StumbleUpon Consumes my Soul
So I recently added Stumble to my browser… and by recently, I mean yesterday. I promptly spent four or five hours just clicking that little button and finding new corners of the internet. Just yesterday, I bookmarked a dozen interesting new sites. So, you know what that means. Linkdump!
http://www.anxietyculture.com/contents.htm
This is all about counterculture and exposing the farce that is “normal” life. As they say it:
“AC began as a magazine, in 1995, exploring the anxieties behind the smiling mask of “normal” society. It contains ideas and gimmicks for navigating the stressed, over-competitive, work-obsessed times we live in.
The website went online in 1998, intended as a cocktail of curious news, satire, outsider psychology and uplifting propaganda.”
http://nine.frenchboys.net/
I like generators. So does the owner of this site. They’re a wonderful tool for working around writer’s block. Need a setting? Generate one and elaborate upon it. Need a name? Generate one and use it at least as a placeholder so that one decision doesn’t take up hours of good writing time. This one is a lot like Seventh Sanctum, and indeed inspired by it.
http://www.everyvideogame.com/
This is like an online version of an emulator and every rom you can find. I don’t know what they have or what they’re missing, but I’ll certainly be exploring the games fairly soon.
http://home.austarnet.com.au/petersykes/topscifi/lists_short_stories.html
This is a top 100 list of great SF short stories. I’m going to use it as a reading list. I’m sad to admit I’ve only read 13 of them at last count.
http://blog-well.com/2008/03/04/100-resources-for-web-developers/
This is 100 resources for web developers. Code scripts, testers, debugging tools, FTP clients, screenshot tools, code documentation, windows applets, converters, graphics tools… it’s got a lot. I think most of them are free, but not all of them. It’ll be a useful resource for giving useful resources to people who do this kind of thing.
http://studenthacks.org/2008/03/04/resources/
Another 100-list, this time geared for those of us who are still students and don’t know how to abuse google to within an inch of our lives looking for that one trivial fact to make a paper stand out. This has encyclopedias, journal archives, style guides, dictionaries, and all kinds of useful links. If only I had found it back when I still had to write terribly boring papers…
http://psychoprogs.com/articles/101-writing-tips/
101 writing tips, written as illustrations of themselves. I’ve always liked these, and this batch is the largest I’ve found so far. Excerpts:
3. ASBMAETP: Acronyms Should Be Memorable And Easy To Pronounce, and SATAN: Select Acronyms That Are Non-offensive.
31. Injecting enthusiasm probably won’t do any harm.
65. If there’s a word on the tip of your tongue that you can’t quite pin down, use a cinnamon.
80. Double entendres will get you in the end.
http://www.bouldertherapist.com/html/humor/WordPlays/lexophiles.htm
Along the same lines, these are simple little phrases that use the english language in ways that are humorous. Geared for people who love words.
4. A backward poet writes inverse.
14. Local Area Network in Australia : The LAN down under.
That’s all for now, but knowing myself and the internet, I’ll have a few hundred more by tomorrow. Stumble is definitely a blessing and a curse.
