Posts Tagged ‘internets’

Secret of the Ooze

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Wedged between the static, rarely updated Web 1.0 and the hyperactive, give-me-five-minutes-of-freakin’-peace Web 2.0 is the thematic photo album site. Remember ‘Hot or Not’? ‘Rate My Poo’ [seriously NSFW, yet somehow you won't be able to look away] came around the same time, too. It was about the point of RMP that the Internet wisely took a restitution from collective photography. flickr never got the memo on that, though.

RMP still remains the #1 grossest site in my book, excluding pages like goatse that start redlining on lack of taste. Admittedly my list was pretty short. In fact, I didn’t really have a list. Today, though, I am pleased to add to my list of lists the ‘Grossest Sites’ list, because there’s a latecomer to the collective photography group that makes a great #2 ((To be fair, RMP is nothing but great #2.)). Introducing ‘Pop That Zit.‘ (Obvious warning: not for the easily queasied.) The creators take a wide scope on the issue, providing footage of whiteheads, blackheads, and gooey dermatological wonders of all races and creeds.

Deux Filles, Une Tasse: Just Deux It

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

Teh internets never fail to amaze me. All it takes to get people to come to your site are 1) a server and 2a) content that makes a fool of yourself or 2b) content in jive with the latest Web phenomenon. My most recent post (about ‘2 Girls 1 Cup’) had both, so it’s no shock that within 24 hours traffic to the site had quadrupled from an average day!  Even though Boing-Boing was the originator of the French translation of the film (all four words needed to explain it, at least), this site is now the top hit returned for queries resembling ‘Deux Filles, Une Tasse.’

To visitors who found my site this way, welcome! I’d offer you a drink, but, um, our cups are all soiled…

Deux Filles, Une Tasse

Friday, November 30th, 2007

The latest fashion on teh internets is not something you wear…well, it’s not something you wear. You just get to watch, and possibly film yourself watching. It’s the brilliant art film ‘Two Girls 1 Cup,’ cited by Boing Boing as a flick with ‘the heady metaphysical influence of Fassbinder and Herzog […] which treats its characters in a scope of almost Wagnerian breadth.’

Hersh was kind enough to remind me that I have to stay in touch with the life force of Internet fads, and insisted—emphasis on insisted—I treat my first watching as something special, as if it were the loss of virginity or the one year anniversary of 9/11. In this case, ’something special’ means pointing an iSight in my face and catching how I react [.mov, 1.8MB] as I work my way to the film’s end.

This is the part of the blog post where I tell you not to google ‘2 girls 1 cup’, not to click ‘Play’, not to watch.

Only If They're Alive

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

I’m still experimenting with online dating. My tastes are in a constant cycle of repulsion (as was my tenure at plentyoffish.com) and sincere hope. OKCupid is pretty neat with all their doodads, but sincere hope is definitely not in the pipeline when their personality evaluation includes the question:

Would you ever consider having sex in a graveyard?

What the…? Christ, I don’t know. There are many nouns both proper and general that I really haven’t considered. Would I have sex in a monastery? A Chick-Fil-A? The U.S.S. Constellation? Some are great for dares, some need payment in advance to convince me.

With my uncanny ability to make anything into a Web 2.0 system (I humbly call it a super power), a thought just struck me. What if there were a wiki cataloging people’s sexual escapades in every possible place? For every noun, there is an article. Post a story, a picture, whatever is necessary to corroborate. Whether the point of this theoretical wiki is to create ridiculously organised reality pr0n—it’s not—this database would act as the launchpad for XKCD’s Rule 34 and Rule 35 of the Internet. More effectively, even, than wetriffs.com, which is directly inspired from XKCD’s Rule 34/35.

Before I’m decried as a filthy, filthy pr0n purveyor, I assure you it was a novelty idea. It is an Einsteinian ‘thought experiment’ regarding society’s greatest vice: just as no one will be sending twins out into space, I pray no one will have the time or energy to expend on a dictionary of sex locations.

Some dictionary ideas work, like odd Mormon names. Most don’t, like the importance of every number under an arbitrary ceiling. (Hint: ‘the largest known number n that makes 72n – 71n prime’ will not floor many people.) Let’s get through Web 2.0 alive by avoiding the latter.