5.30.2009

top thrizzle

#1 The Museum of Online Museums, or MoOM. Here's a site with dozens of links to other really silly sites showcasing what are in most cases absolutely ridiculous collections. You'll never get bored.
















This site lead me to gems like, the Bubble Blowers Museum, a collection of, you guessed it, bubble blowers,








a collection of found grocery lists,










and, of course, Toothpaste World.















Awesome.

#2 The Art of Manliness website. It offers so much useful information about men stuff like and what you, if you're a man, should like as well. It goes on to offer tips on how to do all that stuff that then ultimately defines manliness, and do it well.


















There's even a Top 100 essential manly reading list.























Can't argue with that I guess.

#3 Phobia Guide. How handy is this?! A list of every known phobia. I've been making my way down through it and so far I've identified sixty two phobias that I suffer from personally. Most of them I didn't even realize were recognized conditions. Now that I know what's wrong, maybe I can finally get the help I need to begin to over come them.























But probably not.

5.26.2009

Surfing the Web for a Positive Vibe

Sometimes I find myself just feeling so negative; about myself, my life, about the state of society and the future of the world. So I naturally look to the web for help establishing a more positive outlook. And naturally that doesn't really work. But there are a few places you can turn for that pep talk, that pick-me-up that let's you know you're not so bad and it all just might turn out okay.

Bring the Awesome is just such a site. It's one page with its simple message was all I needed to see one night when I was feeling so totally un-awesome it wasn't funny.














A similar page that I stumbled upon one fine evening, just as I was for sure to be swallowed by the ever-present and persistently growing sense of doom that haunts me, provided the instant reassurance I needed in that darkest of hours.













Now, the automatic flatterer site is something a little different. It's interactive, personalized, and a seemingly inexhaustible source of encouragement.

The page loads with a dialogue box into which you simply type your name and click okay, and then keep clicking okay on the subsequent and flattering boxes to keep those positive statements about you and your existence coming.














On the other hand, even if you don't play along and click on "cancel" instead, the website is still very respectful of you and your feelings, something you may rarely get from people around you.











But if you enter your name and click OK as I did, the site sends you a compliment via another dialogue box...

















And with every click of your mouse, the love keeps coming...

















For as long as you need it to, or until your mouse wears out or your clicking finger gives out...

















Because you are so starved for love...

















Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....

With all this positivity and affirmation, there do come some risks. You don't want to get too cocky; complacency is dangerous. Fortunately there are sites like this that when you go there will generate an original Shakespearean insult for you.









And if you need more than one to help you come back down to Earth as it were, a new insult is generated with each click on it.








Plume-Plucked miscreant! Man, I haven't been called that since I was ten.

5.16.2009

I truly need a new pen

The TUL Pen website is not only a great place to buy a pen online, it's also a place where you can get a detailed and accurate handwriting analysis, or graphology.















This highly regarded graphologist first instructs visitors to write down on paper "I truly need a new pen." Then, he asks you to answer a few questions about the characteristics of certain letters as you wrote them.


























Then, your answers are briefly, but thoroughly, analyzed. In a few moments, information about your psyche and personality are revealed to you through the answers you've given about your personal handwriting.














And this highly regarded graphologist explains the results. It's like TUL has opens a window into your soul.














And then sells you a pen.























Which ships in six to eight business days.

5.09.2009

Fuck my Life, or help me live it better!

Fuck My Life!!! I say that a lot. And now I've found a web site where like-minded folks are posting episodes from their daily lives that make those lives so totally fuckable.













This person works as a pizza delivery driver. Eeeew, that does suck.




This person was mauled by a kitten. Been there.




And of course you can also enter a FML tale of woe of your own.









So of course I did...



I went with that bullshit that keeps happening and happened again today where it turns out I'm still alive and wake up yet again. So sick of that.

Well, I guess if I'm going to be around again today I might as well try to find some answers and some new ways to cope with it all. This site that exists as part of a site for a company that, I guess, makes aspirin and band aids,offers helpful advice about what to do in light of a collection of possible problems or questions any of us might have at any time.























Let's see how helpful it really is...Let's see, okay I've never been lost in Germany, but I was once lost in Mexico, and did I ever need the bathroom. But let's see how this works. Click on your issue and...





Hmmm, and up comes the answer...toilette, Remember that.




















Okay, this happens to me all the time...




okay, now we're getting somewhere. Yup, I am here, that was right. Thanks.
















Ooooh, here's another one I am constantly dealing with. Ghosts...





Okay, and I'll get straight to the point.












Just keeps saying Boo...












Well, that isn't helpful unless they also have a translator tool so I can find out what that means. Well, at least the lines of communication have been established. Oh, wait, a tool for dealing with aggression!? I can always use help there...






Just keep clickin' that fist `till the wall comes a tumblin' down.













Hooray, I'm a winner!!! I do feel a little better now.
















I still wish it hadn't been my alarm clock.