Hottest 100 of All Time? Hmmmmmm..

So I’m trying to figure out the top 10 songs I’d vote for HOTTEST 100 OF ALL TIME. For TripleJ ofc.

It’s hard to be properly objective at all when it’s all about nostalgia and personal memories. And when blogging etc it also becomes about your public image and what you want others to think about you. (”I’m so interesting, check out my taste in X!”…. But in all seriousness, check out my awesome list. Yeah!)

Anyway so far it’s something along the lines of (in no order):

• The Boxer (or A Hazy Shade of Winter) – Simon and Garfunkel
• How Soon is Now? – The Smiths
• Common People – Pulp
• Boys Don’t Cry – The Cure
• High and Dry (or Fake Plastic Trees) – Radiohead
• Imagine – John Lennon
• Voodoo People (strange outlier that won’t seem to fall off this list for some reason) – The Prodigy
• Our House – Madness
• Coffee and TV – Blur
• Bittersweet Symphony – The Verve

It’s interesting how one is compelled to include exactly 1 song from a band. If I can’t choose between High and Dry and Fake Plastic Trees is it likely one is in the top 10 and one is not? More likely they’re both nearby to each other and chances are I could have them both in my top 10, but that would seem wrong when real estate there is so scarce. It’s also interesting how bands I wish were in there and like more than bands that are just don’t have any mad stand out song that can stand it’s ground in so small a list. (Oasis, Flaming Lips…)

Omegle

Omegle is a site where you are put into a 1 to 1 instant messaging conversation with a stranger, anonymously.

My first conversation:

Connecting to server…
You’re now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
You: morning
Stranger: r u a female
You: no
You: r u?
Your conversational partner has disconnected.

Though not all conversations are that bad

Evil Twitter Darknet

So I had an idea while waxing with Simon and others at the letsmakegames gamejam event tonight and came up with an awesome idea.

An evil Twitter ‘darknet’.

Everyone makes a new clone user called evilusername, I would be evilbeetlefeet. Then you only follow other evil people. Ideally anyone who crosses the evil / non-evil boundary by following the wrong type of person would be shunned by both sides. Tsk tsk.

This network of evil people would then be separated from ‘regular’ users and have their own evil status updates and remarks about their evil doings and goings on. When you tweet your normal tweets you should also tweet an evil version.

For example:
beetlefeet: “Just had an awesome cherry pie!”
evilbeetlefeet: “Just had an awesome cherry pie, it reminded me of spilling innocents’ blood!”

You know it makes sense!

Amazing Pics from Saturn

It’s so fascinating to think about what you are actually looking at in these pictures, and how the picture made its way to your screen. It’s too easy to just glance and go ‘yep Saturn’ and not think about how incredible the images are.

Tiny moon imbedded in Saturns rings.

Cassini’s continued mission 

tweenbots!

Kacie Kinzer creates tweenbots and sets them loose in the city to get help travelling from one place to the other.

“Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter.”
Must see!

(via: Gizmodo)

Solar lighting indoors

I stumbled across this random article on some random page somehow (reading about web hosting and stuff).

We Put Outdoor Solar Lights Inside Our House

Seems like a pretty simple but great idea.