Stumble Round-up - June 2008
I’m an avid StumbleUpon fan, user, time-waster, etc. In fact I often spend hours upon hours stumbling, rating, sorting through all the wonderful things the internet has to offer. I always filter out videos and I’ve started to aquire a huge annoyance for image-only stumbles. But I digress.
Here is my short list of interesting things I’ve stumbled lately. I don’t want to hear comments like “this has been around forever”, etc; I’m making this list more for myself to keep track of things, not to turn people on to things that I’m deeming “new” to the internet, when they are most likely not.
1. Aviary - (http://a.viary.com/) Suite of web-based creative apps - and there sure are a LOT of them. I’m looking forward to testing out the BETA and *hopefully* switching over when the time is right. I’m a huge fan of online apps and have completely given up MS Office in favor of Google docs. That’s just how I roll.
I’ve been reading thru the dev blog and the tools look like they perform great. They are cleverly named - Peacock, Eagle, Phoenix, Owl, Penguin, Pigeon, etc. Someone has a thing for birds. The site is beautiful as well. I’m excited about these apps.
2. Brave New Traveler / Matador Travel, etc - This is a whole host of online travel information & goodness. They look to be all separate sites/domains/etc rolled into one big community. Navigating it is slightly confusing but they do a good job keeping identical themes, etc. My huge passion for travel & information made me sign up and I haven’t had an appropriate amount of time to search around as much as I’d like. But for now, I like it. 
WANT!!! Collection #2 rocks. Awesome stuff.
4. 11 Places you should see on an around the world trip (yes please!)
Images in the news
Tonight I found an incredible blog that I have to share. I think it’s something that everyone can/will enjoy. It’s called “The Big Picture” and the posts are news stories told with beautiful photography. In sort, the stories (pictures) are moving, emotional, shocking and just amazing. I immediately added the feed and will visit daily.
It’s a fairly new blog and has only been around about 6 weeks, so it’s easy to go through the whole thing and see everything up until now. Please enjoy and let me know what you think.
Here’s a taste:
He hates sandcastles
Too cute.
C is for Cookie, that’s good enough for me
Madagascar 2 - 11.07.08 = Hilareous
So the trailer for Madagascar 2 is out and I’ve heard people already starting to bag on it - that it’s going to be cheesy, not that funny, etc. But man, to me, there isn’t much about the trailer that ISN’T funny.
I absolutely love Madagascar, it’s one of the only animated movies that I can still watch (we have a 4 year old. enough said).
As long as the penguins and King Julien are in it, I can’t see it going wrong.
You can check out the trailer here, or the official site.