Dullest Blog, Messy Fun
Here’s some miscellaneous wackiness to liven up your Sunday.
First up, the really funny, in a subtle sort of way, dullest blog in the world. Thanks to some random weblog I can no longer find for pointing me to this.
Next, the also really funny, in a completely different sort of way, Messy Gallery 118, from Joanna.
The Web is a hyperdimensional portal. It reduces the distance between any two points to zero. I’m up early, goofing around at Dave Barry’s blog while the wife and kids are still in bed, I follow a link, and bam, I’m suddenly in the kitchen of a happily married British man who likes to get all dolled up in summery dresses and tasteful makeup and pour chocolate syrup all over himself. And he does it a lot.
The world gets smaller. We learn that people are at once both stranger and more familiar than we ever imagined, or could have imagined. As with urbanization and the cosmopolitan viewpoint it created, the Web challenges our preconceptions, forcing us to expand our worldview. With the Web, we actually have a worldview, literally.
