My favourite Stumbles of today:

  • Other People’s Stories:
    Every story on OPS is a story a contributor heard from someone else. These stories have been overheard and misheard, told and re-told and sometimes refined over time. They do not shy from hearsay, gossip, myth or guys we knew in high school. OPS is dedicated to the time-honored tradition of stealing other peopleís material and we therefore recognize our debt to those from whom weíve stolen and acknowledge that these stories do not belong to us. (about.html)
  • The Word Project: Photos of people holding words are put together to make sentences, or rather, the beginnings of sentences. You can add a word to a sentence by sending in a photo of yourself, holding the word you want to add.

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2 thoughts on “finds”

  1. noah

    I haven’t played with StumbleUpon as much as I might, but I haven’t yet had any great stumbles. So I opened up my profile and checked out my informants. None of them had any thumbs-up sites in common with me! This leads me to think I’m getting my stumbles from the subject areas in which I expressed interest, rather than from the sites to which I gave positive ratings. I wonder how many sites I have to rate positively before I start being informed by people who like the same sites? Or, does no one yet on StumbleUpon share my tastes? Or..?

  2. the sum of my parts

    stumbling…
    i have been happily stumbling ever since jill mentioned it in her site. it is amazing the sites that i am finding! it is exposing me to sites that i would never have found previously, yet are geared to my…

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