We're in the thick of March Madness now, and Manager Dad (who is on probation due to the subpar picks he turned in for my brackets this year) just told me about an absolutely brilliant feature that cbs.com) built into their Final Four coverage - the "Boss Button". Apparently you can watch streaming video of the basketball games, and if you are in danger of being spotted by someone important, you just click on the Boss Button and it immediately damps the volume and covers your screen with a faux spreadsheet. Note to Bravo TV, can you please install a similar feature attached to the videos featuring your exquisitely dumb, beautiful wannabe supermodels?
As we are all aware, the web affords a breathtaking array of ways to better occupy your attention than work or spending time with family. In no particular order, here's my current top 4 recommendations:
Television Without Pity - If you don't have time to actually watch TV, or don't really like the shows but are forced to make awkward chitchat with Bob from Accounting and need a few "American Idol" tidbits, this site is for you. Filled with comprehensive, snarky, and brilliantly written recaps of all of the shows you care about, and many that you don't. The women who write Go Fug Yourself (another great time waster) cut their chops on this site.
Dickipedia - Yes, it's like Wikipedia, but substantially more entertaining. With entries on the likes of Kanye West, Dr. Phil, and Billy Packer, among others, this site is all about the insufferable, self-righteous jerks that annoy you, but you were never quite able to articulate exactly why. I eagerly, eagerly await the launch of the companion "Skankepedia," referenced in the Tom Brady post.
Sleeveface - a site featuring user-submitted pictures of people holding up record covers where their faces should be. This site is a consummate example of why we needed an Internet in the first place...to feature utterly pointless, yet extremely cool sites like this one.
The Anagram Generator - simple, straightforward, interactive. Type in a name and it spits out an exhaustive list of associated anagrams. Functionally useful, and with an eerie prescience about the anagrams it's supplying- upon inputting Manager Boy's name, the Generator returned "Common Torment" as the first choice.
These are three of my current favorites...any other suggestions? I'm going to have some free time in the next few weeks- my boss is going to be tied up with his "spreadsheets".
Saturday, March 22, 2008
YouTube Is So Yesterday
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Ew. I did not like Dickipedia. The one about Barack is mean and ignorant. He's no more of a dick than I am. And to include one woman- Hillary Clinton- is just rude and puts the site in a low-class category.
TV Without Pity isn't bad but I thought it would be funnier! Or, maybe I mean, I thought reading the summary would still be interesting if you'd seen the show- but the one on Lost was very boring and straightforward.
Yeah...Dickipedia is pretty mean. Didn't read the Obama one... I pretty much stick to people that I really DO think are dicks, like Sean Penn and Bill O'Reilly.
Some of the recappers on TWOP are better than others... the Make Me A Supermodel and Project Runway ones are good. Reality Show recaps are usually much more interesting than the episodic ones. And the message boards are great for speculation and spoilers.
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