It can’t all be work and social issues and murder movies — sometimes the internet is about weird, soft marshmallow people and their quest to find something to do. Don’t think about it too much, and enjoy. Mondays are tough enough as it is, right?
For most of us regular folks, [the Japanese earthquake and tsunami] is the sort of shit that would make us throw up our hands, swear loudly, and resign ourselves to a lifetime of hopeless misery. But Hideaki Akaiwa isn’t a regular guy. He’s a fucking insane badass.
I generally try and stay away from serious business news when making posts because that’s not really our mandate. (We only talk about serious business ENTERTAINMENT, dammit.) However this deserves to be reposted far and wide, and it will probably put a smile on your face as you read it. Meet Hideaki Akaiwa, Badass of the Week.
And now here is a very unfortunate cat. See you tomorrow!
This is a perfect storm of nerddity: Lego spaceships inspired by Star Wars’ X-Wing and thus made in the shape of the alphabet. Seen above, of course, is the letter M. You can see the other 25 letters that Mark Anderson made here on his site.
Happy Monday! What did you do this weekend? Did it involve… crafts?
Oh sure, crafts are good in theory. They usually involve skill to some degree, give us an outlet for creativity, and when you’re done you have something to display in your home or give as a gift to someone you love. But as with all things in life sometimes people can get a little overstimulated with crafts. Like, for example, buying a book on knitting your own Royal Wedding, including templates for knitters to add themselves to the event.
“Oh, Yarn Prince William, Yarn Kate doesn’t understand you like I do! In yarn.”
Of course the crafters themselves are not always the only ones affected by their lopsided work. Sometimes loved ones also pay the toll, like these 20 Sad Etsy Boyfriends. The jauntiness of their crocheted caps belies the haunted pain in their eyes.
Update: To balance out my earlier smack talk I figured I should link this page on how to felt the Angry Birds. They are, in fact, adorable.
Most of us spend some time agonizing over the part of our email address that comes before the ‘@’. Let’s be honest — you’d view an email from “xxlegolasxx” or “wyldchyld69″ with some suspicion. But what is your email domain saying about you?
It’s a question that Hunch, that hipster decision engine, decided to answer. They asked their 700,000 users over 75 million questions about Gmail, Yahoo!, AOL, and Hotmail/MSN, and drew up some general conclusions. You can see all the details on their site, but here’s the short version:
- AOL users are most likely to be overweight women ages 35-64 who have a high school diploma and are spiritual, but not religious.
- Gmail users are most likely to be thin young men ages 18-34 who are college-educated and not religious.
- Hotmail users are most likely to be young women of average build ages 18-34 (and younger) who have a high school diploma and are not religious.
- Yahoo! users are most likely to be overweight women ages 18-49 who have a high school diploma and are spiritual, but not religious.
Basically what this means is that I have a manly email address. Oh Internet, I learn so much from you.
So here’s a good way for an internet nerd to show their age: does the term “trumpet winsock” mean anything to you?
Trumpet Winsock was this little program that worked with modems to connect them to the internet, and not just your local BBS. It’s a pretty essential player in the history of the internet, and yet it turns out most of the copies were unpaid shareware. The author, Peter Tattam, remains unknown and unrewarded.
So old schoolers like me, let’s redress past wrongs — join us in saying “Thanks for Trumpet Winsock!”.
Yeah, I’m not sure what’s going on here either. (via Designer Daily)
Charlie Sheen: actor, woman-beater, radio show caller, and currently king of the internet. If you, like me, are at 100% Sheen capacity then try this browser add-on for Chrome and Firefox which blocks all mention of his name and any properly labeled photos of his coked out mug.
No more Charlie Sheen = Duh, winning.
Goodnight Sting with orange hair...
As the years go by I can’t help but feel that the internet has become a much less interesting place. Where once we had Usenet and text-based blogs, now we have Twitter and Tumblr. There’s nothing wrong with this, per se, except non-corporate websites are just as likely to be aggregations of RSS feeds and image streams as they are little handcrafted showcases of talent.
Prolixity is no different, of course. Somewhere out there someone is blogging about a blog that blogged about a blog, and I start to wonder if the internet is just Tweets all the way down.
Anyway, Goodnight Dune is a website that disproves my theory. Enjoy.