Apparently, most search engines only search about %1 of the web. Lets change that with this website created by Alisa Miller.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Akinator
A very fun game where Akinator tries to guess who you are thinking of, whether it be a real person, a made up one, or Kermit the Frog.
He's a clever little beast... or genie? The only time I fooled him, was when I took something he said out of context or went full dork mode on him with trivial details (I suppose that's cheating), other than that, I haven't been able to really trick him... I think by far the one that caught me off guard that he guessed right was, James (Dad) from "Fallout 3."
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The link is set on English, but you can choose from the other selection of languages as well.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Cleverbot
A fun program where you ask this bot any questions you want. The programmers really poured their heart and soul into this. The bot can sometimes whip out some very clever responses. Though, it is definently not impossible to "trick" the bot. Also, if you want to see some other people's conversations, go here.
9 LSD Induced Drawings
(1st Drawing: 20 minutes after one dose)
(7th Drawing: 4 hours 25 minutes after two doses)
"These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD -- part of a test conducted by the US government during it's dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950's. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject is the medico that jabbed him."
Happy House (Hamster)
A virtual pet hamster that was created by Arai Harumi. She created this program after her pet hamster, Ruby died. It does have a striking resemblance to a real hamster's attitude. Admittedly, I found the sound effects chosen for the hamster to be annoying, but that could just be me. Non-the-less, it's worth a download for a little bit of fun.
C'mon. You know you want the Hamster.
Also, as a side note. For me, I had to click on the middle of the black screen for the box to appear after starting the program. You might have problems as well and if you do, just go to the website and find the NOTE section and it will give you tips on how to get it running.
Old Timey Ads From 1911-1957
I've always been fascinated with old ads, particularly from the 1950s. This particular website shows you many of the ads that were featured in the more innocent days.
Beauty and Hygiene (1911 - 1956)
Radio (1922 - 1956)
Television (1939 - 1957)
Transportation (1938 - 1957)
World War II (1942 - 1945)
Jani's at the Mercy of Her Mind
"Michael and Susan Schofield's 6-year-old daughter is locked in a nightmare realm of schizophrenia -- and no one can help her."
Pg. 01 of 05
"It's been a rough week. A few days ago, at UCLA's Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, 6-year-old Jani toppled a food cart and was confined to her room. She slammed her head against the floor, opening a bloody cut that sent her into hysterics. Later, she kicked the hospital therapy dog.
Jani normally likes animals. But most of her animal friends -- cats, rats, dogs and birds -- are phantoms that only she can see. January Schofield has schizophrenia. Potent psychiatric drugs -- in doses that would stagger most adults -- seem to skip off her. She is among the rarest of the rare: a child seemingly born mentally ill.
She suffers from delusions, hallucinations and paroxysms of rage so severe that not even her parents feel safe. She's threatened to climb into an oven. She's kicked and tried to bite her little brother. "I'm Jani, and I have a cat named Emily 54," she says, by way of introduction. "And I'm Saturn-the-Rat's baby sitter."
She locks her fingers in front of her chest and flexes her wrists furiously, a tic that surfaces when she's anxious.
She announces that she wants to be a veterinarian.
"I'm empathetic with rats," she says.
Asked what "empathetic" means, she smiles confidently. "It means you like rats."
The doctors have been trying a new antipsychotic medication, called Moban. Jani knows she is sick and that people want to help her.
"Is the Moban working?" her mother asks Jani during a visit.
"No. I have more friends."
Susan Schofield looks crestfallen.
She and her husband, Michael Schofield, have brought French fries. Jani takes a bite, runs around the room and circles back for another bite.
"You want the rats and cats to go away, don't you?" Susan asks, trying to make eye contact with her daughter.
Jani stuffs a French fry into her mouth.
"No," she says. "They're cool. Rats are cool."
--
About 1% of adults have schizophrenia; most become ill in their late teens or 20s. Approximately one in 10 will commit suicide.
