Where I've Been Lately

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Tsk tsk... :-P

Old 97's!

UTATA.org

awww

Laughing Squid

w000000 h0000!

GETV

Feels like a 50s diner logo. Or "Vw Records."

My baby!

Having a total Sally Field moment right now.

I work here. www.amazon.com

I love Bob Dylan, my wife thinks he can't sing. I tell her thats not the point.

Hah, cool! dslrblog

Unofficial TiVo news, information and commentary.
www.tivoblog.com

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Taken in a place with no name (See more photos or videos here)

Well I've never said "best viewed full size" before so now may as well be an ok time to say it.

Inspired by Stabilo Boss' Logo 2.0_2 flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/93136022/ I decided to undertake a similar project of my own. What I did here was to go into my Firefox browser history window and go back to the most recent 320 websites that I've visited that have favicon thingys. There were a lot more than you'd think that don't have favicon thingys (my blog for instance). I was surprised at a lot of the big sites that don't have favicons. CNET and Microsoft for instance (well at least that show up in the Firefox browser).

So I took the sites as I went back in my history and put them in a new Firefox browswer window 10 across under tabbed browsing. Then I took screen shots and cut the little columns of favicon tabs into a new file and built this.

I did this on one of my four computers so I'm sure I've missed lots of sites that I've visited recently. I also skipped generic blogger favicons. I didn't realize that Typepad and Word Press had generic favicons as well until it was too late, so those are in there.

Also, I don't necesarily like or endorse all the companies shown here. I hate LaCie for instance and think they make crappy disk drives -- but I did visit them recently (in writing a piece about how much I disliked them) so there they are. Although there are many many sites in the photo above (did I mention I printed out this screen shot and then took a digital photo of it? wink, wink) that I do love very much and visit every single day, especially if they start with "f" and end in "r". I tried to only put each site up once but there may be some that I accidently got in there twice. I know of one for sure.

Anywho. Just another way to waste an entire day but it will give you a sense of what I look at on the internet (and I do look alot).

This by the way is one of those rare times when it would probably be good to be able to tag more than 100 tags to this photo.

Go ahead, click on the large view, you never know, your site might be up there. Feel free to make a note of it if it is.

Damn, looking at this again a second time makes me realize how much I really do love the internet. I need to stay in more often. I'm also realizing how many of the really super blogs I read every day are not on this graphic because they don't have favicons. This list is only a partial list of what I read and doesn't include some of my favorite sites.

It also reminds me that I need to get moving with figuring out how to get a favicon on my thomashawk.com site.

