I just designed a poster for GRID (a new racing videogame) for a contest to try and make money for school. But, I need help to win. Check it out and go vote (You can vote once a day, so make sure you’re going back):

Design a Poster for GRID™ Sponsored by Codemasters

Just found out about a pretty nice video(TV & Movies) hosting site, Hulu. The selection is decent and getting better all the time it seems, and the quality is pretty freaking amazing for web content. Check out the most recent episode of the Daily Show:

Wow, this is weird…seeing the house I grew up in on google.

So, the other day I was testing some search engine strings for Jeff’s new site to make sure that we had gotten rid of or redirected all the remaining bits of his old site. One of the strings was “wedding photographer homestead” (the Homestead is an uber-nice resort here in Virginia), and looking over the first page of results I checked out these two sites:

weddingphotographer.homestead.com
professionalphotographer.homestead.com

I had to do a double take. It turns out they’re both the same photographer, just different portal pages. Now, I’ve come across my fair share of websites that look like they are from 1995, but these were special. I never thought it was possible for a site to look like it was made BEFORE the internet was widely used, in say…1983. Here are a few highlights I’m sure you’ll notice:

Enraptured, like I was staring at some creature long-thought extinct, I explored a bit further checking out a few of the “reciprocal links”: Fort Laramie Trading Post, Fix All, and the Fort Laramie American Grill

Was this real? Had I died and gone to pre-AOL internet heaven?

Turns out all these businesses are in the same town, Fort Laramie, WY, and the sites (and there are more of them too) were all created by the same company, Affordable Advertising.

I couldn’t find dates on any of these pages to see if they are in fact “current”, but this snippet of code gives some insight, if not more confusion (don’t try and look and the rest of the source though, your head may asplode):

!doctype html public “-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN//2.0″
html
head
meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=windows-1252″
meta name=”Generator” content=”Microsoft Publisher 98″

Now, I’m not trying to be snarky at all by posting this stuff…I just feel that it’s almost like a museum; a now-rare slice of americana (and the internet) dying to be shared with those who can appreciate it.

Let me know what other gems you find.

This is so well done, I just had to post it. (via BoingBoing, you can check out their post here if you need help figuring out which scenes correspond with which conflict.)

I love This American Life. The topics are great, the production is great, and Ira Glass’s nonchalant demeanor just makes the show. Unfortunately I don’t get to listen to it that often because our local NPR affiliate doesn’t carry it. However, TAL does offer streaming versions and a rather complete archive of all the shows on their site which I try to listen to whenever I get the chance.

Today I listened to a great one about quiz shows and things of that nature, I highly recommend it. There’s a section about a guy who was on Jeopardy, with some great commentary about the ‘quiz show’ side of his brain versus the ‘real life’ side. They have a bit on the MIT Mystery Hunt (ever take part in this Adrian?), which sounds like fun.

I also started listening to an episode called Tough Room, my favorite part being about how The Onion’s writers come up with their headlines.

The internet is awesome.

On a random note, I’m kinda upset that we didn’t get to see the lunar eclipse tonight because it was cloudy. Boooooo!

It’s been a while since I spent some time over at Homestarrunner (There was a time I religiously checked it for new Strongbad Emails) but this one hit the nail on the head. The Penny Arcade reference had me rolling, as there was a time I used to read it religiously as well.

Sewiously guys.