Hey, Internet!
May. 7th, 2011 06:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodyrosemccoyIt’s that time again!
Remember when I was going through a medswitch and it was sucking and so I asked y’all to distract me? Well, I am not switching meds, but this week still sucks for its own reasons, and everything is making me nervous, and by god I need distracting again. So please, Internet, I appeal to you: DISTRACT ME.
Go ahead! It can be anything! Videos! Book recommendations! Dumb mindless Flash games! Blogs! GIFs! Trivia! Puzzles! Timesuck sites! Anything! JUST POST SOMETHING.
Here, I’ll get us started with distractions of my own:
The Food Timeline, on the history of food.
ARKive is an image database of the biological organisms of Earth. It is also blessed by my main man David Attenborough!
Torn World is a source of anxiety for me right now because it is a responsibility for me, but if you're not in the Land Of Neuroses you get things like sea monsters, the mysteriously tame Rainbow Rainforest, and huge shaggy unicorns. It's pretty damn cool, really.
And videos:
(I love the Two-Headed Monster so much, especially when you see how each head entertains itself "alone.")
Okay, your turn!
Remember when I was going through a medswitch and it was sucking and so I asked y’all to distract me? Well, I am not switching meds, but this week still sucks for its own reasons, and everything is making me nervous, and by god I need distracting again. So please, Internet, I appeal to you: DISTRACT ME.
Go ahead! It can be anything! Videos! Book recommendations! Dumb mindless Flash games! Blogs! GIFs! Trivia! Puzzles! Timesuck sites! Anything! JUST POST SOMETHING.
Here, I’ll get us started with distractions of my own:
The Food Timeline, on the history of food.
ARKive is an image database of the biological organisms of Earth. It is also blessed by my main man David Attenborough!
Torn World is a source of anxiety for me right now because it is a responsibility for me, but if you're not in the Land Of Neuroses you get things like sea monsters, the mysteriously tame Rainbow Rainforest, and huge shaggy unicorns. It's pretty damn cool, really.
And videos:
(I love the Two-Headed Monster so much, especially when you see how each head entertains itself "alone.")
Okay, your turn!
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Date: 2011-05-08 01:17 am (UTC)Musictonic will search youtube for music videos by the artist of your choice and play them all for you.
Starship, a musical roughly based on "Starship Troopers." It features GIANT BUG PUPPETS.
This is way too much fun.
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Date: 2011-05-09 08:54 am (UTC)That matrix app there is AWESOME. It reminds me of a reflecting wall ... thing ... set up near one of the buildings at the U of O, but with MUSIC!
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Date: 2011-05-09 02:41 pm (UTC)ISN'T IT? I was messing with it this weekend, and my brother poked his head into the room and asked if I was listening to Phoenix.
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Date: 2011-05-08 01:31 am (UTC)Professor Elemental - Fighting Trousers: "Put away your ukelele or I'll tell you where to stick it!"
I admit it. I laugh every time.
Pants.
How Crayons Are Made: blast from the past!
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Date: 2011-05-08 03:22 pm (UTC)Also, re: I laugh every time> This video is what does it for me. XD
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Date: 2011-05-08 03:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-09 06:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-09 09:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-09 08:56 am (UTC)And that crayon sketch makes me happy every time.
Apologies in advance if any of these are repeats of other people's suggestions
Date: 2011-05-08 02:10 am (UTC)Fire + idiots is always funny. This one involves a flaming melon.
The Toronto Song, in which a Canadian band rags on Canada.
Duckling eeee
Owl eeee
Short, cute, wordless comic.
Bizarre Inglip ReCaptcha meme.
Food snark. Relatedly, more food snark.
MRIs of food.
This is what happens when you turn every frame of a movie into a line 1 pixel wide and jam them all together.
Southeast Asian steampunk - though it's more a collection of items than a storyline.
Re: Apologies in advance if any of these are repeats of other people's suggestions
Date: 2011-05-08 03:43 pm (UTC)Re: Apologies in advance if any of these are repeats of other people's suggestions
Date: 2011-05-09 02:17 am (UTC)Re: Apologies in advance if any of these are repeats of other people's suggestions
Date: 2011-05-09 02:22 am (UTC)Edit:
I just realized I forgot to link The Cow Song as well.
Damn, I spend too much time on Youtube... >_>;;
Re: Apologies in advance if any of these are repeats of other people's suggestions
Date: 2011-05-09 09:00 am (UTC)Re: Apologies in advance if any of these are repeats of other people's suggestions
Date: 2011-05-09 05:41 pm (UTC)Heh. Just listened to it for the umpteenth time, since I was at the link anyway, and it STILL makes me laugh out loud at work. I'm so easy.
