Laziness Saves

I’m kind of sickened that in order to help others we have to be motivated by the easiest, most lazy forms of contribution. 10 Sites That Will Save the World is a list of the top sites online that make it a brainless and easy task for any internet trawler to donate/help save lives.

Best of Green

Ask anyone I know (do you even know anyone I know? Probably not.) But ask anyone I know, and they will tell you my favourite colour is GREEN. I love the color green: my glasses are green, my earrings are green, my cellphone is green, and so on. I seek out green things, which is why I’m so interested in green technology, namely, cars (Just kidding, I really love the environment and I know “green” does not necessarily have anything to do the colour.) I’ve always wanted a hybrid car ever since they’ve been feasible. They are better for the environment and for the wallet, and I often find that I need some of that green as well. So. What is the greenest car in America?

Rotten Neighbors

RottenNeighbor.com is along the lines of a mashup that utilizes Google Maps. Users find their neighborhood and can mark houses near them, leaving little sweet nothings about their lovely neighbors. If it catches on, we could be looking up our potential  neighbors just like we look up potential roommates and friends on Facebook. Of course, the drawback at this stage is that, since it is not widely known, small towns don’t have as much information in them as others. But it also begs the question, do we really need services like these? People have lived for generations without prior knowledge of their neighbours’ bad habits. And who is to say what information is real or just exaggerated? It’s a cool idea, but I can’t really say that I would ever use it…

The road to collaboration

On the Road of Knives… is a webcomic, in very loose terms. It consists of 3 artists drawing different monsters and having them attack each other in an endless massacre. It’s a collaboration of 3 unique artists getting themselves out on the web in an eye catching and interesting way. The style is quite detailed and very cool, though the continuation of action from artist to artist, panel to panel, is not so coherent. The concept at the very least is worth a click, that’s how I stumbled on it.

This approach to production is something that I think only the internet can foster. It is a pretty good approach coming from an advertisement perspective; if the viewer likes the style of any of the artists, they can check out their individual websites. Each artists individual work is surprisingly different from the slightly gruesome and over-the-top violence of On the Road of Knives. It just shows how connections and a good idea on the web can lead to some good connections….

“Though not exactly

an exquisite corpse,

it will be exquisite,

and there will be many corpses.”

Wiki works when worldly????

We always hear about how teachers won’t let students use Wikipedia because it is not a “credible” source. Well, now we have Citizendum, which is apparently a better form of Wikipedia. I’ve tried finding a few of my recent Wikipedia searches and they aren’t even on here, though it does claim, “We aim at credibility and quality, not just quantity.” What is the difference between this and Wiki? They still utilize user-generated material, which is the same  as everyone’s issue with Wikipedia. Do they email doctors and lawyers at other “credible” sources to populate their entries or something? It seems you have to be “approved” in order to join and submit (By whom, may I ask, and what makes you different from other Wiki-editors?). Just because they ask users to sign up and use their “real names” doesn’t make it anymore credible. Unless they are checking our social security numbers and verifying our retinal scans every post, I don’t see how this is anymore credible. Restricted does not mean credible.