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Remote Location Celebration

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:14:00 +0000

Ok I never get invited to a New Years party and I am terrified of crowds, so celebrating the New Year has long been out of my reach. Not any more. Now, thanks to Earthcam's live streams of New Years celebrations, both past and present, both here in the US and around the world, I have finally found a way to ring in the New Year with "friends" from everywhere.

Here, I was able to go and begin the count down even before the official count down began, with the site's countdown to the night of the count down...

I checked back every few days and this filled me with excited anticipation like nothing ever has before.

And if that weren't enough, I was also able to view archived streams and images from past New Years celebrations, both in Times Square and around the world.

This let me know in advance just the kind of excitement i was in for when this year's celebration got underway.

And boy I was not disapointed.

Wow, just like being there.

A Top 3 That Helps You Say "you suck"

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:22:00 +0000

Well it's the holiday season so naturally web sites that help us fuck one another over rule. These are here to help us tell one another how much we all suck.

1) Now many of you who celebrate the holidays no doubt received gifts that sucked. And not that they should have, but they did. Not a yellow sweater with green polka dots that aunt Sally sent you (her gifts always suck, that's a given, but the "cool" products everyone did want that, as it turned out, really blew in the end of it all. If that's you, this site is for you. Let the manufacturer and/or the outfit that sold this crap know just what a piece of crap they're peddling with help from Complaints.com.

If you have a complaint, you just fill out this form and BAM it's all over the web. That will teach those fuckers not to mess with you!

But even if you don't have an immediate complaint, as I didn't at first, this site is a hoot because you can peruse some of the issues others have had with various businesses and products and services.

Pizza, now there's an item that gets people pissed off apparently, and Dominos, you ain't doing so well it would seem...and Pizza Hut, you suck too.

Okay, wait, I thought of a complaint...

And so I filled out the form and within minutes I had an email urging me to approve my message and then within seconds of doing that...

it was posted to the site. Fuck you Fabulous 50's Eye sore, I mean Diner!

2)The random YouTube insult generator. This site generates insulting comments to post in response to others' YouTube posts.

Click the button and a new insult is generated.

Then, simply use it to post to something on YouTube that sucks. And this is useful, because so many people on YouTube really do suck that you run out of energy to generate these kinds of responses on your own.

3) Maybe you just need to go old school and "gong" those friends and family members who you no doubt have all around you right now and who seriously need to shut the fuck up and stop doing what they're doing. Don't have a gong you say, well no worries. Just go to Free Gong Online and use the gong tool they have supplied for just such a situation I guess.

Just click on the mallet and you not only get the "gong" you need, but the whole page shakes adding a nice visual to the scene.

Or you can also go to the virtual gong, another online gong with the same "click on the mallet" protocol.

Because apparently the need for such a thing is greater than you might have thought.

I Ho Ho Hope Santa Doesn't Listen to Triggur

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:45:00 +0000

Well in just a few days it will be Christmas, and if you don't want to wake up Christmas morning only to find that Santa did not bring you anything good, it's time to get those letters written and sent. This is so much easier now a days where Santa is online and can receive email.

Now it's even easier still because Triggur has an application that assists users in composing a letter to Santa Clause that outlines their behavior over the past year and what they would like for Christmas in light of it.

You just type in your user name and BAM! you get a letter to Santa.

It doesn't give you an opportunity to actually stipulate what it is that you want exactly, but if you don't like the suggested gift, you can always go back and start again.Um...wait a minute, that's definitely not...well, I'll just try again then.

Um...well, I...

Shit man. Hold on...

Um...think I should have stuck with the XBox.

Back Walking and Crotch Grabbing in Honor of MJ

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:58:00 +0000

That's what we have here at Eternal Moonwalk.

On this site people from all over the world have posted clips of themselves doing MJ's most famous move, the moonwalk.

Well, okay, not really. Kids and adults alike are mostly just walking backwards in honor of Micheal's moonwalk, because they can't actually do it.

