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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.

All The Single Babies

hubs — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:13:48 +0000

All the single ~~ladies~~ babies.

No related posts.

2008: The Year In Artifacting

hubs — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:02:35 +0000

Here is a list of the best links I found during 2008:

Am I awesome?

Love is embarrassing. At least that’s what Ava thought. And if you ask me she’s mostly right.

This website will do that tricky (age/2)+7 and (age*2)-7 kind of math for you. In bed.

Because seriously, who doesn’t like to watch cute things falling asleep?

There are now over 530,000 things the world is unable to articulate a response to.

Researchers Discover Massive Asshole In The Blogosphere. Via The Onion of course.

It has been quite a winter everywhere in the states. These ~~frozen waves on Lake Huron~~ look like gigantic slabs of blue salmon.

Michigan has had the coldest winter in decades. Water expands to freeze, and at Macinaw City the water in Lake Huron below the surface ice was supercooled. It expanded to break through the surface ice and froze into this incredible wave.

Fascinating.

ThingsIDidLastNight.com.

Did you know I have a tumblr brand tumble-log. Well, I do. Go check it out. It mostly contains a bunch of videos and pictures that aren’t appropriate for Artifacting, but there is some really great stuff over there. Perfect for a slow Friday afternoon.

Death metal + incredible dessert recipes = The Black Oven – immaculate confections succumbed to northern darkness. With recipes like “Where the Chocolate Beats Incessant”, “Le Petit Gateau du Les Legions Noire -Traditional cupcakes inspired by untraditional black metal”, and “Frostbitten Molasses Cookies Entombed with Ginger” this promises to be the best black metal cooking site on the web.

I’m pretty sure lemon curd doesn’t exist in Norway. However, if by some miracle Odin had bestowed upon the snow beaten north the gift of citrus, the vikings would have probably made these. Buried beneath the mountains of frost…are cookies! These are best enjoyed while basking in the self-righteousness of your own obscurity.

Don’t stop there. The Breadmaster Strikes!!!!!!!!!! comes in a close second when it comes to baking in hallowed depths of hellfire. SeitanWörshipper does a pretty good dark metal/food blog (from Finland of course) too.

You do NOT want to click this link. Really, you don’t want to click it.

James Grimmelmann over at The Laboratorium has a great post titled the “Carissa’s Wierd Genealogy Project” for all those who weren’t visiting this website back in the day. Go visit, James is an incredibly smart guy with an interesting blog.

Cooks.com’s infamous recipe for Wiener Water Soup. Wow, they’re really doing some big, big things on that website.

This interesting site allows you to anonymously share exactly how neurotic you are with the entire internet. If you are OCD I suggest not visiting this site as it will give you a lifetime worth of tics to dwell on. It didn’t take too long for me to find one that I could relate to:

All of the keys on my ring have to have the flat side facing the same direction. If I get a new key and realize I put it on wrong, I will drop whatever I’m doing at that moment no matter what, trying to get the key off and turn it around the right way.

In addition, My keys are on my ring in order of size (length).

101 Simple Meals Ready in 10 Minutes or Less
101 Simple Appetizers in 20 Minutes or Less
101 20-Minute Picnic Dishes

In case you thought I was here to make friends…

Ween is playing tonight and tomorrow night at the Fillmore. I’ve got tickets for Thursday. You may not know that Gener has a Flickr account, or that Deaner has a fishing blog. Go check them out, they’re both pretty entertaining.

12 Angry Men + Glowing = 12 Glowing Men. An absolutely beautiful film by Martijn Hendriks.

Doveman (aka Harlem-based musician Thomas Bartlett who plays with David Byrne, Elysian Fields and The National among others) has created a shoegazer/emo version of the entire Footloose Soundtrack and his reasoning for doing so is pretty intense. Go check it out. My favorite is “Holding Out For A Hero”

Fear and Loathing is a great photoblog that provides “an outlaw view of the underbelly of the beast during the 2008 Democratic National Convention” that has been going on here in Denver the past few days.

I wish my first twitter would have been a little more witty than this. Link to your very first twitter in the comments.

Umbrella Today? is the simplest weather forecast on the web.

Upsidedowndogs.com is nothing but pictures of upside down dogs. And I’ll be damned if they’re not cute as can be.

If you have read this blog for any amount of time, you know I’m not a stickler for correct spelling and grammar, but I thought you would get a kick out of this. Merriam-Webster has succumbed and updated the pronunciation of nuclear on their website citing:

Though disapproved of by many, pronunciations ending in \-kyə-lər\ have been found in widespread use among educated speakers including scientists, lawyers, professors, congressmen, United States cabinet members, and at least two United States presidents and one vice president. While most common in the United States, these pronunciations have also been heard from British and Canadian speakers.

For further research: Impact Of Wet Underwear On Thermoregulatory Responses And Thermal Comfort In The Cold.

In the wet condition 175 g of water was distributed in the underwear prior to the experiment. The test was done on eight men (Ta = 10°C, RH = 85%, Va < 01 m/s), and comprised a 60min resting period. Skin temperature, rectal temperature, and weight loss were recorded during the test. Total changes in body and clothing weight were measured separately. Furthermore, subjective ratings on thermal comfort and sensation were collected. The tests demonstrated the significant cooling effect of wet underwear on thermoregulatory responses and thermal comfort. Further, the tests showed that textile construction of underwear in a two-layer clothing ensemble has an effect on the evaporation rate from clothing during rest in the cold resulting in a significant difference in mean skin temperature. The thickness of the underwear has more of an influence on the thermoregulatory responses and thermal comfort, than the types of fibres tested.

A live feed of a box of puppies. If this doesn’t make your day feel just a little bit better, you have no soul. After going through a time change, an emotional presidential election, an 800-point-two-day drop in the Dow, and Halloween all in one week, it feels nice to know that these guys didn’t even notice.

Gavin Brock has created a cool website that uses Google street view to “walk around” random streets and boulevards in NY, LA, SF and Boston (more cities to come when the Google API improves). When combined with Gavin’s WebSaver application, this could make a cool screensaver for your OS-X based machine.

2008: The Year In Blogging

hubs — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:08:22 +0000

Readership here has steadily increased over 2008. Below is a graph of my total number of absolute unique readers which totaled 104,026 throughout the year. I have no idea why there a sudden drop off in August. I also have no idea what caused the huge spike in November 11th.

The top ten referring sites to Artifacting (with search engines removed) during 2008 were:

~~RipeTV Blog~~

Whiskey In My Sippy Cup

Below is a chart of referrals to Artifacting throughout 2008: