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Kinda stretching the topic, as this isn't a blog exactly, but the content is drawn from blogs, and it's well cool: http://www.wefeelfine.org/

Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.

The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 - 20,000 new feelings per day. Using a series of playful interfaces, the feelings can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices, offering responses to specific questions like: do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans? Do women feel fat more often than men? Does rainy weather affect how we feel? What are the most representative feelings of female New Yorkers in their 20s? What do people feel right now in Baghdad? What were people feeling on Valentine's Day? Which are the happiest cities in the world? The saddest? And so on.
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^ does it mean i'm a closet hipster for already knowing about both of those.
 
Nosey isn't a hipster! She's just an awesome observationist (new word.) I love it because it's made me see all these great things I've never noticed before. Like the painted electrical box on the intersection of Victoria Rd/ ANZAC Bridge and whatever that other road is.
 
It's the things like that Y that keep me from hating the city even though at times it seems to be suffocating me. Cheers, good link :)
 
up all night said:
Like the painted electrical box on the intersection of Victoria Rd/ ANZAC Bridge and whatever that other road is.
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We have painted utilities boxes all over Brisbane and to my knowledge, wider Queensland. They're painted by local artists who have some kind of 'link' to the area - as in they live there, or work there etc.

You can see some of the best ones here. Personally I like this one:

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Sine LostNFound (I think) reminded me of the author Max Barry in the reading thread whom I've been meaning to read for some time but had forgotten about, after playing the awesome online game he created http://www.nationstates.net/

It's pretty fun, you create a Country and choose it's political path by voting on different propositions and UN resolutions and stuff. You get one or two to vote on every day. Anyway after a month or two of playing it gets a bit sameish so I stopped but it's definitely a lot of fun shaping your country and interacting with other people's countries for a while.

So back to my original point this guy just one day quit his day job and threw everything into being an author and has written and published a few novels now and he's Australian. And his website is a blog and I enjoy reading it: http://www.maxbarry.com/

There's a cool speech he gave on a show with The Chaser's Julian Morrow on ABC a bit down the front page which is kinda touching in the end and thought provoking and worth watching if you have 45 mins.
 
^ Seriously WTF on steroids

I love this little blurb and it really sums up that site nicely

We’re always on the lookout for the cream of the crap
 
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