Top Five typical posts on Digg.com (aka Ranty McRanterson)
I’ve noticed quite a lot of “news” topics cropping up on Digg recently which instilled a great sense of Deja-Vu, and rightly so since they were submitted over a few months ago, enough for the users of the site to push it to the back of their memory but not the clever re-poster.
I’ve noticed five main things that keep getting submitted every few months, it’s annoying since I’ve sometimes fell into the trap of digging both the original and the repost….shame on me, anyways here’s my brief little list:
- Top Ten lists of “strange” or “cool” things found on Google Earth/Maps - Yes, we get it sometimes a satellite tracking round the planet will take a picture of a plane flying over a suburb, or the map images may blend together strangely making a road disappear into nothing. These were intrigueing the first time but it stopped being funny the thirtieth time I clicked on the topic.
- Anything from TheOnion.com, cleverly not noted as fake news - I’m sure plenty of people enjoy this kind of humour but I don’t get it, fake news is annoying, sure your catchy headline with no indication that this is a convoluted attempt at humour will get you a lot of clicks but thr truth is I can smell these topics a mile off and will simply glance over it as I would a LOLcat picture. try this site if you want to see it done right.
- (speaking of which) LOLcat pictures - Hopefully this fad has now died a death and will never be unceremoniously resurrected, they were pretty cute with their juxtaposition of cute pictures of cats, dogs, walruses (what?) with semi-retarded excuses for the english language but posting every single one that tickles your fancy is annoying. People who talk like that in reall ife too aren’t ironic, they need their skulls drilling and that empty space between their ears filling with concrete. KTHXBAI
- xkcd cartoons - Right, stickmen, they’re funny aren’t they? Remember those early flash animations where some joker would make a stickman take on a thousand stick ninjas, that was fun for ohh, five minutes. Now the humble stickman has been rejuvenated in the wonderfully witty cartoons about “Romance, sarcasm, math & Language”, that itself sounds like a really bad day at high school, but they may have been ok if it weren’t for everyone one of them reaching the front page of Digg regardless of whether they’re even funny.
- Ripping on political figures regardless of party - OK I would first point out I don’t vote, I’m in England so it doesn’t really matter as we get shafted for everything anyways thanks to taxes. That may make me a bad person but it’s one less decision to make and I truely have no interest in who runs this country…into the ground. Apparently americans do though, or so you’d believe. The internet is awash with people saying they need to vote for Obama (admittedly a great prospect I guess) and not for the evil old pensioner. Trouble is that if the media were to be believed they’re going to put a different party in to office because he’s not a Republican, in turn not George Bush. But when you think they first of all put him in their eight years ago and when faced with a chance to bin that cowboy off they still voted to keep him right there. I don’t want to be the errant stone being thrown on to this political minefield but it says something if you need people like P Diddy/Diddy/Poppa Diddy Pop to demand you vote… Phew, anyway too much political stuff on Digg, that is all :)
I’m certainly not in agood mood according to this aren’t !? Didn’t mean to get all preachy and I do realise that I could have better spent the time on my review of the Apple announcements last week but in all honesty the news was so boring and recycled from other companies that I may jib it off all together.
Basically: new shaped iPods in time for christmas (wonderful marketing there Jobs!), lacklustre software update, pointless feature which has not been made into even more pointless, irrelevant and pretentious, oh and tiny tweaks to current models that haven’t been out a year yet still make your customers pay for updates, buy the latest model blah blah blah. So what if that comes off as fanboyish, the simple fact is that I don’t like Apple stuff. So sue me.
Anyway, I’m off to the pub tonight and, god willing, I’ll have a hassle free good time! I say god willing but in actual fact I don’t believe in any god so guess I’ll take that back.
Yoink!
Laters
