go to google
type in ‘LOL Limewire’
hit ‘i’m feeling lucky,’
ask yourself, ‘WHY???’
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these facts are so interesting. out of the 30 i will probably only remember four, but for a few minutes after i read the list, the world was so damn interesting.
1. The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
2. The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
3. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
4. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
5. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2″ by 3-1/2″.
6. During the chariot scene in “Ben Hur,” a small red car can be seen in the distance (and Heston’s wearing a watch).
7. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. This explains my current situation.
8. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
9. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
10. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
read the rest here. impress your friends/colleagues/second dates immensely.
now if this isn’t a project of the unemployed, i don’t know what is:
from the codeorgan website:
“the codeorgan analyzes the ‘body’ content of any webpage and translates that content into music. the codeorgan uses a complex algorithm to define the key, synth style and drum pattern most appropriate to the page content.”
based on how many characters a website contains, how many of them can be found in the A-G musical scale, and the ratio of the two, Codeorgan will determine the scale (major or minor), the synthesizer (out of 10), and the drum loop (out of 16), and then play it all back to you in a 10-second clip. who knew your beanie baby website was so musical?!
take a look at the fleshmap infographic showing the honorable, and sometimes dishonorable, mentions of body parts according to music genre.
ok, no surprise that booties are the most mentioned in hip-hop, and hands in gospel, but i’m a little surprised to see absolutely no mention of some “sexy ass eyelids” across the genres.
i’ve never made a new year’s resolution before. i figure, if the change isn’t important enough to enact right away, regardless of the date, then it’s probably not change worth enacting or adhering to.
then i came across this stupid but engaging site and i found a bunch of resolutions that even i could stick to because they’re things that even retarded people do like: eat a mango, frost a cupcake, start a sticker collection, give a hug everyday, let go (of their bowels), etc. You really can’t fuck this one up.
basically you just keep clicking on it so that you can see all the inspirational phrases that people contributed from their macbook pro while sitting at their ikea desk next to the latest issue of ready-made, while wearing a hand-made scarf that you can buy at their booth at the local indie craft market. oh, and they’re drinking yerba maté tea and contracting their sphincter.
ok, but what really pisses me off is that i’ve been clicking for the past hour and i still don’t see my contributed resolution. please, if anyone sees “no more masturbating in public bathrooms” please take a screen shot and send it to me!
happy new year!
but make sure you say it right:
they make a good point, linguistically speaking. economy usually triumphs, but we’ve got a nine year habit to break.
normally i’m really averse to all the pseudo-buddha, new-agey, zen-plated, “i’m a buddhist even though i was raised in a western religion” bullshit that’s clogging up the yoga studios these days, but i have to say, i really love this app called ommwriter, which, despite it’s spiritual inclinations, is just a really simple, beautiful, intuitive word processing app that comes with a very decluttering soundtrack and aesthetic. i would even say that the app is inspiring and actually makes me want to do the hardest thing in the world for me: write.
the website goes on:
“A wise man once said ‘We are all at the mercy of our wild monkey minds. Incessantly swinging from branch to branch.’ With multiple windows and applications all vying for our attention, we have sadly adapted our working habits to that of the computer and not the other way around.
Ommwriter is a humble attempt to recapture what technology has snatched away from us today: our capacity to concentrate.
Ommwriter is a simple text processor that firmly believes in making writing a pleasure once again, vindicating the close relationship between writer and paper. The more intimate the relation, the smoother the flow of inspiration.
If you are a scriptwriter, blogger, journalist, copywriter, poet or just someone who enjoys writing, welcome back to concentrating.”
Ommwriter from Herraiz Soto on Vimeo.
seriously, if you’re a writer, just try it. i don’t think i’ll ever go back to word after discovering this.
this is according to the guardian, but i don’t know how reliable or definitive it is seeing as action potential is not on the list. so, read with reservation.
read the list here. check out the major one they forgot here.
this site sketchy santas is hilarious, though might be more accurately named ‘kids rightfully freaking out over being placed on the laps of strangers wearing red velvet and fake beards.com,’ but i guess that would be a monster of a url to type.
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that’s right, guys, i’ve got about 6 bucks in my twitter account.
but you know what—this blog: PRICELESS.
AMIRITE???
i just spent way too much time laying down some serious phat beats on incredibox. it’s pretty fool-proof: just drag and drop a sound icon onto one of the guy’s shirt and layer the beats until you’ve got what could easily pass for song.
how could something that comes out of france be so coooooool?
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