And just to mix it up a little bit, there's also a fair amount of people reliving MJ's second most famous move, which was grabbing himself.

And that's something everybody on here absolutely can do quite well apparently.

The Defining Feature of Chinese-made Films in the West

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:10:00 +0000

That is that, whether dubbed or subtitled, it never really seems like characters are saying what supposedly is being said. This site offers you the ability to script your own Chinese movie and make the characters "say" in subtitles whatever you want, including many things which it, of course, does not seem like they would be talking about.

You can make your own, as well as view those of others.

My favorite examples on here now are "I Tell You This is Going to be a New Starbucks"

and "but you told me to use my left hand."

and my personal favorite

"Waiting for Culturedrone!"

November Top 3--The Stuff You Leave Behind

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:39:00 +0000

1) Is This You? This site houses hundreds of "lost and found" images, supposedly left behind in photo booths and film development shops or discarded by people who don't really care to have pictures of certain people anymore.

The people running this site sure do find a lot of lost photos. I didn't see any pictures of myself, I assume because any that existed have been burned by whomever might have owned or found them. Are you here? Is this you?

Take a gander sometime.

2) Personas. Here you can search to see what traces you have left behind on the web. Type your name...

and find out who you are,

according to the web and what it "knows" about you.

And it knows. And at the end it gives you a handy little breakdown of the impression the web has of you and what you're all about.

And it knows.

3) Love Letters. This last site houses a collection of love letters. Each colored square contains one.

Some are written on scraps of paper.

Others on whole white sheets.

And all were written by the same person, Asia, and they weren't really lost or left behind exactly. They were made, recorded and distributed and I think it's supposed to be artsy.

But they should be left behind, so let's do that beginning right now.

Long Strange Trip All Over Again

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:48:00 +0000

As we already know, there are a lot of folks out there who like to create astronomically weird shit. Hence, there are a lot of weird web sites and pages, where nothing, and yet everything, makes sense. Here's some of that now.

First up, here's a site that features, well, this:

Each numbered box in the grid to the left corresponds to a wacky image such as this.

And this,

and this.

And so on.

Next, go to this site for links to other bizarre and useless stuff. Clicking on something in the side menu.

Fun stories abound.

And there's even a war-time buzz phrase generator,

which I quite frankly can't live without now that I've had a taste of it.

A day online isn't complete without a trip to this next site.

Simply mouse over the characters you'll find swirling in a circle

a word appears for each one and when you click on it the word is magically formed at the top of the page.

and then sometimes they lead to another page with an image...

or better yet, an application. This is a real-time clock, which is helpful if you don't have a clock, which let's face it, most people don't.

Oh, NAWLZ. This is a fun site which you enter through a city that pulsates with electricity.

Once inside there are numerous options. Clicking on any of the links on the side, take you to another page

And then another...

and so on. None of it makes sense, but the graphics are sort of cool.

The Plug. What can one say?

Clicking on a thumbnail as seen above...will only lead to expanded weirdness...as seen below...

And we love that.

and that and that and that.

Lastly on our tour of strange internet shit, we have the site with the spastic kitten.

There's more to it than that, of course.

So click on the kitten and get in there, because there's a lot of meaningless nonsensical stuff to see...

and you don't want to miss it.

Re-Generate!

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:51:00 +0000

As always, I love online generators as applications that allow you to create all sorts of useless stuff online, and also lets you save those nonsensical and frequently offensive items and send them on to friends. There are tons of sites out there that offer generators of all kinds, and a great place to link to these is the Generator Blog.

Anyway, let's just take a sampling of some more of the most fun-tastic generators out there (see previous posts for 10.24.07 and 11.8.08 for more).

First, there's mini-mizer. Here you can create a little lego character, perhaps in your own image. You start with a blank and then chose it's hair/hat and face.

Its clothing...

accessories...

and background.

Here's mine. It's me, on the weekend.

Or, how `bout making a word mosaic? The Image Chef site offers just such an opportunity. Just pick the colors, font and shape or symbol, and text to create something just as they did in this lovely example.

