Today, on the Interwebs
Words Liz McClendon
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Leaning over the edge of November, we’ve eaten enough by today to put on some winter weight and make us feel like hibernating to wait out the cold to come.
Luckily, we live in Hampton Roads where it’s never really that cold, and we’ve got enough love to keep us warm. If love ain’t doin’ it for you yet, and your heat is broken like a few Ghentians I know – grab a blanket and let your laptop overheat on your legs while you cozy up to the Web.
With no number or petty words to clutter up such a work of refined beauty, I give you this:
1. In the midst of what the internet is calling #cablegate, we find that Wikileaks isn’t just filled with controversy. It’s also got a bit about a 77 year old Iranian-American dentist making a daring horseback escape over the treacherous Zargos Mountains from Iranian authorities that wanted him to stop his music executive sons from representing Persian pop singers in scandalous outfits. Not a story you hear most days.

born to be a *star*
2. Jack Rebney. Remember that angry RV guy that Jesse posted about? He’s got his own website. And documentary. The Internet is for lovers.
3. Also, that reminds me of that time Ryan from “The Office” made a “blog” for Creed. It was a document in Notepad. Not everyone needs to be heard worldwide . . . except for maybe Gene Ray, discoverer of Time Cube, and smartest human on Earth. If you’re looking for a good way to waste a few hours and lose a little faith in the future of humanity (or the past), check out his cutting-edge website. Warning: There is Comic Sans.
4. UGallery: it’s like a sunny window when that grey harbor morning gets you down. It’s also the only shining beacon of insanity in this week’s picks. UGallery claims to represent “today’s top emerging artists – tomorrow’s art world.” Curators have selected the art and sorted it so you can view by medium, genre, color, artist, price, and size. If you purchase art from their store, you can try it out for seven days before returning it with free shipping, which makes me think we should each have our own fancy (and very brief) rented art shows at our apartments, then return it all and pretend it never happened. Local artists – submit! I beg you.
5. The Nightmare Before Christmas Remake. At least that’s what I have to assume this video is. What else could it mean? I don’t want to live in a world where this is considered adorable. Maybe that makes me heartless. Maybe I’ve always been heartless. Maybe someone needs to get this kid a crappy video camera and take away the auto-tune/editing like the Kittens girl. That was real talent.
We all know you’re wasting time browsing the Web every day. Prove you’re not just stalking exes on Facebook by sending your favorite thing on the Internet right now to liz@trycm.com.
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A two-time graduate of Virginia Tech, Liz McClendon left the mountains to live below sea-level again and now transitions between writing, making music, and sewing with the changes of each season.
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Perhaps most saliently from the Time Cube website, Gene Ray sums up his position on the sun’s potential revenge for electing Barack Obama: “The Sun has ruled over the Light on Earth for eons and might just fight back with another ‘Big Bang Catastrope’ if Dark rules over the light from the highest office on Earth.”
Luckily this will only be a catastrope and not truly catastrophic.