The source of funny link power.

IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING COMMENTS: You know the word verification thing you have to try and decipher each time you comment here? Try and remember to add whatever letter sequence you type to the end of your comment, sometimes they're funny. At least one of mine has said "sex" in there before. Oh, and if you misspell it, you have to add as many "words" as you try to do before getting it right. Feel free to leave an interpretation or analysis of the acronym it forms if you feel the need. For a good example of this, see the first comment to this post. Because Brad refreshes my blog every five minutes, he managed to comment about seven minutes after this was posted. Sometimes it's fun to reveal a secret. Many people ask me how I manage to come up with so many funny links. Except for two, all of them were located with this wonderful tool called StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon is one of several social networking tools that put method to the madness of finding stuff on the Internets that you would like, but you wouldn't know that you liked until you saw it. It is an extension for Firefox that installs a toolbar on your browser, with several buttons on it. It looks like this:

When you first set it up, StumbleUpon asks you about a large number of categories, and whether you have any interest in them. You pick categories that appeal to you, and then you're ready to stumble! Whenever you click Stumble, you will be sent to a random link that falls into one of those categories. From there, you can either give it up a thumbs up or thumbs down, depending on whether you dig it or not. Whichever you give it, this impacts your further stumble's, as the program will send you to either pages that people who liked the rated page also liked, or pages that people who didn't like the rated page also didn't like. Over time, the randomness decreases, and you see pages that appeal to people that like what you like, and dislike what you dislike. One thing to note: StumbleUpon's makers, in an attempt to make some cash-money-what-what, occasionally will send you to the page of a vendor paying to be listed there. I assume that it sends you to vendors that have something to do w/ the categories you picked, so alot of times this isn't necessarily a bad thing =). So there you have it. Oddly enough, today's funny link has nothing to do with StumbleUpon, and I would probably never stumble to the page for it. It comes to us courtesy of Adam J. Walka', who tragically, can not buy one of these despite being the keeper of this super-leet being, because, simply put, she has no use for such a device. Anyway, enough rambling, here it is: What is this strange device, and why doesn't Sara Kate need it? Well that's because its the Peter Potty flushable urinal! As is my custom to say, holy crap that's awesome. With a device like this, the propensity of the people who write product descriptions to write something hilarious increases abillionfold. Let's have a look at some choice quotes:

...The potty is adjustable by 4 inches, allowing the proper positioning to help with the child’s accuracy... ...If Dad feels comfortable doing so, use the toilet or Peter Potty in front of your child... ...Many boys start potty training outside on a tree, wall or fence. Transition to Peter Potty will be easy because he is still able to continue standing like his Daddy or big brother...

Stick a fork in me, I'm done.