Saturday 22 January 2011

30 Day blog challenge: Day 21 - a website & Day 22 - a YouTube video

i seem to have spent most of this challenge not quite sticking to the rules in one way or another.  but it's my blog, and i can do what i like.  so there. *pouts*

actually, i was knackered last night, and just couldn't face going through all of the rigmarole of blogging (i think i've explained before somewhere this month what a pain in the ass it is to just get online, so i won't go over it again), and besides, i was busy putting a face-mask on, wearing jammies, watching Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and cuddling wih an equally knackered hubby.

so.

two posts for the price of one.

first: a website.

i played with the idea of linking to Neil Gaiman's Website, since it was sort of my introduction to the wider wonderful weirdness of the web, but that's too obvious.  another i looked at is the cheezburger network, because i like to laugh, and i'm guaranteed a chuckle from there.  but everybody's seen that website in one form or another.  i mean, everybody knows what a LOLcat is, right?

so how about xkcd?  it's (quote) "a webcomic of romace, sarcasm, math and language".  basically, it's mostly stick figures making whimsical jokes.  i admit to not getting all of the jokes, since a lot of them depend on the reader being a cleverer and more familliar with popular culture and technology than i.  but i get most on some level, and it's endearingly and unashamedly geeky.  click on the "random" button to get a fairly wide selection of cartoons about a surprisingly wide range of topics (though physics and technology are heavily favoured).  although there's a pretty good selection here, too. *chuckle*

and today's offering: a YouTube Video.

aw, c'mooooon - there's f**kin' billions of these things!

the most recent one i watched was for Amanda Palmer's awesome new single:  Map Of Tasmania. 

geographical / cultural note:  "map of Tasmania" is an Australian euphemism for female pubic hair, as the island of Tasmania is vaguely triangular in shape....  (hence the catcall: "Hey, love - show us yer map of Tasmania!")  i love the song, and the video - as well as looking great - made me LMAO.

enjoy! :oD


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1 comment:

  1. I just learned something new today. I've never heard it called a map of Tasmania.

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