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Follow Artifacting At The New Digg

hubs — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:12:59 +0000

The new redesigned and freshly launched Digg came out of beta. Go Ahead and follow Artifacting’s page if you’re a user.

Code Organ

hubs — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:32:47 +0000

Code Organ takes the code of any website and turns it into music.

Code Organ works by choosing the key of the song based on how many times the letter designating that note appears in a web page’s source code, using a minor key if it appears an odd number of times or major if it’s even. It then picks one of ten synthesiser sounds based on which characters appear the most times in a page. Finally, the algorithm decides which drum loop to use by weighing the ratio of text characters to actual notes.

Artifacting ends up sounding like this.

Artifacting Swear Words

hubs — Fri, 14 May 2010 01:52:33 +0000

A list of swear words found within the Artifacting comments (and the number of times each word wad used) as of as of 7:41 pm MST May 13th, 2010:

Fuck: 49 (includes motherfucker, fucker, fucking, etc.)
Motherfucker: 2
Shit: 54 (includes shitbag, shithole, shitty, etc.)
Piss: 12
Tits: 1
Damn: 53 (includes goddamn, damnation, etc.)
Pussy: 7
Asshole: 9
Bitch: 19 (includes son of a bitch, sumbitch, etc.)
Bastard: 7
Cunt: 2

Come on folks! Let’s not be so shy. We need more motherfucker up in here.
Thanks for the idea Clusterfuck

Star Wars Initial Stickers

hubs — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:41:59 +0000

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.

2009: The Year In Blogging

hubs — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:20:07 +0000

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

2009: The Year In Artifacting

hubs — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:16:32 +0000

So, here is where I have to admit that Artifacting has been pretty weak during 2009.

Not a lot of posts. Not a lot of links. Really, just not a lot of blogging. Regardless, I would be remiss not to share with you the best of what little happened around here during 2009. So, I’m just going to point you out to the 2009 archives. Don’t be scared, my entire archive for 2009 is shorter than just the best of for 2008.

Seriously Folks. No, Seriosly.

hubs — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:41:45 +0000

I know there hasn’t been a lot happening around here, but go check out my tumblr. It’ll give you a great idea of what I’m all about – at least what has an impact on me on the web (particularly in the art world) – without all the words and blog bullshit. Seriously, almost more people visit my tumblr than they do this piece of shit blog.

Blogged

hubs — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:19:22 +0000

Artifacting was reviewed by the fine folks over at blogged. Not surprisingly, this junker of a blog scored a 6.2 (out of ten) which places it at 560th place in the entertainment/pop-culture category (out of 705). Ouch! Click on the picture below if feel like trying to boost that score up with a review.

The cutest Website In The World

hubs — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:37:11 +0000

The cutest (or most annoying) website in the world.

Commentary

hubs — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:29:24 +0000

This is probably the best review I have read about any of the blog posts I’ve written.

good god… the comment section is like being in the girl’s bathroom in high school :p
i think i lost some brain cells reading that stuff.

It’s funny cause it’s true (and that’s not funny). Thanks raestels.