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By now you’ve probably already seen a few pictures of pups from Occupy Wall Street, but if you want to see all the adorable critters, then check out the Awwccupy Wall Street blog, featuring cuties from protests around the globe.
Link Via Laughing Squid
College Humor presents new superheroes for the internet. Or, internet sites as superheroes. Besides Google here, check out the powers of The Facebook, Reddit, Huffington Post, and Google Plus. Link -via reddit
Can you judge a workplace by the art they decorate their office with? That’s hard to say. Buzzfeed has a mega-post of artworks and decorations found in website offices from all over. Find out what Playboy, College Humor, Gawker, Dailymotion, VH1, and many others have on their walls. Pictured here is the artwork that greets employees at Threadless. Go to the post to see Neatorama’s positively minimalist office art. Link
Over at Neatorama, our fridge only contains a bottle of crusty mustard, a half -eaten can of green olives and a few hard boiled eggs wrapped in bacon, then sausage and then more bacon. But at other websites, the fridges can actually say a lot about the companies themselves. The one above belongs to Nickelodeon. See if your favorite website is listed and if so, what they have to eat and drink in the office over at the link.
Remember when magazines were your only option? If you long for those days of old, then you’ll enjoy this gallery of popular websites reimagined as magazines. Thank god for the internetz.
Matthew Inman at The Oatmeal reports on the current State of the Web. Not only does he have new developments, sales and mergers, new products, websites, and software, but he also gives us his opinions on all of it. The big story is, of course, the ups and downs of social networking sites. Some text is NSFW. Link -via The Daily What
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Ben Huh, who found success with I Can Has Cheezburger and its many spinoff sites, recently secured $30 million in investment funding. That may sound like success, but the real sign that you’ve arrived is when NMA makes an animation of your story for Asian news outlets. -via Laughing Squid
Can you name the most popular websites in the United States? That’s the challenge in today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss. You have two minutes to name the top ten (you don’t have to type the URL). There are really no surprises here, so if you don’t get them all, you’ll kick yourself when you see the answers. I got all ten in time, but I have to admit that I typed a lot of wrong guesses quickly! Link
The Alcowebizer is a generator that simulates what a website would look like if you were under the influence of alcohol. Enter the address of a website, then you can adjust the look according to your blood-alcohol level. At the first level, Neatorama just looks like it has a few typos -which is not at all surprising. Set it further along, and colors and strange fonts appear. The screenshot here (of this post) is only about half as far as you can take the Alcowebizer. Beware -if you set it far enough, there will be music. Link -via Nag on the Lake
NMap.org created an infographic that shows the 300,000 most popular websites in the world, represented by their icons, in relative size to each other:
The area of each icon is proportional to the sum of the reach of all sites using that icon. When both a bare domain name and its “www.” counterpart used the same icon, only one of them was counted. The smallest icons–those corresponding to sites with approximately 0.0001% reach–are scaled to 16×16 pixels. The largest icon (Google) is 11,936 x 11,936 pixels, and the whole diagram is 37,440 x 37,440. Since your web browser would choke on that, we have created the interactive viewer below (click and drag to pan, double-click to zoom, or type in a site name to go right to it).
It has a search function, and Neatorama’s big N icon is in there.
Link via Geekosystem
If you’ve ever tried to permanently leave a social networking site and delete all the information in your account, you may have found it t be tougher than you think. Help is at hand!
We all have an increasing number of sites and online services we’re members of, and sometimes it all gets a little overwhelming. At times, we just need to delete our memberships to some sites, either in an effort to simplify our lives or just because we’ve grown tired of a particular site or service.
What we often don’t realize when signing up for all these accounts, though, is how difficult it can be to permanently delete our accounts when we’ve had enough. Some require complicated, multi-step processes that can stretch over the course of days (or weeks). Others take less time, but still require multiple steps by the user.
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Matthew Inman at The Oatmeal looks at what’s annoying on the internet today, namely websites that serve the creator instead of the audience. This illustration represents a flash intro. Link
For those of you lamenting the death of Geocities, or at least the look and feel of those websites, we have a generator for you! Enter the URL of any website, and the Geocities-izer will add proper graphics, motion, and sound to bring back the Geocities feeling. The modern version of Neatorama is almost immune to the effects, but this site succumbed easily.
Make Any Webpage Look Like It Was Made By A 13 Year-Old In 1996
Link -via Metafilter
The Daily Telegraph has an image gallery of twenty websites when they were first published. It includes Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Craiglist. The image above is of the White House’s website when it was launched in 1994.