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Comments

	jgarber says: I'm not sure if it's sad or gratifying that I could identifty so many of those sites based on favicon alone... Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	beebo wallace says: so ... how did you make this? EDIT: Ha ... and I thought I surfed too much ... Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	strzelecki1 says: That is actually more than me :) Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	Lorene (gurlangel16) says: ooh...lots of free time! Fun idea. just like jgarber I have visited a few of those myself Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	he who shall says: Now if you went to all those sites in one day, or even one week, I'd be impressed. How come you weren't out trying to break (or drown) your 5D? ;-) Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	kaleidoscope says: Thomas, you need to get out more! :) Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	mclgreenville / memorymotel says: hardcore...!! Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	torbakhopper says: you should join the OCD group, thomas. they would probably really enjoy this shot. Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	Henrik says: I love the attitude of actually making screenshots, pasting them in one document, priniting it out and then taking a digital photo of it. Really anti-technology, but it works. Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	thelastminute says: hilarious tag Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	ThatBeeGirl says: Gives me an idea of how to sink even more time into the internet... :) Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	mdoeff says: This is great. I just want to know how far back this goes - 1 week? 2 weeks? Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	Thomas Hawk says: mdoeff, this was most of yesterday and the day before (some I went to through my RSS reader though so I had to click through to the original site today to get the favicon). I'm thinking of adding on to it and trying to get it up to 1000. The problem is though that a lot of sites don't have favicons plus I tend to go back to a lot of the same sites over and over again -- Flickr, Boing Boing and Digg for example. It would be nice is someone could write an app to capture a graphic like this for you automatically. It seems like a great way to remember where you have been. Of course you'd need to strip all the porn out (not for me but for others of course), etc. but it could be really cool 10 years from now to look back at say 1000 sites that you visited in a week 10 years ago. By the way, I was only on Pirate's Bay doing... uhhh.. research. Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	Thomas Hawk says: I do love that 5D robzpics. But I like using it at night the best. I did this project during the day when I'm tied to a desk. I did it with my laptop too which really smarted -- small screen with Photoshop and no mouse. I need to get an external mouse for that thing. Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	Thomas Hawk says: Obsessive compulsive? Who me? Some days I don't even get 100 photos in. Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	TuLpFiCTioN says: Nice idea...i have a simmilar project in the make...will let you know when i post it. Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	mdoeff says: Have you set the record for number of tags on one photo? Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	spacedman says: New game idea: pick a random favicon and then give the user a choice of four site titles. Pick the title corresponding to the favicon. Gotta be 10 lines of PHP (spit). Anyone? Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	schmingbadger [deleted] says: you should add the logo from bluetights.net :D Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	MICHAELWINNER says: See Sonic Run...animated Favicon www.sega-europe.com Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	empty™ has left the building. fuck you yahoo! says: Awesome. fav Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	jgarber says: Ahh, yes, "research"... My most sincere apologies. ;-) Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	ddorato [deleted] says: OMG, so many GREAT websites. Why not UNEASYsilence.com :-( Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	PerpetualCarouse says: Oddly compelling...in an OCD sort of way. I love it. Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	En Why See says: This reminds me of artist AJ Bocchino (www.re-title.com/artists/aj-bocchino.asp). I have one of his works that takes headlines from the NYTimes from 9/12/01 through a couple years re the WTC disaster stories. Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	neloqua says: A very original image,large size is a must! Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	rusty mac [deleted] says: "........Digital photography and technology enthusiast." imagine if he was serious! Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )
	c r i s says: Very cool! That's strangely amazing. I love it. Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )
	BrianG2k says: i see the boognish Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )
	infomaniac says: As I can see, you visit quite some sites I visit too... Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )
	girl from long beach says: cat power lyrics!? Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )
	ojaipatrick says: Jeez thats intense. Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )
	Eleutheromanic says: Im loving that SF Gate is on that list. favorite for that. Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )
	Anders Viklund says: Interesting! Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )
	Tampen says: epic tagging ! Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )
	Andrew Morrell Photography says: Damn! Incredible work... I used to work with Robin Hilton and Bob Boilen at NPR's A.S.C... cool to see it on the list! Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )
	JakeInVan says: I gotta admit, the thumbnail really piques the curiosity. Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )
	Zohar Manor-Abel says: if you like logos but not sure about corporations: check this out Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )
	yunalso says: 太NB！ Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )
	phrenophile says: Inside too much on gorgeous days is where you've been. ;-) Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )
	jballoonist says: you sure do get around! Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )
	chen weiyong says: Cool! But Why there is not another interest site? www.polloo.com Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )
