My world according to TV

I remember watching Jem and the Holograms everyday when I was a kid. Then when we first got cable they would show morning cartoons on Saturday nights because of the time difference. My sister and I would watch Darkwing Duck, Chip and Dale, Cowboys of Moo Mesa. I also loved Teddy Ruxpin, My Little Pony, Strawberry Shortcake.

My love for television has never diminshed. I swear I've seen every episode of Friends, Arrested Development and Sex and the City. Right now I follow about ten series - dramas like Grey's and Lost, comedies like Ugly Betty, How I Met Your Mother and Entourage, and a bunch of reality shows like Next Top Model and Project Runway. Okay, okay I watch One Tree Hill and The Bachelor, too!

So as a complete TV nut, it was a gift when I came across the best website ever created - surfthechannel.com. They have every show ever created! I think. At least every show I'm interested in. Episodes are updated almost as soon as they air in the US. It is magic.

They even have shows that stopped airing! They have Jem, Perfect Strangers, Golden Girls, Felicity, The Nanny, Dawson's Creek, Remington Steele! Again, magic.

Episodes load around the same speed as YouTube videos, so you don't have to wait hours to watch, like when you download episodes on BitTorrent. It's instant gratification, on demand.

I'm not sure how long the site will stay up, since obviously all the content is pirated. But I hope it stays open (and ad-free) forever. I would say good-bye to Blogger, Yahoo, Google and Facebook, just not this site!

Web Trends map

I love this! It combines two things in this world that really fascinate me -












- the online world and wayfinding. Beautiful!

Click the image to link to the guys who made it, or to download a bigger version of the map. There's a 2008 version too.