Voila! I love it.

But you can also select initials rather than a shape or symbol and fill it with corresponding text. Voila again!

Well who doesn't love designing their very own logo? No one. I love to. Here's a place to make yourself a twitter-like logo.

Just enter your name, or whatever, and there you go.

That's a twit logo alright!

Next, you can make a miracle. `Tis the season after all. At Glass Giant you can add an image to any everyday object, such as the way the face of Jesus or the Virgin Mary often appear in sandwiches or on rotten logs.

Here I've taken the liberty of creating the miracle of me appearing on a pancake. Praises!

Then, scurry on over to a site that let's you simulate self-mutilation.

I see using one of these for my christmas cards this year.

Finally, whatever you generate should be sent to a friend.

Nostalgic for Summer? Here's Browser Beach Ball!

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:53:00 +0000

I love sites that offer fun little wastes of time. This one is just such a site as it features Browser Ball. It is not much more cool than you think it will be, but a little bit. Maybe.

When you launch it, a window opens and inside of it sits a brightly colored beach ball.

You move it around with your mouse and bounce it against the "walls" of the box for unlimited fun.

But that's not all. You can open additional windows and, when they are touching the main window, the ball can continue straight through to them.

Separate the windows, though, and the ball can become trapped inside whichever one it's in.

Put them back together, and the ball moves freely through them once again.

Next, you can go ahead and create more little windows and trap the ball in those. I think we're through here.

HALLOWEEN Top 3

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:17:00 +0000

1) Hallowindow. This is cool. This site advertises a product which allows for spooky projections on one's windows to scare the crap out of small children, at least, as they approach to trick-or-treat. There are a ton of stores and web sites out there selling items for creating a haunted house, but the original Hallowindow is, well, an original. THere's also a Hallowindow II and III now.

But the original is slick and creepy and still my fave, after watching all the previews.

2) Girls and Corpses. It's not really a "Halloween site." It's actually a really creepy all-year-round thing, but it's more than creepy enough to be included in a Halloween top 3 because apparently there's a hard copy edition of this magazine available.

Enough said.

3) Anomalies Unlimited. This site has little informational tid-bits about various so-called anomalies, such as death, ghosts, aliens and chemicals.

Save a Real Pumpkin, Carve a Virtual Pumpkin

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:52:00 +0000

Well Halloween, my fave time of year, is right around the corner, and that means it's time to get our jock-o-lanterns on. I always feel bad for the poor pumpkin, though, and if you're like me in that regard, then this site will be perfect for you, as you can carve up a pumpkin guilt-free.

Just use the virtual carving tool to make the jack-o-lantern that's just right for you.

When you're finished, the application takes you to a screen where your finished work is all lit up by a virtual candle placed inside, just like a real jack-o-lantern. This way, you also don't have to worry about the house catching on fire.

You can re-do it if you don't like how it looks. You don't even have to carve a face on it. Use your imagination. It could say your name,

or carry a message to the world.

Oculizer!

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:36:00 +0000

This is Spacializer--a glowing mass of orbs the swirl around each other and make synthetic sounds when you mouse over them. If it does anything more than that, I have yet to discern what that is. It doesn't clearly demonstrate anything about audio engineering, other than reminding us it exists, and that everything is assumed more entertaining when pretty lights are involved.

Some more of that.

This is the Oculus. I also have no idea what it really is or does, but it too consists of objects that orbit around each other producing synthetic sounds.

You can move the yellow object, which is a mass of symbols, with your mouse and place it atop the big round thing with symbols.

And this will frequently result in the yellow mass of symbols separating and surrounding the large round thing like a ring.

Once that happens you can move these symbols individually and drag them over the large round thing, where often nothing will occur, and frequently they just sit as the round thing continues to rotate around its axis.

But sometimes, i guess if the right symbol is placed just right, I really don't know, the round thing will open, hense its being named as an oculus i guess, revealing a very simplistic puzzle where you drag little square tiles with symbols so that they line up inside this shaft.

