Saturday evenings are suppose to be the most exciting. Friends, parties and a whole lot of activities really make it the most awaited evening of the week. So please bear with me when I tell you that last Saturday was nothing like that at all. Instead, after a long tiring week, the sapped energy didn’t allow me to go into more physical activities over the weekend. And lazily lounging around my less-tidy room, I decided to do noting more than troll the Net.
There wasn’t any particular agenda, just me, my creaking finger tapping the mouse and the whole world in front of me, in my computer. There weren’t any babe sites that night, just the meaningless meandering of a sapped out corporate officer which, by the way, led me to some of the equally meaningless sites around. For example there is this site for manholes! Yes, manholes, lids that cover the gutter holes of every urban landscape in the world. At http://www.manhole.ca/ there are photographs of these industrial works of art, if you dare to call them that, submitted by street-wise photographers from five continents. This homage to anonymous industrial designers has a varied collection that includes a public-art conscious cover from Manhattan, traditional floral work from Japan, a cryptic Canadian cover and the rectangular look from Down Under. It was indeed surprising to come upon a site dedicated to images of the lowly manhole. Vote for the best and the worst. But if by some chance you can’t get enough of these rusty metal mandalas, then explore the history of the sewer cover or delve into the annals of trivia of the manhole.
Then there’s http://kittenwar.com/. No it’s not about pictures or videos of the regular tomcats who take a swig at each other in the dead of the night in every neighbourhood of Karachi. Rather, it’s pictures of kitties who are going head to head in trying to become the king of the cutie cats. Just click on the kitten of your choice, get instant results and see if your cat has been declared the winner or not. Or, if you’re really the excited kind, then enter your own li’l furball into the fray. But just remember, there can be only one. This site is really for the cat lovers out there.
Thanks to the deregulation in the electronic media we are now experiencing a spate of healthy (at times not so) competition between various advertisers. But there are those advertisements that tout products as being new and improved. At http://www.theimpulsivebuy.com/ there are a whole lot of ads that went about saying that they are the one for your life, but the truth has even revealed at this site. Of course it’s all American here, but the site gives you an idea of how easily advertisers can coerce you simple folk out there into buying things that weren’t really needed in your home. Really a helpful site for those with a tight budget.
Now this had become too boring; looking into the bad side of advertising had me wanting for some fun and I found it at Funny Flash Video http://www.setmedia.ca/index.php?C=funny-flash-video&T=0. Away from the regular funny videos that dot the cyber landscape, this site doesn’t house its own movies on its own servers. Instead the links takes you to another site where the movie starts downloading and you can see it in real time. And just in case if you’re wonder, what’s a Flash movie, then there’s an FAQ that explains the details. But then I was too busy getting the laughs to have time to read anything at all. There was also the Welcome to Funny Downloads! http://funnydownloads.net/ whose name said it all. Funny videos, amusing movies (there’s a difference between the two). Downloads, advertisements, online fun flash games, spoofs, parodies, music, sounds, funny programmes, files and prank software all for free.
Away from the stomach aching stuff, I also discovered Drawn! http://www.drawn.ca/, a site for those who enjoy spending time in just two dimensions. A collaborative site, this one I found to be devoted to illustration, art, cartooning and drawing. Each post describes one or more sites and is archived in such categories as comics, film and TV, animation and design. Among the abundance of links, you’ll find Calvin & Hobbes, Spiderman, Walt Disney’s Oswald the Rabbit (the precursor to Mickey Mouse) and an isometric pixel art tutorial.
It’s past three in the morning right now and my boredom has turned into a dangling sleepy head. Though the sites were good and yes I had a few of them bookmarked. But I am sleepy right now and I will be hitting the sack. So happy surfing.
Saturday evenings are suppose to be the most exciting. Friends, parties and a whole lot of activities really make it the most awaited evening of the week. So please bear with me when I tell you that last Saturday was nothing like that at all. Instead, after a long tiring week, the sapped energy didn’t allow me to go into more physical activities over the weekend. And lazily lounging around my less-tidy room, I decided to do noting more than troll the Net.
Thanks to the deregulation in the electronic media we are now experiencing a spate of healthy (at times not so) competition between various advertisers. But there are those advertisements that tout products as being new and improved. At http://www.theimpulsivebuy.com/ there are a whole lot of ads that went about saying that they are the one for your life, but the truth has even revealed at this site. Of course it’s all American here, but the site gives you an idea of how easily advertisers can coerce you simple folk out there into buying things that weren’t really needed in your home. Really a helpful site for those with a tight budget.
