i am your okay nightmare
WishbookWeb.com has full-color scans of the holiday catalogs from yesteryear from stores like Sears, Wards, and J.C. Penney. The oldest dates back to 1944. These photos are from the 1979 Sears Catalog.
Via Metafilter and TheUltimateInsult.
I can’t stop playing Scrabulous on Facebook. I’ve never really played scrabble before discovering this online version a couple of weeks ago. We have a retro version we bought at Target and we still haven’t opened it; it’s still in the plastic wrapper. But the Scrabulous Facebook app has been sucking huge amounts of my time.
Of course, Scrabble has been available as a Web game in some form or another for a long time. The Yahoo! Games version has always been pretty popular. Also, Scrabulous.com runs essentially the same game on its own Web site. So, what are the advantages of Scrabulous on Facebook?
Well, first, you can invite your Facebook friends to play Scrabulous, and they don’t have to register at Scrabulous.com. And unlike the Yahoo! Games version, Scrabulous works in Firefox. You can play with up to four Facebook friends, and you can play multiple games at once. This comes in handy because games can happen over the course of days and weeks, whenever your pals happen to check in. If you want a faster game, you can join a game already in progress and meet some Facebook peeps you don’t already know. Finally, as you play, your stats are updated on your Facebook profile. If you’re as terrible at Scrabulous as I am, you might not be so enthusiastic about your stats being broadcast. But this feature can be disabled.
Other features of the game should be familiar to Scrabble players. You can play a regular game with a built in word-referee, or a “Challenge” game, in which players are responsible for policing their own games. There’s also an in-game chat function and a built-in search dictionary that can verify whether a word is “valid.”
Bottom line: if you’re on Facebook, and you dig Scrabble, I’d recommend you add this to your list of guilt-inducing time wasters.
Yesterday marked a milestone of sorts for me and my del.icio.us account. I’ve now saved more than 1,000 links with the social bookmarking service. It’s become an integral part of my internet experience. I couldn’t imagine trying to keep up with the ever-changing Internet using only Firefox’s or IE’s built in bookmarks organizer. Instead, I use del.icio.us and the Firefox plugin that integrates seamlessly into the browser.
All my research. All my favorite sites. Available from any computer. Backed up on any computer. It’s perfect.
And if you’re wondering what number 1-0-0-0 was, check it out.
Oh, man, track #69 from Cracker’s Kerosene Hat record was probably my favorite song of 1994. Looking back, I’m not sure why. It’s not like the lyrics were particularly funny or even memorable. I think it must have been the beer-soaked chorus that made its singers sound drunk–even when they were sober. It was my freshman year of college, and I sang as loudly as anyone. Here’s an excerpt of my favorite bit (full lyric here):
Called my mom from a payphone
I said “I’m down to my last.”
She said “I sent you to college…
now go call your dad.”
And the waitress that he married,
well she hung up the phone.
You know she never did like me,
but I can stand on my own.Sold my plasma in Amsterdam.
Spent it all in a night,
buying drinks at the Melk Weg
for a soldier in drag.
And I’ll search the world over
for my angel in black.
Yeah, I’ll search the world over
for a Eurotrash GirlEuro-trash Girl, Euro-trash girl.
Euro-trash Girl, (I’m a) Euro-trash girl.
For your further entertainment, here’s Cracker’s abridged video.
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And the “ironic” Chicks on Speed version.
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And yeah, I guess I’m just in a Cracker kind of mood tonight.
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What the hell is she saying, you ask?
I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps. And I believe that our education like such as South Africa and the Iraq everywhere, like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the US should help the US or should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for our [children].
Hmmm. Let’s hear a different perspective.
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“It’s a cultural thing, I think. Most brothers didn’t know that, you know. I used to see dogs fighting in the neighborhood all the time. I didn’t know that was Fed time. So, Mike probably just didn’t read his handbook on what not to do as a black star. I know that cruelty to animals is bad, but sometimes people shoot people and kill people and don’t get time. I think in this situation, he really didn’t know the extent of it, so I always give him the benefit of the doubt.”
Wow.
I would hope that the Black Star Handbook contains the same content that my Fat Bearded Blogger Handbook does… a single page that says “DON’T BE A DUMBASS.”
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Here’s a (fairly lengthy) montage from the excellent Disney animated series, Gargoyles. For some reason it’s set to the Rolling Stones’ “Let it Loose” from Exile on Main St. Well, it was a good combo for me anyways.
Strip Generator is a site that lets you create your own Web comics. You use their pre-defined humanoids, objects, and text bubbles, edit them however you wish, and presto. You’re a web comic genius. I put together the strip above in about 5 minutes. Someone with a bit more talent, but not a lot of time or know-how, could probably do much better:
There are other “do your own comic strip” sites out there. But they’re mostly not very good. Certainly, Strip Generator has them beat on several fronts:
Anyway, try it out. It’s fun.
Can five CD’s worth of material really be called A Brief History of Timbaland Beats?
