Posts Tagged ‘internet’

26 July

Geeky Laws of the Internet

Geeky Laws of the Internet
A few of my favs from this Wired article. Happy Monday! (HOLY CARP, THIS IS OUR LAST WEEK! EEK!)
1. Munroe’s Law: A person in a geeky argument who can quote xkcd to support his position automatically wins the argument. This law supersedes Godwin, so that even if the quote is about Hitler, the quoter still wins

2. Lucas’s Law: There is no movie so beloved that a “special edition,” prequel or sequel cannot trample and forever stain its memory.

6. Savage and Hyneman’s Law: Blowing stuff up is fun. Blowing stuff up in the name of science is AWESOME.

13 May

iamamiwhoami


I first heard about iamamiwhoami a few months ago and was quite intrigued, along with rest of the internet. There are tons of theories about who this could possibly be (she sure does looks a lot like Jonna Lee), who’s backing it and what the videos mean (wood nymph captured by the cabin men?). So far there are only be denials, and no confirmations as to who’s involved with this. I do love a fun viral internet mystery and the music is pretty dern good, to boot.

Above is “o”, my favorite so far!

Check out her Youtube channel, and the Wiki page, which has a good summary of the clues so far.

4 January

UnGoogled

UnGoogled
I honestly can’t think of a company that’s more integrated into my daily life like Google is. Abhigyan realized this and recently had a “Week of Discovering Alternatives For Google’s Services.”

I was shocked with what I saw. I was practically living my life with Google. And the revelation set my brain in motion – that maybe… just maybe, I’d become a Googaholic. I started wondering whether I could survive being off Google’s services for an entire week. And thus started my week-long quest to look for free, functional alternatives to most things Google.

Via Make Use Of

1 December

Internet Vices

Internet Vices: Facebook
Hysterically accurate illustrations by Patrick Moberg!
Internet Vices: Twitter
Internet Vices: MySpace
Internet Vices: YouTube

1 June

Meme Scenery

Meme Scenery
FTW! Can you guess all the Memes correctly?
Via Neatarama

16 September

Neat Links From My Father, 1

Neat Links From My Father
My dad likes to email me cool things he finds on the nets… but, me saving them, fill up inbox so much. So in an effort to keep things clean and archive the interesting stuff Dad finds I’m making a little series. Thanks Dad and keep ‘em comin’ (some of these might look very very old to you)!
- OpenZine: online magazine publishing software.
- Matching tattoos of Comets, War and Love.
- I love me some New York jazz!
- More cool stuff from Read Write Web: Five Amazing Color Palette Generators.
- “It’s about some project called ‘Dear Lulu’ that attempts to illustrate the capabilities of digital printing.”
- Suggested gifts for Jack: subatomic particle plushies @ The Particle Zoo.
- NPR talks about “Perfecting the Art of Frugal Living in NYC.”
- New York Times’ Lessons From the Frugal Grand Tour.
- More Intelligent Life asks “Are Men Boring?”
- Story about the 125th birthday of the Brooklyn Bridge.
- Funny Mac Rant video. (Be sure and wait until the very end!)

27 February

Free!

WIRED magazine FREE!

Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business
Once a marketing gimmick, free has emerged as a full-fledged economy. Offering free music proved successful for Radiohead, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, and a swarm of other bands on MySpace that grasped the audience-building merits of zero. The fastest-growing parts of the gaming industry are ad-supported casual games online and free-to-try massively multiplayer online games. Virtually everything Google does is free to consumers, from Gmail to Picasa to GOOG-411.

The rise of “freeconomics” is being driven by the underlying technologies that power the Web. Just as Moore’s law dictates that a unit of processing power halves in price every 18 months, the price of bandwidth and storage is dropping even faster. Which is to say, the trend lines that determine the cost of doing business online all point the same way: to zero.

Full article at WIRED, Found via Swiss Miss