The Best (and worst) of the Internet

[Nick]

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/draw

[zourtney]

Curbside Classics, a photo-blog with commentary on old(er) cars. The tagline is something like "Every car has a story". I found the most glowing 800 words ever bestowed upon the Geo Metro here.

Today's theme seems to be old pictures of parking lots. I like this: when mundane pictures surface years later, giving a glimpse into the everyday past.

The guy appears to be from Eugene (...and may personify a few of its stereotypes) and is fairly well composed. At any rate, it's worth a look at for anyone who likes car trivia, pictures of rusty things, or justification for the existence of the Subaru Justy (see Three Pot Stew post).

[zourtney]

Here's a fun one: 1984 Mitsubishi Starion â€" Or Is It Stallion? explores the myth that the Starion's name originated from a Japanese-tongued pronunciation of "stallion". Good old fashion urban legends about a good old fashion Japanese classic.

Whatever it's called, I'd still take one

[Nick]

That's rather cool. There is a strange excitement that gets attached to uncovering mysteries of the past.
The time and dedication put into investigating something that hardly matters, it's inspiring! But then again those cars (probably any sporty car) have a bit of a following. I remember Robert talking about them a lot when we were both working at the pizza place.

More excitement centered around corporate mishaps:
I was reading a message board (reddit) a while back while people were talking about a lost Nickelodeon movie that was deemed too scary and subsequently only ever aired once. Supposedly there were no copies of the movie in the wild until a reddit user offered up an old home recording they had never disposed of. It was interesting to see so many people get so exited about a movie they hadn't even known exited before that day.

Since then it seems that Nickelodeon has capitalized on all the hype and pulled a copy out of storage for showing last Halloween.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/28/us-nickelodeon-idUSTRE79R69620111028
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry_Baby_Lane#Availability

The original reddit post:
http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/jedpc/til_nickelodeon_released_a_tv_movie_in_2000_that/

The person claiming to have the video has since deleted her account due to harassment by internet jerks

[Nick]

Command and Conquer in HTML5 + javascript:
http://apps.nahklick.de/cnc/

Kinda cool.

[Brad]

Anybody ever read the we comic The Adventures of Dr. McNinja? It is about an Irish ninja doctor who struggles with his dual compulsion to heal and kill. It also involves Mexican bandits, raptors, the clone of Benjamin Franklin and moustaches.

So far i've found it to be pretty funny. http://drmcninja.com/

[Cody]

That is rather funny...and very random. But the worst of the internet I could find today was some guy on a forum telling another guy that his computer sucks because it took longer for him to download a file...

Now I am no expert in these things really...but last time I checked, a computer's CPU, RAM, video card, hard drive space and other aspects that make a computer generally good or bad have very little to do with how fast you can actually download a file.

For example, my piece of crap laptop (which is running an operation system it isn't meant to, has only a gig of ram, built in video and an ancient processor) has, on many occasions, proven it is capable of downloading at speeds many times that of this computer I am using...which is quite a good computer. I mean my laptop has trouble running Solitaire but it was quite content to download at speeds approaching 2 megs a second whilst this one can currently only reach 190kbps!

Hmmm...I wonder why...

My rant for the evening is done. People on the internet are retarded.

[Brad]

I think the other stories after the Lumberjack one get much better.

You would have to have some seriously speedy internet for your hdd transfer speed to be the limiting factor. Even then the website you are downloading the file from must also have an unbelievable fast connection. Maybe if you had a super connection and were using bittorrent with like a zillion seeds... there may still be an overhead issue with too many simultaneous connections. People are dumb, and there are a lot of people on the internet.

[Nick]

Here is something from a less-dumb person on the internet. A new what-if series from the ever awesome, raptor fearing, XKCD dude.

http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

[Cody]

I must say I found that rather interesting, actually.

[Nick]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/u-postal-asking-floridians-stop-crashing-post-offices-213551323.html

Dangers of living in Florida Or more precisely, the dangers of living with old people on the road.

[Frioevie]

You should see how scary and "special" these Florida drivers are!! Not a fan at all!!

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[zourtney]

South of the Retiree Divide, mistaking the gas pedal for the brake may be the biggest problem. But around here, people seem to view traffic lights' yellow and red as varying shades of green.

Yesterday, I seriously saw a guy halfway through the intersection before his light was green.

[zourtney]

We need to do more stuff like this:

http://www.manapotions.com/Chaingun.html

(The video is pretty dorky until about a minute in)

[Nick]

Dang. That is a awesome beast. How to keep it firing for more then a second though...