Re: Apologies in advance if any of these are repeats of other people's suggestions
Date: 2011-05-09 06:49 am (UTC)T̮͍̮͙ͬ͑̃̑ͦ̾ͤ̕h̶͈̥̳̱̳̺̫͐̾̇̔̄ͭ̒e̞͖̱̞͇ ̔͐͏̫̞͈͕̮̖̳h̰̮̣̖͈̯̦͆ͦͣ͟iv͔͇̫̟̰͚͍ͪͪ̉ͥ̌ͣ̓e̴̳͙͚͔̯̲͗ͤ̉̆̅́-̸̝͍̣̞̄̏̅ͅm̖̗͔̋͆ĩ̪̓ͩ̇̓͗ṉd̺̪̣̝̹̹͊͗̄ͮ̀͑̚ ̠̦̪́o͔̥͉ͪͯf͚̃ͩ̽̓ͤ̈ͦ͠ ̦̖̲̪̲̔̎́́ḉ͓̥͕̘̮͚̿̾̍h͡ä̴̹̺̤́̅͑ͦo̴͔͚͈s̼̈́͂̐ͯ̓̑̇.̼͉̲̲̞̓ͨ̎ͤ̇̆̉͢ ̴̋̿ͮ͐̌ͯ̔Z̒ͧ҉̝̩a̫̼̮̦̦̜̝̓ͨ̍̇ͮ̊͡l̗̪̓̿͗̽͛̇͟g͈ͪ̈́ͪ͑̅̎o͕͙͖.͕̤̪̱̘̅̎̈ͬ̄͆͊ ̩͕̳̙ͅ
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Date: 2011-05-08 02:27 am (UTC)Damn You Auto Correct is sometimes gut-bustingly funny.
I wonder what my choices of distraction say about me? (Also, I tend to Google myself WAY too often and too late at night for my own good. Or read Craigslist personal ads for laffs.)
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Date: 2011-05-08 02:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-08 02:56 am (UTC)Shadow Hill Road about the secret lives of urban legends and road stories, following Rose Marshall, better known as 'and then the trucker discovered the hitchhiker he carried last night as a ghost'.
Velveteen Versus (Also, here, since the website needs to be updated...) about a former child superheroine who tried to leave the business, to the dismay of the corporation who sponsored her.
Seanan is also doing some short fiction on her livejournal as a prelude to her next book release, chronicling events some two decades before the book setting.
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Date: 2011-05-08 05:02 am (UTC)All of the sites on the cheezeburger network, but especially I Can Has Cheezeburger (lolcats), It Made My Day, Learn From My Fail, Crazy Things Parents Say, and There I Fixed It. Also seconding Damn You Autocorrect.
www.hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com is hilarious, also www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com
If you like Doctor Who fan videos, check out The Power Of Me and Seduff's channels, as well as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As6NXru59NI and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98rtEm7sUsU&feature=player_embedded and the Doctor Who Official Tumblr. I also found a Doctor Who fanfiction archive, but the first several stories I read were high on the disturbing side, so proceed with caution: www.whofic.com
For games, www.bontegames.com has some nice flash puzzle games plus links to lots of others - for short, amusing and confusing point and click games with a weird kind of logic check out the minoto games there. Also a more serious review site is www.jayisgames.com, which organizes reviews by category so you can find any kind of game you like, and their reviews are pretty thorough and accurate. I like the hidden object and escape the room variety myself.
Sorry for not making them links - I'm not very good at the html. Hope this helps!
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Date: 2011-05-08 06:46 am (UTC)Also, if you have never played Plants vs. Zombies, is well worth the $ to buy the thing.I just finally got bored of it after a month of absolute addiction but it cost me $20 so not bad for a month >_>
Oh, and Netflix is live streaming (or was!) a cartoon from my childhood that's totally fun and aged decently actually. Is cheesy as hell, and of course NOT historically accurate (although not as bad as one might think at times. AT TIMES) so you could watch Mysterious Cities of Gold. Well, if you have Netflix at all.
(And if you did at all have netflix.. we could totally IM discuss those cartoons or other movies as we watch 'em!)
Other than those things, alas, I got nothin' much.
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Date: 2011-05-08 08:09 am (UTC)And fibrefarm lambcam is just adorable (when it is running) -
http://www.fiberfarm.com/lambcam
http://www.fiberfarm.com/lambcam/lambcam-2
http://www.fiberfarm.com/lambcam/lambcam-3
Not even trying HTML today.
Date: 2011-05-08 10:40 am (UTC)If you're in the mood to get your Twilight hate on, there's the awesome blog Reasoning with Vampires at http://reasoningwithvampires.tumblr.com/ which is written by a heavily literary young woman who snarks up the language side of the books as well as the themes.
And there's always this weird little Java dealie that makes beautiful flamey art: http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/flame/index.html#top. (I personally keep trying to do a good Trogdor, with limited success.)
I may post more as I think of 'em. In the meantime, do know that we miss you like hell over here and wish you the best.
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Date: 2011-05-08 05:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-09 02:01 am (UTC)They give you a puzzle to look up / solve. Great fun.
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Date: 2011-05-09 06:20 am (UTC)Late to the party, but...
Date: 2011-05-09 05:44 pm (UTC)Overtures, from "Mary Schneider Yodels the Classics!"
I dare you to listen and not smile. :P My boyfriend screams and begs me not to play it again... and still ends up actually on-the-floor laughing everytime.
YES. I HAVE THE WHOLE CD.
Re: Late to the party, but...
Date: 2011-05-09 11:21 pm (UTC)Me: *literally ROFL in tears*
Re: Late to the party, but...
Date: 2011-05-10 12:47 am (UTC)My work here is done.