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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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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 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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The Internet has jaded me. I’m not surprised that people take pictures of people who take pictures of food. I am certainly not surprised that there is a Tumblr for these pictures. I am absolutely not surprised that the creator of this Tumblr is calling “food photographers” ‘hipsters’. What I am surprised about is some [...]
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Ah, The Oatmeal. Seattle-based Matthew Inman, who’s behind The Oatmeal, does all these entertaining comics that are super irreverent and fun. His recent comic revolves around the Mantis Shrimp. a deadly aquatic creature that looks and behaves like the bastard offspring of rainbows and chainsaws. As Inman put it, the Mantis Shrimp is ‘Genghis Khan [...]
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We have found the perfect tool to induce a heart attack: go to this site and prepare for corgi mayhem. If you’re immune to cuteness, you’re safe.
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Things change, and sometimes we don’t even know. Thank goodness that sites like Then & Now — which essentially combines before and after photos of the world’s places, people and pets — exist, so you can see at a glance what something now is, as well as used to be. For our part, we only [...]
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Any parent would empathise with this: seemingly endless moments when their baby is crying, with a seemingly endless list of causes for the unhappiness. Part-time radio executive Greg Pembroke, a dad from Rochester, New York, basically accepted that his 20-month-old son Charlie was just going to have his frequent meltdowns and set up a hilarious [...]
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Usually, it’s not socially acceptable to stare into windows. However, when you’re Jose Guizar, it’s more than okay. Windows of New York is blog of weekly illustrations of, well, windows in New York. Guizar is a graphic designer who has become increasingly fascinated with observing windows in the Big Apple, and his gorgeous illustrations highlight [...]
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Mark this, then bookmark this: You Are Listening To Los Angeles combines live LAPD police radio with ambient music. It all started when Eric Eberhardt saw some tweets about a live police scanner webcast from soma.fm and gave it a listen: ‘Interesting stuff to be sure, but I got bored listening to just the voices [...]
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When I was a kid, I had a paper route. One of my customers had no teeth, and I only found this out when I made her laugh one day. Then it seemed that no matter how hard I tried not to, I would do something to make her laugh every time I had to [...]
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Dang, Google has done it again with their latest Chrome experiment. The World Wide Maze basically lets anyone transform their favorite website into a 3D maze on a computer or mobile device — and then play with it. It gets pretty laggy, but it’s also pretty darn cool.
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Dogs don’t just drool. They are also capable of cleaning up their slobbering acts and picking out impeccably chic outfits. Case in point: the fashion-forward Menswear Dog from New York City, who regularly shows off his faultless sartorial choices on Instagram and Tumblr. The 3-year-old Shiba Inu is also a bit of a player — [...]
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If you’re a fan of great songwriting and intimate performances, then the London-based Mahogany blog is your new Shangri La. What began as a side project in 2009 for creator Mark Murdoch has now evolved into one of the most prolific music blogs around, with more than 270 videos so far online and a staff [...]
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Who doesn’t like dancing ponies? Now you can customize your very own pony to dance to any kind of music you want. You can even add special effects like rainbows, bubbles, lights, and more. The Pony Mixer is the new most entertaining way to spend your lunch break.
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