Mare's Mess

Danny introduced me to this very fun website, and now I'll share it with you, my beloved readers. The website works like this: You go to stumbleupon.com and open an account. They ask you to identify topics of websites you are interested in. After you have registered, a toolbar is added to your screen with the words "stumble," "i like it," and "not for me." Just for kicks you can click on "stumble" at any time and a random website will be shown to you, based on the categories you chose when you registered. After viewing each page you can click on "i like it" or "not for me." Stumbleupon keeps track of the sites you like so as time goes on, the theory is, that they will be more accurate in sending you websites you will like. Most of the sites they have shown me so far are pretty ridiculous. A few times they sent me to sites I was already aware of (The Onion, Liberty for All, etc.). I have found a few cool sites as a result of stumbleupon. Mostly it's just addictive (I guess like the slots) to keep hitting "stumble" and watching with anticipation to see what they'll send you next. There are other fun things you can do like keeping track of sites friends have found that they like. And there's more, but I haven't been very adventurous with it so far so you'll have to check it out for yourself.

One of the cool sites I found through stumbleupon (which was highlighted on The Plain View podcast #7) is bookcrossing.com. Since I talked about it on the podcast, I won't go into detail here, but check it out. Pretty cool if you're a book lover. Another site I just found today is The Best Page in the Universe. It's pretty obnoxious, but parts of it made me laugh out loud. One of my favorite items on this site was The Movie Signs in Four Easy Steps. Not very timely or really all that funny in itself, but I hated the movie too and our shared disdain for the movie made me laugh. Unintentionally Sexual Comic Book Covers also made me laugh.

So give stumbleupon.com a try and then share any good finds with me!