I was feeling a little sASSy so I figured I’d compile a list of words that contain the word ‘ass’ in them. I mean, why not? Sorted initially by the number of letters in the word and then alphabetically the list contains nearly 1,250 ass words. I feel it’s fairly comprehensive but if I’m missing a word please let me know. Enjoy.
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Another year has gone by and it is Banned Books Week once more. I have been listing the top 10 most challenged books annually on my blog since 2009. I’d be remiss not to do it again. 2012 saw an increase in challenged books. Last year there were 464 challenges reported by the Office for Intellectual Freedom (compared to 326 in 2011 and 348 in 2010). You can see the top 10 list below.
Click these links if you are looking for the top 10 lists for previous years with easy links to Amazon: 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001.
Additionally, in 2010, I put together a list of the 100 Most Banned & Challenged Books Of The Decade by aggregating several lists from the American Library Association.
According to last.fm these are the bands that I listened to most during 2012. Only one band in my top ten this year were also on last years list.
Below is a wave graph of the top artists that I listened to over the last year (click for a larger image). It’s a great way to visualize the trends in my listening habits throughout the year.
Additionally, here is a list of my most listened to songs of 2012:
You can also see similar lists put together for 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, and 2007. Last.fm is the service I use to track my listening habits. I’m always trying to discover new music so please go ahead and friend me over at last.fm.
It was a another great year for readership on Artifacting with 1,506,431 absolute unique readers coming to the blog over the year. Below is a graph of my total number of absolute unique readers throughout 2012.
The spike on March 17th was caused by Buzzfeed linking to my Sloth Name Generator. The spike on April 27th was caused by Metafilter linking to my Perfect Face Post. And the spikes in June were caused by Stumbleupon finding my Alternative Default Facebook Profiles (almost two years after posting them).
The top ten most visited posts published in 2012 are:
Find The Name Of Your Inner Sloth
Miss NASA Beauty Pageant
The Perfect Face
The Women Of Denver Don’t Really Look Like This
Rain Room
Hunger Games: The Most Accurate Maps Of Panem
Teahupo’o
Names And Types Of Full Moons
Top 100 Best Children’s Books
Brooke Shields And Punk Rock
Referring sites sent a smaller percentage of the total visits to Artifacting this year. In 2012 there were 261,471 referred visitors arriving from 2,097 different sources. Below is a chart of referrals to Artifacting throughout 2011.
The top ten referring sites to Artifacting (with search engines removed) during 2012 were:
Stumbleupon
Yahoo Answers
Facebook
Metafilter
Reddit
Buzzfeed
Dark Roasted Blend
Squidoo
Twitter
Dirty
This is the first year since I’ve been tracking that Boing Boing didn’t make my top 10 referral list and the first year that Buzzfeed actually did make the list. I also think it’s interesting that Yahoo Answers has been in the top three referrers for the last four years.
General stats for Artifacting are as follows:
| Year | # Of Posts | Avg. Length Of Posts | Total Length Of All Posts | Comments (Mine) | 2012 | 88 | 2,093 | 184,142 | 273 (7) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 96 | 3,369 | 323,412 | 304 (13) |
| 2010 | 172 | 1,900 | 326,775 | 326 (20) |
| 2009 | 105 | 1,828 | 191,907 | 285 (19) |
| 2008 | 135 | 956 | 129,117 | 363 (34) |
| 2007 | 248 | 835 | 207,145 | 568 (124) |
| 2006 | 221 | 927 | 204,804 | 536 (122) |
| 2005 | 39 | 1,392 | 54,292 | 295 (0) |
| 2004 | 117 | 1,673 | 195,757 | 955 (0) |
| 2003 | 144 | 1,473 | 212,112 | 701 (0) |
If you’re interested I also have the same stats for 2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008.
My travel was light again this year. Below is a list of cities and towns I’ve visited in 2012. I spent one or more nights in each place listed and those cities marked with an * were visited multiple times on non-consecutive days.
Edwards, CO*
Niwot, CO*
Vail, CO*
Las Vegas, NV
Buford, CO
Rifle, CO*
Jacksonville, FL
Aspen/Snowmass, CO
I also have city and town lists for 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, and 2007.
I didn’t track my movie watching in 2012 but below is a list of movies that I watched and enjoyed over the past year.
Marley (10/10)
Being Elmo (9/10)
True Grit (8/10)
Toy Story 3 (8/10)
Jiro Dreams Of Sushi (8/10)
Adventureland (7/10)
The Descendants (7/10)
The Avengers (7/10)
Rango (6/10)
21 Grams (7/10)
The Joneses (6/10)
Here were my favorites from 2011, 2010, 2008, and 2007 I have done a handful of posts over the past year that have to do with movies. Go explore them under the movies tag.
Greg Rutter does it again with his “Definitive List Of The Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet In 2012 Unless You’re A Loser Or Old Or Something” list. His other two previous lists can be found here and here. Always an entertaining way to burn an afternoon or two.
