Google Image Thursday - #12 "Decisions"

For this week I decided to go with "decisions", it seemed like the right thing to do.

I could have used the I'm feeling lucky button on Google it seems, as ExplodingDog came up first. I did take a look around to see if anything else came up but nothing really worthy of Google Image Thursday. For those who don't know Exploding Dog is a great site run by Sam Brown. It has mostly silly cartoons drawn from fan's ideas. It is fun.

The image today is decisions. Just take a look: YES! NO! YES? YES! NO!!! NOOOOO?.

Google Image Thursday - #11 "Spam"

Yes I know its a day late. I had a quite of bit of work yesterday and I didn't get around to posting.

So I get a lot of email spam at work, even though we have computers designed to catch it. I got a few this morning about how anti-spam people are lame. Which was amusing for a while. I deciced to see what I could find on Google about spam. And this is what I found:

Its a Spam energy drink. Its on a non-english site so I can't really comment on that. I do wonder how this thing tastes though. Is it like the processed meat product spam? Or is it more like email spam: bland and tasteless? I do plan on finding out. I just have to figure out if they ship to the US.

After a quick search I found the Official Spam Energy Drink site. Their store is coming soon though. =(

Google Image Thursday - #10 "Generic"

I'm not sure why I picked generic for this week. I've been working on a generic markup project at work. I guess thats it...


Generic Beer found at 40 Ounce Beer. What can I say? Its been a long week and I'm ready for Friday and happy hour to come along and a very happy St Patrick's day.

8 Reasons Digg Sucks (or Why I find Digg's Diggs a waste of space and time.)

First let me point out that I like Digg, I like it a lot. I don't, however, like the quality of some of the Diggs. I will explain below in a true to Digg like fashion with a list.

1. Web 2.0, Ajax, CSS fanciness, etc...
• Enough already! They are fads, we jumped on the bandwagon and we learned a lot but come on.
2. Repeat articles
• Yes I know Digg checks to see if the URL has been submitted before and it does some content checking. Even with those checks in place users continue to submit duplicate content. A search for Rounded Corners CSS returned hundreds of articles on the subject. The reality: most people need only a few to figure out how to do it.
3. Blog Spam
• Do I really need to go over this?
4. Comments
• ...I don't think there is enough time in the day to talk about how uninformed and stupid some comments can be.
  
5. The general public isn't always that smart
• Now don't get me wrong I like a lot of the diggs that make it to the home page. From my friend: "This was on the front page:The Best Bird Feeder Ever. Its cool, my grandfather would have shit his pants for something like that, but I don't think a bird feeder is digg material."
6. Content-less or link Diggs
• Goes along with #3. Can't Diggers Digg the actual article and not someone's site with their ever so "witty" comments?
7. [photo], [pic],[picture], etc...
   
• If posters could articulate themselves when posting titles there wouldn't be a need. For example this Digg home page title "The Alar: World's ugliest Lamborghini [PIC]" could be "Pictures of the World's ugliest Lamborghini: The Alar". Its really rather simple and easy to do.
8. Spelling and Grammar
• Do I really need to explain this?
  

So thats my rant. If you agree with me good for you. If you don't I hope you at least realize you do some of these things and stop.

I ask you how many CSS guides do you need in Digg when Google is sitting there?

Google Image Thursday - #9 "PI"

So in honor of PI day (March 14th), I present:


Found here.

Not much to say about it though. Eat some Pie on PI day.

Google Image Thursday - #8 "Cooking"

Tonight I'm making dinner for my girlfriend and can't figure out what to make. So I turn to my good friend Google. So I found something to make and decided to search for "cooking" in images to see what I could see. And Lo! Did I see this:

Found on silent*abandon. Its a photo from what appears to be the early 20th century community education classes.