The Weird Wonderful Web
12/06/09 17:02 Filed in: Humour
Fun Friday. What have you discovered today?
Being a newbie to this web blogging lark you have to excuse me for being a little behind the trend. I feel like I am still on the treadmill, running like mad trying to catch up with the seasoned web professionals, but never quite making it. Today I finally succumbed to another of those sites I have been hearing lots of great things about without really understanding what it was. I joined Stumbleupon.com. What a service. It had me in fits of laughter.
For anyone, like me, who has been in a bit of a social media vacuum this last year or so, yes, I was one of those people who recently joined Twitter and then thought, now what? especially when for a long time my only follower was a preacher!. Anyway Stumbleupon is a website where you can pick categories and view popular websites within those categories. It is no wonder it takes me so long to progress my other work when there are so many things to look at. However it does make me wonder about what goes through peoples heads sometimes. I found a website whose main purpose was to entice you with beautiful pictures of food. Food Porn Daily has been expanded to include recipes but as it states this was only after much harassment from its viewers. What sort of a cruel person inflicts such enticing pictures of Blueberry Strawberry Buttermilk Cake on its audience without telling you where you can buy such an item Now, This Minute?
Sorry cravings under control now! Staying on a recipe theme I also stumbled upon a site strangely entitled The Food In My Beard. Not a very enticing title I thought but it did intrigue me. I browsed a recipe for Fish-In-A-Bag. What is so funny about that you may ask? well it is true there was nothing unusual about the recipe but the comments about it were another matter. Despite all the really good pictures one commenter, to the disgruntlement of others, said they had seen better puke, whilst another simply asked why the man in the recipe pictures was not wearing trousers. I could not help feeling sorry for the poor man who had gone to all the trouble to capture each stage of his recipe only to have such terrible comments posted, it must be quite soul destroying, but on the other hand I did get a giggle out of it. I thought it was hilarious. Is this just me? Am I strange?
I don’t know if this started me off in a giggly mood but I was then amazed to find Clean & Green. A website promoting natural cleaning products but doing it to the sound of church organ music! Is the idea that the soothing sounds encourage you to find the whole experience of parting with your hard-earned cash much more pleasant or did the author just want to demonstrate some new found skills in adding sound? Either way it made me smile.
I was also bemused by the following; a whole site dedicated to a DIY backpacking stove, a national public toilet map for Australia, a single page showing an extract from a 1936 book and I Will Knot. The latter one declaring “This is a site about knots: how to tie them, how to appreciate their beauty”. I’m sorry but the Blueberry Strawberry Buttermilk Cake was beauty, but knots do nothing for me!
What inspires somebody to create such sites? Wouldn’t they have had to pay somebody to host them? Is it me or is this where free information goes a bit far? There are two more sites I found on my tour which I believe deserve a mention. One, the rather worrying, “Greg Miller's Guide to Lock Picking for Beginners” and the second, a picture on Flikr uploaded in dec 2006. It was of a play set called "The Avenging Narwahl". It has, and I quote “ 4 magical tusks and 3 adorable animals to impale”! Check it out for yourself below. Great for kids of all ages?! Sorry but that really brought out my warped sense of humour. I can’t wait to see what I’ll find next time I stumbleupon
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For anyone, like me, who has been in a bit of a social media vacuum this last year or so, yes, I was one of those people who recently joined Twitter and then thought, now what? especially when for a long time my only follower was a preacher!. Anyway Stumbleupon is a website where you can pick categories and view popular websites within those categories. It is no wonder it takes me so long to progress my other work when there are so many things to look at. However it does make me wonder about what goes through peoples heads sometimes. I found a website whose main purpose was to entice you with beautiful pictures of food. Food Porn Daily has been expanded to include recipes but as it states this was only after much harassment from its viewers. What sort of a cruel person inflicts such enticing pictures of Blueberry Strawberry Buttermilk Cake on its audience without telling you where you can buy such an item Now, This Minute?
Sorry cravings under control now! Staying on a recipe theme I also stumbled upon a site strangely entitled The Food In My Beard. Not a very enticing title I thought but it did intrigue me. I browsed a recipe for Fish-In-A-Bag. What is so funny about that you may ask? well it is true there was nothing unusual about the recipe but the comments about it were another matter. Despite all the really good pictures one commenter, to the disgruntlement of others, said they had seen better puke, whilst another simply asked why the man in the recipe pictures was not wearing trousers. I could not help feeling sorry for the poor man who had gone to all the trouble to capture each stage of his recipe only to have such terrible comments posted, it must be quite soul destroying, but on the other hand I did get a giggle out of it. I thought it was hilarious. Is this just me? Am I strange?
I don’t know if this started me off in a giggly mood but I was then amazed to find Clean & Green. A website promoting natural cleaning products but doing it to the sound of church organ music! Is the idea that the soothing sounds encourage you to find the whole experience of parting with your hard-earned cash much more pleasant or did the author just want to demonstrate some new found skills in adding sound? Either way it made me smile.
I was also bemused by the following; a whole site dedicated to a DIY backpacking stove, a national public toilet map for Australia, a single page showing an extract from a 1936 book and I Will Knot. The latter one declaring “This is a site about knots: how to tie them, how to appreciate their beauty”. I’m sorry but the Blueberry Strawberry Buttermilk Cake was beauty, but knots do nothing for me!
What inspires somebody to create such sites? Wouldn’t they have had to pay somebody to host them? Is it me or is this where free information goes a bit far? There are two more sites I found on my tour which I believe deserve a mention. One, the rather worrying, “Greg Miller's Guide to Lock Picking for Beginners” and the second, a picture on Flikr uploaded in dec 2006. It was of a play set called "The Avenging Narwahl". It has, and I quote “ 4 magical tusks and 3 adorable animals to impale”! Check it out for yourself below. Great for kids of all ages?! Sorry but that really brought out my warped sense of humour. I can’t wait to see what I’ll find next time I stumbleupon
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