Web Sites of the Week

Let's face it, I'm going to be useless on today's show after my incredible week off that first started in Portland, visiting Shawn, Michel, Hannamarie and seeing Bill (getting to meet Scotty!), Ian (and his lovely wife Darci) and 2nd Mom (and Mr. 2nd Mom), getting a new iPad (can you say BEAUTIFUL?!?), not to mention the incredible week of Springsteen shows I had, culminating in being elbows on stage at the center catwalk, front row with my favourite musician a mere 20 feet away (and closer at times) for LA Night 2.

Still can't get the stupid-assed grin off my face. ;-)

I haven't even thought of Website of the Week or looked at entries, so I'm picking my own - you can get a glimpse of what my view was through my friend Joanne's video that she shot of Springsteen and Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine and The Nightwatchman) singing The Ghost of Tom Joad. What Morello does with a guitar should really be illegal. LOL (I was dead center of Springsteen.)

My recap of my Springsteen week focusing on that incredible LA Night 2 show and experience is also below in case you're interested (photos included):

http://slymarton.wordpress.com/

Still on a contact high. :-) See ya tonight!

Our winner this week said he'd win if Shawn was picking WotW this week. Well Shawn doesn't pick WotW winners, now does he?!? I'll show you!

Um...ya. Okay, so I enjoy mindless penguin websites too. ;-)

Mindless Penguin Cursor Fun

:-)

~ Sly

Far too technical for my pea brain, so I'll just let the YouTube description speak for itself.

House of The Rising Sun played on Steve Caton's and Eric Goodchild's (me) 7 foot tall Musical Tesla Coils.

So what appears to be a continuous burst of sparks is actually a specific number of sparks generated per second. By modulating the number of sparks that emit from the coil each second, different tones can be produced by the coils.

I may not understand technically, but I do understand that it's very cool and for that, it's my pick for Website of the Week this week. ;-)

~ Sly

Oops!

So dad, how do you like your new iPad?

:-)

Tonight's winner is eligible to win great software from Smile Software - maybe it's YOU! :-)

I can feel Shawn's eyes glazing over and him going to a happy place all the way from here. LOL ;-)

Penguins, Penguins, Penguins!

USB Shot Glass and Power Hour Drinking Game, now that's a party in the making...and apparently a lawsuit in the making as well for musician Ali Spagnola, who's trying to defend her use of "Power Hour" against a lawsuit by combining & selling her CD with a Shot Glass & Drinking Game.

Her video is funny and cute and I have to admit, I'm tempted to send $30 bucks her way. ;-)

Check it out, including the story at Gizmodo, if you get the chance.

~ Sly

Proof that some REALLY bad songs made it to #1 on the Billboard Top 100 chart.

5 Seconds of Every #1 Billboard Hot 100 Hit From 1993-2011

First, Happy New Year to all the listeners of Your Mac Life and welcome to a brand new year of Website of the Week.

Starting us off this year is a simple yet cool website of the week that slowly eases us back into the swing of things.

Remember musical chairs? Well how about Musical Squares.

Try spelling out your name (I did!) or not. Whatever pattern works for you. But fair warning, it can become addictive.

*Note our winner may see that it's not the same URL as was submitted....for some reason, the URL wasn't coming up for me at work so I had to find another site that hosted this. Same bat-game, different bat-channel. ;-)

Enjoy.

~Sly

The information on You-Tube says it all:

After lots of time away last year (214 days) -- planned for 7 week deployment exercise with other nations

The ship's company made a Christmas DVD when they heard they would be home for Christmas.

That's what Christmas is all about...glad they're going home. Nice job, HMS Ocean!

I hope you and yours have a very Merry Christmas and wonderful New Year!

Happy Holidays!
~ Sly

As one with nary an artistic bone in her body, this blew me away. (A very cool "tribute" to Steve Jobs.)

(Aaron Kizer paints Steve Jobs with Nonstop AKA Marquese in Owensboro, Kentucky at the 11th Hour Live Music and Arts Show. www.kizerarts.com)

Enjoy!

About two weeks ago one of our (Vancouver’s) local tv news stations was broadcasting the winning ticket from a hospital charity lottery – I believe the grand prize gave the winner the opportunity to choose between a $2.5 Million dollar house in a suburb of Vancouver called Langley, or a cash prize of approximately $1.7 Million. Well, it turns out that the winning ticket belonged to one of the sports anchors of that very same station. It was funny to watch and naturally it made its way onto YouTube, and ultimately here as a website of the week.