	doreilly says: or www.rssxxx.com Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )
	sakowitz says: woot! 30Boxes Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )
	kiha516 says: cool.. AJAX Web2.0 logos www.web2logo.com Larger images indicate popular websites. Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )
	cooly08 says: great ! Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )
	torbakhopper says: you are so devastatingly, heroically mental! i love the fact that you exist. look at those tags! Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )
	-H- says: H? Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )
	!efatima says: heh! indeed! tag-a-mania! :) please do add to FlickrSoup :) Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )
	plaggenplei says: how long did it to add the tags? :) really a smart work! Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )
	Thomas Hawk says: I don't remember how much time exactly but most of an afternoon I recall. Maybe six hours? Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )
	BLANKartist says: That browser history is so PG-13! Ah... er... I mean that's a good thing. Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )
	friskypics says: so honoured that my site is on there. ;-) cheers. been really enjoying your work lately. it rocks. keep it up mate. Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )
	largeheartedboy says: Largehearted Boy, represents! Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )
	Nikographer [Jon] says: Interesting. I just did a 100 days of flickr... Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )
	verystylishgirl says: I know what you mean - thx for grouping all the favicons together. I've got to get on the ball and create one for my blog and website stuff. I'm inspired now! Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )
	Noah Dylan Goldblatt says: I need to think of a favicon for my site, Noah Dylan Goldblatt. Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )
	R@j says: this is awsome! (via your blog) Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )
	pstarr says: holy crap, thomas. you visited all these over a TWO DAY period? torbakhopper is right - you are mental. but merkley is right and you are handsome, too. Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )
	roel says: So, now that Flickr will restrict the max amount of tags per image to 75, I guess we need to archive the huge amount of tags Thomas laboriously attached to this image. The full list is: --------- obsessive compulsive disorder OCD Russell Beattie Upcoming.org Flickr Digg Blogger Experiment.com SF Gate Scout Google eHomeUpgrade YouSendIt Firefox Memeorandum San Francisco Tech Connection 30 Boxes Technorati Vizrea NewsGator Seattle Times Seattle PI Blogebrity Chris Lanier Niall Kennedy Delicious Gawker Laughing Squid Lifehacker Site Meter Photo Matt Matt Mullenweg Yahoo FatWallet Engadget Six Apart Dictionary.com cPanel Lawrence Lesig EFF Gizmodo Waxy.org Valleywag TiVoBlog Davenetics Hacking Netflix Ian Dixon LaCie Matador Records StockPhotoTalk see beth go Scobleizer Robert Scoble PVRBlog John Battelle Darknet TiVo Community Forum Internet Outsider Henry Blodget IceRocket Flock Caterina.net Caterina Fake PVR Wire Joe Wilcox Bink.nu JPG Magazine Cat Power Om Malik Wikipedia ThinkExist Utata David Sanger Techdirt Amazon.com Business2Blog Liz Phair Bloggity-Blog-Blog Brownglasses.com Dan Gillmor Ween DSLRBlog Jeff Sandquist Sling Media Gamespy.com Naked Conversations Kevin 2.0 Don Dodge Chris Anderson The Long Tail Metafilter Gnomedex Amobea Music Revision 3 The Internet Stock Blog Movielink PCWorld.com Slashdot Syntax of Things Gadgetopia Netvibes 83 Degrees No Soap Radio Narrendra Rochelle Geek News Central Todd Cochrane Newsome.org Kent Newsome South by Southwest SXSW FriskyPics Seagate BlogPulse Lost Remote SFist Alexa NVidia 43 Folders Consumerist Podcast Alley GigPosters TweakHound Cowpie The Covers Project Darwin Awards AllMusic Guide Drawn Fred Wilson Positively 10th St Slide Precision Computing Bob Dylan Flatlanders MFA Boston Mark Harden Old 97's Metroblogging Foghorn IMDB The Internet Movie Database NPR NPR All Songs Considered Search Engine Watch Danny Sullivan The Web 2.0 Show Ed Bott Atmaspheric HDBeat Kevin Tofel Duct Tape Marketing ZDNet B&H Photo Menafn Dave Winer Market Predictions Cal Henderson Tom's Hardware Open Source Buzz Brewed Fresh Daily Ray Ozzie O'Reily Dvorak ActiveWin.com Weaknees FFFBI Forbes Blockbuster VoIP Watch Splitcam The New York Times Geek Entertainment TV New York Post mcesoft.nl Birds-Eye.net Inc. Reed Hastings Netflix ABC News i2 Partners Radio-Locator SiliconBeat Slyck News Reuters Banksy Socialtext NASA Variety.com Paul Allen Mac Rumors Micro Persuasion Steve Rubel iTunes Apple Spin.com Networkcar Bloglines Bay Area Photobloggers Heather Champ The Other Martin Taylor Martin Taylor lighteningfield.com David F. Gallagher IT Conversations Doug Kaye Dooce Heather Armstrong Joe Cunningham Yo La Tengo Fractals of Change Odeo Evan Williams Vinography PriceGrabber Michael Jang Daily Does of Imagery Chromasia Internet Archive Photoblogs.org Brandon Stone Uncle Tupelo Street Tech Treonauts Loomia Always Curious East3rd Photography Trend Micro Gallery of the Absurd K&L Wine Merchants Wine Anna Conti Grandaddy Robbie Fulks largehearted boy Carolyn Tille Infrangible Daring Fireball Now Public Eventful HDTV Magazine ProBlogger Michael Creasy David Fleishman Aaron Stebner Flickr Graph Sylloge Stewart Butterfield Blogography Down the Avenue Renee Blodgett MSN Think Secret Cable Channels Tivo.com The IVR Cheat Sheet Ourmedia Open Media Akimbo Energy Fiend BBC News AlwaysBETA 14U News Betanews dvdrecorder Pirate Bay TV Technology News eclecticism Jeff Clavier Cygnoir Halsted Bernard PhoneSpelling.com Wired@Home.blog noDRM.com Little K's Blog aTypical Joe: A gay New Yorker living in the rural south The Blue Light Special Squash Eek! jkOnTherun heiko Hebig Kareem Mayan e-piiphany False Positives 23 Photo Sharing Joel on Software Kinja Guardian Unlimited Shinzui lies.com Inside Firefox Corante Stowe Boyd Emily Chang Findory Greg Linden Geeking With Greg BlogShares MAKE: Blog Orb Networks mtv.com Red Herring Denyerec's Log AllPeers Blogniscient Greg Hughes Neowin.net Trainque.com Adrants Dell Washington Post Allice Hill's Real Tech News Download Squad Ajaxian Plasticbag.org OhGizmo! librarian.net whew, that was a lot of typing guess you can actually tag an image with more than 100 tags on Flickr sorry if I missed some, feel free to add any I may have missed top-f25 top-f50 top-f75 top-f100 multitasking --------- Wow. That is a long list.... Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )