Dr. Suess with Dr. Dre backing tracks.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcuLSr4UhAU8Rdegc264srg
Just…trust me.
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I saw this today and was very impressed.
You evil so-and-so…
That is so much awesome.
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The Dick Pic Locator.
Somebody sent you a dick pic? Find out from where using the GPS coordinates buried in most pics.
I’m assuming that it works on more than just awkwardly embarrassing photos of your inadequate genitalia. Of course, this info isn’t that difficult to get but it’s all here in one easy to use website. They say they don’t store your info.
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It’s amazing how many 80’s shows could read this way. The Zach series from Saved by the Bell is pretty wild too.
This is amazing for having a nap. I just put it on, maximized the screen (black) and lay back. This thing runs for 10 hours.
This is a beautiful use of web standards:
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Lovely stuff. Brings back the memories of trying to align the fold-in to align perfectly (on a virgin magazine it is not easy).
Come to think of it, why didn’t I use a ruler back then?
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Miss the old MAD though.
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Found this today and thought it was a wonderful example of the ohcrap moments we can have. Unfortunately it describes some of the most glaring problems with my company’s development strategies.
Somebody collected 24 cans of Dr. Pepper variations. I don’t know where the original picture is from, but it’s included below this picture on the Cheezburger site. The one I’m wondering about is “Dr. Spice” because it says “spicy cola” below it. Is Dr. Pepper a spicy flavor? I don’t think I’ve ever had it so I don’t know.
There’s an ancient web site I remember where some guy was collecting Dr. Pepper variants and other off-brand sodas. Some of these count, I think: Doctor Thunder is one of the store brands, if I remember correctly.
Pepper is commonly considered a ‘spice’ so jumping to Dr. Spice doesn’t seem like a huge leap.
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This is going to be an anti-Web Find of the Day.
Three years ago, Sunbeam recommended Scrivener for writers because it lets you add notes about what you’re writing to help keep things straight. It apparently can be tough to learn so you might be looking for help with using it. I saw an ad on Facebook today for a guy who calls himself “The Scrivener Coach”, doing a “four-day flash sale” of a “Writer’s Treasure Chest” with materials he’s put together. I was thinking that it might be worth it to plunk down $37 for it because there’s probably some good things in there I could use, and hey, it’s 80% off the normal $197.
Then I noticed something. The countdown timer for the sale is for five days instead of four. And when I went to the Pricing and FAQ links, they just jumped down to specific sections of the same page. If I hadn’t opened them in separate tabs, I wouldn’t have noticed that the timers (in actuality, the same timer) aren’t synced. They don’t change except on the active tab. Leave a background tab sitting for a few minutes and you’ll find its timer won’t run until you go back to it, and then you can see it start up again after about a second.
I start looking at the comments to the Facebook ad. Some are dated two weeks ago, which means it isn’t a four-day only sale. Some are for people who said they didn’t get the access info after buying it. Others are saying you can do searches on Google for free resources.
All right, so when was this web page created? The page source doesn’t have a date in it, but guess what? The countdown timer is coded to start at 4 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and 0 seconds. Pop open a different browser, paste in the URL and bingo. The timer starts over at that point. Probably uses a cookie to track when you first look at the page so if you come back later, it will appear as if the timer is legitimate.
Right in that section of code is a redirect to another page on the same site. Let’s see what that’s about. Well, well, well. It’s the same page, only instead of an 80% discount off of $197, it’s a “Massive $100 discount” as part of a customer appreciation sale where the “special price is good for a limited time only” that you get because “you’re a current student of mine”.
So, it looks like both “sales” are deceptive about how long they will run. You get penalized for being a student of this person because you don’t get as good a sale price as if you found it through the Facebook ad. IF you are sent the login information after buying it, you’ll get material that may or may not help you or you could find yourself. And “due to the enormous discount, there are NO REFUNDS”, stated on both pages.
Sounds like using the $37 or $97 on lottery tickets might be more worthwhile.
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Now for a good Web Find of the Day. If you want some straight talk about how writers get paid, Larry Correia covered that earlier this month where he “fisks” an article from Buzzfeed whose main point seems to be if authors aren’t paid enough, it’s due to racism.
What I got out of it is a huge advance for a book often works against the writer. You don’t get anything further on the book sales until they go past the advance, which is called “earning out”. In other words, the break even point for the publisher.
You get lucky and a publisher thinks you’re worth a $100K advance when $15K is typical? The number of books that have to be sold to earn out goes up. The book doesn’t sell well? It’s a strike against getting advances on the next book. Authors that do well live off their backlist, which are their previous books that have earned out. As they publish new books and new readers find them, sales of the backlist get a bump. For perspective, Larry has a consistent track record of about two books a year, so his publisher knows he’s a dependable writer.
Wow, what a scam.
There are plenty of free Scrivener resources out on the 'net. I haven’t looked because I am not in any sort of “got to write” mode, and probably won’t be for quite some time - if ever.
I have seen a book / ebook called “Take Control of Scrivener”, which may be of more use to you. Can’t offer any sort of review as I haven’t read it.
Yeah, I keep getting that ad too, and thought the same thing. And then, as I always do, I checked out the comments. Hard no from me after that.
They are correct. I’ve found a bunch of templates and lots of YouTube videos (which I really should watch sometime…). I found a great worldbuilding template that I’m using for my in-progress fantasy novel now that I’ve realised I really, really need to world build before I write any more on it. 
Last year, Gary Larson launched TheFarSide.com to have a permanent home for his comics. Last week, he teased something new was coming. Today it has in the appropriately-titled New Stuff section. After years of fussing with cleaning his ink pen, he decides to try out a digital tablet and he found he enjoyed drawing again.
Let’s hope there’s many more new comics to come so that there will some day be a “Hernia Giver, Volume II” printed edition.
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