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29 November 2006

Strange web-addictions - what are yours? Mine are ...→[More:] kinda strange. I log on to hemnet and bovision almost every day and search for apartments for sale in specific price ranges. I'm not buying, but if anyone else is, I know some areas and ranges by heart - so much so that I spot apartments being re-sold (or were they never sold the first time? hmm) by different brokers three or four months later. Sad innit? My other, much more normal addiction is to delight in the disgrace of 'celebs' at the superficial&idon'tlikeyouinthatway.

post by: dabitch at: 17:24 | 40 comments

What? You mean YOU DON'T change up your entire existence based on chatting on the internet with people? Man, that's WEIRD.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 29 November | 17:27

posted by karim satasha 29 November | 17:30

oops... can't figure out how to post a link..? http://www.wavelit.com/index.asp?ch=Wildlife&sh=africam http://gofugyourself.typepad.com

posted by karim satasha 29 November | 17:31

I type metachat comments and then don't post them.

posted by getoffmylawn 29 November | 17:32

seriously, I do that. That comment was not directed at karim satasha, although I see s/he does it too.

posted by getoffmylawn 29 November | 17:33

i don't have addictions but i occassionally save up some things for binges.

posted by ethylene 29 November | 17:35

Facebook.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 29 November | 17:36

You just highlight the text you want to use, then click on "link" and enter the URL, karim.

I'm addicted to celebrity gossip. I have like a squillion sites bookmarked.

posted by jrossi4r 29 November | 17:38

And also, Zillow. I know what all my friends' houses are worth.

posted by jrossi4r 29 November | 17:39

Yea, and celebrity gossip, too. Today I saw Britney Spears' c-section scar. ::shudder::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 29 November | 17:45

Oh yeah JR, What Would Tyler Durden Do, is a must, lol. "It's dating Orlando Bloom now." :)

posted by urbanwhaleshark 29 November | 17:48

recipe gathering! and food blogs in general, including recipes and tips i couldn't possibly have a use for personally (any meat, fish etc), it's great pre-lunch reading...

and adding elipses to every damn thing i type...i don't trail off in real life...i just like typing that way.

posted by Mrs.Pants 29 November | 17:53

Case mod forums.
Slave hack.

posted by Daniel Charms 29 November | 17:53

What Would Tyler Durden Do, is a must

It's on the list! Although ONTD is probably my favorite because it's updated the most frequently.

If I see one more picture of bald celebrity snatch, however, it may cure me of my addiction. Does no one wear panties anymore???

posted by jrossi4r 29 November | 18:04

Dang Daniel Charms, you're gonna add to my addictionlist!

And I saw Britney's c-scar today too. And too much more. Oh god. My eyes. They BUUUUURRRN.

posted by dabitch 29 November | 18:05

That goddamned Dice Wars game that ikkyu2 posted to MetaFilter a while back. I CANNOT STOP PLAYING IT. I think about dice wars. I *dream* about dice wars. I've started structuring my thoughts around dice war analogies. IT'S GOT TO STOP.

posted by occhiblu 29 November | 18:06

Mine too, dabitch! And I think it may have damaged my unborn child.

posted by jrossi4r 29 November | 18:21

the show with zefrank. (i linked to the 'scrabble' page cos it's stupidly funny, imho.)
I used to really like b3ta.com, but for the last bunch of months the amount humourous stuff they have is very few and very far between.
Pixelation. Pixel art. I'm almost obsessed with it. It's why I'd like a whole buncha these (and a light table).

posted by Zack_Replica 29 November | 18:21

I type metachat comments and then don't post them.
I do this a lot on MeFi/MeTa, but not so much here.

Daniel Charms, that game looks extremely cool. I may have to go and play it, but then I would become addicted and I simply don't have time for more addictions until I can get Web access on the train, giving me an extra two hours a day to play.

posted by dg 29 November | 18:34

dg: Don't go there!

posted by Daniel Charms 29 November | 18:37

Well, my Flickr addiction is pretty well known around here. I also read TONS AND TONS of music and movie reviews... even for music and movies I have no intention of hearing/seeing for myself. I can just read reviews for hours and hours.

posted by BoringPostcards 29 November | 18:38

WWTTD lead me to this: looks like Lindsey Lohan is so stupid I don't even know how she breathes. Where were her press agent and manager or anybody?

posted by Specklet 29 November | 18:40

Zack: i've been actively trying to burn myself out on ze frank, so now i think i have a ze frank sized void i'm trying to fill in weird ways--

dirty!

posted by ethylene 29 November | 18:53

I type metachat comments and then don't post them.

