Show Suggestions

[chuckles]

See the new promo reel? What sites would you like Martin to Web Drift? Make suggestions below!

[xbob]

i would like to see behind the scene of myspace, facebook, meebo, and digg.

[tempesta]

Those aren't really the oddities that martin seems to be going for though.. They'd be interesting...but lets face it, sarge is after funny.

[scienceking]

1) Meet the guy(Gene Ray I think) who does the whole Time Cube (http://www.timecube.com/) theory. I think hes been interviewed by newspapers before and is supposed to be a real nutcase.
2) An on site tour of Internet's infamous Power Labs (http://www.powerlabs.org/) site where they make energy weapons for fun and no profit.
3) Figure out exactly WTF is wrong with the people who run JList.com or similar "perverse japanese imports" stores that sponsor sites like SA.
4) Those crazy guys who stage huge medieval battles with foam weapons.

[dragonbladev]

dude, powerlabs would be interesting, seeing martin blow shit up again would be entertaining.

[tokenuser]

4) Those crazy guys who stage huge medieval battles with foam weapons.Martin could have lots of fun with a bunch of larpers :), but I think a cosplay fetish show would work as well :D

[somedumbguy]

If it's weirdness on the web you want, who better than these guys:

http://www.subgenius.com
http://www.modemac.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl

Their own Wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius

[scienceking]

I think a cosplay fetish show would work as well :D

Hey...コスプレの写真が大好きです。:cool:

There are tons of different variations of cosplay; I think Martin would have the most fun with the Gothic Lolita type cosplayers, as they take their stuff realy seriously but stand out on a whole different level against the mainstream from the more standard ones.

[harry-nads]

Poking fun at crazy people is funny but watching crazy people interact with other crazy people is where it's at. I would like to see an assortment of crazy people on the same show. It doesn't have to involve a competition but it would help if they dislike each other.

On Larry King Live, I once watched an episode where he had a Baptist, a Catholic & a Jew duke it out. It was great, they were all damning each other to hell. If you could get an assortment of maniacs of that caliber on your show and add in some Martyisms that would definitely be a show to watch.

[spinwheel]

This type of sleep is suppose to maximize your awake time by splitting up down time into blocks throughout the day.
Everyman consists of a 1.5 - 3 hour core sleep and 20 minute naps every 4 hours.
Uberman consists of 20 minute naps every 4 hours
dymaxion is 30 minute naps every six hours

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep)
Short intro documentary to Kirk Kahn, polyphasic sleeper. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=TpSxXjLjL3M)
Here's his videoblog (http://youtube.com/user/yagazuzy)
There are a bunch more videoblogs on youtube, check that out for yourselves.
A very detailed log (http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/)

What do you think?

[maynza]

I think the show ends really abruptly, you should add the weird videos at the end back.

[d1whowas]

I really wasn't impressed with this episode at all, but there is potential here. My biggest gripe is the removal of the voice over narration. This guy is absolutely ridiculous, but it almost seemed like Martin was buying into it or, at some points, that the guy was faking his beliefs for the sake of getting on the web, both of which I know aren't true.

The voice over in the previous episodes not only made Martin more condescending but, through that, also made the people he was visiting (like the guy who thinks he can talk to aliens) seem more serious about their beliefs.

I think the editing can also be changed to work towards this goal. Now that I think of it, I believe the previous episodes were edited differently, having more shots of Martin looking dumbfound and the subject looking stupid.

One last little minor gripe: the new song didn't feel right. I'm sure the song was changed for some legal issue, but I think that the show needs something with more energy to it.

[mrpopular]

I can only think of 2 suggestions for the show. (which was hilarious)

1. I bit more length would be good. It was a very quick episode at 25% of it was teased in all the promos leading up to the episode.

2. It would have been nice to see a wrap up segment at the end where Martin talks about the adventure in Old Town. A small 2-3mins spot which lets the viewer see Martin's over all thoughts on the entire experience.

