Funny Old Web: the Seven wonders of Street View
Not just a tool for the terminally nosey, Google Street View also allows nostalgic web users to travel back to more innocent, happier times – i.e. the heady pre-recession days of Summer 2008 when the photos were taken, and when Zavvi, the Pier and Woolworths still ruled the high street.
Funny Old Web: “Lest they make Wikipedia appear idiosyncratic”
From the world’s shortest street (2.06m – the aptly named Ebenezer Place in Caithness) to unmissable ‘eccentric tourist attractions’ like the Cardrona Bra Fence, NZ or the Icelandic Phallological Museum, the Wikipedia unusual articles page is a treasure trove of…
Funny Old Web: From GurnTube to RaveCameron
Gordon Brown’s now infamous YouTube address on MPs’ expense reform might now seem, bizarrely, to remind us of happier times…
Funny Old Web: Google employs mini-Stay Puff to market Chrome
Of the 11 short films Google commissioned to promote its Chrome browser, more than half appear to have been conceived in an opium dream”, writes Zachary Rodgers at Clickz.com.
Outrageous Fortune (1987)
In its way, more baffling than the nutty Inland Empire and Obsession put together, Shelley Long plays a wannabe female Hamlet, Bette Midler a wannabe porn actress, as they share a humiliating Stanislavskian method acting class, and, well…
Funny Old Web: Pet Door 2.0
Of all the most innovative, not to mention useful inventions of the digital age, a cat flap which posts automatic pictures of feline intruders to Twitter is definitely at the top of the list.
Thumbsucker (2005)
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Vincent D’Onofrio, Keanu Reeves, Lou Pucci. As if growing up in nondescript Middle America wasn’t enough of a bitch already, Lou Pucci’s Justin Cobb has plenty more on his plate:
I can’t do my work
I don’t think so!
Under Construction
This site is under construction… Wha’happened?
Note to self: watch fewer Dario Argento films
Speaks for itself really.