Archive for the ‘Ephemera’ Category

Old IM convo on ‘Nearly a Nerd’ gets the Xtranormal treatment

Monday, December 6th, 2010

Sort of duplicating, or triplicating, content here, but the text of an old blog post "IM babble: Lash La Rue, Twitter, Randy Travis and Tramp Stamps" found its way to becoming an animated video via Xtranormal.

Trippy Kitty

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

Knew it would happen sooner or later.  This is a website on the interwebs -- only a matter of time before cats show up here.  Behold: Trippy Cat!

“Everything you need to know about fast food” infographic

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

This Fast Food Infographic is awful old in Internet years/time.  Nevertheless. . . [via I am Bored]

Writing?

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

1) Is. Writing. And. Reading. Coming. To. This? 2) Breaking. Up. Everything. Into. Small. Bits. With. Lots. Of. Bold. And. Bullet. Points?

5 Second Films Dot Com

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

The Changeling from 5secondfilms.com There is nothing deceptive about http://5secondfilms.com. The site offers exactly what its URL says: films running five seconds long. There's a new one each weekday.  Many of the micro-shorts at 5secondfilms.com provide quite the chuckle.

‘Hooker Cookie’ Wi-Fi

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Picked up this little gem of a Wi-Fi network while traveling on Interstate 70, likely emanating from a trucker's rig.

Visualizing the Mariana Trench [To Scale]

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

This visualization at i-am-bored.com puts the Mariana Trench into (some) perspective:

860-589-0220

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

I missed a call from 860-589-0220. Fourteen minutes later, I called it back only to get this recording: According to http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-860-589-0220 it seems many different people have many different experiences calling to, and receiving calls from 860-589-0220.

4 8 15 16 23 42: Numbers ‘Gossip’ [Lost]

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

The Re-up of Wired magazine came yesterday.  And with it the revelation of NumberGossip.com offering: "Enter a number and I'll tell you everything you wanted to know about it but were afraid to ask." What better sort of litmus/acid test than to let the site gorge on THE numbers -- 4 ...

Ask me about my Zombie plan

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Crap. Really do need a Tumblr blog for this sort of stuff -- like all posts here today so far. Especially for the error fetish. But pictured is a $16.95 Ask Me About My Zombie Plan Shirt from Rooster Teeth.com.  Buy it from them here.