At which point the object closes up, consuming the row of symbols,

And then opens to reveal the same simplistic "puzzle" again. Hours of fun.

These guys should collaborate and make a weird symbol thing that's kind of a puzzle but that is also illuminated and colorful, while continuing to produce odd sounds. Call it the Oculizer.

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a WTF!?

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:19:00 +0000

Okay here's a site that you can use to share your sexual abuse history with thousands of strangers on the web.

What could be more healing?

You can browse through the images of "teddy's" standing in for victims of child sexual abuse to share their stories. People can send in cards, via mail or the web, explaining how old they were when abused, and by whom and then each card is given to a teddy bear to hold for the camera.

This card reads:

I shutter to think how many pedophiles visit this site to fantasize and masturbate while reading the sex stories left to dangle from various teddy bears.

This one says:

I shutter again to realize that there is an event to stand up against child abuse that takes the form of a "carnival." It is actually called "The Carnival against Child Abuse." There's a "Carnival Against Sex Crimes Too," which I suppose means all sex crimes. A carnival, though? This conjures the idea of freaks and clowns and sexual deviants in and of itself. Hardly a safe haven against child sexual abuse.

I felt abused by this site. And you can file an abuse card of your own, so I did.

And I do feel better now that I spoke out against the abuse I endured.

This Broth Tastes Like Pretty Pictures and Community

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:07:00 +0000

The Broth is a site about community and art, and community art, where you can work on pieces of art collaboratively, chat live with Broth peers you "meet" on the site, and show off your artistic talent, if you have any, which as we will see I do not.

Anyway, one of the most active group art pages is the broth "mosaic," an ongoing work original to the site that remains at the forefront, and continues to feature tiles to work with instead of the more recent option of creating, in other rooms, with "spray paint." You can watch as community members move the tiles around to create something knew, or make a move yourself if you log in.

There are plenty of other public works, meaning someone else created the "room" but that the public can come in and can alter or add to what has been designed previously.

I created a couple rooms of my own that people have added to. Here, a bowl has been added to the scene of my red wine drinking, and some moron has put an umbrella in my wine glass. Glad we're working together on this.

But tiles are hard, so i created another using the spray paint feature. That's hard too. Someone added the sun.

And then there are those participants with an ability to create in these mediums, and they submit some fairly cool shit they let others view but not touch.

Can't say I blame them.

Sept. '09 Top 3

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:59:00 +0000

#1 NowDoThis. This is a handy online site for creating a To Do List and checking those items off as there done. They offer some handy To Do suggestions

But you can also edit this and come up with your own list of things that need doing, as I did.

Then, after finishing the last item on your list, you get this satisfying screen that let's you know you've accomplished something.

I love that feeling.

#2 A site owned by a Mr. Forlee. An inventor of sorts, this site highlights some of his professional accomplishments.

And perhaps the best of these is this handy anti-theft lunch bag. It's happened to all of us, some ass clown at work stole you bologna sandwich AGAIN! Well, with this handy devise on your side, never again.

Slide your fresh delicious sandwich into the bag and the illusion of a moldy sandwich that no one would want to eat.

Okay, most people wouldn't; some of my co-workers might.

#3 PhoneSpell. This might be a handy way to...no it's just stupid. If you can actually spell one whole word with your phone, with the numbers in their actual order, that might be something, especially since this site boasts in being able to help businesses find a number that holds a word that pertains to the work they do, but you can just look at the phone keypad to figure that out. Here what we instead have is a thing where you type in a number

and it gives you the "words" it can spell, plus the leftover numbers, arranged randomly around the "word," also arranged randomly. Yeah, that's helpful in some way...

yeah, my number's ***-***-****, but an easier way to remember that is "I-1-car-1-psi-0" but not in that order. WTF?

Going Places, Without Ever Moving

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:08:00 +0000

Tired of having to move around all day--walk over here, look over there, fly in this direction--well then check out these sites and sit back and let them do the moving for you. From the fantastical to the more every day, these sites take you around while you actually sit on your ass, moving nothing more than a finger or two.

