Summer Time-Wasters: My Internet, For Your Consideration.

19 May 2009 | By Greg Gangelhoff in Techno Tuesday, Wednesday Time Wasters

This is exactly what being a member of the class of 2009 feels like.

In the words of a former Indy Editor in Chief, I am officially donezo with this place. Before I start to forget everything that happened on the Hilltop, however, I wanted to leave you all with a gift. That gift? The internet, or at least my experience of it as seen in glimpses on Wednesday Time Wasters. Get ready for most of the links that I have been holding back, and some of the links that are too fresh for previous columns.

  • Everything Is Terrible finds incredible and awkward videos, mainly from the 1990s, and provides a window into why we laugh at what we do today. It turns out that people were absurd and weird before the internet!
  • If you haven’t seen it yet and are interested in advertising, Copyranter has a sharp wit and an excellent cross-section of the world’s ads. Plus, lots of phallic imagery to gawk at.
  • For those of us who just graduated, check out this rundown of our job situation and the best places for us to seek work. The numbers and graphs don’t make this any less depressing, though.
  • Find all important facts concerning Gary Busey at Busey 101. Then you can contribute to this important font of knowledge in your spare summer time.
  • This image has been my GChat ID for months, and will not soon be changed (GET IT!?)
  • ManBabies takes photos of a father and son, and transposes the two figures’ heads. Creepy stuff.
  • Next time you get the urge to make a lame pose in a photo, remember: Photo Cliches is watching.
  • Yooouuutuuube takes any YouTube video (duh) and makes it into a moving video mosaic. I recommend trying it with this video for maximum effect.
  • Photobombers are those people who ruin photos for those in them, and make them awesome for everyone else. They are a credit to humanity.
  • The Customer Is Always Right documents the trials and tribulations of those poor saps that try to complain to various companies. Sometimes with hilarious success!
  • How Steven Seagal makes a movie. I’m telling you, the man is a genius.
  • This is a neat computer that lets you manipulate things in the style of ‘Minority Report.’
  • After a shipping accident in Australia, this guy does his worst to patch thing up. This one has percolated around the internet for a while, but is still required viewing.

Hit the jump for my favorite videos, plus one last hit of house music.

I love the Mantage. I am not as manly as the Mantage. You should watch it.

All late-night talk show should open like this. Take note, Conan. Via Videogum.

I may have posted this before (hey, this blogging thing is hard!) but it deserves to be seen over and over again. Whether you have seen Lazy Town or not, this is my first love — a wonderful duet between a young girl and Lil’ Jon. Super NSFW or the faint of heart.

I don’t watch ‘CSI: Miami’ and I don’t think that anyone else should, either. But this montage of one-liners is gangbusters without any context.

And finally, Calvin Harris has come out with a new single, ‘I’m Not Alone.’ I didn’t come into The Daily Monthly blogging about house music — although cowbells were involved — but it’s the only music that could play me out (that and Keyboard Cat). This sounds like a Calvin Harris track made love to a Junior Jack record while Tiesto watched, and even has funky dancing with weird undertones of misogyny. Enjoy!

Well, that does it for me. I think I wrote all that I had to write in my senior goodbye (yay for one last bout of self-promotion!), but I hope you are as amused by these last time-wasters as I was. This blog has been a fun bonanza for me, and much thanks goes to Jess for making it all possible and fun. I may not be authorized to do this, but on behalf of the other senior writers — that would be Ben, Jenna, and Meredith, chroniclers of Senior life and, briefly, the news — have a great summer and a great time at Georgetown.

Scott, good luck making The Daily Monthly into something incredible.

Peace out, and keep dancing.

2 Comments on “Summer Time-Wasters: My Internet, For Your Consideration.”

  1. Also, forgot to post this, but Auto Tune The News Part 3 is out now, and it’s a good ‘un: http://www.buzzfeed.com/endswell/auto-tune-the-news-3-3f2

     

  2. heaven = french chefs + street fighter + the entire Internet past present future, obviously. a great time-waster i just found: http://www.mspaintadventures.com, perfect if you’re feeling nostalgic for text-based adventure games. homestuck is the best, stick it out at least until the battle royale vs. dad.