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The Empire Strikes Back: Retold in “Iconoscope”

In Funny Stuff, Social Media, Wild Stuff on April 21, 2011 at 12:57 am

Star Wars Iconoscope storyAn amazingly creative style of storytelling using only icons coined as: Iconoscope, is used to tell the entire Empire Strikes Back series of movies on a single page.

Has to be seen to be believed!

It’s pretty easily interpreted because it’s so symbolically well done. If you’ve seen the movies it will make you laugh. If you haven’t seen the movies, well first of all: FAIL, and secondly you may not totally get the subtleties of the pictograph. Nevertheless, you should be able to appreciate the art form. This will no doubt be copied and forwarded “mucho”.

Apparently the brainchild of Wayne Dorrington, a designer/illustrator living in London, who welcomes you to his blog appropriately:

“Welcome to the creative blog-folio of six foot-three slightly overweight ginger-bearded four-eyed socially awkward senior digital designer & illustrator Wayne Dorrington. This is a new blog, so I’ll be adding my back catalogue.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Dave Barry’s year in review: 2010 a disaster? ‘Shore’ thing

In Culture, Funny Stuff, Life, Quality of Life on April 8, 2011 at 11:30 pm

Dave Barry is considered one of the funniest satire columnists in the country. His 2010 A Year in Review, is arguably one of his best. We include it here (lovingly) swiped entirely and intact from OregonLive.com’s: Dave Barry’s year in review: 2010 a disaster? ‘Shore’ thing. We have also added The Hilarious World of Dave Barry RSS Feed from his Miami Herald Blog in our feeds section lower right below – along with many other fine RSS Feeds we hope you’ll like. Enjoy!

By DAVE BARRY

Let’s put things into perspective: 2010 was not the worst year ever. There have been MUCH worse years. For example, toward the end of the Cretaceous Period, the Earth was struck by an asteroid that wiped out 75 percent of all the species on the planet. Can we honestly say we had a worse year than those species did? Yes, we can, because they were not exposed to “Jersey Shore.” Read the rest of this entry »

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A News Alert From The Big Zowie!

In Culture, Funny Stuff, Life, Quality of Life, Zowie Fun Facts on March 28, 2011 at 9:33 pm

Hey everybody! It’s me, the Big Zowie!

I just wanted to let you all in on the ZowieNews Network deal. We’re looking for bloggers who want to post on ZowieNews. We get great rankings and we’re looking for people who want to write about good news, inspirational stuff and fun facts everyone NEEDS to know about.

The talking-head news networks serve up plenty of bad news. There’s no end to it! But we’re different. We want people to feel better about the world around them. And there are lot’s of great examples of things going RIGHT with the world. That’s what we’re looking for.

So if you’re a blogger, or just someone who likes what we like and you want to join our blogroll, or send us great stories about interesting and uplifting things in your world, send ‘em on over. Remember, if you think no-news is good news – you need to go zowie at ZowieNews!

Check out our cool blogs and don’t forget all the great news feeds at the bottom of our front page. They’re really zowie!

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And The Top Google Search Is Hight Schol

In Culture, Life, Quality of Life, Social Media on March 26, 2011 at 7:36 pm

Yep, you read that right. The top Google Search term, with over 30,000,000 hits in a single month, is for “hight schol”. 

Now if you’re like me, I can’t even begin to overstate the obvious. An occasional misspelling of high school is bound to happen in our modern fast paced society, where people not only suffer from the ubiquitous FFS (that’s fat finger syndrome for the rest of you), but many don’t even bother to check for spelling errors anymore. But can you believe 30,000,000 in one month??

So to add insult to injury, I guess they just expect the rest of us to figure out what they really meant. Fortunately Google deals with that for them. In fact “deal with it” seems to be the modern mantra for our online texting society. And many typos are so often repeated, they are actually becoming widely accepted texting abbreviations.

Of course if you’re super pessimistic, you might choose to believe that the above reveals 30,000,000 people actually can’t spell high school. I choose to believe the former, as it would otherwise be way too depressing to contemplate a generation of kids getting ready for high school, who can’t even spell it! Read the rest of this entry »

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The Do’s And Don’ts Of Social Media Etiquette

In Culture, Social Media, Zowie Fun Facts on March 10, 2011 at 3:27 am

 

 If you want to avoid coming across as a complete jackass, getting yourself banned, or just being blacklisted by your network, here are 20 tips for social media etiquette you might want to keep in mind.

  1. DON’T spam. Ever – Self-explanatory, no?
  2. DON’T keep everything private. – Online privacy is important. It’s very important. But if you’re keeping every social interaction private, why are you even taking part in social media? Stick to emails and instant messengers and text messaging if that’s your goal, and stop making everyone else feel like your “club” is too exclusive. Read the rest of this entry »

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Can You Hear Me Now?

In Culture, Life, Quality of Life, Social Media on February 24, 2011 at 8:53 pm

This new social network generation age is absolutely amazing.

Before Facebook and MySpace people were all feeling unnoticed beyond their local family, friends and neighbors; slaves to Ma Bell and the Postal Service. Suddenly the world has exploded with new possibilities to be heard around the world, to share our opinions and your comments on everybody else’s opinions and comments!

Now, there are so many social network applications, blogs and emails flying around that again, it’s beginning to seem hard to feel noticed above the amazing din of voices through electronic media.

Now you can be heard anywhere on the planet, if you can just get noticed above everyone else’s voice…

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