fine whine

So today Jessica forwarded to me an email about the bunnies of angryalien.com. It was probably new to her but I'd been there so long ago (and even remembered watching their rendition of Jaws with the actual theme music, not its replacement) but it was nice to revisit a funny site like that.

Rewind to a couple days back when (Gawker scion) Screenhead.com links a couple days ago to a graffiti repository, filled with examples of stencils, tagging and whatnot. I immediately thought of Banksy, British street artist extraordinaire who'd I'd stumbled across not too long ago myself. Naturally his name (and site) soon was passed around the so-called blogosphere.

Before that there was a boingboing post about a site sighting wireless towers that were concealed or disguised, just days after I'd found a company building them (whilst searching for pictures of saguaro catci, I kid you not). I sent the link to BB and got a brief credit and minor traffic spike. Woo hoo. It stands that I was there first, for what that matters.

Recently I've also stumbled across Paul Davidson's blog post about the classic AIM bot "smarterchild" which I'd been shown back in college days when people in my classes were programming clones of it. Admittedly the post in question had the gist of "I'm sure I'm the last guy to find out about this" but still, I am left feeling that I was somehow ahead of things without gaining any advantage over anything.

So, the real question (other than "do I spend too much time like this?) is, "Can I leverage this into making money?"

Or merely, "Who cares?"