Tag: CULTURE

Wheretheladies.at, the finest low-hanging juicy fruit of geolocation, is now available for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Using check-in data from Foursquare, the app provides a large, red easy-to-see-even-when-inebriated compass needle that points to wherever the ladies are at. At the moment, the service only works in San Francisco, which will no doubt exacerbate a gaping flaw in the system: ...

Thxthxthx was brought to my attention by commenter Vitor when I wrote about Dear Meat. There are distinct similarities, but these are two different beasts. While Dear Meat is an open (if curated) forum, thxthxthx is one woman's quest to express her gratitude for one thing per day. That woman is Leah Dietrich, an LA-based creative director/writer. The project seems to have a bit of a history; it's ...

Dear Meat is one of the more creative uses for Tumblr that I've seen recently. It's run by a guy named Matthew Hocker, and it features letters that people have written to things. Matthew curates the site, so it's not a bunch of random comments. I mean, it's quite random, but the content is interesting and evokes emotion. As I write this, the front page features "Dear Nipples," "Dear Tripod," ...

Notologist is a simple idea that's beautifully executed. Phil Zelnar leaves pretty paper notes lying around, each one containing a code and a handwritten question. Someone finds the note, goes to the site, enters the code, and writes their reply. The rest of the world gets to see the replies and enjoy the site's beautiful design. This is obviously a PR stunt, but it works. It's a great way for ...

HelloMovies is a quick and easy-to-use website for filtering the enormous glut of films into a more manageable list of stuff you might actually enjoy watching. Using a simple sidebar filter, you can quickly whittle down the complete list of films by genre, style, approximate release date (very approximate – think "1990's"), language, and even by films that won a major award. Once you narrow ...

Movie Posters Archive does right what it says on the tin. Sure, there's always Google Images, but sometimes a manually-curated, neatly-labeled archive is just what you need. The posters on the site are intentionally small, for legal reasons; you won't be able to print them out and decorate your room with them... Actually, it might be interesting to put a few of them through the Rasterbator and ...

This is an "online culture" type of post. I'm just giving you a heads up here, so you don't say I'm being political. It also contains some cuss words. You've been warned. Unamerican.com is one of the first websites that I ever thought of as "cool." I think that was back in 1999, or perhaps it was even earlier than that. It's now over a decade later, and Unamerican still seems to be going strong. ...

"His mother was right; asking girls to read his screenplay on the first date was a mistake." That's the caption Unhappy Hipsters set for this image of an aging hipster reading some artsy book under a Kandinsky poster, with a plaid shirt loosely hanging in the background and colorful, thick-rimmed sunglasses resting fashionably on the all-white, sophisticated shelving unit next to him. The site ...

It probably says an awful lot that after spending ten (10) minutes on Carnage UK's website... I still don't know what they do exactly. I think they arrange wet t-shirt contests or something -- binge-drinking, wet t-shirt events for students in the UK. Either way, their brutal, eye-gouging monstrosity is quite possibly the most garish and ugly site I've ever seen. I don't know if it's meant to ...

If you're in the mood to read some classic works of literature, head over to Classic Reader and check out their massive library. No special software is required, as everything is prsented in standard HTML format for reading right in your favorite browser. The library currently contains more than 3,400 works by 346 different authors, including Ambrose Bierce, Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allen Poe, and - ...