SUBSCRIBE!

RKNet Blog… thing

you know the drill
Loading

Archives for the ‘Internet Toys’ Category

What Is Wrong With This Picture? Techcrunch Edition

By Giania • Mar 19th, 2009 • Category: Internet Toys

Hot: I get so immensely frustrated by the bullshit rodeos that spring up around certain concepts sometimes. However, to really take the time to dissect this nonsense in a meaningful fashion would end one of two ways: Unending flaming from kool-aid drunken supporters of the individual whose ideas I am opposed to. No actual rebuttal [...]



The Facebook Status Update: Self-Indulgence, or Art?

By AmHm • Jan 29th, 2009 • Category: Internet Toys

Hot: I recently read an article on GOOD.is entitled “The Art of the Status Update.” The article was interesting and seemed relevant, in light of a recent post I’d written about the Top Ten Facebook Offenders. Perhaps I’d been too hard on Facebookers in condemning the “self-indulgence” that users of any social-media outlet are often [...]



Top Ten Facebook Offenders

By AmHm • Jan 27th, 2009 • Category: Internet Toys

So. You’ve got a Facebook account. Welcome to the 21st century. Many of us have been here for some time- enjoying relative seclusion from teenage girls and 40 year old men, blinking emoticons and blaring emo-music. But, you had to come sometime, so, welcome.



QED Group – Last.FM Topographical Map of Friend Compatibility

By Giania • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Internet Toys

Hot: Edit! Commenter Jess rightly pointed out the fact that I neglected (which was rude of me and I apologize) to actually link to the place where this neat data visualization can be found! It’s from qed-portal.com. I don’t know about you but I love the fact that my friends listen to notably different stuff. [...]



Wordle for RKNet Homepage

By Giania • Jun 25th, 2008 • Category: Internet Toys

Hot: Very cool project, very fun to see what’s come up most often on RKNet recently.



URLtea Bites It Again

By Giania • Jun 9th, 2008 • Category: Internet Toys

Hot: Looks like I had spoken too soon about URLtea being back in it to win it. An astute commenter on my previous “URLTea Dead” post just tipped me off to the site being dead, again. Below is the text I got when visting the main site. Site Temporarily Unavailable We apologize for the inconvenience. [...]



Imitation Still Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery

By Giania • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Internet Toys

Hot: Fake Stephen Colbert, a twitter user posting under @stephentcolbert, has been unmasked. Luckily, the psuedostephen opted to share the reasoning behind this Twitter-Digg deception. It’s really fun to see someone take a silly experiment and launch it to the next level, a silly experiment with wide recognition. Of course, with Stephen Colbert’s huge popularity [...]



Occult Toy: Tarot Spread Generator

By Giania • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Internet Toys

Hot: I was poking around for more information on Liber AL Vel Legis earlier and found SourceryForge.org (I c wut they did thar). A little further sniffing about turned up this really neat Tarot spread generator. Though still under construction, it offers four types of readings: single card, 3 card relating to influence, 3 card [...]



URLTea dead?

By Giania • Apr 18th, 2008 • Category: Internet Toys

Hot: URLTea used to be my favorite URL shortening service. Emphasis on used to be. For (and I’m guessing here) I’d say the better part of a month, every time I have attempted to make a shortened URL or visit the site, it’s been coming up error, 404, you’re looking for what again? Does anyone [...]



Well, Hell, They’re Just WORDS

By Giania • Apr 5th, 2008 • Category: Internet Toys

Hot: Created by OnePlusYou I’d be interested to see how this test really works. I should check my log files for some kind of crawler. The results came back surprisingly fast, given the amount of pages here (especially when you take into account the tags and categories). I’m inclined to say that this percentage is [...]