Google Hot Trends shows you what popular searches are occurring on Google in something close to almost real time. It’s a nifty way to get up-to-the-millisecond news, like the fact that Stone Phillips got canned or that the Dallas Cowboys’ new stadium will be hosting the 2011 Super Bowl or what’s new and inventive in truck accessories. It’s a fun place to see what the nation considers newsworthy.
And here I thought I was using my time wisely when snippets of conversations and strange turns of phrase would lodge into my subconcious, voting themselves as best band name ever – there’s a band name generator. I shouldn’t be surprised. You might need a computer memory upgrade to access the site, what with it’s numerous algorithms that randomly amass various band names. I jest.
There’s also the Postmodernism Generator, for all those times you feel like delving into your deconstructivist tendencies.
“If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?” – Will Rogers (1879-1935)
I thought I’d written about this before, but our 1 year old half-lab, half great pyreness ‘puppy’ got into a bit of a mess a few weeks ago. Also, I found flickrSLiDR today, an easy way to embed Flickr slideshows into your website, as seen below. The story that goes along with the show is as follows:
The wife and I were inside, when a shattering noise from the backyard awoke us from our midday reverie. "There goes the chiminea," I said. As I was pulling my shoes on, the wife was outside yelling "GET THE CAMERA! GET THE CAMERA!" So I got the camera. (I’m trained well). Maybe if I had forecasting software, I could have seen this coming. Although, given the guy’s girth, it was a certain inevitability, although the way it happened was fairly unique. The poor pooch had laid down next to the chiminea, gotten his collar stuck to the stand, and, when he got up, took everything with him. The aftermath is seen below:
Created with Paul’s flickrSLiDR.
I just added Twitter Tools to my wordpress plugin arsenal. All of the short posts are as a result of that addition, as well as the "What I’m Doing" in the upper sidebar. Twitter allows SMS posts (140 characters or less) to your blog, your Twitter account, your phone, your Twitter friend’s phones, your IM app of choice, etc. You can also update your "tweets" via all of those previously mentioned routes as well. It’s an excessively nerdy way to stay in touch or to deliver life platitudes from the safety of your own home. Maybe you could think of it as Instant Messaging to no one and everyone at the same time, with an archive, for all the world to see, for all time, or at least as long as Twitter stays around. Speaking of, look how far-reaching this nascent experience has already become – Twittervision – and now Twittervision in 3D.
This place could get even more ridiculous when and if I get an iPhone. Updates every second! One word poems! Haikus composed over days! Links to Flickr pics taken with said hoped-for phone! Musings on nc waterfront property! Even more randomly placed ads! Excessive and impulsive use of multiple exclamation points!!!
Twitter is to blogging what that ADD kid was to your high school science class.
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