Stumbling and Timewasting

A month or so ago, we introduced readers to the magical wonders of Pandora internet radio (see link in sidebar if you haven't tried it yet) and the time has now come to introduce a new wonderous website that is actually quite similar in its mechanics. My brother Mark (always the 'early adopter') introduced me to this site with a warning that it would become the source of unlimited wasted time and he is surely right. StumbleUpon.com is one of those websites where you can sit down and waste any given amount of time. Over and over, it serves up the magic of boundless internet and never ceases to please. Like Pandora, the concept is to deliver you to "random" websites that you "thumb up" or "thumb down" to progressively teach the computer what sorts of sites you like to see. Sounds great huh? Well, it gets better - StumbleUpon also has "channels" that allow you to target your stumbling (and this is where it gets really addicitive.) Set the thing to stumble through internet video and you will go from amazing 4 year old karate masters to stomach-tingling accidents and on to mind-blowing rubegoldbergesque contraptions.
You now have my permission to navigate away from this blog to the netherregions of the internet courtesy of StumbleUpon.