01) Best Marriage Proposal Ever
02) Bob Ross Remixed
03) Gangnum Style
04) Mr. Wizard’s A Dick
05) Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee
06) Dog Shamin
07) Texts From Hillary
08) Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe”
09) Shark Surprise
10) San Diego’s 15 Second Fireworks Spectacular
11) Game Of Thrones Light Saber Battle
12) Krispy Kreme
13) A Conversation With My 12-Year-Old Self
14) All 135 Space Shuttle Launches At Once
15) Ew! With Jimmy Fallon And Channing Tatum
16) Stumbling Subway Stairs
17) Soliders Perform Haka Dance For Fallen Comrade
18) Video for Briona
19) GloZell Attempts Cinnamon Challenge
20) Mckayla Is Not Impressed
21) Tupac Hologram At Cochella
22) Walk Off The Earth Covers Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know”
23) Bestie Boys Sabatoge Tribute
24) Michelle Jenneke
25) Kony 2012
26) Celebrities Read Tweets About Themselves
27) Excited Train Guy
28) Ignore Hitler
29) Dollar Shave Club
30) Real Actors Read Yelp Reviews
31) NASA Lands Curiosity On Mars
32) New York Park
33) Hot Cheetos And Takis
34) Golden Eagle Snatches Kid
35) Bad Lip Reading Of Debate Highlights
36) Melodica Cover Of Jurassic Park Theme
37) Dumb Ways To Die
38) JB Fanvideo (Overly Attached Girlfriend)
39) Five Guys Burger Review
40) Auto-tuned Five Guys Burger Review
41) Tan Mom Arrested
42) Rich Kids Of Instagram
43) Pussy Riot
44) My Sister Paid Progressive Insurance to Defend Her Killer In Court
45) Pointer Pointer
46) John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John’s “I Think You Might Like It”
47) Dragon Baby
48) Binders Full Of Women
49) Bus Monitor Bullied
50) Sofia The Lion Tamer
51) Vennu Mallesh’s “It’s My Life”
52) Embarrassing Dad At Electric Music Festival
53) Botched Restoration Of Ecce Homo Fresco
54) Drunk Man Sings Kiss From A Rose To His Cat
55) Insane Dodge Ball Kill
56) Bottles Beware
57) The Greatest Event In Television History
58) Red Bull Stratos
59) Henry Thomas’s Audition For E.T.
60) Cannonball Into A Frozen Pool
61) DMX Sings “Rudolf The Red Nosed Raindeer”
62) Mariah Carey, Jimmy Fallon and The Roots “All I Want For Christmas”
63) Modern Sienfeld
64) Ikea Monkey
65) Little Baby’s Ice Cream
66) Sweet Brown “Ain’t Nobody Got Time For Bronchitis”
Only 66 things this time and nothing hidden in the source code.
During a Reddit AMA with Neil deGrasse Tyson a Redditor asked, “Which books should be read by every single intelligent person on the planet?” Below is a list of books he provided in his response along with his reason for choosing it.
1. The Bible – “to learn that it’s easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.â€
2. The System of the World by Isaac Newton – “to learn that the universe is a knowable place.â€
3. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin – “to learn of our kinship with all other life on Earth.â€
4. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift – “to learn, among other satirical lessons, that most of the time humans are Yahoos.â€
5. The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine – “to learn how the power of rational thought is the primary source of freedom in the world.â€
6. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith – “to learn that capitalism is an economy of greed, a force of nature unto itself.â€
7. The Art of War by Sun Tsu – “to learn that the act of killing fellow humans can be raised to an art.â€
8. The Prince by Machiavelli – “to learn that people not in power will do all they can to acquire it, and people in power will do all they can to keep it.â€
Neil deGrasse Tyson goes on to say, “If you read all of the above works you will glean profound insight into most of what has driven the history of the western world.”
The “57 Varieties” slogan was not developed because their product line included exactly 57 varieties. In fact, there were over 60 products when the slogan was proposed. The number 57 was picked by H.J. Heinz by combining his and his wife’s luck numbers. However, to print his “57 varieties” in his cookbooks (The Heinz Book of Meat Cookery, 1934, H.J. Heinz Company) he needed to combine a few products. The list, as it was printed in their cookbooks, can be found below. Today, the H.J. Heinz company has over 5,700 products.
apple butter
apple jelly
baked beans in tomato sauce without meat
baked beans with pork and tomato sauce
baked beans without tomato sauce with Boston-style pork
baked red kidney beans
beefsteak sauce
black raspberry preserves
blackberry preserves
cherry preserves
chili sauce
chow chow pickles
cooked macaroni
cooked spaghetti
crab-apple jelly
cream of celery soup
cream of pea soup
cream of tomato soup
currant jelly
damson plum preserves
dill pickles
distilled white vinegar
evaporated horseradish
fig pudding
grape jelly
green pepper sauce
homestyle gravy
India relish
manzanilla olives
mayonnaise
mince meat
peach preserves
peanut butter
plum pudding
prepared mustard
preserved sweet gherkins
preserved sweet mixed pickles
pure cider vinegar
pure malt vinegar
pure olive oil
queen olives
quince jelly
red pepper sauce
red raspberry preserves
ripe olives
salad dressing
sour midget gherkins
sour mixed pickles
sour pickled onions
sour spiced gherkins
strawberry preserves
stuffed olives
sweet midget gherkins
sweet mustard pickles
tarragon vinegar
tomato ketchup
worcestershire sauce
Having a look at this list of the 25 worst passwords of 2012 make me wonder why more people aren’t hacked. New entries to this year’s list include “welcome, ” “jesus,” “ninja,” “mustang, ” and “password1.” Below is a list of the top ten:
1. password
2, 123456
3. 12345678
4. abc123
5. qwerty
6. monkey
7. letmein
8. dragon
9. 111111
10. baseball