First, this site features a beautiful room with high painted ceilings, ornate woodwork, thousands of books, and more than a few other "patrons" to observe.

Use your mouse to scan a panoramic view of the scene.

Including the ceiling, and even the floor, not pictured here.

When that's lost its charm, you can venture here and travel along with a cartoon man as he gives up on the bus and takes the scenic route to a vacation in paradise.

With the aid of your arrow keys, the man flies up into the clouds, where birds and planes and flying chairs dwell.

He can fly around in that realm encountering all manner of atmospheric oddity, or he can keep soaring upward, eventually crossing over the threshold of space, as constructed by a friendly monkey, where tiny plane-flying lodge-members apparently dare not to go.

In space, you and he can encounter more bizarre inhabitants, and rock out with some of them.

Then it's upward again, until you find yourself and your companion coming back towards land via an ocean with, you guessed it, more weird stuff.

Until through its boundaries you burst, to land on a sunny beach...

to be serenaded by a hula dancer and another disturbingly cheerful monkey.

No longer will you be kept from taking that journey from the bus stop to a remote beach in the Keys, via space and the sea, that you've always heard your friends and co-workers talking about because now you can do it virtually by, literally, lifting a finger.

Similarly, you've seen all those national Geographic specials about Fish City, the Goblin Forest, Land of the Gray Gandhis and Dino Kingdom, and you've always been envious of those who've been able to go. Well now you can too, virtually, with the help of this site.

It starts you off here, and you can zoom forward...

or backwards.

It doesn't really matter, but let's press forward, back through the castle suspended on the edge of a city ruled by giant lizards and fish that, until now, you've only seen on TV, through the opening into another dimension.

Follow the path through a lovely field

and into a dark wood filled with goblins

and trees that want to kill you.

From there, press on through a less-deadly forest and into what can only be a very peaceful land

of Gandhi-like men and their temple

which up close does look kind of mean, but you can travel through it nonetheless to find

um, a man hiding around the corner from a weird dinosaur thing?

Continuing on from there brings you full-circle and back to the city of Fish and Lizards. A place you never thought you'd get to until now, with the help of this site.

Or hallucinogenic mushrooms if you have any.

Holy Giraffe Shit!

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:30:00 +0000

Doesn't have the same ring as "sheep shit," but the offering here is similar to that of another site, that was featured here in the past, that collects, and sells, hand-drawn pictures of sheep. Here, though, the focus is on the giraffe.

The site's goal is to collect and display as many giraffes as possible, with one million giraffes being the ultimate goal. And they're about a third of the way there.

Apparently the site was born out of a quest to collect one million giraffe drawings to prove to a doubtful friend of the site owner that it could, in fact, be done. In this way, the site is strong evidence that the people involved in this need to find some real hobbies.

It is also evidence that a lot of people out their imagine giraffes in ways that giraffes themselves are probably not aware, and would probably be unhappy to learn of.

And finally, this site shows us, especially when taken along side the sheep site and no doubt countless other collections-of-drawings-of-animals-and-things sites out there, that people are all too willing to lend their support, if it means scribbling a bad drawing of something, to internet-fueled stupidity. We already knew that, though.

Start the Year Off Right by Combating the Drudgery of the Alphabet

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:15:00 +0000

For all of you parents with youngsters beginning kindergarten and pre-school this week, this site offers a presentation of the otherwise boring old alphabet that's creative and fun.

Each letter is made out of other things or, as in the case of the letter "a," surrounded by splendorous design and color features.

You get the idea.

What child, or adult looking to spice up the mental imagery of their ABC's for that matter, won't be captivated?

Illiteracy rates are sure to plummet once word gets out there, especially if that word is spelled with one of these babies.

