Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Interwebz: the all mighty distracter

   So somehow the internet becomes way more interesting when you're procrastinating or avoiding some sort of responsibility.  Am I the only one who can't just sit down at the computer and start wasting time?  The internet only draws me into its web when I have a paper to write or when it's 2am and I should be sleeping.  Besides the generic distractions of Facebook, Tumblr and YouTube the internet is full of other websites that will slowly steal your life.  You look at the clock one minute and it's 11:15pm, no big deal, you have a little time to kill.  Ten seconds later you look and it's 2:45am.  When the fuck did that happen? Well if you have trouble finding internet distractions on your own (poor 21st century noob) I have a cure for this: INTERWEBZ WEDNESDAY!!! Every Wednesday I'm gonna try and post some sort of internet fantasticness that will keep you all kinds of occupied. It may be games, shopping, videos, news, comics or puppy photos. 

  Hmmmm...now where to start???  Okay lets take a magical tour of Etsy.


 Now lots of people know of Etsy's awesome selection of handmade and vintage items.  If you don't know about etsy and you have any interest in online shopping you should check it out.  You can find jewlery, decorations, painting, art, art supplies, cards, clothes, food, trinkets, knick-knaks, chatchskis, and literally anything you would possibly want.  I mostly check out girly-ish artsy stuff or nerdy stuff but they have super badass stuff too like kick ass pocket knives, Doctor Who stuff, Indiana Jones hats and like anything else you could possibly want. 
   Anyyyyyways the part that most people don't know about Etsy is that you can take the "taste test."  With this they give you a set of six items and you choose the one you like the most.  If you don't particularly like any of them you can ask for different items.  It goes through this process nine times and then does some magical magic stuff and spits out a list of items it thinks you will like.  Sometimes it's creepily accurate.  You can take it again if you don't like your results the first time or just because it's amazing and you wanna experience the magic again.  It's kinda hidden away so you have to search for it so you probably wouldn't stumble upon it on your own.  Luckily I have this handy dandy link:   click me, i'm a link

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