shrinker with commenting. Might try this.

Labels: interweb

16:50 cdogzilla

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Jalopnik - Turning Cars Into Toys: Tilt-Shift Photography Magic - Tilt-Shift Photography

Labels: interweb

17:45 cdogzilla

Mobile Mini House: Pop-Up Campers Have Gone Modern!: Practical? Almost certainly not. Cool idea? Yep.

Labels: interweb

17:40 cdogzilla

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Newser - Current News - Breaking Stories | Newser: Slick news aggregator.

Labels: interweb

21:10 cdogzilla

Monday, April 20, 2009

Scientists Break Brain/Twitter Barrier - ReadWriteWeb: "University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering doctoral student Adam Wilson has successfully tested a 'brain wave monitor' to the Twitter publishing interface, allowing him to compose a message merely by thinking and publish it to the arguably too-popular microblogging service."

I blogged tweeting farts the other day, so I figured I'd better cover the automation of tweeting from the other end.

Query: If Newt Gingrich were hooked up to Fart-o-matic Twitterer and the Brainwave-o-matic Twitterer, would followers be able to tell from which source the posts were coming from?

Labels: interweb, science

20:20 cdogzilla

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Gizmodo - Man Builds Chair That Tweets His Farts, Single-Handedly Justifies Twitter's Existence - Twitter fart chair: We may have reached some kind of evolutionary/technological tipping point. We have such powerful tools to do such stupid things that we are turning our reality into a Douglas Adams novel.

Labels: interweb

08:35 cdogzilla

Friday, April 03, 2009

Readable App: read the web: Nice bookmarklet if your fave blog gives you a bit of eyestrain. I'm re-reading bonedaddy's brilliant old Boneyard essays with reckless abandon thanks to this.

Labels: interweb

23:09 cdogzilla

Saturday, November 15, 2008

More Quizzes of teh Interwebs!

cdog voted for Obama. cdog's full name yielded "Socialism" in an interweb quiz. Therefore: Obama is a Socialist. Wingnuts to arms!

Labels: interweb

22:21 cdogzilla