The Biggest Digg Whores

August 8, 2007 at 7:43 am · Filed under Social, Top 10 Lists, Web 2.0

clipped from www.centernetworks.com A report out today by Glen Allsopp at Clickalite shows�the number of times that the Technorati Top 100�blogs that have been dugg�since Digg began. Glen says, “The top 5 blogs make up 45% of the 8,000 times 79 blogs on the Technorati Top 100 Blogs have hit the Digg Homepage.“� The top 5 are: Ars Technica; ~1350 Engadget; ~ 1016 TechCrunch; ~ 533 Think Progress; ~ 405 Huffington Post; ~ 345 It’s well known�that Ars Technica is the most dugg, but I was surprised not to see Gizmodo in the top 5. Remember that Technorati ranks blogs by number of inbound links but these blogs are also some of the most visited as well, so it makes sense that they are the most Dugg. Most eyes = more diggs = more chance of a homepage digg.

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10 Awesome Rube Goldberg Machine Videos

June 5, 2007 at 9:37 am · Filed under Top 10 Lists, Video

For some reason Rube Goldberg popped into my head recently and got me thinking there’s got to be some great video online of Rube’s famous machines and people inspired by them. I hit up YouTube for some action and found quite a nice collection of Goldberg respect.

1. The first Goldberg video is from Japan, and these machines are cooking Ramen.

2. This one is called “Rube Goldberg - Something for Nothing 1940″ and it’s pretty neat, starring Rube himself I believe.

3. Office Space Rube action here, this one is excellent although a little short. For once the video description is actually lengthy and informative and I shall quote it.

A friend and I decided to spend a night at my workplace assembling a contraption using supplies from the supply room and my basement. We started at 11p.m. on 6/26/05, and finished around 5:30a.m. This is take eight. Six of the eight worked. UPDATE: Thank you for all the views, everyone! A few quick answers:
-Haha, I didn’t get fired, this was done during non-business hours.
-The heavy breathing is me starting to laugh and trying my hardest to stifle it…I was one second away from busting out the whole time.

4. This 2 minute video is a commercial for Honda, and it exceptionally well done (a lot like their cars). It looks a little surreal (although they claim it to be legit), and I’d love to see it in HD but this GooTube video will suffice. The car that reveals at the end is a Honda Accord wagon.

Note: All of this commercial is real. The only thing “artificial” is the unnoticeable edit at the middle of the sequence. Reason for that is this whole course was too long for the studio.

5. More Japanese Goldberg action, it’s 4:23 long.

6. This clip is home made style (the way I like it), and features a 3:17 Rube Goldberg machine complete with Slinky action (talk about free time!)

7. This guy uses multiple pool tables in this Rube Goldberg Billiards/Dominoes video.

8. This next one is supposedly from a film that they want you to rent from Netflix? Errrr anyways it’s a great Rube Golberg video with lots of fire and flare, check it out.

9. Another homemade machine, with the submitter claiming “we didn’t cheat!”. Oh well, it’s a good clip.

10. Last but certainly not least comes the MythBusters and their Rube Golberg masterpiece (which took them a million takes). Explain away Adam…

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10 BETTER Things To Do With a PC with No Internet

February 7, 2007 at 10:45 pm · Filed under Top 10 Lists

Recently DG of Speaking Freely ran a popular story that bubbled up on Digg and del.icio.us about what to do with your PC when you have no Internet connection. I read the article and was generally unimpressed by DG’s ideas for the lonely few who can’t get online.

Here’s what he said in a nut shell:

-Clean out and categorize your bookmarks.
-Delete programs you don’t use.
-Unplug your PC, take the cover off and clean out the dust.
-Write your next blog post.
-Run any maintenance programs you don’t have auto-scheduled.
-Write down your logins and passwords for all your sites, blogs, email accounts, Adsense, affiliate programs, where you purchased your domain names, etc. All that information is the key to your business.

That last one is really long, and the whole list makes me want to stab myself in the eye. Here’s 10 Better things to do with no Interweb (in no particular order)

1. Don’t do any of the things here.
2. Play one of your games. I know, some of them are online only but I’m sure you have a few that you can play in single player or offline practice. Game on.
3. Organize your Porn collection. While this task is very lame in the organizing sense, it usually leads to distraction and the excitement level rises sharply.
4. Create and Edit a Video. No you can’t upload to GooTube but you can shoot, cut and burn some movies while you’re waiting to get back in connection.
5. Listen to Music, Burn Some new CD’s. Yes this is an oldy but a goody but still presents some fun, listen to your tunes, burn some new mixes for the road and see what old music you can discover.
6. Photoshop some Images. Take some family shots and some of your friends passed out drunk and have some fun. You can’t get fresh material from Google Images or Flickr but you can have some local hard disk fun making new images for the Fark forums.
7. Screw around with Linux. You provably have 86 Linux discs burned sitting around from the last 6 months. Take some old hardware or if you dare your own rig and have some Linux fun. Create that media server you always wanted or attach those laser beams to your toaster.
8. Design a new Website. Fire up Photocrap once again or Fireworks if you prefer and create a new layout and design identity for your super popular Kevin Rose uber mega ultra fan site.
9. Watch TV . Yes this is a lazy one but for those with a nice TV card you can just fire up the old boob tube and watch some Family Guy and Stephen Colbert.
10. Hardware Upgrade. This of course depends on your access to new goodies but time spent offline can be spent buying and upgrading essential hardware.

That’s my list, I hope you like it and I hope you spend your offline time wisely.

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