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[ Comments Off ]Posted on November 2, 2008 by admin in Editorial & Opinion
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008No really. Get off my web site.
 Walking. It’s underrated |
Even if it’s raining, snowing, or the middle of hurricane season wherever you are today, I’d recommend going for a walk before you click any of these links. If you’re not going to follow that bit of advice, then at least tell me what happens when you knock off the last brick in this brick-throwing game. Once you’ve figured that out, take a rest with some pointless retinal torture, and while you’re torturing your eyes, torture your ears and mind with the CKOI radio Palin prank call, if you haven’t heard it. If that doesn’t unsettle you so much that you NEED to take a walk, you deserve the simple-minded torture of run (Warning: annoyingly loud rave soundtrack).
Attack Ad Generator
[ Comments Off ]Posted on November 1, 2008 by admin in Editorial & Opinion
Saturday, November 1st, 2008If the toned-down rhetoric of the McCain campaign in these final days of the election has left you feeling a bit, well, under-outraged, bring back the psychotic, demented rambling of the Palin rollout days with your own attack ad. The creators of the Attack Ad Generator have gone to great lengths to give you all [...]
If the toned-down rhetoric of the McCain campaign in these final days of the election has left you feeling a bit, well, under-outraged, bring back the psychotic, demented rambling of the Palin rollout days with your own attack ad. The creators of the Attack Ad Generator have gone to great lengths to give you all the tools you need: images of all four candidates, a way to add titling, and an impressive selection of drag-and-drop words spoken in a menacing basso voiceover style. I did a quick-and-dirty version here. If you took a little longer than the 5 minutes I devoted to this, you could probably come up with something pretty slick. When you’re finished, there are options for e-mailing and embedding. I didn’t embed it here, those are just screen-grabs at left. Happy slandering!
Monetizing Others’ Wasted Time
[ Comments Off ]Posted on October 30, 2008 by admin in Editorial & Opinion
Thursday, October 30th, 2008Time is money, but is YOUR time MY money?
Someone around here should do a little more actual writing. But ironically, people enjoy things like yesterday’s memory test, so I can tell them that things like this mind-reading web page, this laser reflection game, or this eyeball-the-geometry test will make them waste an hour of their life, they’ll go waste it, hate me for it, and come back the next day for more. I wonder if there’s a way to monetize this?
Short Term Memory Test
[ 4 Comments ]Posted on October 29, 2008 by admin in Editorial & Opinion
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008It’s a test of your short-term memory
Okay, you remembered the headline long enough to get this far. Now try this. And don’t hate me if you waste an hour failing. The short term memory test, that is. And come back and share your score. If you remember.
Not That Anyone Cares, But Here’s My Endorsement
[ 1 Comment ]Posted on October 27, 2008 by admin in Editorial & Opinion
Monday, October 27th, 2008Dissociate Press Endorses Obama, World Keeps Turning
I’d like to state up front that I’m pretty sure that very few people really care who I’m voting for; I’m offering this information a little self-indulgently. You might gather from the content of this site that I’m a typical liberal who would automatically vote for the Democratic candidate. This is actually not at all the case; the market-research-based centrism and values-voter pitches of the two parties literally nauseate me. I queasily voted for Kerry in 2004, and a less-queasily voted for Gore in 2000, but easily could have voted for a Ronald Reagan at the time if one had been running. I’m not feeling at all queasy this time around, as I prepare to give my vote to Barack Obama. I feel pretty confident that he means a lot of what he says, and is level-headed, intelligent, and motivated enough to accomplish some of the things he claims he wants to do. Bring on the Hope & Change, those two things are enough for me to run with, how about you?