stumbleupon.com

[Clare Quilty]

Stumbleupon is an intelligent browsing toolbar and a free web community. "By rating web pages, you can teach the toolbar what you like. Press the "Stumble" button and it takes you to cool web sites refined to your preferences." Thus, if you are a writer who loves art and you rate literary and art related pages highly, you will be rewarded with similar pages when you use the stumble upon button.

With the stumbleupon tool bar you also get a homepage/blog/photoblog where your recently rated pages are listed. Other stumbleupon users can view your page, comment, list you as a friend etc... The page also lists stumblers who have interests similar to yours, increasing your chances of stumbling upon sites of your particular interest.

I could blather on for several pages on the subject of just how cool this free --spyware and adware free--service is. It suffices to say that after submitting your interests and rating a few pages you like, you'll begin to stumble into sites you will most likely want to permanently bookmark--sites you may never have found otherwise.



http://www.stumbleupon.com/




By way of example: This is my stumbleupon page.

http://clarequilty.stumbleupon.com/

 

[Guest]

Thanks, I'll try it soon. P.

 

[doormouse]

Kewl idea!!

Thanks Could come in handy for research

 

[Clare Quilty]

Thanks, I'll try it soon. P.

There is a stumbleupon FireFox extension (which is how I came to have it.) So you don't have to download it from their site.

There are apparently quite a few stumblers who frequent Lit.

 

[Guest]

Q., I have it and it's great. Already have a couple dozen faves to look at later. Here's one.

P.

 

[cantdog]

Very fine CQ, my thanks.

 

[Clare Quilty]

Q., I have it and it's great. Already have a couple dozen faves to look at later. Here's one.

P.

This is precisely why stumbleupon is so f-ing cool. I'd never heard of that comic strip a day in my life. As fate would have it, Iit falls right in line with my considerably askew sense of irony.

 

[Guest]

my considerably askew sense of irony.

Coolness.

 

[SensualMale]

Kewl idea!!

Thanks Could come in handy for research

Yeah, it could

 

[ferociouskittycat]

Yeah, it could

Mmm heya SM

What a sight for sore eyes

 

[shereads]

This could be the answer to my google.uk dilemma. Google decided that I prefer replies from Britain and Australia. Typically a full page of them before we get to my home hemisphere. There's no way to select for geography in the preferences, just language.

<struggles not to cry>

It's...It's been hard, clare.

Thank you for giving me this chance.

 

[amicus]

Interesting...thank you...


amicus...

 

[Clare Quilty]

This could be the answer to my google.uk dilemma. Google decided that I prefer replies from Britain and Australia. Typically a full page of them before we get to my home hemisphere. There's no way to select for geography in the preferences, just language.

<struggles not to cry>

It's...It's been hard, clare.

Thank you for giving me this chance.

I'm assuming you've already tried clearing all of your cookies and making sure that your hostfile doesn't have google mapped to the IP address of google.UK.

This is NOT a very sophisticated hack, and if I had a program that would let me edit cookies in winXP I'm sure I could do better. However, this will work--that is to say that it worked when I tried it just now.

Make a bookmark or a quick lauch button on your browsers bookmark tool bar for google.

Then right click to get the properties of that button and substitute http://www.google.com/ with the following URL (sans the double quotes)...

"http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=&btnG=Google+Search&meta=cr%3DcountryUS%7CcountryUS"

Unless something highly unusual is going on (such as a nasty virus or the like with a preference for the UK) this should primarily return hits in the goog old U.S. of A.

Then, use that button/bookmark (I think they're called favorites in IE) for your google searches.

 

[shereads]

This is precisely why stumbleupon is so f-ing cool. I'd never heard of that comic strip a day in my life. As fate would have it, Iit falls right in line with my considerably askew sense of irony.

Askew? Hell.

If your sense of irony is askew, then mine...Omigod. The world is more messed up than I had thought. Normal people are some of the most twisted mo'fos around.



Meanwhile, speaking of obscure online-only cartoons, some new episodes of my all-time-favorite have been posted in recent weeks. For your considerably askew ironic pleasure, I offer "Get Your War On," the Lost Episodes.

http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war37.html

 

[RavenSpirit2k4]

Much obliged, Clare. I'm giving the Mozilla extension a whirl. Seems pretty cool so far.

 

[shereads]

I'm assuming you've already tried clearing all of your cookies and making sure that your hostfile doesn't have google mapped to the IP address of google.UK.

You lost me right after "cookies." What you described may not be a sophisticated hack, but neither are the writers of "Law and Order" and look how complicated it's become.

Here's my level of tech expertise: I can't spell http.

 

[Guest]

the human clock

This is one of the coolest creative sites I've found through Stumbleupon. P.

 

[Clare Quilty]

You lost me right after "cookies." What you described may not be a sophisticated hack, but neither are the writers of "Law and Order" and look how complicated it's become.

Here's my level of tech expertise: I can't spell http.

Well, if you can make a bookmark (favorite) to the URL I listed above, it will take you to a google search page with metadata that instructs it to return U.S. hits.

 

[Clare Quilty]

Re: the human clock

This is one of the coolest creative sites I've found through Stumbleupon. P.

That is cool. I used to have an atari 2600 and I had a Tandy computer (which actually belonged to my older brother) that was an even older model--TRS-80 model I level II--than the one on that site.

A few of the cooler sites that I've stumbled into are...

http://www.litencyc.com/

http://www.gnod.net/

http://*******.com/

I now find these sites indispensable.

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: the human clock

I now find these sites indispensable.

The three are bookmarked. ******* is superb. P.

 

[shereads]

Well, if you can make a bookmark (favorite) to the URL I listed above, it will take you to a google search page with metadata that instructs it to return U.S. hits.

A favorite what?





I think I can. I think I can! Thanks Clare.

 

[Clare Quilty]

Re: Re: Re: the human clock

The three are bookmarked. ******* is superb. P.

Another particularly cool (to me) thing that I've stumbled upon are these satellite photographs of my childhood home. Apparently, George Orwell was right all along.

Chez Quilty circa 1979

Chez Quilty circa 1979 (the big picture)


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