🎅Merry Christmas Link Invasion
Have a wonderful day with the family!
MERRY CHRISTMAS friends!
I hope you’re having a wonderful day with your friends and family.
Hope you get some cool presents, and have some wonderful quality time.
We’re having some bacon and monkey bread for breakfast - hope y’all had something tasty too!
Since this is a special Christmas edition of The Land of Random - we’re gonna do things a bit differently today.
Rather than topics and the like - we’re gonna do another LINK INVASION - but geared towards sharing with your friends and family tonight. Many of these will be “oldies but goodies” - some of my favorites from the past few years.
Conversation dying down? Pull one of these bad boys out to get the chat going again.
If you’re reading this after Christmas - save it for the New Year’s Eve party, or your next get-together. There’s plenty to explore when the conversation dies down!
This could be you today.
😄Weird Websites
If you’d like to evoke “what the heck is this” from your family - choose some links from the following.
The Elastic Face - Pull the face like it’s Super Mario 65 all over again. Bonus points if you’re a Rick and Morty fan.
Leekspin - This will get a “what the heck” reaction - both from you and your victim. The song may also get stuck in your head.
Ouais Mais Bon - Guaranteed to deeply confuse you and your victim.
Copy Pasta Database - Got a family member who’s constantly staring at their phone during the holiday dinner? They’ll be struggling not to laugh out loud once you send them one of these. Once they go back to their phone - send em another.
yyyyyyy.info - Ohhhh so your family member considers themselves a bit of a hipster with their myspace account? Show em this to really confuse em.
Eelslap.com - Good for a little giggle.
Flip the Switch - Bet you or your family member can’t flip the switch.
Typewaiter - This typewriter waits for noone.
Spin a Record with Your Body - This is actually a lot of fun, and requires you to burn a few calories AND get dizzy.
😎Cool Websites
If you’d prefer not to disturb or weird out your family, show them cool links.
Take a look at trains in real-time traveling all about the USA
Show them a river of cool art and gifs - just click one and everything thematically arranges to match.
Generate a Tartan Plaid for your mom or dad’s name.
Type in a phrase - get a movie scene. Really interesting!
Check out old lost midi files that were saved from Geocities.
Nearby Wiki - Check out real stuff near YOU that has a Wikipedia article. Go for an adventure with your siblings and cousins!
Find the oldest mention of something on the internet - great for sparking interesting conversations about topics like bitcoin, crypto, the backrooms . . .
Shoot some Latercam pics of your family - and get the photos delivered in the mail!
Mess around with this Websynth and make some tunes.
Listen to some forgotten songs on Spotify - and see if you can find any new songs you like!
🙃Fun Things to Discuss
Try and read one of these - then bring up for discussion.
The original Mickey Mouse is leaving copyright next year - what unhinged thing should be made? a horror movie with mickey mouse?
Google Groups is dropping Usenet support - Anyone used to browse Usenet back in the old days?
Physical media - Is it still important? Why or why not?
In a world where Amazon will delete shows you “owned” is piracy acceptable?
That’s all for today! Have a wonderful Christmas!