remarkable communication

StumbleUpon Friday: February 15, 2008

From time to time I post some of my favorite recent Stumbles. Save yourself an hour or two, get the good stuff all at once!

• Excerpts from To You. This blew me away. "We live in group stupidity and confuse this insanity with true experience."
• With/Without Glasses. Little detail, big changes in perception.
• Fail.
• Screen cleaner.
• If Banner Ads Were Forced to Be Truthful.
• 1975 and the Changes to Come. The weird, wacky world of 1975 . . . as predicted in 1962.

And just as a bonus, I hope you all saw this killer Seth Godin post today (I know, I know, I quote him every ten minutes, what can I say the guy is just right all the damned time) about the mindset of an effective communicator.

If Remarkable Communication kicked the bucket, this could be its tombstone: The posture of a communicator.

StumbleUpon Friday: January 18, 2008

A little box of StumbleUpon treats for you.

• Keyboard waffle iron.
• Master's Degree. Just cruel.
• Ultra Condensations. Cool and funny.
• Top 10 Hunter S. Thompson quotes. Some of the best quotes are in the comments.
• Producten HEMA. This was actually brought to me by a commenter, Rebecca, but I subsequently Stumbled it, so that counts, right? Very cool example of a remarkable (for now) gimmick.

StumbleUpon Friday: January 11, 2008

Interesting sites found while Stumbling, with a heavy emphasis on the silly, useless and plain neato.

• Korean video of a new breed of human-faced fish. Eeeeek.
• The World of Nails.
• Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks. 10 nifty things you can do with Google.
• Monty Python Philosophy Football. If you think this kind of thing is funny, this is hilariously funny.
• Nathan Sawaya, the LEGO artist. Freaky, but neat.
• USB-powered desk vacuum cleaner. Just what your favorite compulsively tidy geek needs.

StumbleUpon Friday: December 21, 2007

A jolly collection of silly, odd or interesting things to waste your Friday afternoon.

• sad
• nifty clock
• Flying Spaghetti Monster, always funny (if you're me)
• Calvin & Hobbes on snowmen.
• Glitter Graphics, festive!
• The Real Line Rider

StumbleUpon Friday: December 14, 2007

Is it just me, or the great:crap ratio getting less favorable on Stumble lately?

Here's a hint if you're considering advertising on StumbleUpon*. Offer a page that someone might actually linger on for five seconds. I can only attribute the vast and annoying number of boring home pages, particularly for proxy sites, to SU advertising that's entirely wasted.

Either that, or maybe I gave a thumbs-up to something lame and they're punishing me. Always possible.

• Lokuloku, the cute toy that gets squished flat and then returns to its rotund original piggie shape.
• Holiday greetings from Bizarro
• Least-used chat e-bbreviations Including the popular "JTRIMHO" or "John Tesh Rules in my Humble Opinion"
• How to earn a six-figure income from blogging in two easy steps

* (In case you're not familiar, you can advertise a site on StumbleUpon and they'll deliver your page as if it had been organically Stumbled, for a price per delivery. If someone actually likes it and votes it up, you can get a free ride, with real Stumbles generating traffic beyond the original paid ones. Might be worth doing in some cases, although I think you're better off building stuff that people will Stumble for real.)

StumbleUpon Friday: December 7, 2007

More StumbleUpon selected randomality for your Friday time-wasting needs.

• The Truth
• Lunchballz Appealingly disgusting.
• Jayne Mansfield doing the Twist with a chihuahua In French. Who could resist?
• How to fold a towel elephant
• Google fight Watch two search terms duke it out. Very silly.
• Spamradio Click the "play" button to hear a digital voice reading spam as an audio feed. Nicely mesmerizing.
• The four types of community from Church of the New Customer. Actually relevant to the topic of this blog. (Once in awhile, StumbleUpon Friday is allowed to be useful after all.)

StumbleUpon Friday: November 30, 2007

No need to spend two hours Stumbling for something good, here are seven pre-selected entertaining time-wasters for your enjoyment.

• Top 10 Bizarre Literary Deaths.
• Only click if you like adorable photo sequences of pets.
• Phrase Thesaurus. A paid service, but you can fool with it for 20 minutes for free. And isn't that what StumbleUpon is truly about?
• Chris's Ascii art page. Thousands of hours of free time are a terrible thing to waste.
• Darth Vader tea towel
• Online coloring book. Just click a picture, then click the color palette to start filling it in. The perfect way to kill time in that budget meeting this afternoon.
• 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better than Anyone Else Ever Has or Will