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Artifacting Sketch
Created using Harmony a nice little web sketching application by Mr. Doob. If you want, you can download the source code for the project.
Artifacting Has Been Ransomed
This “Artifacting” was created with photos of letters taken from Flickr. You can click on each letter to take you to the original flickr image. Created using the Rasomizr.
Follow Artifacting At The New Digg
The new redesigned and freshly launched Digg came out of beta. Go Ahead and follow Artifacting’s page if you’re a user.
All My Friends Are Dead (And I’m So Cutting Edge)
Way back in March of 2007 I posted a link to a cartoon called “All My Friends Are Dead” by Avery Monsen & Jory John. Back then, the cartoon was posted for all to see for free on the web – the link has since been removed. However, the very funny cartoon (and well worth the link back in 2007) has recently turned into an 96 page hard cover book. Congrats guys!
Yesterday an animated gif below, consisting of a few pages from the book, became the most re-blogged thing (of all time!) on tumblr.
Code Organ
Code Organ takes the code of any website and turns it into music.
Code Organ works by choosing the key of the song based on how many times the letter designating that note appears in a web page’s source code, using a minor key if it appears an odd number of times or major if it’s even. It then picks one of ten synthesiser sounds based on which characters appear the most times in a page. Finally, the algorithm decides which drum loop to use by weighing the ratio of text characters to actual notes.
Artifacting Swear Words
A list of swear words found within the Artifacting comments (and the number of times each word wad used) as of as of 7:41 pm MST May 13th, 2010:
Fuck: 49 (includes motherfucker, fucker, fucking, etc.)
Motherfucker: 2
Shit: 54 (includes shitbag, shithole, shitty, etc.)
Piss: 12
Tits: 1
Damn: 53 (includes goddamn, damnation, etc.)
Pussy: 7
Asshole: 9
Bitch: 19 (includes son of a bitch, sumbitch, etc.)
Bastard: 7
Cunt: 2
Come on folks! Let’s not be so shy. We need more motherfucker up in here.
Thanks for the idea Clusterfuck
Star Wars Initial Stickers
The image above is was made with the incredibly nostalgic Topps Star Wars ESB Stickers and help from the Restraining Bolt image generator. A similar generator can be found using 1974 Topps Monster Initials. Hat tip to Mr. Lady.
2009: The Year In Blogging
Despite my lousy blogging habits in 2009 the blog continued to grow and I almost doubled my amount of unique viewers over the year. Below is a graph of my total number of absolute unique readers which totaled 206,881 over the year. The drop in late June was due to a serverside attack.
The top ten referring sites to Artifacting (with search engines removed) during 2009 were:
1. Yahoo Answers
2. Boing Boing
3. Facebook
4. Dethroner
5. Stumbleupon
6. Twitter
7. Reddit
8. Serious Eats
9. ui.
10. Sensible Erection
I found it surprising that there wasn’t a single personal blog on the list this year. Are personal blogs going the way of the ghost?
Below is a chart of referrals to Artifacting throughout 2009:
Below are the top ten most visited posts published in 2009:
1. I’m About To Whip Somebody’s Ass
2. Billy Mays Is A Sad Robot
3. The Coolest, Craziest, Kitty Cat Desktop Wallpaper On The Internet
4. Bell Pepper Teratoma
5. Crying Over Auto Tune Part II
6. I’m Dreaming Of A Chiptune Christmas
7. Fuckin’ Math
8. Another Word For Vagina
9. Definitive List Of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet (+10)
General stats for Artifacting are as follows:
Posts 1,086
Categories 66
Comments 4,290
2009: The Year In Artifacting
So, here is where I have to admit that Artifacting has been pretty weak during 2009.
Not a lot of posts. Not a lot of links. Really, just not a lot of blogging. Regardless, I would be remiss not to share with you the best of what little happened around here during 2009. So, I’m just going to point you out to the 2009 archives. Don’t be scared, my entire archive for 2009 is shorter than just the best of for 2008.