Cyber-Bookmarkettes From DrHGuy: 8 January 2008
Cyber-Bookmarkettes are Internet sites and phenomena that are self-explanatory and thus require little elaboration, that are interesting enough to observe but lack, at least at this point, utility or significance of the sort to justify more than minimal annotation, or that are so ambiguous or confusing as to defy elucidation.
Do Not Attempt These Photos At Home - These Are Taken By Trained Professionals
Great Olan Mills Photos
Lord of Leisure1 is due credit for sending Heck of Guy the link to this collection of photos and captions which features, in the felicitous description offered at the site, “Total frickin’ awesomeness from Olan Mills, Sears and other fine portrait studios.” Indeed.
For anyone who had a photo taken at one of the low cost, high traffic flow portraiture studios in the 70s, this web page is laugh out loud fun served with a soupçon of nostalgic anguish.
These pictures and captions are available at
Don’t Picture This
Strictly No Photography
This appealing site consists of photos taken where photos are prohibited - such as museums, art galleries, hospitals, and the Kolkata Metro:
Get your kix from these forbidden pix at
Grammatolatry Site
Luciferous Logolepsy
The explanatory subtitle of this site is a handy litmus test. If ones response to a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words” is “Thanks for the warning” (and especially if it’s “Dude, thanks for the warning”), this may not be the preferred cyber-destination for that individual.
On the other hand, if ones response is “Got to get me some of that,” welcome to paradise.
Luciferous Logolepsy also has its practical applications. DrHGuy, for example, has recently grown concerned about the accelerating rate at which “Schadenfreude” (pleasure in another person’s misfortune) is pervading the argot of the hoi polloi. One can imagine his delight on discovering, at Luciferous Logolepsy, “epicaricacy,” a near synonym that is, as advertised, obscure still.
These 9,000 obscure words and their definitions can be found at
They’re Selling What?
What is it? The Impulsive Buy specializes in reviews of products (primarily food products with a smattering of sundries not intended for consumption) that are typically new to the market and always at least a tad weird.
Why read it? Because Heck of a Guy readers who routinely plow through, for example, a dense dissertation on broomcorn, an extended exposition on the Fender Rhodes Stage 88 Electric Piano as an introduction to a post about Anjani, or an exhaustive examination of a study on hand washing as medical compliance need, on occasion, to decompress by perusing reviews of products such as
The Tooth Tunes Hilary Duff Toothbrush
The Pong A Long 7′ Beer Pong Table
Goldfish Flavor Blasted Blazin’ Buffalo Wings
And, of course, Jalapeño SPAM
These reviews can be found at
Footnotes
- While the Lord of Leisure who alerted Heck of a Guy to these photos is the same Lord of Leisure whose photographic contributions are featured on the Heck of a Guy blog’s Lord of Leisure Photo Gallery, these two groups of images share little other than a camera was, presumably, used to capture both sets of pictures ~back~
