My Random Addictions: Happy Halloween!

Halloween is upon us!

While browsing through the internet, I came across a really interesting website that would aid in selecting a horror movie to watch on the day or any day that you have an itch for horror.

It is a site called 'Reel Scary', which I think the punned was severely intended. Going past the name of the site, the site separates the films into three distinct categories: Disturb, Gore and Suspense. Each film that is listed are rated by these three and depending on the nature and the kind of the horror film, the higher or lower the scores for each category. There is also the highest average of all three categories as well as for the individual categories. 

The site also lists the definitions of each one: 

Disturb: Something that sticks to your head and was highly disturbing

Gore: Lots of blood, flying limbs and organs

Suspense: Those that keep you guessing, waiting and glued to your seat

Reel Scary website

Therefore, these categories will help you choose what kind of horror film you want to watch whether it will be the disturbing kind, the gorey type or a more suspenseful kind of  horror film. 

What is your favourite horror movie? Have a look and see and pick a great Halloween movie!

Happy Halloween!

Source: https://www.reelscary.com/ 

The Map of the internet

Ever wondered what the map of the internet looks like? Now you can!

I found this website and thought it would be useful for people to perceive the internet visually and alternatively. For starters the visualisation used are those of circles. The size of the circle determines the amount of traffic it gets ( basically how popular). Users' form links by switching between websites and the stronger the link, the closer the circles will be which makes the structure of the circles.

Google.co.uk etc, would of course, be one of the biggest. What is more fascinating is that you can see what sites are the most popular within countries. This is particularly interesting as searches and site popularity are different within different countries. For example, Baidu is bigger than Google since Baidu is their go-to search engine or Naver for South Korea.

It makes you think how different people search is and how they optimise for each country or how closes linked sites are with other sites. Can this be changed to increase traffic etc?

Play around with it and see for yourself!


This link and source for this is http://internet-map.net/

Crowdsourcing a Song

Remember when I blogged about Twitch plays Pokemon? Now there are people trying to create a song through crowdsourcing. The lyrics will also be crowdsourced too! A melody is being generated in real time and each note is voted by the crowd or also known as wisdom of the crowd.

I have viewed the song and played and so far it does sound really pleasant! Sometimes you just have to wonder that the introduction of the internet has created incredible things and produced amazing feats.

For the source more information, check out the website where it is being generated https://crowdsound.net/

Also vote and help create something unique!

Screenshot of the website https;//crowdsound.net