Lolcat + Shakespeare

You may be familiar with the humorous images known as lolcats. I have just invented the willcat:

The LibraryThing Thing

I’ve had an account on LibraryThing since June 2006, and it’s been interesting to see the site develop and grow since then (LibraryThing for Libraries is an especially interesting development). My LT user name is the title of my favorite SF novel, Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany. Since I don’t purchase many books, I have used LT mainly to keep a record of what I have read and to find new books to read. I’ve occasionally posted to the groups there and created a group to discuss a type of fiction labeled by some as slipstream. The blog widgets are neat, but the standard blog widget doesn’t work for WordPress-hosted blogs, so I’ve settled for an RSS feed of recently added books.

Motivator

I’m guessing the above was created with the Motivator “poster” generator. Funny stuff. I found it at Occasional Superheroine, a blog I recently came across with amusing comic book commentary.

Give a dog a bone

via cute overload

Feed

I use Google Reader for my feed-reading needs, but I was looking forward to trying out Bloglines. So far I’ve only added a bunch of feeds (pictured below) and played around a bit, but it seems to be a nice alternative to Google Reader, maybe not quite as fast or intuitive, but giving you slightly different features (clippings for example).

Aggregators like Google Reader and Bloglines are a nice way to harness the blogosphere. And more user-friendly than the Feed in the M.T. Anderson novel.

In rainbows

If you’re a Radiohead fan you’ve already downloaded their self-released In Rainbows and decided what to pay for it. I paid $0. Someone I know at work paid $5. Except he didn’t realize you could elect to pay nothing, which makes me wonder how many other people didn’t realize this. In any case I think it’s interesting (and in this case exciting) how the digital format is still changing how music is marketed and sold.

Blanket

more funny pictures

All flickred out

I never realized how many Flickr tools/mashups there were out there. I’ll probably never use most of them, but it’s good to know they exist. (I’ve never owned a camera in my life. When I’ve taken trips with friends, it’s always been someone else taking the snapshots. I do have a cameraphone, but I rarely use it.)

Anyway, tools like Flickriver are a nice way to browse photos, but I haven’t found anything I would use to search photos over Flickr itself, especially now that you can view search results as a slide show. Retrievr is an interesting experiment, though frustratingly, I couldn’t get the image uploader to work.

Sunderland

Danger Danger, originally uploaded by photorelativity.

Deep water & sudden drop: a deadly combination for a stick figure. The pic comes from the amusing flickr photo pool, Stick Figures in Peril, and as a user has commented, “I think the ‘drop’ on the deep water picture is a lot steeper than the ‘drop’ on the sudden drop sign…”

I noticed that this particular sign is in the city of Sunderland, one of the subjects of a narrative non-fiction graphic novel I read a while ago, Alice in Sunderland by Bryan Talbot. There’s a great review of it here, in the style of the graphic novel itself.

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