Linkorama (with Bonus Lament)
All snaffled from Bifurcated Rivets:
1. Weird Japanese dancing contest (mpg file).
2. A bunch of demolition videos (requires Flash).
3. The 1971 Sears Catalog.
Finally, Bifurcated Rivets rather dismissively mentions Boing Boing, which got me to thinking as to why I never read it anymore. Back in the day, it was one of the first "look at these cool things we've found on the web" weblogs so I would look at it pretty much every day. It actually managed to live up to its name of "A Directory of Wonderful Things". Now, aside from having another look before writing this post, I never look at it. In no particular order, the reasons why I don't look at it anymore:
a. They started taking advertising, pretty garish, in-your-face advertising at that.
b. Xeni "I Have No Ego And Am Not Obsessed About Sex" Jardin.
c. The relentless self-promotion.
d. Cory Doctorow's one-sided rants about intellectual property.
e. They got rid of the comments system.
f. Most of the actually-cool stuff could be found via other sites (Robotwisdom, Slashdot, etc.)
g. Xeni Jardin posting NSFW images on the main page.
That last one was the ultimate killer, as I went through a couple of years where work was the only place I could access the net consistently. Strangely enough, an Apple-branded vibrator was not the sort of thing I wanted on my screen in the office (nor, I hasten to add, at home).
1. Weird Japanese dancing contest (mpg file).
2. A bunch of demolition videos (requires Flash).
3. The 1971 Sears Catalog.
Finally, Bifurcated Rivets rather dismissively mentions Boing Boing, which got me to thinking as to why I never read it anymore. Back in the day, it was one of the first "look at these cool things we've found on the web" weblogs so I would look at it pretty much every day. It actually managed to live up to its name of "A Directory of Wonderful Things". Now, aside from having another look before writing this post, I never look at it. In no particular order, the reasons why I don't look at it anymore:
a. They started taking advertising, pretty garish, in-your-face advertising at that.
b. Xeni "I Have No Ego And Am Not Obsessed About Sex" Jardin.
c. The relentless self-promotion.
d. Cory Doctorow's one-sided rants about intellectual property.
e. They got rid of the comments system.
f. Most of the actually-cool stuff could be found via other sites (Robotwisdom, Slashdot, etc.)
g. Xeni Jardin posting NSFW images on the main page.
That last one was the ultimate killer, as I went through a couple of years where work was the only place I could access the net consistently. Strangely enough, an Apple-branded vibrator was not the sort of thing I wanted on my screen in the office (nor, I hasten to add, at home).