November Top 3--The Stuff You Leave Behind

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

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!

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.