Nietzsche Family Circus

Erik Kraft Reader Find

By Erik Kraft in Cool Websites on Friday 17 May 2013

I don’t remember all that much about the Nietzsche that I’ve read. I do, however, remember the essence of The Family Circus, and I find it more nihilistic than anything old Friedrich wrote. If you swap out the grody familial schlock and put in some random Nietzsche quotes, it improves the comic considerably. I almost [...]

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The Every Woody Allen Movie website

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By Stuart McBratney in Cool Websites on Thursday 16 May 2013

The writer-director of over 40 feature films, Woody Allen never re-watches his work once complete. But should he ever throw neurosis to the wind and dust off an old Blu-ray, Trevor Gilks can be his tour guide. He’s watched every movie Woody’s made, and written a detailed review of each. It’s heartening to know that [...]

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Kim Jong Un looking at things, too

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in Cool Websites on Monday 13 May 2013

Following art director Zachary Smith’s brilliant Tumblr blog, Kim Jong Il Looking At Things Tumblr, which shows, er, the esteemed leader looking at things when he was still alive, someone else has gone ahead to set up a Tumblr of his successor and son, Kim Jong Un, looking at things too. We like the original [...]

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Geography of Twitter: Mapping out a month of tweets

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By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Saturday 11 May 2013

Thanks to a paper that gleaned geolocation data from 1,535,929,521 tweets from 71,273,997 unique users in Oct 23-Nov 30 last year, some fabulous maps showing a month in the life of Twitter were generated. The world of Twitter, as you can see, is beautiful.

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The Worst Room: a tumblr all about crappy NY housing

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By Erik Kraft in Cool Websites on Friday 10 May 2013

Thinking about moving to New York? The Worst Room provides the antidote to TV’s spacious and beautiful apartments that normal people can afford. I’d like to see Friends re-set in some of these.

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Are You Awesome?

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By Maria Niarchos in Cool Websites on Tuesday 7 May 2013

Are You Awesome? Hard to tell? Oh, you of little faith, are you uncertain about your awesomeness? If you need confirmation, I present to you the answer to your doubtfulness, the magic 8 ball of the Internet. Bookmark it as your homepage and give yourself a damn good start to your day knowing that HELLS [...]

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Can Google answer the Meaning of Life?

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By Dawn Schuck in Cool Websites on Friday 3 May 2013

Philosophers ask lots of questions. The Internet offers a mammoth amount (and then some) of knowledge. In this series, I pop Unanswerable Questions of Life into Google Maps and take a Streetview screenshot of the destination Google directs me to. Discover the meaning of life, see where we go after death and find out if [...]

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The Crappy Family: illustrated by Amber Dusick

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By Dawn Schuck in Cool Websites on Friday 3 May 2013

I accidentally stumbled across a Crappy blog, which comes with Crappy pictures. The blog and sketches are written and drawn by mother and wife, Amber Dusick. She illustrates parenting stories that draw on her experience of child tantrums, doctor’s visits and general daily family life. It’s honest, brilliantly bad (she swears) and quite touching. Parenting: [...]

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This is what some of the most popular websites used to look like

Rebekah Rhoden Contributor

By Rebekah Rhoden in Cool Websites on Wednesday 1 May 2013

Web design has come a long way in the last decade or so. In fact, some of the most well-known websites used to be pretty unattractive, if you can remember such a time. If not, Business Insider has put together a few images of today’s most popular websites and compared them to what they used [...]

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Thrones of Games: a scintillating collection of video game toilets

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in Cool Websites on Tuesday 23 April 2013

There’s Game of Thrones, which everyone knows. And then there are Thrones of Games, which everyone who’s a gamer has seen at some point while gaming. We wish we had the words to say just how much we love this Tumblr by UK-based journalist Andy Kelly. The world’s singularly most scintillating collection of video game [...]

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Dubstep is the ultimate Dubstep/Gif combo

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By Rajeev Basu in Cool Websites on Tuesday 23 April 2013

Gifs never seen to get old, and this fun web toy needs no introduction. Start by visiting this one and this one. Then refresh the page to see a fresh dubstep gif combo every time. Prepare to spend a good half hour on this. Great fun.

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This Advertising Life tumblr

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By Darwin Cosico in Cool Websites on Monday 22 April 2013

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to work in advertising? This Advertising Life is a tumblog documenting the emotions of a working life in advertising as told through GIFs. If you’re an advertising student or considering a career in this field, this hilarious tumblr will give you the ins and outs of working in this challenging [...]

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Instead of Awesome: website generates random words to replace ‘awesome’

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By Low Lai Chow in Cool Websites on Monday 22 April 2013

Creative director JD Beebe does a number of random projects for fun. One of these is Instead of Awesome, which generates alternative words to replace ‘awesome’, the word that has infected everyday conversation between humans in the last few years. Beebe created the site with fellow writers Andrew Vuilleumier and Daniel Blaser. All may not [...]

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Vote Tumbly at Webby Awards

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By Rajeev Basu in Cool Websites on Saturday 20 April 2013

This year, my webtoy Tumbly is nominated for a Webby award (the Oscars of the Internet). Tumbly is an app that lets you hijack any site with silly animated gifs. One site suitably described it as ‘completely useless but still fantastic’. So if you enjoy such exemplary stupidity, please support it by voting.

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Jim’ll Paint It

Rebekah Rhoden Contributor

By Rebekah Rhoden in Cool Websites on Saturday 20 April 2013

Jim’ll Paint It is a Tumblr blog where a guy named Jim illustrates wacky reader-submitted stories using only Microsoft Paint and his imagination. He’s pretty talented, and his blog is definitely entertaining. So, what do you want Jim to paint?

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