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Code Organ -- Turn Your Favorite Website Into Bad Pop Music

Right now, Urlesque is a major website. That is to say, if a complex algorithm were to remove all the non-musical note characters (any letter other than a, b, c, d, e, f, or g) of this site's html, and then create a major pentatonic scale based on the most prevalent note remaining therein, the resulting synth jam would be in the key of A Major. Codeorgan.com, from the London-based ad agency ...

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The Best Virtual Kaleidoscope I've Seen

One of my earliest memories is looking into my grandmother's antique kaleidoscope when I was four, trippin' balls. As the psychedelic fractals swaddled my field of vision, I felt secure. Now, humanity has grown beyond its need for antique kaleidoscopes and grandmas because our instruments of rapidly fluctuating colors and shapes have turned virtual. Zefrank.com's "Drawtoy Vs. Byokal" creates ...

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Please Fire Me - Why You Hate the Job You Can't Leave

It's a classic Gödelian dilemma*: You can't quit your job because you need health insurance to cover the self-inflicted wounds you could induce when your job makes you want to repeatedly punch yourself in your face. Quitting seems logical, but then you couldn't afford broadband. Without broadband, you'd have a harder time accessing Please Fire Me -- the malemployed's anonymous venting ...

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Web Matchmaker -- 'Miracle' Kid & Kittens Inspired by Kittens

Josh aka 'The Miracle Kid' & Maddie aka Kittens Inspired by Kittens This V-Day, all the web-savvy kindergartners will taunt, "Josh 'The Miracle Kid' Sacco and Maddie 'Kittens Inspired by Kittens' Kelly sitting in a tree, i-n-s-p-i-r-i-n-g." It's true the two should find love, followed by marriage, followed by another future darling YouTuber in a baby carriage. If an eharmony.com type ...

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Web Matchmaker -- 'Chocolate Rain' & 'Peanut Butter Jelly Time'

Tay Zonday's 'Chocolate Rain' & Peanut Butter Jelly Time Elvis, the man who who popularized 'Burning Love,' would surely never have argued against the marriage of chocolate and peanut butter and bananas. The King (particularly circa-1977) knew well about perfect food combos. He also knew about music. So how would he feel if he knew about chocolate- and peanut butter-themed songs on the ...

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How the Internet Has Forever Changed Cottage Cheese Marketing

If you didn't have a hankering for a giant scoop of cottage cheese already, make haste to the website for Arla Keso. Nothing could possibly whet your palate for a bowl of loose, chunky sour curds than a set of virtual cow teats you can milk with your mouse. The website is in Swedish, but I assume the idea is to fill the deciliter meter as fast as possible while keeping your cow happy. I ...

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Jesus Loves Stuff

According to the pungent man wearing one boot, cut-off sweatpants, and five teeth yelling on the subway, Jesus loves me. According to JesusLovesStuff.com, Jesus also loves the following: Chicken ...

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The Best Groundhog Crafts on Etsy

Groundhog's Day has won the holiday-off. Even though it has no presents or stuffing or fireworks or days off from school to offer. And even though it revolves around a filthy, stinky, disease-ridden, misnamed, wood-chucking-inept subterranean rodent from a lowly industrial Pennsylvania town, and six more weeks of winter. It has the best holiday movie. And lots and lots of crafts. Along with ...

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First-Person Tetris - How Tweens Passed Time Before "Twilight"

If you were born sometime between 1976 and 1984, prepare to have your mind blown by a site that uncannily recreates a preeminent element of your childhood -- playing Tetris. There are many places on the web to play Tetris, but First-Person Tetris stands apart by producing a fully immersive sitting-on-your-bedroom-floor-in-front-of-a-Nintendo-in-the-early-'90s experience. From the "Tombstone" ...

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A Crazy Comprehensive Cataclysmic Clock of Cancer, C02, Crime, and Childbearing

As of the start of writing this sentence, there are 6,794,850,536 people in the world. This year, 789,192 people have Chlamydia, 849,271,494 chickens have been slaughtered, and 487 species have become extinct. Those are just a few of the horrifying statistics available on this World Clock. So, if you have any interest in drownings, ID theft, national debt, the population of India, or traffic ...

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