The $timator

The $timator is a website that calculates how much your blog is worth, in USD.

Just another fun little personality quiz for your site. Seems like a lot of work for appraising a blog though. I mean, since USD are now worth 2 piles of rocks, without any calculation I can tell you that your blog is work 1/50th of 2 piles of rocks. Enjoy!
(From Buzzfeed)

Top 10 Moments Caught on Google Maps Street View

Top 10 Moments Caught on Google Maps Street View is an article on URLesque detailing the top ten moments caught by the google maps car.


(From Buzzfeed)

Learning and Working in the Collaborative Age: A New Model for the Workplace

Learning and Working in the Collaborative Age: A New Model for the Workplace is long-titled video of Pixar University's Randy Nelson explaining what schools must do to prepare students for jobs in new media. It's interesting how he says NASA looked for people who had failed and turned it around, rather than people who had simply avoided failure. That's an interesting quality.

(From Kottke)

Barenaked Ladies "One Week" Parody

Barenaked Ladies "One Week" Parody is a self-explanatory video by CollegeHumor. This reminds me of when I used to have a life.  Sadly, I think most of the BNL lyrics in my head got pushed out by self-made raps about the homunculus.

(From CollegeHumor)

I Can Digg It

I Can Digg It is a Slate.com article by Farhad Manjoo about why MrBabyMan from Digg.com is the king of all social media. According to Fahad, since joining the site in December 2005, MrBabyMan, "has submitted about 12,000 links; more than one-quarter—3,394 links as of Monday morning—have been voted to the front page. That works out to about three front-page stories per day."

Exerpt of the article, illustrated with said video, above:

"Last week, the CBS affiliate in Hartford, Conn., reported on a new lead in the case of Molly Bish, a teenager who was abducted and murdered nine years ago. Tragic story, hilarious local-news blooper: Just as the anchor announced, 'The possible suspect, Rodney Stanger, seen here ...' viewers' screens flashed to a mug shot of a hamster carrying a clapperboard, under a title reading, 'Cold Case Suspect?' The hamster's expression was delicious—his small mouth and sunken eyes seemed to plead, 'Save me, I was framed!' Naturally, someone recorded the station's mistake and uploaded the clip to YouTube. There, it was spotted by Andrew Sorcini, a 40-year-old film editor who lives in Los Angeles and is better known online as MrBabyMan, his moniker on the user-voted news site Digg. On Saturday, the clip hit Digg's front page, winning more than 5,000 votes.

... 

MrBabyMan possesses a talent that's particularly valuable in an era of information overload. You can think of him as a one-man Google—he scours the Web in search of links you love—though a better comparison might be to that of an older archetype, the tabloid editor with an eagle eye for a story of mass appeal." 

Enjoy!

(From Slate)

Peta Banned Superbowl Ad

Peta Banned Superbowl Ad is an exercise in ridiculous. See it here in the 31-second Youtube video, where Peta.org tries to convince you to go veg by showing women about to get it on with veggies. Obviously, this was a successful publicity stunt.

The spa-soup is the best part of this ad. You know what I like as a topping on my soups? Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Mmm-mmm good.

(From everyone and their mom)

Weekend Update: Angelina Jolie

In case you missed it, SNL's Abby Elliott did an impersonation of Angelina Joline. She totally looks like her, it's insane. Check it. Weekend Update: Angelina Jolie.
(From Buzzfeed)

Shia LaBeouf in "No No No NOo"

Shia LaBeouf in "No No No NOo" is a Youtube video of that guy from the Transformers movie (Shia LaBeouf) saying No No No No a bunch of times in a row. I had no idea how often he repeated it, until this Youtube video came up as a conversation topic at a party. And there you go, low-brow cocktail party topic for you.

(From Chris S. at the Superbowl Monday party.)

Pepsi PepSuber Commercial

I don't know about you guys, but I had 4 tests today, so me and a bunch of friends just came back from Superbowl Monday. We managed to dodge the results and commercial water-cooler talk until the evening, which is both a success and a testament to how sad our lives have become.

The only reason I watch the Superbowl every year is for the commercials, and I like this one:
Pepsi PepSuber was the 2009 Pepsi Superbowl Commercial. I liked it because it was so ridiculously wrapped up in its own inside-jokey pop-referrence essence. To get it you had to have seen 1) MacGuyver 2) The SNL skit parodying MacGuyver, "MacGruber" 3) this parody parodying the parody. Someone in our group had watched none of those things, and was utterly confused. It's kind of a ridiculous idea to throw out such a low-budget looking-ad that is only intelligible to 50 people on a high-priced national TV spot, which is maybe why I liked it. Just plain irreverent.

In sum, I concluded that: 1) it's harder to get the smell of deep fried chicken off your clothes, than it is to get the smell of eau-de-cadaver-and-formaldehyde off your clothes (gross!) 2) The Cardinal's symbol looks like the 3rd ventricle of the brain. 3) Dont' watch sports after taking tests.

(From your mom.)

Smart Grid

Smart grid is GE sub-website about the Smart Grid, or an updated power grid they launched. Basically, alternative energy can travel well beyond its previous 100 mile radius, and it's more efficient. It's totally intensive to load, but also totally pretty. There are shiny spinny things and so you should see it.

It's so nice, I have a feeling Jack Donaghy (GE's Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming) is behind this. 

My octagenarian computer doesn't have a webcam, but let me know if the "How It Works Section" works. My friend Christina says it's amaaaaaaaazing.

(From my friend Christina)