I type metachat comments and then don't post them.
I do this a lot on MeFi/MeTa, but not so much here.

Yeah, I always just want to put my 2 shiny pennies in, and then I change my mind and don't post the comment. It's therapeutic. If it was going to be a FFP, I just put it on my Vox blog instead.

posted by getoffmylawn 29 November | 19:08

I'm addicted to What Would Tyler Durden Do, as well as Blue States Lose (but I usually only laugh at the pictures from LA).

posted by muddgirl 29 November | 19:14

Comic book covers, lawn sale art, and abandoned architecture.

posted by mischief 29 November | 19:34

ExplodingDog Sam Brown rocks!

posted by youngergirl44 29 November | 19:51

ethylene: yep, dirty. but who could replace him? He reminds me of Matt Frewer, from the "Doctor, Doctor" era. Also, why burn yourself out? Why not just go with it?

Oh, and also Found, when I remember to go there.

posted by Zack_Replica 29 November | 20:01

i'm not saying "i'm over it" or anything like that. i'm saying i had this ze frank fixation over the last week i tried to cure with ze frank immersion. Now i'm back to a more even keeled ze frank appreciation, but i wish i had something else to absorb me.
Which is why i do things like not read a webcomic, then when i do i can go back and read a bunch of them.
Right now i am pretty boring and nothing is particularly amusing, but it's me and not the world at large.
This is part of the reason i plan to make myself a nice light cocktail in a bit after i digest a little, besides the fact i can.

See how boring i am? Quite run over the line towards annoying, i say.

posted by ethylene 29 November | 20:27

I search eBay for 3" reel to reel tape every day, even though I have it set up to email me whenever some is up for auction. (If anyone has any, mail me!)

posted by jack_mo 29 November | 20:39

Yahoo! Bushfinder

posted by quonsar 29 November | 20:44

Re: Lindsay Lohan: Where were her press agent and manager or anybody?

Well, her mother is her manager, and she was in the bathroom doing coke.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 29 November | 21:33

I search eBay for 3" reel to reel tape every day

Steve Albini, is that you?

posted by Triode 29 November | 21:39

I read ROFCL a lot.
It's a Livejournal. It's run by furries. There are furries there. They are interesting. They also put up videos and sometimes horrible images, but also really funny ones too.

I don't know why I like that livejournal so much. I hate livejournal. But ROFCL is compelling in a weird way.

And I don't know what it means, which just adds to the compulsion.

posted by disclaimer 29 November | 22:21

Ok, that ROFCL site is odd, but then furries are odd too. They got some strange/good vids there though. The how not to rob a store one is amazing. I was trying to see if it was faked, but it sure doesn't look like it, and the best part is that the dude just don't give up! At all! Whatta dickhead! :D

posted by Zack_Replica 29 November | 22:43

wow.

i usually don't respond to stuff like that, but after he fell on top of the shelf--

--that's pluckly.

also phrases like "I thought that Virginia Madsen had suddenly and tragically fallen on very hard, very confusing, and unexpectedly incontinent times" are somehow irresistibly charming.

now i feel extra dirty and must to go douche in the french sense.

posted by ethylene 29 November | 23:10

Babble. That is all.

posted by ramix 30 November | 00:19

occhiblu, I'm a DICEWARS fanatic too. I went through a hating-it period, worked through a period of using different numbers of players, and now I usually just play the default again. I still really detest the tedious endgames. And once I discovered that super-conservative is a strategy that (almost) always works, it's become much less "fun".

Now, I just tried those three celeb blogs mentioned above, for kicks, and in every case I got to the bottom of the page and didn't need more, and none of them made it into my bookmarks. I guess I just feel my brain cells draining away as I read those ... no offense!

I was totally 24/7 on political blogs during the election season, and now that that's over I have nothing to really replace it with.

posted by stilicho 30 November | 01:46

I keep up with NYC real estate, mainly through the NY Times. I mean, I really keep up, on a day-to-day basis. The weird part is, I have no intention of ever living in New York.

posted by pickles 30 November | 17:04

pickles, you and me need to start a real-estate support group.

posted by dabitch 01 December | 14:54

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