The Daily Distraction

StSanders + Weezer

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:13:38 -0700

I’ve spoken of my admiration of music satirist StSanders in the past. As a quick refresher, he takes video recordings of famous artists like Eric Clapton and KISS, and he overdubs them with some of the best worst playing imaginable. I can’t eat or drink anything while watching one of his videos, for fear that I’ll spray my monitor. StSanders has done two things recently that caught my attention. First, he released many of his overdubs as an album on iTunes. Second, Weezer (yes, the Weezer) caught wind of what was going and paid homage to one of StSanders works. Enjoy!

StSanders on iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/shreds/id392894860

Weezer covers StSanders:
http://stsanders.com/www/pages/videos/weezer-plays-kiss-shreds.php

The Alot is Better Than You at Everything

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:12:02 -0700

I’ll admit it – I’m kind of a grammar nerd. Having grown up in the hinterlands of Idaho, I am aware that my grammar and punctuation are far from perfect, but I can’t bring myself to text and type like a caveman. Your Daily Distraction is a humorous look at how one person copes with gross encounters of the grammar kind. Enjoy!

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

10k Apart

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:45:08 -0700

I’m a big fan of broadband Internet access. But, I clearly remember the dark days of the ‘90s, when the really lucky people had 56k modems and everyone else was slogging along at 28k. Loading a website could take several minutes, and web developers were fanatical about keeping websites small so they could load quickly.

Your Daily Distraction is the results a contest called 10k Apart, and the challenge was to create a website using modern web technologies that is 10k or less in size. To put that in perspective, a single picture from a modern digital camera is about 300 times that large. Some of the results are very impressive, and it’s cool to see how creative people can be under incredible constraints. Enjoy! (Thanks to @brotherjudkins for sending this out on Twitter)

http://10k.aneventapart.com/

Extreme Sauna-ing

Fri, 3 Sep 2010 18:37:23 -0700

I never would have considered sauna-ing (that’s a word I just made up) an extreme sport. Then again, I’m not from Finland. Apparently, the Finns are a crazy group of people that enjoy sitting in temperatures over 200º F, slowly baking themselves to death. Your Daily Distraction is an entertaining article written by an American who entered the Sauna World Championships in 2007. His experience shows why we’re lucky that baseball is the American pastime. Enjoy!

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=5198604

Top Ten Terrible Tech Products

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 15:28:59 -0700

Much like Kip Dynamite, I love technology. However, on occasion, some truly horrible products are unleashed on an unsuspecting world. Your Daily Distraction is CNET UK's list of the top ten terrible tech products. For extra amusement, click through to read the review of the Squircle MP3 player. It's one of the best product reviews I've ever seen. Enjoy!

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/top-ten-terrible-tech-products-49293700/