Sites like these make the web such a great place. Some of them can have a huge effect on your life.
Most people go out clubbing or partying or hanging out with their friends on weekends. What do I do? I sit at home and Stumble. For hours. It’s become my life. Some people are addicted to drugs or cigarettes. I’m addicted to Stumbling. Naturally, I’ve found some pretty good stuff.
Obviously, this is all subjective. This list is not meant to be the end-all be-all of internet sites. It is just a collection of my favorite things on the internet, and a little bit of a sales pitch for StumbleUpon. OK, so it’s largely a sales pitch. Whatever. Without any further ado, I present to you this list, so that you can have the rewards of my search without the hours… maybe days… of wasted time. Use it wisely.
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OK Go Treadmill Video
A solid start to this list. You may have heard of it already, but it’s worth watching again. The novelty and creativity of this video never wears off. At least not for me. But I’m a geek, so what do I know?
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The Most Amazing Drum Solo Ever To Exist
This is the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen a human being do. He solos for almost four minutes, nearly non-stop. If I ever saw musical talent, it would be this guy.
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The Color Test
You know those stupid personality tests? I’m sure you’ve taken at least one. Yea, this is nothing like them. At the end, it tells you what your choices say about your personality, but they’re accurate. And they use proper grammar, something many quizzes made by 15-year-old girls do not.
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Intelligence Test
Just an interesting list of trick questions. I got 10 out of 13 on my first try, which I don’t think is too bad. Give it your best shot and then show it to your friends.
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Daily Buzz
A cool site that has a bunch of polls. They never seem to end. You might be able to submit your own polls, but I’m not sure. That may or may not require signing up. I didn’t sign up. Definitely worth looking at if you like statistics.
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Musicovery
Musicovery finds you music that should suit your mood. First, you select the genre(s) that you would like to listen to. Then, using this cool little gizmo they made up, you input your mood. The mood has two sets of variables: dark vs. positive and energetic vs. calm. Once you put in your mood, you can select the time period you would like the music to be from, and you go. Also, it has a really, really cool display for the music that it will play or has played. This is a really awesome site if you like to discover new music. Which you do.
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Uncyclopedia
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Digital Blasphemy
Conjure up the coolest image you can in your head right now. It can include anything. Take that, and put it into a website along with many other pictures like it, and you’ve got digital blasphemy. All of these pictures, no matter how other-wordly they appear, look nearly real. It’s really impressive what the creator managed to do with a computer program.
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Pandora
Pandora is probably my favorite website. When you first sign up, it prompts you to input a song or artist that you like. It will then play that music, and later, music with similar qualities to it. You can have more than one station, which makes it like a personalized radio. My stations range from reggae to trance to Jimi Hendrix to Dave Matthews Band. It is based on the Music Genome Project, which, in my understanding, breaks down songs and artists to the technical musical qualities that makes it what it is. Some qualities include: major key tonality, vocal samples, a synth bass riff, and a repetitive chorus. I don’t really know what that means, but it’s an example of how technical and serious this is. If you like to find new music, you will love Pandora.
A personal favorite of mine. Take everything you know about Wikipedia, and just take the opposite, and you’ve got Uncyclopedia. Unlike most attempts at humor over the internet, Uncyclopedia manages to make the jokes very easy to get. You know how they say that sarcasm is hard to understand when it’s written? Not for Uncyclopedia. Some of the articles have had me literally on the floor, howling with laughter.
March 30th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
I scored a 13/13 on the intelligence test.
I feel so smrt… I mean smArt.
March 30th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Yea I felt really dumb when I didn’t notice that Noah (not Moses) had an ark. I felt like a complete idiot.
March 30th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
“At the end, it tells you what your choices say about your personality, but they’re accurate”
No, they’re not.
March 30th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
I got 10/10…must admit that I’d seen some of them b4 though. Still good clean fun !
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:11 am
That drum soloist is sure a joy to watch. He is amazing and he has great talent. I hope he gets noticed and joins a big group.
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:21 am
Thanks for sharing this. I stumbled this article for ya!
KathySpring
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:16 pm
…hi, thanks for all this great
information.
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:13 am
I will have to have a look at all these things…thanks for the info realy great!
April 4th, 2008 at 6:20 am
thanks dude!! people like you make it worthwhile to stumble…
May 5th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Pandora Internet radio sounds like it would be good but unfortunately is only available in the US.
June 24th, 2008 at 5:36 am
thanks man some of them are pretty cool and useful thanks
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November 11th, 2008 at 1:10 am
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January 30th, 2009 at 12:31 am
I’m liking the musicovery thing, too cool and I thought the colour test was pretty accurate too! cheers
February 1st, 2009 at 5:45 pm
stupider than heck
February 1st, 2009 at 5:47 pm
people who said cool are stupider than the worlds stupidest person
February 1st, 2009 at 5:49 pm
just kiding, i found out cool things
February 1st, 2009 at 5:51 pm
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March 26th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Lots of cool things! Although I had seen a couple of them before, a lot were new to me.. I am liking Uncyclopedia! ITS FABULOUS! How did I not know about it before? And the color test was extremely accurate. I scored a 13/13 on the intelligence test!
A great way to pass time at work!
April 16th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Tried the personality test and the intelligence test, how can people take there results seriously? There not going to gauge your intellegence accurately or determine your personality from arranging eight colurs into pairs. Feel pretty depressed about even commenting; the tests above are useful if you want to waste your time. Thought I’d take the time to say that; Ifeel sorry for the people who believe these tests provide them with meaningfull information. Stumblings sad as well.
May 7th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Really cool stuff, the color test is amazingly accurate….
June 10th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Nelson Mandela is a douche
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:02 am
Very interesting article, I have to agree that StumbleUpon provides some amazing content and traffic for websites that would otherwise have no chance of being discovered.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:46 pm
this is awesome!!
March 30th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
dose anyone know of an intresting thing to put in a project?
our homework is to find something intresting and say about it
anyone know anyithing?
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