An ambiguous blogger named “Joe” has fathomed a blogging project too abstract for my feeble lobes.

“Joe” has promised to construct a toy a day using just paper and posting a picture of each on the project’s host-blog, “Toy-A-Day.”

That’s Joe’s profile picture.

Anyway, Joe makes cool paper figurines of well-known characters that are actually pretty damn good. He vows to keep making figurines for a full year. Right now, he’s on day 65. He is also taking submission ideas.

Make yourself, JoeBlog.

The Internet has had the biggest effect on this election over any other election, blah blah blah. I’m not here to tell you about a sociological study. So here is a damned URL.

The DNC’s elite field of political scientists have used weird-science-Web 2.0 to their advantage and made it alive with McCain’s haterisms. They used the brilliance of Wikipedia technique and consolidated all McCain flaws into one little wiki: McCainPedia.org.

McCainPedia.org

To be fair, this could counter the RNC’s move with the BarackBook–a take on Obama’s campaign with an illusory Facebook homepage displaying satirical status updates.

The only problem is, even fake Facebook is really annoying.

Who’s got my vote? Check my Facebook status. Right.

Either you’re taking uppers 24/7, or sometimes you just feel anxious around people. True story.

Long ago, there were rumors of phone services created to save damsels from situations of social distress.
I searched that rainbow and finally hit the gold: getmooh.com, or Get Me Out of Here.

Illustration from getmooh.com

The site allows you to schedule your phone number with a time to get you out of an unpleasant circumstance, with your choice of savior-recording.

One of the recordings is Alec Baldwin. Another is your drug dealer. It all makes sense.

“The taco was created by Asians, but stolen by the Mexicans in 1669.” -“Taco.” Wikipedia.

Wooorth it. Good steal.

I feel that at one point blogging could have lost its way. But the taco brought it back, thanks to a blogger right here in Austin, who frequents taco stands and blogs about the tacos that inhabit them.

He gives each stand a rating of 1-5 stars.

The blog is called Taco Journalism, and quite frankly, I’m disappointed UT has not hopped into making that a journalism sequence within the program. I would join.

Someone once told me to get them a soda pop, and that sounded very sissified. I’d rather call my caffeinated beverages something much more risque and illegal-sounding. That means even though I despise the taste of ordinary Coca Cola, and am a Dr. Pepper woman, I still call DP, “coke.”

A blog dedicated to making strange maps, aptly titled, “Strange Maps,” has capitalized on this cross-country dialect evolution and created a treasure map pointing to carbonation, if you will.

Picture from strangemaps.wordpress.com

The real question is, what is “Other?”

Sarah Palin just broke history. She became the first woman-vp candidate-action-hero. Unfortunately, Herobuilders.com, a site dedicated to making action figures from pop culture icons, can make an action figure out of me and you too. So what does that say about Palin in a schoolgirl outfit?

Sarah Palin action figure. Photo from Herobuilders.com.

Can I get my birthday present early this year?

Don’t ask how, but I recently laid my hands on a sweet 1987 Mac. Once my greediness set in and I was milliseconds from wrapping it in a swaddling cloth and cradling it behind my driver seat, there was an awkward silence. I didn’t know what to do with it.

My roommate and I debated: Fish tank? Planter? Bookend?

No:

Macpack. Some dude on Instructables did it. All though I’m not really that anxious to express my nerdiness, props, guy–Props.

It’s 90 degrees at 9 p.m. That means I know you’ll be wearing a t-shirt tomorrow. How can you beat the classic t-shirt? Isn’t it a great feeling when you feel compelled to purchase one, because it strikes you at that point in time in when whatever phased-randomness is equivalent to your life?

I like t-shirts but I don’t wear them as much as I should, perhaps. Until now. Finally I can find a shirt based on the message I want to send out to my intimidating college peers, whom I really, really care about.

Pleasedress.me is a search engine for t-shirts. It sounds insane, but really, what the flip, it’s brilliant. I know plenty of kids into t-shirts that would enjoy typing in a keyword to find clothing. It sounds like it almost justifies clothing in general, doesn’t it?

I’m skeptical about anything with the word “indie” in the title. But when I can’t sleep at night, who cares about pride.

So I hop on Indietv.tv, make sure no one is looking, and watch some random cartoon.

My favorite thus far? Olympus Burger. Picture the Greek gods in the midst of a commercial fast food kitchen. Hades is the janitor. It’s all so priceless:

And that will be a great day.

Screenprinted it this weekend; so, so tight.