Internet Stick People Seriously Need to Chill

Stick people have become very popular and have utterly saturated the web. There are gazillions of web pages, videos and downloads related to the stick figure phenomenon. In most cases, stick figures emerge as angry and murderous.

On the Stick Page



















...you'll find games with stick figure characters--mostly violent ones.

On the Stick Figure Death Theater page it's just more of the same--angry stick people toting guns and machetes and killing and maiming one another.



















Stick Death is another popular website that features hostile stick figures shooting and hacking each other to pieces.













While their individual creators make them this way, stick figures are probably so angry--or so prone to violence--because they can't even have sex...















or they risk catching on fire.


All over You Tube there are videos of stick men and woman kicking the shit out of one another.














You can download Pivot Stick Figure Animator and create your own angry stick guys and make them fight each other.














But i instead chose to have my stick character spend his time going to local pubs and sharing pints with friends.

















He doesn't want to kill them and they don't want to kill him. They just want to get drunk and have a good time.
















Really, isn't that what we all want?

July's Top 3

Sometimes there's a common theme, sometimes there isn't. I guess there's a space theme with this one.

#1: Citizens Association to Blow Up The Moon. The group was founded by a werewolf. Their website is very informative, if a little bland.

















#2: Earth Bound Dog. Here you can purchase dog tags that according to the site's owners will ensure your safe return to Earthy, and your hometown, should you at any point be abducted by aliens. Given the ongoing threat that aliens and alien abduction poses, who wouldn't want to take this precaution? It comes with a money back guarantee.


















#3: The Lunar Embassy Website. Buy Lunar real estate today, whilst it is still relatively cheap to do so. Unlike the people at the Association to Blow Up the Moon, the people behind this site want to keep the moon, or rather sell it to consumers piece by piece.

Izing Your Self Online

That is Warhol-izing, Elvis-izing and HTML/ASCII/MATRIX Code-izing, to be exact. It's quick and easy and is it ever fun!

To be Warhol-ized, simply upload a picture of yourself and this site instantly transforms you into a work of pop art, as i did.


















Cool huh?

The Elvis page is a little bit of a rip-off...































Yeah, and BAM! you're Elvis. Not really you liar.


Finally, you can have your image transformed into one created by ASCII, HTML or Matrix code. The only one that really worked for me was HTML. The other codes muted my features too much and so they didn't really even look like me, but this one kind of does.

Online Friends, Both Real and Not

There are no shortage of "friend Sites"--Friendster, Meebo, Facebook, My Space, and dozens of IM sites exist to facilitate keeping in touch with friends and making new friends.

There are also more than a few sites where people can connect with one another, as they exist only in cyberspace, like Meez, WeeWorld, City Pixel, Mikons, and so on. On these sites, users construct avatars to represent them within the particular virtual community.


For those of you who don't have any friends in the real world, and who can't even manage to develop any fake friendships with virtual people in virtual communities, the web offers some other options as well.

You can IM with Zippy the Pinhead. Sure, his replies don't make any sense, but he responds every time you send him a message, and does so quickly-he's ALWAYS online.














No less fulfilling is a play date with Hello-Kitty and her friend Bear. I spent the batter part of an afternoon with the pair not too long ago. So many fun activities all in one place! kitty has been hooked up with regards to games and toys, arts and crafts supplies, educational games and activities, and Kitty and Bear will happily share them all with you and I any time.


















On my last visit to kitty's playroom, i joined Kitty and Bear in a delightful afternoon tea party. I preferred the English Breakfast.






















Fuck that! Bear should have asked for his own muffins.

Before I left, I took advantage of printing out the certificate that i made there that proves that Kitty and Bear are my friends, even if nobody else will be, which they won't. I have no idea why.


















If all else fails, you could go with a pet for a friend, a virtual pet, for instance in the form of a little dog that seems to be inside your computer and feverishly licking the screen. He's adorable, he seems to really like you, and never has to be fed or walked, or attended to in any way, really.

monthly top three--june

Here they be, it's this month's top three wacky, weird or unique web sites.

#1: Deer in the yard. This page features images of the many deer that spend time in the yard of a family who apparently live in a rural area that not only is home to many deer, but their house is actually amidst many trails the deer use to get to their feeding grounds.



































#2: Human Clock. This site keeps time with images that contain times of day, that people stage and then send in. It's a bit odd, but unique for sure.


















#3: Die Screaming With Sharp Things in your Head.
This is a fun site that features images of garden gnomes with, you guessed it, sharp things stuck into them. Why? Not sure anyone could answer that.

Who's Hot and Who's Headed for Court.

