Tuesday, May 12, 2009
two new sites i've recently run-in to, and an older one worth remembering
freerice.com/
Here's a site any word lover could get addicted to and really fast. Luckily your game playing will not only make you smarter, but also serves altruistic purposes. Even if your day's humanitarian deeds are only ten grains of rice per correct answer, it could be just enough of an excuse to validate procrastination. And that warrants an A-OK in my book any day.
omegle.com/
I'm not sure how I feel about this site yet, as the anonymity aspect seems uncannily similar to the primitive, black and white web I surfed at twelve (which is also why I like it). The premise of it is very simple: type in the web address, let the page load, and press connect to be randomly assigned to somebody else who at that instant was also doing the same. It's a minimalist site with a candid motive: talk to strangers. (Right now I'm talking to somebody from Lyon, France about ripping bear flesh apart in Patagonia.)
wefeelfine.org/
This site was hands down my favorite site of 2006. It "harvests" feelings--sentences that include "i feel" or "i am feeling"--from recently published blog posts. The site's interface itself is one of the reasons why the site is so popular, allowing you by a panel to screen feelings by adjective, place, weather, time, or gender (to name a few). Of course this feature just narrows a search by criterion, and to experience the six lenses that help you picture the web's mood, you'll have to take a peek yourself.
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