The really good thing about all this, is that Barry’s daughter was diagnosed with leukemia when she was about 4 and underwent a year of chemotherapy treatments, thankfully resulting in a successful recovery, so they always made it a point to support the hospital in any way they could, including buying its charity lottery tickets every year. The news even made its way to Ellen Degeneres, who invited Barry and his boss Squire Barnes to appear on her show (it aired just this Monday, Nov 14th). ;-)

Here's how it all unfolded:

Pretty incredible product launch by LG for the LG Optimus (Sept 2010):

File it under the category of "don't just ask how, but ask WTF how?!?". :-)

Plain and simple:

Looks like Heaven will be getting an upgrade

:-)

This is just downright fun!

Draw Your Own Stickman!

Don't forget to stick around once you've drawn him/her. That's where all the fun is. :-)

Without a doubt one of the ugliest websites purporting to provide superior web, audio, video creative services I've ever seen.

Superior Web Solutions my arse. :-)

Don't give up with the "fancy" flash opening pages...skip 'em if you have to get to the main page. Horrific! LOL

~ Sly

p.s. I did get to use the word "purporting" though. That makes me smile. :-)

All I needed to see were the words "Johnny Quest" and I knew this would be this week's Website of the Week. (Besides the Bugs Bunny Roadrunner Hour, JQ was my favourite cartoon as a kid growing up...I even the DVD box set now!) :-)

Jonny Quest Opening Titles from Roger D. Evans on Vimeo.

Hope you enjoy this stop-motion re-creation of the opening to Johnny Quest! (And if you don't...what the heck is the matter with ya?!?) ;-)

~ Sly

If you're at all familiar with Tom Waits you might understand this mashup of him and Sesame Street's Cookie Monster.

Here's Cookie Monster's rendition of Waits' "God's Away On Business".

Not much more to say other than some people really do have too much time on their hands. ;-)

~ Sly

Richard Marx, yes THAT Richard Marx (minus the mullet), now pushing (no pun intended) colonics. :-)

Just how far can one b-list singer fall? Apparently, a helluva long way.

:-)

The Owl and the Pussycat - The Sequel. ;-)

The Perfect Friendship

Enjoy!

~ Sly

This was originally and supposedly meant for an online dating service video, which has since been turned into one of those annoying little songs that you will have in your head forever.

If I have to suffer, than EVERYBODY suffers! :-)

~ Sly

Not sure if I'll be on tonight's show as it's Game 4 of a very high-spirited (to say the least) Stanley Cup Final between my Canucks and the Boston Bruins. But I wanted to post the website of the week because it's too damn cute/funny not to.

Ever get confused playing the "Shell Game". Maybe you should take lessons from this cat.

Yes, I said cat:

Enjoy!
~Sly

The Stanley Cup Finals start tonight and I need something to calm my nerves..what better to watch then the cutest kitteh video EVAR!

Me thinks I'll add about 1000 views on my own by the time the finals are over. ;-)

~Sly

This is one of those websites that amazes and confounds me at the same time.

And it will keep listeners occupied for more than a few seconds.

Mitoza

Hope you enjoy!

~Sly

Okay...last week's Website of the Week was extremely creepy, so this week we're going a lot less cringe-worthy.

'sides who doesn't like dogs...and who doesn't like bacon? And who doesn't especially like dogs being teased by bacon?

;-)

I'm not sure but this might be the most disturbing Website of the Week I've ever posted.

And that's saying a lot. ;-)

The Olsen Twins were always kinda creepy, IMO, but this just gives it a whole new level of creepiness.

:-)

Sly

File this under the category of CUTE BUT NOT SO BRIGHT:
Rubber Fetish Penguin Given the Boot

;-)

My back is killing me from tension, I MAYBE got 4 hours sleep, but my Canucks are advancing to the next round of the NHL playoffs after a nail-biter of a 7th game against Chicago last night.

I barely had time to review entries for WoTW, let alone pick one so I'm being selfish and picking something that brings me pure joy. No winner this week, well, unless you're a Canucks' fan, but it works for me.

p.s. Jim Dalrymple, you are dead to me, sir. ;-)

Well maybe not after last night's game, but..... ;-)

"Canucks Rule" - Parody of Ce-Lo Green's "F You" Video.

(Cheesy...absolutely, but sometimes you gotta be all about the cheese.)

~Sly

Now this is a sequel I might be able to get behind. :-)

Disclaimer: Some naughty words may be present....those with delicate sensitivities are forewarned. ;-)

Um....this just goes to show what a bad cat mommy I am, cuz the cat posts I have are no where near as fancy schmancy as these. Then again....Mac, Woz and Ti (okay, to be fair, it's just Woz) have my leather couch that they can live on and destroy. *Eye roll*

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