Top Three 08.09

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:58:00 +0000

#1 The Conspiracy Web page, designed for "paranoids" is a great resource for learning about various government conspiracies. JFK Conspiracies, UFO Conspiracies, and other lies and manipulations constructed by our government, the government that doesn't want us to know that rabid clowns killed Kennedy, or that most members of Congress are in fact aliens from a distant galaxy, with plans to quietly, slowly take over our planet over the course of hundreds of years.

Let's say we're interested in finding out more about where UFOs have recently landed and why we're not supposed to know about it...

You'll be redirected to...

Oh, crap, well, try another site

Hmmm, well, maybe...okay, i guess not.

This is a conspiracy! This site should feature info on it. It probably does, actually, but all the links to that info would be dead anyway.

#2) Human Calendar. This fun site is, well, a human calendar. People hold cards with numbers corresponding to the days in the month, and everyone looks at the person holding the card that corresponds to the day it is.

#3)Isolatr This is a good site because, for the love of god, get me away from all these people. Conspiracy freaks are just weird, i think this goes without saying, and they're too busy speculating and weaving elaborate webs to maintain their site. The thought of twenty-nine or thirty people all looking at me because it's my "date" makes me want to be alone.

A little goes a long way, or at least far enough

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:49:00 +0000

Go to this site if you want to tell your story, very quickly, without any of the nuances that make a story interesting or worthwhile.

You won't be alone, so when you're done posting your nonsense, you can read through that of others.

Seeing Stripes?

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:06:00 +0000

You are if you've ever been to any of these web pages. First, when a cat made out of stripes has a curtain made out of stripes pulled over it, it appears to run and jump.

Truly amazing.

Here, a "man" with striped skin floats around on the screen. For even more fun, click on the screen...

and he multiplies.

When you're done there, the Natural Hallucinogen helps you to expand you mind.

I like all my fun to come with a seizure warning.

I am not hallucinating. I am in a trance. Must kill the robots.

It isn't just for point-and-clicking

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:58:00 +0000

That's right, you're computer pointer can be fun! So many sites out there offer cursor-based fun. You never have to be bored at work again.

First, we have the Vector Park site where an on-screen dog follows a spider, controlled by you and your cursor, around the page endlessly. The dog is kind of cute. He never catches the spider, but even though you know he won't, you find yourself rooting for him.

When you're done there, try this. This fun time is brought to you by Crossover, a website featuring "web content." Here some "O's" swarm all around your cursor, wherever it goes, leaving behind little trails.

It's like your on acid.

Well, I actually was at the time. Anyway, next we have the site that, while undergoing maintenance, put this clever little device up. If you're stupid enough to go and try to "push" the button, like I am, then you'll find that your cursor repels it and you can never catch it. At this point, unlike that dog after a spider, you realize it won't happen and give up. Next.

Ah yes, this site offers a chance to have your cursor become a dollar sign to be followed around on the screen by George Bush, or for your cursor to be Bush with Tony Blaire following it around.

Either way, in the process the movement around distorts their faces and is pretty funny.

If you ever tire of that, then head on over to this site and have a rabbit chase and leap after your cursor which, to it, appears as a carrot--yeah, okay, i guess I can see how one could make that mistake.

Anyway, the fun part about this one is that the Rabbit is, in fact, able to catch it and once it does it holds on tight and DOES NOT let go.You literally do have to pry it from his cold dead hands.

You won't want to miss out on the fun happening on this Japanese website, where you can find a young anime girl who will follow your cursor around the page with her eyes. It's actually a little creepy for me, as it reminds me of a painting in the living room of my grand parents' home that always seemed to be watching us.

Avoider is another fun "game" on the One More Level game site where you try to escape the little screen character, but pretty much can't. When he catches your pointer, which he does every time and within seconds, he eats it. Actually, that isn't very much fun at all.

Well, no, you definitely can't. He gets away.

Finally, and this is by no means an exhaustive list of such fun online activities as these, there's a site where you can put flies on the screen by clicking on it, which then draws a spider to where ever you did that.

Because he's going to eat those flies, even though they are not trapped in his web, but lying about on a large map of the world, as insects will often do.

Gotta Go?

