Readers,
What, you may wonder, do others do on the internet? Do other folks spend as much time looking at adult content as you do? (yes); does everyone get lost in the cute baby animal videos on youtube? (I do); is there really any redeeming value in online games? (probably not)
We all, to a person, waste time online. Many would argue that you are doing exactly that, right now, reading this post. Wasting time.
But it isn’t all a waste, right? We read the news, stay in touch with friends and family, and learn about the world around us all at the touch of a few sticky little buttons nowadays. There’s not much you can’t do online anymore – but so far it’s not possible to get a virtual spanking so I’m not terribly worried about the internet taking over the world.
I am, however, worried about dumb stuff on the internet getting more (WAY more) play than cool, smart stuff. While I’m sure that lots of people would disagree with me, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that neither first-person shooter games, nor pinterest, nor snapchat, will make you grow as a person.
Now I’m not suggesting that you need to grow – in fact I’m sure that you’re perfectly happy with your intellectual capacities – but just in case there’s a teeny part of you that’s wondering whether or not you’ve come to the End of the Internet, here are a few things online that will NOT rot your brain.
Check out:
Zooniverse – According to the website, “We make citizen science websites so that everyone can be part of real research online.” You can help explore outer space (literally), decode whale song, or even track the movement of animals in the Serengeti. These interactive online, public science projects are not just a fun way to while away a few hours; they’re a real, effective way for every single person on the planet to take part in it’s study. Amazing!
Track Katherine the Shark…or Fritz, or Philip, or Yolanda. The people at Ocearch.org use real-time satellite tracking to keep updated data on dozens of tagged sharks.
Pogo.com – like Luminosity, but for people who know better than pay 75 dollars to play games. Word games, puzzles, brain teasers, and a bunch of other silly stuff, too.
Google Earth – Seriously, if you haven’t used the little yellow man on Google Earth to literally stroll down the streets of a teeny town on an itsy island in the middle of the ocean (any ocean – they’re everywhere) – one that you didn’t even know existed till you zoomed WAY in – then you haven’t used the internet properly. Start over.
While you’re exploring, you can also see a live, real-time video feed from just about anyplace in the world at EarthCam.com. Always wanted to visit someplace seemingly exotic? See what it looks like right this minute!
Okay, that’s enough time wasted here today – let’s all go back to looking at kittens on youtube now.
– Dana
Dana, thanks for the links. I took a few seconds to explore those before I went back to that web site with 15 things you may not have known about “The Shawshank Redemption”. (Did you know that Morgan Freeman got a “sore arm” from playing catch too long?) Anyway, that Google Earth web site is pretty cool: I’m highly supportive of my neighbor who wants to vanquish all the tan lines left by her bikini top. And any jokester thinking how funny it would be to steal that top would deserve punishment.
There’s much of value in your post, but of course I saw “virtual spanking” and my attention span was spent. I think you can connect almost anything to the internet these days. If you could take some kind of spanking machine and connect it to the internet, then someone could control that device remotely. Maybe not with a “few sticky little buttons” but maybe with a mouse, or voice commands.
I’m sure it wouldn’t be as much fun as direct person-to-person spanking, but I guess if the situation didn’t allow for a more personal approach, the half-virtual approach would make some people quite happy. You’d need a catchy name for that new product. I don’t know why, but “Kaned at a Distance” is tugging at my heart strings now. To try half-virtual out, you’d probably want a few volunteer product testers. Maybe people with a record of small misdeeds, like turning a perfectly good blog post south…
But seriously, time to go track a shark!
BT,
I’m sure that virtual spankings are just a blink-away, but I doubt that the spanking machine can apply lotion afterward…
Um, at least I hope it can’t, or I may run out of folks to spank. Dratted technology!~~
Lotion? You meant Capzasin didn’t you?
SHARKS!!!! :)
That’s what I said, too.
BT has jawesome spanking scene writing potential.