Google apparently hosts all sorts of old patent applications as part of its bid to take over the world while all of us are incessantly searching its archives for more trivial crap. This one, however, is classic if for no other reason the drawing: That’s right. Eddie Van Halen tried to patent this thingamajigg. How sweet! [source] Read more →
Category: The Internets Archive
Zwinky = Annoying + Mac Hating
Anyone see these annoying adds for “dressing your Zwinky?” If you thought it was an ad for a new condom, you wouldn’t be alone, but apparently it is just some goofy avatar that looks like the scary animated love child of Betty Boop and Joan Jett. That’s the female version in all the stupid ads plastered all over MySpace anyway.… Read more →
God Emailed Me From the Future
I was shocked when I walked in this evening and found this in my inbox: God emailed me and the email came from 10:33pm TONIGHT! Since it was only about 7pm when I got the email and the source code (yeah, the source of God!) said it was sent at 2:33pm, it can only mean one of two things: 1.… Read more →
Best of Craigslist 2006
I would post these, but it would take all day and selecting just a few is impossible. Enjoy! Read more →
Time Waster: ImageChef.com
Have fun! Read more →
Yahoo! You Witness News
Saw this on my friend, Groovehouse’s website. Yahoo! has apparently launched the BETA version of it’s new You Witness news website that allows internet users who witness news in action to upload photos, videos and text realating to the news story. It’s an interesting idea that works on Web 2.0 principals. Since Yahoo! already owns Flickr, this makes sense for… Read more →
Amazing the Crap That Brings the Viewers
This is a screenshot of the search terms people used to find my blog over the past few days during which I’ve received more than 10 times the usual number of unique visitors per day. To quote the movie Night Shift: Chuck: It’s a sick world. Belinda: Yeah, thank God. Read more →
Netflix CEO Illustrates Corporate Website Problem
I was watching 60 Minutes tonight and their story on Reed Hastings, CEO of online DVD rental company Netflix, and there was an interesting moment that identifies a real problem with corporate websites – finding contact information. As someone who has co-owned a web development company since 2001, I have seen the internet change dramatically in a short period of… Read more →
Is That All It Takes? (Britney Spears)
So, I’m checking on my stats, being vain and all that, and I note that yesterday I had a MASSIVE surge in visitors to my website – like 4 times the average. I immediately clicked on my refer list to see where everyone was coming from and I got this: blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&client=news&q=Britney Spears Photo blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&client=news&q=latest britney spears photos blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&client=news&q=britney photos blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&client=news&q=britney… Read more →
Online Karaoke: Beat It!
According to Stereogum, there is this cool weird unfortunate website called SingShot.com that allows you to sing karaoke-style with your favorite songs and even, God help us, record your own versions and put them online in what is clearly an attempt to test a new torture device for enemy combatants on unsuspecting web surfers. Case. In. Point. Read more →