Hats of Meat
Sorry, I got the name wrong in that last note -- "meathats" just takes you to RocketSearch.
Friday, February 15, 2002
Fark.com Comments Thingee (115999)
My friend Thomas just sent me something about http://meathats.com, which got me wondering whether anyone is doing sushi hats... But I'm not going to spend some of my insomniac hours looking.
Instead I wrote Thomas this note about a couple of other sites, and decided it's worth sharing here:
Speaking of online humor, have your students FARKed? Or caught the FARK vs. SomethingAwful rivalry?
That's http://fark.com and http://somethingawful.com
In addition to the bloggish (http://boblog.blogspot.com/, http://stepno.manilasites.com, http://pages.emerson.edu/faculty/bob_stepno/weblog) site-sharing at fark, the virtual community of visual lampoon, satire and tastelessness at fark can be a hoot. On the other hand, I think somethingawful.com tries too hard to live up to its name and gets too ugly.
To see what I mean at fark, pop open the home page in a windoid next to this one... notice the column of thin, half-inch-wide banner icons that say things like "amusing," "cool," "stupid" and "boobies"? Scan down until you find one of those that says "Photoshop" -- with a text field next to it that says something like "Photoshop this Brazilian carnival succubus (hard)," and a number in the right column, like f'rinstance "133"
That means that someone has suggested an image to be hacked with Photoshop, and that 133 people have either hacked it and posted the hack, or posted a comment on the hack.
I haven't looked at "Photoshop this Brazilian carnival succubus (hard)" yet--not only because I'm afraid "hard" means "terribly disgusting," but because I'm on my modem connection at the moment, and one document with 133 images will grind my iBook to a halt.
The real "communal CMC visual speech deconstructionist academic researcher" in me might find something conference-paperish to say about the self-referential (in-joke) dialogue going on among fark users -- in that an element from a particularly amusing farked photo from last month will reappear being farked into a new photo this week, etc. (A pretty girl in a purple wig and a Diamondbacks T-shirt holding up a sign was one... Osama and his gang in front of a cave was another.)
My friend Thomas just sent me something about http://meathats.com, which got me wondering whether anyone is doing sushi hats... But I'm not going to spend some of my insomniac hours looking.
Instead I wrote Thomas this note about a couple of other sites, and decided it's worth sharing here:
Speaking of online humor, have your students FARKed? Or caught the FARK vs. SomethingAwful rivalry?
That's http://fark.com and http://somethingawful.com
In addition to the bloggish (http://boblog.blogspot.com/, http://stepno.manilasites.com, http://pages.emerson.edu/faculty/bob_stepno/weblog) site-sharing at fark, the virtual community of visual lampoon, satire and tastelessness at fark can be a hoot. On the other hand, I think somethingawful.com tries too hard to live up to its name and gets too ugly.
To see what I mean at fark, pop open the home page in a windoid next to this one... notice the column of thin, half-inch-wide banner icons that say things like "amusing," "cool," "stupid" and "boobies"? Scan down until you find one of those that says "Photoshop" -- with a text field next to it that says something like "Photoshop this Brazilian carnival succubus (hard)," and a number in the right column, like f'rinstance "133"
That means that someone has suggested an image to be hacked with Photoshop, and that 133 people have either hacked it and posted the hack, or posted a comment on the hack.
I haven't looked at "Photoshop this Brazilian carnival succubus (hard)" yet--not only because I'm afraid "hard" means "terribly disgusting," but because I'm on my modem connection at the moment, and one document with 133 images will grind my iBook to a halt.
The real "communal CMC visual speech deconstructionist academic researcher" in me might find something conference-paperish to say about the self-referential (in-joke) dialogue going on among fark users -- in that an element from a particularly amusing farked photo from last month will reappear being farked into a new photo this week, etc. (A pretty girl in a purple wig and a Diamondbacks T-shirt holding up a sign was one... Osama and his gang in front of a cave was another.)
Sunday, February 10, 2002
NPR tunes in to multimedia reporting - Tech News - CNET.com Good overview by Jim Hu of CNET on how NPR's radio reporters add digital cameras to shoot for their Web site -- and document stories the way only images can.
Saturday, February 09, 2002
Hyperactiveman.com
Whenever I have enough bandwidth, I try to catch up on what Keith is doing... not to be confused with catching up with Keith. This week it's a fisheye lens. He sent me my 12/31/99 to 01/01/00 "Happy new year" greeting from a party in Hong Kong, using his first wireless Palm Pilot... which is what finally got me to buy a PDA.
GardenWeb - The Internet's Garden Community
My thumb is about as green as... well, I can't think of anything not-green enough. However, I stumbled on Gardenweb.com somehow and was impressed with the organization and the use of reader-forums, including photo albums of antique roses, and some evidence that regular users have some of that "virtual community" feeling.
NewsForge: Open Source News
I've met some interesting people doing open source software, so I've started reading this news site, which uses the Slash system to collect stories from readers.
Monday, December 24, 2001
My short essay on weblogs...
... is connected to that heading link.
Update 2009: What was a short essay grew over the years and leapt from server to server. Because the old site is long gone, that link goes to the last revision.
... is connected to that heading link.
Update 2009: What was a short essay grew over the years and leapt from server to server. Because the old site is long gone, that link goes to the last revision.
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