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Have you ever noticed the link-saving phenomenon? I don't know what else to call it - Bookmark and Forget, perhaps. Maybe I'm the only one who does this, but if I see something particularly interesting online, I bookmark it...and then never look at it again. Sometimes I bookmark things that seem interesting, or that someone told me that they find interesting, so I have things saved that I've never even looked at once. This leads to me to wonder, months later, exactly WHY I saved something that is just a thinly veiled advertisement for a lame wonder-gadget or how a link to a page entirely in Russian ended up on my list.
Computers are so convenient, aren't they? Almost too convenient, in that they enable even the neatest among us to become crazy hoarders. Not physical stuff, not 'my house is too messy to walk through, please call for help' hoarders, but information hoarders. Why not? If I have access to cool, unusual, and interesting information, why shouldn't I save a link to it for future use? Well, of course you should, just don't end up like me with hundreds of unsorted, unlabeled links-to-awesome that you don't look at again until the link has expired and you've lost the information forever. Also, if you are filing everything away in an online lockbox instead of sharing that information - well, clearly, you're kind of missing the whole point of the Internet.
So here are a few totally random (and awesome) links I've already shared in one way or another and have recently rediscovered on my computer. And yes, one of them is completely in Russian, but it's very entertaining to try to piece the story together!
Video of baby sloths. Enough said.
Buddhist monks expend an enormous amount of time creating sand mandalas (sacred circles of art with intricate meanings) and then just blow them away into the ether.
Nature is gorgeous and fascinating.
Finding some humor in tragedy.
Some of my friends recently started having children. I recently started sending them this link. ;)
I don't kow if I agree with all of these assessments, but I do know they're funny. What do you think?
The evolution of stereotypes, and what happens when people own (and give in to, and exaggerate) stereotypes instead of avoiding them.
If I could have one of these as a pet, my life would be complete.
Metro Dogs
These dogs live in the Russian subway. And accept donations.
Metro Dogs
These dogs live in the Russian subway. And accept donations.
There is an entire generation of women who will never love any movie more than Newsies, ever. And almost no one else has ever seen the film.
There is another subset of the population who remember original Nintendo and the few, mindblowing-at-the-time games that it brought into our lives.
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