There are a few really fun sites out there where you can rate or bet on others, which is always fun. Hot or Not is great because you can play along and rate others on their hotness (or total notness) without even registering and becoming a member, and you can see how others rate you in the heat department AND even met other registered singles who are as hot as you.
















I rated this young man a ten, and this young lady an eight. you can see how others voted for the person once you rate them, and see when they last checked their rating. In most cases it was within the past few hours, leading me to believe that one's Hot or Not rating is something people take very seriously. I decided to join and submit my photo in order to learn how hot i am.












































So far no rating yet, but I'm pretty sure I'm hot.

And I want to meet this guy. I've sent him a message to that effect.



















So, okay, you're hot, they're hot. You hook up and decide to wed. Now you can move to the next step and submit a picture of yourselves together to the Wedding Betting site, and then the rest of us can bet on whether your marriage will succeed or fail miserably, and not just that but how much time you have before you crash and burn, if you're going to, which you probably are. I think that's something you'd want to know.
















I personally think Matt and Lance won't last the year. But the other fun thing is you can forward each couple's page to your friends and get their opinions too. This way, your predictions are likely to be very accurate and, thus, worthwhile to the happy couples you are betting on.

Sharing Secrets WIth the World

It is hard sometimes to hold a secret inside. Thank goodness many websites have popped up to allow folks to share their secrets with the world, anonymously online. This is a great thing for those of us who don't have any human friends to share our innermost thoughts and feelings with.

The original, or at least it would seem to have been, secret-posting spot was Not Proud, (they may still show their archives, but the site is no longer active) where people could anonymously share their wrongdoings, the categories being each of the 7 deadly sins. PostSecret is a popular blog that each week posts some of the secrets sent to it via mail and email. It is apparently not easy to get one's secret posted.















And what is posted is all very polished, profound and/or poetic. More like little works of art then anyones' deepest secrets.























But there is a Live Journal version of Post Secret that does show users' posts live. These are usually stupid and always fun. "I lied to my best friend." "I think i have herpes." What a hoot.
























A similar, and also fairly popular, secret-sharing site is Secret Chest. Here too, people can make quick entries and get whatever they need to off their chests. My favorite ones are those that are about sex--masterbating to pics of your step-daughter is disturbing, but having sex with your friend's mom, haing "pleasure when I look at gays kissing" is a great secret to have and share.






















I post all my secrets, such as they are, on Write Something. This is a site where you can write whatever you want and it goes up live, that instant; there are no moderators to deal with or anything, you just type and post. It doesn't have to be a secret, but it can be. Your post shows up to you in another color so you can easily review it, although there's no way to take it back. It's totally anonymous, though, so there's never any need to take it back. However, if you want, you can click on what you wrote--it becomes a link--and go to a page that allows you to email your post to a friend, which, again, is ALWAYS appropriate and fun. And, as always, it's fun to read what others posted.

The Unique Among the Glut of Online Games

There are millions, gazillions probably, of websites out there offering free online games as well as games for download. Many of these, though, are of the extremely standard, run-of-the-mill variety. Meaning, they are either puzzle games or involve shooting stuff: whether it's a space station defending its moon against invaders or cops taking out bad guys that lurk around every corner. Those are fun, but fortunately there are some far more original offerings out there as well. This is an unofficial top three of sorts, of unique games on the web.

Pot Man. A game modeled after the famed eighties game, Pac-Man.























All the same rules and procedures apply: you make your way through a maze, avoiding danger, destroying the enemy when energized by consuming a special treat, and gaining points in an attempt to complete the board and advance to the next level. While a knock-off, it has been re-created here with some fun and unique characteristics.























Only here, Pac-Man is "Pot-Man," a Rastafarian. The empowering special treat isn't fruit, it's a joint, and the enemies are the cops, narcs and bogarts.


Song Blitz. Here the trick is to match the song that plays with one of the correct album covers.
















There are numerous choices in order to trip you up...













but if you know your music like I do...























it's a breeze every time. It's still fun though.

McVideogame. This game simulates, and parodies McDonald's, by allowing the player to face challenges on all side of the fast food giant's business.











You raise the beef, and the soy that feeds them. You slaughter the beef. You manage a McDonald's and sell the beef. You even participate in board meetings on the corporate side of things, and plan new marketing strategies and strategic financial moves.






Hey, supersize me!

Monthly Top 3

Here they are, for no particular reason.

#1 Modern Drunkard. Everything you ever needed to have for, or needed to know about, getting drunk.







#2 AVM Beer Cap Collection. Possibly the world's largest beer bottle cap collection, online for everyone to enjoy.
























#3 Feral Children. A must visit website if ever there was one.