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Is there anything good on the Internet?

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Owen W-G 31 Mar 2015

For work, we have to come up with something brilliant we've seen online, something original and clever.

I've spent the last day thinking the web is almost totally rubbish.

Is there anything good on the Internet?

Yanis Nayu 31 Mar 2015

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Mal Grey 31 Mar 2015

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patrick_b 31 Mar 2015

In reply to Owen W-G:

At the moment you can play pacman on google maps - that's pretty good.

John Stainforth 31 Mar 2015

In reply to Owen W-G:

You must be joking: Googling, Wikipedia, email, on-line banking, etc, etc. Yes, there is stacks of rubbish - most of the "social media" IMO - but it is easy to ignore.

Damo 31 Mar 2015

In reply to Owen W-G:

"A man who is tired of Google Earth, is tired of life."

Stevie989 31 Mar 2015

In reply to Owen W-G:

Porn.

FactorXXX 31 Mar 2015

In reply to Owen W-G:

This: -

http://hmpg.net/

Jon Stewart 31 Mar 2015

In reply to Owen W-G:

There is *so much* brilliant stuff on the internet. Of all the stuff, for some reason this is what sprang to mind...

Possibly a better example of something "original and clever" (and only available on the internet) might be Adam Curtis' latest art-documentary thing:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02gyz6b/adam-curtis-bitter-lake

But the internet mainly provides music and film and various forms of art and information that might otherwise be out there but we'd never know or have access to it.

Like this tune:

Or Steven Fry talking about the meaning of life (from a humanist perspective)

Or this brilliant Tim Minchin performance

I could go on and on...

@ndyM@rsh@ll 01 Apr 2015

In reply to Owen W-G:

Zoomable globe showing what the wind is doing everywhere, click wherever you like for coordinates and wind-speed.
http://earth.nullschool.net/

Go on Google maps, change it to satellite view and zoom all the way out and it shows you the position of all the stars in relation to the planet, and lights the globe correctly for the time of day and season. You can also go and take a look at the moon and mars, though sadly there's no street view.

abseil 01 Apr 2015

In reply to Owen W-G:

> ......Is there anything good on the Internet?

UKC.

Andy Hardy 01 Apr 2015

In reply to Owen W-G:

Jesus and Mo, the holy roomies.

Mick Ward 01 Apr 2015

In reply to abseil:

> UKC.

Agree - at it's best superb, at it's worst... well, let's not go there.

But it is what we make it - and it's up to us to make it better.

With an enormity of hard work, they've provided the most fantastic playground for us - we get to play in it.

But it's up to us to make it better.

Mick

Xharlie 01 Apr 2015

In reply to Owen W-G:

Brilliance is vanishingly rare on the Web but it does exist. Off the top of my head, I nominate: XKCD, PHd Comics, TED and ye olde MET Office.

MattDTC 01 Apr 2015

In reply to Jon Stewart:

> I could go on and on...

Yes please... that's a great selection of links. Some more please!

planetmarshall 01 Apr 2015

In reply to MattDTC:

As there's an election looming -

jon 01 Apr 2015

In reply to Owen W-G:

> For work, we have to come up with something brilliant we've seen online, something original and clever.

What sort of work do you do?

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Clarence 01 Apr 2015

In reply to Owen W-G:

Musical automata?

http://www.earslap.com/page/otomata.html

edunn 01 Apr 2015

In reply to Owen W-G:

Personally I like this website:

http://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/

Bjartur i Sumarhus 01 Apr 2015

In reply to Jon Stewart:

"Like this tune: "

Incomprehensibly, that tune reminded me of Song of Life by Leftfield. Nothing like it, but a very similar sample used throughout (comes in at 1m23s on your tune)

(comes in at 17m 7 secs)

Shows i'm not bored of the internet anyway

timjones 01 Apr 2015

In reply to Owen W-G:

Apparently the internet is a great source of info for people that can't be bothered to answer simple questions for themselves

deepsoup 01 Apr 2015

In reply to Mal Grey:

The Daily Mash, and especially Psychic Bob's horoscopes: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/features/horoscopes

Superb! Have you seen the OK Go's "This Too Shall Pass" video?

My favourite music vids at the moment are the Mario Weinerroither ones with the music taken out....
(God I laughed when I first saw The Elvis Presley one.)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyNApaP66QReXKaWRZzuXzw

deepsoup 01 Apr 2015

In reply to Xharlie:

I love XKCD (though it sometimes goes over my head). Hadn't heard of PHd Comics before, ta. :O)

More comics:
Oglof (A lot of the time it's just filth though - definitely NSFW.)
Perry Bible Fellowship. http://www.pbfcomics.com/

Rigid Raider 01 Apr 2015

In reply to Owen W-G:
The Strava Heat Map is pretty damned amazing; it shows you where all the world's rich people go running and cycling:

http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#6/-3.67588/54.47086/blue/bike

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Clarence 01 Apr 2015

In reply to deepsoup:

> Superb! Have you seen the OK Go's "This Too Shall Pass" video?

Virtually anything OK Go do is internet gold. I love the Needing/Getting video...

Jon Stewart 01 Apr 2015

In reply to MattDTC:

Alright then...

If you know Adam Curtis' stuff, then this is total genius (doesn't mean much if not):

Stewart Lee on UKIP and the endless void of nothing

Philameana Cunk and Barry Shitpeas on money

Bit more serious this one:

https://www.thersa.org/discover/videos/rsa-animate/2012/09/rsa-animate---th...

And I love these podcasts - here's a memorable one:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/317421-blame/

And a bit more music/video by some mates of mine:

Something a bit more classic, favourite tune, amazing performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxX6pYrvGy4&list=FLdWC6Y_AS7OpZ1k29yQPO...

deepsoup 01 Apr 2015

In reply to Clarence:
Lordy. They've come a long way since the treadmills! :O)

Amazing, but I'm not sure I like it - perhaps a bit too big and commercial. (In the same way the 'This Too Shall Pass' vid is somehow both more and less impressive than the one Mal Grey posted.)

Jon Stewart 01 Apr 2015

In reply to Clarence:

> Virtually anything OK Go do is internet gold. I love the Needing/Getting video...

Cracking videos those. Reminded me of this:

MattDTC 01 Apr 2015

In reply to Jon Stewart:

Cheers for that!

chris687 01 Apr 2015

In reply to Owen W-G:

One of the few sites I use to learn stuff rather than waste time:
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

/tmp 02 Apr 2015

In reply to Owen W-G:

listen to strangley calming music generated by people editing wikipedia.

http://listen.hatnote.com/

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Nic 02 Apr 2015

In reply to edunn:

> Personally I like this website:

> http://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/

Blimey! That is truly bonkers!

Tom F Harding 02 Apr 2015

In reply to chris687:

Thanks for this, I didn't know there was a website. The information is beautiful book is excellent if you don't already have a copy (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0007492898/kib-21).