Saturday, January 10, 2009 |
10:21 - I've got a little list, I've got a little list
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I've noted once or twice before how pleased I can't help but be at the Internet-age self-reinvention of Cracked. Once a waste of shelf space in the magazine aisle of stores with the lamentable taste to stock MAD but not to screen out humorless, shambling imitators, it's now a site full of the kinds of articles guaranteed to rob you of a valuable weekend.
Like these "Top Ten" type lists. I started out with 6 Baffling Old-School Video Game Commercials (really, how much abuse can our 80s childhoods take?) (via Mark), and spidered my way through the embedded links to 6 People Who Died In Order to Prove a (Retarded) Point (featuring Chris McCandless in the #1 spot) and 5 People You've Never Heard Of Who Saved the World (full of history of which I was not aware, though as a commenter rightly notes, unfortunately does not go so far as to include Stanislav Petrov). And who knows what else I'll find if I don't put a cap on my link travel depth.
...What? It's snowing out. What else am I gonna do?
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