Doctors and other mental health experts don't fully understand the disease, which has no cure. Jani's extreme early onset has left them almost helpless. The rate of onset in children 13 and under is about one in 30,000 to 50,000. In a national study of 110 children, only one was diagnosed as young as age 6.
"Child-onset schizophrenia is 20 to 30 times more severe than adult-onset schizophrenia," says Dr. Nitin Gogtay, a neurologist at the National Institute of Mental Health who helps direct the children's study, the largest such study in the world on the illness.
"Ninety-five percent of the time they are awake these kids are actively hallucinating," Gogtay says. "I don't think I've seen anything more devastating in all of medicine." "
Jani normally likes animals. But most of her animal friends -- cats, rats, dogs and birds -- are phantoms that only she can see. January Schofield has schizophrenia. Potent psychiatric drugs -- in doses that would stagger most adults -- seem to skip off her. She is among the rarest of the rare: a child seemingly born mentally ill.
She suffers from delusions, hallucinations and paroxysms of rage so severe that not even her parents feel safe. She's threatened to climb into an oven. She's kicked and tried to bite her little brother. "I'm Jani, and I have a cat named Emily 54," she says, by way of introduction. "And I'm Saturn-the-Rat's baby sitter."
She locks her fingers in front of her chest and flexes her wrists furiously, a tic that surfaces when she's anxious.
She announces that she wants to be a veterinarian.
"I'm empathetic with rats," she says.
Asked what "empathetic" means, she smiles confidently. "It means you like rats."
The doctors have been trying a new antipsychotic medication, called Moban. Jani knows she is sick and that people want to help her.
"Is the Moban working?" her mother asks Jani during a visit.
"No. I have more friends."
Susan Schofield looks crestfallen.
She and her husband, Michael Schofield, have brought French fries. Jani takes a bite, runs around the room and circles back for another bite.
"You want the rats and cats to go away, don't you?" Susan asks, trying to make eye contact with her daughter.
Jani stuffs a French fry into her mouth.
"No," she says. "They're cool. Rats are cool."
--
About 1% of adults have schizophrenia; most become ill in their late teens or 20s. Approximately one in 10 will commit suicide.
Doctors and other mental health experts don't fully understand the disease, which has no cure. Jani's extreme early onset has left them almost helpless. The rate of onset in children 13 and under is about one in 30,000 to 50,000. In a national study of 110 children, only one was diagnosed as young as age 6.
"Child-onset schizophrenia is 20 to 30 times more severe than adult-onset schizophrenia," says Dr. Nitin Gogtay, a neurologist at the National Institute of Mental Health who helps direct the children's study, the largest such study in the world on the illness.
"Ninety-five percent of the time they are awake these kids are actively hallucinating," Gogtay says. "I don't think I've seen anything more devastating in all of medicine." "
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
20 Questions
Everyone should know the game 20 Questions. You or a friend come up with whatever you want, while the other one asks 20 Yes/No Questions to figure out what the hell you came up with. Thankfully, now you don't have to have that friend of yours to play the game! Have fun!!
Also, this game is in several other languages.
100 Free, Essential Web Tools for Digital Artists
Title says it all, so I will just copy & paste the authors comment:
"Whether you make creative digital videos of performance art, paint with computer programs or are on your way to one of the best design schools, there are loads of ways that you can get free online tools to help you with your project. Here we’ve listed 100 tools to get you started sharing your work, converting files, editing and much more."
The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth - Cracked's Website
This is from a website I recently have discovered, it gives a bunch of lists/countdowns of miscellaneous things.
On all fairness for his list. I will only list the first one. You will have to go to the site for the rest.
#6. Aokigahara Forest
"Aokigahara is a woodland at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan that makes The Blair Witch Project forest look like Winnie the Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood. It probably has something to do with all the dead bodies scattered around.
What Niagara Falls is to weddings, Aokigahara is to suicide. How many suicides does it takes for a place to get that reputation? A dozen? Fifty?
More than 500 fucking people have taken their own lives in Aokigahara since the 1950s.
