12th of November: My adventures on StumbleUpon

Before I start today's topic, I'll give you a bit of an update on my life.  As you may or may not know, I'm currently at the tail-end of my final uni exams for the year.  I have my last one tomorrow.  Psychology and Criminology went well, but I wasn't worried about them anyway.  I had anatomy today.  All through this semester, I have struggled with anatomy, mainly because it's completely unrelated from the rest of my subjects.  The teachers keep saying stuff like "Don't worry learning about that, you'll do it in your physiology class tomorrow".  Guess what?  I don't do physiology, so you better not fucking ask me physiology questions in the exam.  In other words, most other people in that class had anatomy supported by their other classes.  I had one core subject, then I had to choose 3 elective, none related to psych.  Naturally, it didn't end well.  I could handle psych, crim and anthropology, because they taught you what you needed to know.  I couldn't do anatomy, because the 3 lectures and 1 practical a week were clearly not enough to teach me about EVERYTHING in the human body.  Cellular level, upwards.  Of course I can't do it.

For anatomy, I passed the first exam by 2.6 points, failed the second by 2.6 points, so I was exactly on 50% of assessment so far.  I did the practical, and I passed by 0.6 of a mark.  So, before today's exam, I was on 30.6/60.  Today's exam makes up the other 40%, and I don't think I did fantastically.  I'll be surprised if I pass.  The first thing I did was go to the student enquiry desk and ask what happens when you fail.  Long story short, it's not the end of the world.

Anyway, on to today's topic.

There's a toolbar you can download if you go here.  It's called StumbleUpon, and I love it.  You select your interests out of a massive variety of categories.  Anything you can think of, there's relevant pages on it.  It's awesome.

Anyway.  After you do your interests, you can start Stumbling.  You hit a button, and it sends you to a web page relevant to your interests.  You can select "All" and be sent to a page from any of your interests, or you can chose a specific one.

I'll show you a few pages I've Stumbled onto.


http://www.kennethparker.com/100_park_temples.html   - There's quite a few pages like this, where it's just a picture, but usually they're awesome, like this one by Kenneth Parker.  Just looking at his photos, I'm pretty sure most of them would make for beautiful desktop backgrounds.

  - There's quite a lot of simple, yet thought provoking stuff on there.


http://www.coolpicturegallery.net/2010/10/10-most-reckless-doctors.html  - Then there's creepy shit like this.  It's about doctors who do terrible (or terribly stupid) things to their patients.  I would pursue my dream of being a cosmetic surgeon, but I get the feeling that I would do stupid shit, like the doctor that left a sponge in their patient's spine.  Not intentionally of course...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doIcr8Jw4gY  - Have you ever seen that 3d pavement chalk art?  This video is a time lapse video of how it's done.



http://www.notreallybutseriously.com/index/NRBS_043.html  -  A short comic-style picture of how different superheroes would handle a situation.  It's pretty awesome.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/71127  - The story behind Abraham Lincoln's beard.  I don't know if it's true though.  Never heard of it.

http://www.funzug.com/index.php/nature/amazing-sight-in-the-south-pacific.html  - Awesome pictures, but WTF.  Another reason to be afraid of the ocean.  There's all sorts of weird shit in there.

http://www.rockstartutu.com/adult-teen/adult-teen-tutus.html  - An online tutu shop.  What's up with that? Who buys tutus online?


http://io9.com/5443825/sci-fi-foods-we-wish-actually-existed  - Oh man, this totally brings out the nerd in me.  The Milliways Dish of the Day creeps me out a bit.  I don't think I could handle a conversation with my dinner of choice.


http://www.buzzfeed.com/melismashable/the-best-of-face-replace  - This is so funny!  Basically, if there's someone making a stupid face in a photo, everyone else has that face photo shopped over their real one.  I don't know if that made any sense, but just look at it and you'll get it.  21 is so gross though.


http://www.spreeder.com/app.php - If you want to try and train yourself to read faster, this would probably be really helpful.  Unfortunately, I'm already a fast reader, so I don't get too much benefit from it.


http://www.direman.com/direman/comic.php?comicID=515 - I think you have to be fairly nerdy to get this one.  "Camping" is an online gaming term for sitting in one stop, waiting for the enemies to come to you.  And people hate campers.  And abuse the crap out of them.  Online gaming is serious business.


http://www.viruscomix.com/page528.html - Very true.


http://www.inewidea.com/2009/12/28/16155.html - HOLY CRAP I WANT IT


http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/06/11/how-to-permanently-delete-your-account-on-popular-websites/ - A handy guide to deleting accounts.  I know that Facebook is notoriously hard to delete. It may come in handy to someone.

http://fakescience.tumblr.com/ - Fake Science, for when real science is too hard. 

http://www.sexcigarsbooze.com/2010/07/old-rockers-then-now/ - Rock stars, then and now. For some of them, the only difference is the amount of make up the men wear. Side note:  Check out Bon Jovi's chest hair!

http://www.zornog.net/etc/martainrandom/martainrandom.htm  - It starts off as a somewhat believable story about the room mate from hell.  By the end of it, you know it's not possible, but you want to keep reading anyway.  It's also quite long.


http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/10/fascinating-new-species-found-in-papua-new-guinea.php - Some newly discovered animals in PNG.


http://www.fludit.com/design/dudes-made-from-lego-cubes.html - Some easily recognisable people/characters, all made from Lego!

 Well.  I think it's nearly time for me to go to bed.  Or at least stop blogging.  I have my anthro exam tomorrow at a stupidly early time, and I've only revised over the first 4 weeks of notes, which was a pretty solid effort of 19 pages.  I'll print off the rest, shower, then take it to bed with me.

Night, readers.

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