1. a site claiming to translate any word from english to parseltongue. as soon as you enter in a word, it plays a sound recording of what is supposed to be that word in parseltongue. since i believe J.K. Rowling didn't pull a Tolkien and spend an epic amount of time developing her imaginary language, i don't know who actually took the time to develop these "words" and record them, but they must have been very bored. maybe i should start doing something similar, to stave off the ennui i feel these days. on a related note, if you google "how to speak parseltongue," one of the results leads you to a site where people discuss how to learn/speak parseltongue and actually communicate with snakes. i have no idea if these people are being serious, but i'd like to think they are because it makes me laugh (let's not mention the fact that i actually googled this).
2. the steampunk subculture. i can't remember how i stumbled upon this one, but i had been curious about it for a while. my first exposure came through playing vampire wars (omg, why am i such a geek?), because they have different steampunk fashion items to dress your avatar. anyway, somehow i ended up on the wikipedia page for steampunk, and after reading the article for it, i have to say that it seems like a pretty badass movement.
i totally want one of these!3. cleverbot. i think i spent at least a good half hour discussing with this AI why life is so boring, and why it (he? she? do AIs transcend gender designation and all the signifiers that are inherently tied with the assignment of gender? sorry, my parenthetical thoughts are random and sometimes completely derail me from my original train of thought) dislikes eggs. i should have asked if it/he/she/all of the above meant "eggs" as in the embryonic state which we sometimes eat, or the character from true blood. either way, i'm curious why cleverbot dislikes eggs, but not enough to go back and ask. maybe when i'm bored at work tomorrow...
4. the language preference setting on facebook. did you know that if you go to settings and click on the language tab, you can change your language preferences to not only dozens and dozens of "real" languages, but also some unique and interesting ones such as esperanto (please don't hurt me, william shatner!), pirate (in english, of course), 1337 (leet, for you n00bz) speak, and so on? i had fun changing my language preferences to pirate and leet...under the pirate setting "mobile" becomes "pocket parrot." that just might have made my day.
- "t311 j00r m8z 7h47 F4c3b00k 15 1n l33t sp34k."
5. howmanyofme. have you ever wondered how many people in the u.s. share your name? well, fear not, because there is a website that reveals how many name twins you have in the u.s. it gives you statistics with your first name and last name separately, and then your full name. apparently, there are 255,222 people with the name "esther" in the states, 99.9% of whom are female. i am incredibly curious to find the poor .1% named "esther" who are male. i am also curious about how many of these esthers are either over the age of 70, korean/korean-american, or maybe even both. other than the somewhat narcissistic fun of looking up your own name, it's also fun to look up names of celebrities, or even fictional characters (i think harry potter was at the top of their list of most searched famous names).
in conclusion, i am a huge dork and a loser lost in the endless treasure trove that is the worldwide web. ok, time for sleep now.
4. the language preference setting on facebook. did you know that if you go to settings and click on the language tab, you can change your language preferences to not only dozens and dozens of "real" languages, but also some unique and interesting ones such as esperanto (please don't hurt me, william shatner!), pirate (in english, of course), 1337 (leet, for you n00bz) speak, and so on? i had fun changing my language preferences to pirate and leet...under the pirate setting "mobile" becomes "pocket parrot." that just might have made my day.
- "t311 j00r m8z 7h47 F4c3b00k 15 1n l33t sp34k."
5. howmanyofme. have you ever wondered how many people in the u.s. share your name? well, fear not, because there is a website that reveals how many name twins you have in the u.s. it gives you statistics with your first name and last name separately, and then your full name. apparently, there are 255,222 people with the name "esther" in the states, 99.9% of whom are female. i am incredibly curious to find the poor .1% named "esther" who are male. i am also curious about how many of these esthers are either over the age of 70, korean/korean-american, or maybe even both. other than the somewhat narcissistic fun of looking up your own name, it's also fun to look up names of celebrities, or even fictional characters (i think harry potter was at the top of their list of most searched famous names).
in conclusion, i am a huge dork and a loser lost in the endless treasure trove that is the worldwide web. ok, time for sleep now.
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