It is in. It's now and it's wow. Its's bigger than parodies of Friday and the single biggest entropy generator since the Big Bang. It's caught my attention ever since I started noticing that suddenly guys and girls had started becoming more and more random as the days passed by. A conversation with a fellow stumbler:
Me : I heard Metallica is coming to Delhi this October...
Stumbler : I know. Porcupine tree had came over for MoodI. Do you know they sell condoms in Amazon.com?
Me : How much do you think the tickets... Wait, you what?
Stumbler : Which reminds me. The icy rings of Saturn are actually ammonia crystals,
Me : How exactly did that remind you of..?
Stumbler : And down in the Projects, they haven't got good restaurants and that's what leads to gang shootouts...
Me : Huh?
Stumbler : Stumbleupon.com FTW. (Fists the air...)
Ok, if you did understand an ounce of the second stumbled-upon statement(which doesn't mean that you gotta feel like crap if you didn't) you are an intellectual. Apparently, the Projects refer to public housing and development projects mainly in South Boston, built for poor and homeless African Americans, which eventually turned into Black Gang HQs and crack cocaine addicts. If you have either read the "Why do drug dealers live with their moms?" chapter of Freakonomics or played GTA San Andreas, you would know what I'm talking about. For the rest of y'all, keep it real and keep the hood clean, dawgs...
Stumbleupon is devilishly simple. It capitalizes on the younger generation's increasingly decreasing attention span. It asks you for your interests, say economics or books or communism or poetry, and once you press the Stumble! button, it shows you websites which have been classified by other stumblers based on your interests. It's basically a directed search, where you aren't exactly looking for something. Once you're done with the site, you rate it and click Stumble! again, and it takes you to a different site, slowly refining the sites it shows you based on your ratings.
Coming up: Something which is giving serious competition to Blogging in the world of good vocabulary. Life is good.
Me : I heard Metallica is coming to Delhi this October...
Stumbler : I know. Porcupine tree had came over for MoodI. Do you know they sell condoms in Amazon.com?
Me : How much do you think the tickets... Wait, you what?
Stumbler : Which reminds me. The icy rings of Saturn are actually ammonia crystals,
Me : How exactly did that remind you of..?
Stumbler : And down in the Projects, they haven't got good restaurants and that's what leads to gang shootouts...
Me : Huh?
Stumbler : Stumbleupon.com FTW. (Fists the air...)
Ok, if you did understand an ounce of the second stumbled-upon statement(which doesn't mean that you gotta feel like crap if you didn't) you are an intellectual. Apparently, the Projects refer to public housing and development projects mainly in South Boston, built for poor and homeless African Americans, which eventually turned into Black Gang HQs and crack cocaine addicts. If you have either read the "Why do drug dealers live with their moms?" chapter of Freakonomics or played GTA San Andreas, you would know what I'm talking about. For the rest of y'all, keep it real and keep the hood clean, dawgs...
Stumbleupon is devilishly simple. It capitalizes on the younger generation's increasingly decreasing attention span. It asks you for your interests, say economics or books or communism or poetry, and once you press the Stumble! button, it shows you websites which have been classified by other stumblers based on your interests. It's basically a directed search, where you aren't exactly looking for something. Once you're done with the site, you rate it and click Stumble! again, and it takes you to a different site, slowly refining the sites it shows you based on your ratings.
Coming up: Something which is giving serious competition to Blogging in the world of good vocabulary. Life is good.
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