The trend has supposedly started after Seicho Matsumoto published his novel Kuroi Kaiju (Black Sea of Trees) where two of his characters commit suicide there. After that-always eager to prove they are bizarrely susceptible to suggestion-hundreds of Japanese people have hanged themselves among the countless trees of the Aokigahara forest, which is reportedly so thick that even in high noon it's not hard to find places completely surrounded by darkness.
Also Skulls.
Besides bodies and homemade nooses, the area is littered with signs displaying such uplifting messages like "Life is a precious thing! Please reconsider!" or "Think of your family!"
"If you commit suicide here, bears will poop on your corpse."
In the 70s, the problem got national attention and the Japanese government began doing annual sweeps of the forest in search of bodies. In 2002, they found 78. But who knows how many they missed? In all likelihood there probably is a hanged person somewhere in Aokigahara on any given day. You can see some of them here. WARNING, NSFS (Not Safe For Soul).
By the way, if an entire dark forest full of hanged corpses wasn't bad enough, a few years ago some people noticed that a lot of the dead in Aokigahara probably had cash or jewelry on them. Thus began the proud Japanese tradition of Aokigahara Scavenging where people are running around the Death Forest, looking for dead guys to loot."
It only gets better as you continue down the list! Sweet Dreams!
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
dayofbirth.co.uk
"Find fun and interesting facts about the day and year you were born. Just enter your date of birth below and click Go to begin. "
Penny Arcade
I would be surprised that you have not heard of this comic, but for the record I will still give it a spot light. Penny Arcade comic is primarily about video games and other random shenanigans.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Cooking By Numbers
Cooking By Numbers, or c00kin96ynum6er5 for the 1337 enthusiasts!
This site will ask you, what you have in your refrigerator or cabinet. It gives you a check list of different food items, and from there will give you a list of recipes you can make with said items. Quite useful if there are no sites giving you recipes for leftovers!
This site will ask you, what you have in your refrigerator or cabinet. It gives you a check list of different food items, and from there will give you a list of recipes you can make with said items. Quite useful if there are no sites giving you recipes for leftovers!
Friday, October 9, 2009
2 Keystrokes
A very useful site, if you ever need to type in a different language or to just use the Unicode. There is much more you can do with this, but I'll let you figure that out! :)
Just Copy & Paste.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Riptionary: Surf Lingo Lexicon
For people that have no idea what those surfers are saying. You can now learn your A-Frame to your Zoo.
File Hippo: Is Hungry Hungry!!
I'm sure all of you or most of you have heard of this site, but just in case you haven't, here it is:
Here's a list of different types of things you can download:
- Browsers and Plugins
- File Sharing
- Messaging and Chat
- File Transfer
- Office and News
- Developer Tools
- Anti-Spyware
- Anti-Virus
- Cleaning and Tweaking
- Compression and Backup
- Benchmarking
- Networking and Admin
- Audio and Video
- CD and DVD Tools
- Desktop
- Imaging
- Drivers
- Firewalls and Security
Science Confirms the Obvious!
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Become A Follower - The Perry Bible Fellowship
I would be surprised if you haven't at least read one of his comics. Sadly, he doesn't come out with any new ones anymore. Randomness will ensue...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Feed The Head
Feed The Head is a Point and Click Game, and even a pull one. There is an ending to it, can you figure it out??
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Lets Start With The Facts - Human World
Facts, one of those things I find so intriguing and half the time pointless. The facts we will cover today are of that of the "Human World (The Original Website)." Facts about society and the world we live in. Here, is a taste of the website: (1*)
"The women of the Tiwi tribe in the South Pacific are married at birth.
When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand German.
St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was not Irish.
The lance ceased to be an official battle weapon in the British Army in 1927.
St. John was the only one of the 12 Apostles to die a natural death.
Many sailors used to wear gold earrings so that they could afford a proper burial when they died.
Some very Orthodox Jew refuse to speak Hebrew, believing it to be a language reserved only for the Prophets.
A South African monkey was once awarded a medal and promoted to the rank of corporal during World War I.
Born 4 January 1838, General Tom Thumb's growth slowed at the age of 6 months, at 5 years he was signed to the circus by P.T. Barnum, and at adulthood reached a height of only 1 metre.
Because they had no proper rubbish disposal system, the streets of ancient Mesopotamia became literally knee-deep in rubbish.
The Toltecs, Seventh-century native Mexicans, went into battle with wooden swords so as not to kill their enemies.
China banned the pigtail in 1911 as it was seen as a symbol of feudalism.
The Amayra guides of Bolivia are said to be able to keep pace with a trotting horse for a distance of 100 kilometres.
Sliced bread was patented by a jeweller, Otto Rohwedder, in 1928. He had been working on it for 16 years, having started in 1912.
Before it was stopped by the British, it was the not uncommon for women in some areas of India to choose to be burnt alive on their husband's funeral pyre.
Ivan the terrible claimed to have 'deflowered thousands of virgins and butchered a similar number of resulting offspring'.
Before the Second World War, it was considered a sacrilege to even touch an Emperor of Japan.
An American aircraft in Vietnam shot itself down with one of its own missiles.
The Anglo-Saxons believed Friday to be such an unlucky day that they ritually slaughtered any child unfortunate enough to be born on that day."
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(1*) There's A LOT more to the website, so, if you like what you've just read, definitely have a look at it!
:: Saya in Underworld :: The Whole Reason I Started This Blog
This Site is a MUST SEE. It is the whole reason I decided to make a blog, thus why it is the first of all the sites I will be uploading. She is a large inspiration to this blog and the way it is laid out. I hope this compliments her and does not in any way offend her.
If you are Saya and this offends you, I will take it down immediately! I will try to contact you, to make sure this is all right!
Saya takes her time out of her day to translate Japanese Tales into English. The tales primarily consist of a supernatural theme, but at times will surprise you with something else. You will have to go check it out to find out for yourself. It plunges you into Japan's dark culture, which Japanese culture in itself is fun. It provides you with: Pictures, Video, & most importantly the stories!!
This is not my personal favorite, but an example as to what the site has to offer:
"Uba-Yo-Sare"
*If you are afraid of going to toilet alone in the middle of night you'd better not read this kind of story. I have warned you!
"A man woke up in the middle of night to go to bathroom. He got up and groped his way to the door in the dark. He was about to open it when someone knocked it three times from the other side. This was strange, since he lived alone in the house. He thought he must have a friend staying over without remembering it, as such things often happened after a night of drunken revelry. He therefore opened it without much concern.
But instead of a familiar face of his friend, he saw a strange old woman dressed in kimono, with a bent back and downcast eyes, standing still in the doorway. Her face was unusually pale.
And the old woman, without words, took him away to some faraway place, and the man was never seen again.
If you have read this story, you may have a visit from the same old woman within three days. If you hear the knocks three times in the middle of night before you open a door, do not open it immediately, but chant the word "Uba-Yo-Sare" three times. This will make the malicious old woman go away. If you don't follow the instruction, well..... you know what happens."
But instead of a familiar face of his friend, he saw a strange old woman dressed in kimono, with a bent back and downcast eyes, standing still in the doorway. Her face was unusually pale.
And the old woman, without words, took him away to some faraway place, and the man was never seen again.
If you have read this story, you may have a visit from the same old woman within three days. If you hear the knocks three times in the middle of night before you open a door, do not open it immediately, but chant the word "Uba-Yo-Sare" three times. This will make the malicious old woman go away. If you don't follow the instruction, well..... you know what happens."
Again, you should go check it out, it can keep you entertained for hours!
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A New World
My First Post.... I am new to this whole blogging thing. I'm not quite sure what I should post first. Everyone starts somewhere. I doubt I will get many visits, which isn't too much of a problem, considering I am making this mostly for myself and friends. But if by chance I get anyone else (besides who I know) to visit, it would be a welcome sight. I hope I do not fail to entertain!!
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