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:41:00 +0000

There's only one place to turn if you find yourself in urgent need of a public toilet, and you're in Manhattan and have access to a computer, and that's Diaroogle, the Manhattan public toilet search engine.

Simply type an address, street name, or local landmark into the search bar and a long list of sort of nearby public bathrooms appears. Perhaps a better idea is to run through the list of all toilets and locate those that will be handy to you based on your destination/s downtown. Though I imagine most of those destinations actually have bathrooms available.

But if you're headed out to grab a paper at the news stand, or to buy crack in an alley and pick up a hooker by the bus stop...

Graphs, Cartoons and Words that Rhyme, Oh My! (July top 3)

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:46:00 +0000

1) Graph Jam. What a great site.

There are numerous examples of various types of graphs others have made using this website,

As well as opportunities to create your own. Just pick the type of graph you want to make, plug in your info and, voila, you've got your own graph.

Here's mine.

2) Project Cartoon. Here's a site where you can, well, alter a "project cartoon" consisting of pictures of swings and trees.

In the original cartoon the creators have depicted a breakdown in communication between the individual tasks associated with developing and carrying out a "project."

And that's boring, but luckily you can at least change the captions, rearrange the order of images and even delete cells you don't need to create your own story line out of them. here's mine:

3) Write Rhymes. This site helps you to rhyme as you write. I'm not sure who needs this kind of assistance or for what, but if you do, here it is. You just start writing and when you select a word the application provides you with a selection of words that rhyme with it.

Using this feature, I wrote a little poem. You can see how I used it to come up with vulture to rhyme with my name.

I didn't actually need any help with the second rhyme.

I've Just Gotta Say...

noreply@blogger.com (culturedrone) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:34:00 +0000

Of course you never want to be too critical of others, but sometimes the situation is such that you just have to say something. Fortunately there are a number of web sites out there designed to help you do just that.

First Nice Critic, helps you create and send gentle criticism (who needs that?!) anonymously to your peers via email.

There are several behavioral categories to choose from...

I just went with "general Behavior" because, in general, everything that my peers do annoys me to no end, and i think I'd like to tell them about it. Actually I usually do by simply saying things like "you suck" and "fuck off you idiot" whenever one of them approaches me, but for the sake of this exercise...

I decided to politely tell one of my associates that her voicemails without fail grate my nerves into a fine dust as they are are loaded with irrelevant information and ramble on and on and on and on with lengthy pauses in between ignorant and useless commentary. She leaves me these daily because she calls me daily and I never pick up because conversing with her in person is even more annoying. Oh my god I hate her!!

But anyway, you just select your complaint from a list of possible criticisms, fill in the name and email details of the intended recipient, and voila. Hopefully they'll take your tactful, yet anonymous, advice.

Along different lines, perhaps you're running with a pack of art aficionados and you, though you've already sent a Nice Criticism about their tendency to speak condescendingly towards you because of your lack of any idea about such things, desperately need help in generating intelligent-sounding statements of art criticism. If so, this site is there to help.

Just follow the easy instructions and this site assists you in pulling together some phrases that make you sound art knowledgeable even if you have no idea what you're looking at or talking about.

Go ahead and spew these phrases, no one will ever ask you to clarify or expand upon what you've just said. And if they do, just spew more of this crap at them until they just give up and walk away. Which they will, and sooner rather than later I'm guessing.

If by any chance you are really pissed off with and want to send some scathing criticism to Adobe, and who isn't, this site is your way to go. They offer a searchable archive of great past gripes against Adobe,

as well as the opportunity to lodge your own. I took that opportunity because I've had a beef with them I've wanted to get off my chest for a long time.

I hope they hear it good and loud.

To send complaints and criticisms to other people or organizations, I recommend this site. You just fill in a few specifics and it automatically generates a complaint for you that you can then send to the offending party.

So you can't customize the specific areas of their behavior with which you are dissatisfied, it guarantees a scorching indictment of that person or organizations actions and character, which sometimes is all you need.