October 15th, 2007
Bungie.net loves us.
Josh and I just launched our new Halo themed lolcats site, Halolcats — and we’ve got some good press.
We put together the concept and site in a little under 8 hours, and as of yesterday we’ve amassed over 50,000 unique visitors and 190,000 page views in the two weeks since the site launched. I keep finding that the more simple and directed my ideas for new sites are, the better they do. I attempted to create the site with as little effort as possible — no public image uploading, flash image caption apps or accounts. Just a blog and an email address for submissions, and it’s done much better than we could have expected. I know this is niche and meme-like, it won’t last more than a few months tops.
What simple ideas have you turned into a site, or wish you had?
Tags: cats, halo 3, Halolcats
Posted in Halolcats | 7 Comments »
October 12th, 2007
Today I was directed to a news story entitled Right Brain v Left Brain, which asks you to look at the image to the right and determine if you believe the silhouette of the woman is spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise. Depending on how you respond it supposedly determines if you are left or right brained. Personally, I always saw her spinning clockwise, but then someone told me to stare at the shadow for a bit and wait until it appears like it started turning the other way. This appeared to trick my brain into seeing it turn counter-clockwise.
By this definition that makes me right-brained, but the qualities described below don’t seem to describe me at all (it doesn’t have “sexy” on there). So what does this all mean? It means that because of this slow news day and various people sending me this link, my time has been wasted. Obviously the next logical step was to waste more time by writing a blog post (my first) about this.
LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
Counter-Clockwise |
RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
Clockwise |
- uses logic
- detail oriented
- facts rule
- words and language
- present and past
- math and science
- can comprehend
- knowing
- acknowledges
- order/pattern perception
- knows object name
- reality based
- forms strategies
- practical
- safe
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- uses feeling
- “big picture” oriented
- imagination rules
- symbols and images
- present and future
- philosophy & religion
- can “get it” (i.e. meaning)
- believes
- appreciates
- spatial perception
- knows object function
- fantasy based
- presents possibilities
- impetuous
- risk taking
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Tags: illusion, left-brained, right-brained
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