It’s true that Lyndon Baines Johnson, our 36th President, was very concerned with his pants riding up “in the crotch, down where your nuts hang.” A valid concern among to many of us. Though, most of us don’t have our concerns recorded and entered into the Miller Center’s Presidential Recordings Program. Take a few minutes to listen to more than you ever want to know about LBJ’s nether regions.
While you’re there, take a little time to listen to John F. Kennedy, a known and avid user of methamphetamine (and Demerol, methadone, Ritalin, meprobamate, miscellaneous barbiturates and thyroid hormone), order a few more “of those blue pills”.
Posted in history.
Tagged with anatomy, drugs, history, politics.
By hubs
– February 4, 2010
photo courtesy of clusterflock.
The stories mentioned above have been mentioned here back in 2007. As for any of Salinger’s manuscripts that might have hidden away in a cabinet somewhere to be printed posthumously, I believe his thoughts about them are the same as stated above, or we all would have seen them by now.
Listen to the last chapter (Chapter 26) Of “Cather In The Rye”
Posted in books, culture.
Tagged with americana, books, culture, j.d. salinger.
By hubs
– January 28, 2010
We Christened this one gallon bottle of Tabasco over a pot of crawfish etouffe last week. Yum.
Posted in food.
Tagged with food, tabasco.
By hubs
– January 28, 2010
The image above is was made with the incredibly nostalgic Topps Star Wars ESB Stickers and help from the Restraining Bolt image generator. A similar generator can be found using 1974 Topps Monster Initials. Hat tip to Mr. Lady.
Posted in artifacting, asides, childhood, memories.
Tagged with artifacting, asides, blog, childhood, generator, memories.
By hubs
– January 20, 2010
I’ve said it before but I think this really proves it. Billy Mays really is a sad robot. The video below was created by John Boswell, the same guy who puts together all of those great Symphony Of Science Videos that have been going around the internet lately.
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If you really fell in love with this, feel free to download the track here: Billy Mays-The Auto Tune Infomercial Ballad
Posted in Uncategorized, music, products, television, video.
Tagged with advertising, autotune, billymays, mp3, music, products, remix, robots, television, video, youtube.
By hubs
– January 19, 2010
This Spring you will be able to watch Netflix instant movies streamed through your Wii. However, you will need a special disk in order for the streaming to work. You can now reserve your free Netflix instant streaming disk for the Wii on the Netflix website.
Posted in asides, film, movies.
Tagged with entertainment, Netflix, Wii.
By hubs
– January 18, 2010
Posted in asides, internet.
Tagged with gifs, internet, rainbow.
By hubs
– January 13, 2010
Nickel back has already gotten way more time than they actually deserve on this blog, but I just couldn’t resist this one. Also, while you’re clicking on stupid Nickelback links you might as well check this one out www.isnickelbacktheworstbandever.com
Posted in art, asides, dissapointment, mp3, music.
Tagged with art, music, single-serving, youtube.
By hubs
– January 11, 2010
My monthly flickr stats can found here. Below are the three most viewed photos on flickr that I uploaded during 2009:
Posted in photos.
Tagged with 2009, photos, yearend.
By hubs
– January 9, 2010
Despite my lousy blogging habits in 2009 the blog continued to grow and I almost doubled my amount of unique viewers over the year. Below is a graph of my total number of absolute unique readers which totaled 206,881 over the year. The drop in late June was due to a serverside attack.
The top ten referring sites to Artifacting (with search engines removed) during 2009 were:
1. Yahoo Answers
2. Boing Boing
3. Facebook
4. Dethroner
5. Stumbleupon
6. Twitter
7. Reddit
8. Serious Eats
9. ui.
10. Sensible Erection
I found it surprising that there wasn’t a single personal blog on the list this year. Are personal blogs going the way of the ghost?
Below is a chart of referrals to Artifacting throughout 2009:
Below are the top ten most visited posts published in 2009:
1. I’m About To Whip Somebody’s Ass
2. Billy Mays Is A Sad Robot
3. The Coolest, Craziest, Kitty Cat Desktop Wallpaper On The Internet
4. Bell Pepper Teratoma
5. Crying Over Auto Tune Part II
6. I’m Dreaming Of A Chiptune Christmas
7. Fuckin’ Math
8. Another Word For Vagina
9. Definitive List Of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet (+10)
General stats for Artifacting are as follows:
Posts 1,086
Categories 66
Comments 4,290
Posted in artifacting, lists.
Tagged with 2009, artifacting, blogging, lists, stats, yearend.
By hubs
– January 8, 2010