[firestonex]

I would like to see longer videos aswell. Up to an hour is good for me. I also agree that I like the old intro much better. Even if you can't use that same song, the video of you getting ready and shaving and stuff was still a cool video, maybe with different music, it would still be alright. Also, that whole burning fire transition was way over used on the episode. I hope it gets toned down in future episodes. Well, that's all I can think of at the moment.

Oh ya, Joey and Gator need to be riding shotgun with you. lol

Dustin Forrester
Firestone X

[bs0l]

Go through Internet People and meet the creators of every Internet meme that was funny in the world ever.

[glugory]

Go visit Moot, the creator of 4chan.org. I'm sure he's a fun guy.

[scienceking]

Maybe a show thinking backward. Go to a really brilliant artist or scientist or something and through the interview make him seem like an internet nut case despite his clear brilliance. Ought to be interesting.

[slartibardfast]

It is the responsibility, nay the duty of Web Drifter to share the wisdom of the worlds wisest human Dr. Gene Ray and his discovery of the Time Cube

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube

[craigily]

and get a puppet portrait.

http://www.puppetartists.com/portraits.htm

[dugahol]

love your work Martin as always!

I think you should get more into paranormal & conspiracy theory stuff. There are plenty of tripped out conspiracy sites such as 100777.com and conspiracyarchive.com - these guys have a conspiracy theory for just about everything. I'm sure the people that maintain them would be just as tripped out and no doubt they would be more than happy to share a doob with you, infact thats another show in itself "Web Drifter gets high with (add stoner site here)". Here's one to check out www.churchofreality.org

Anyways, Love the show, love the sense of humor! Keep it up :)

[zombierin]

Visit Choo Choo and Earl
http://lovecanadageese.com/

[takdiego]

anyone remember this DJ guy supergreg..remember he landed a lee's flash cartoon a while back

http://www.vanderzande.com/nerdcult/media/Super%20Greg%20(mirror%20site%20of%20the%20origina l%20supergreg_com).htm

thats a mirror /fan site...but I remember this guy would just crack me up back in the internet day

[autodas]

Keep this show less than 10 minutes long. 5 minutes is good.

[brlee2003]

Bikerfox! He was funny on Infected, go visit the fox!

[dj-hillbilly]

Martin ya gotta bring gator with ya.... And ya'll show up in gator's redneck truck... You needs somebody else too play off of.... Cheers........;)

[worm]

Goatse, though I imagine that guy is pretty hard to book.

[spank]

Anyone heard of Ulillillia?

http://www.ulillillia.us/mainindex.shtml

Spend a while browsing his site. He's the textbook definition of Asperger's Syndrome. He methodically updates his website and describes his dream log, his various phobias (blue water, mirrors, the words 'person' and 'people'), describes his rationale for not showering, his strange sleeping habits, and has a habit of assigning numbers to virtually every concept and feeling he encounters. He's severely addicted to video games, and has spent over 500 hours on one level of a game called "bubsy 3d", which you can find his narrative on youtube. He has aversions to vulgarity, sunlight, and basically any social interaction. His severe videogame addiction is self-diagnosed, and he attributes it to several of his phobias, but he continues to play games, and also listens to videogame music, which he varies the speed of, and will listen to this exclusively for days on end.

I spent literally a couple hours last week browsing his site, and only got through a fraction of it. The guy's crazy in a strange sort of Mr Rogers way, but would make a fascinating webdrifter episode.

[surf-guru]

www.newimageplants.com looks like fun.


I think it'd be totally awesome if you could go hang out with www.midwestcrisiscleaning.com and hang out with them like an episode of Dirty Jobs.

[r2builder]

I saw this site, and thought of the Sarge:

This woman has reduced her waist to 15in by wearing a corset for most of her life, I think she's in California too. She holds the world record for the smallest waist.

http://www.cathiejung.com/cathie_jung/Cathie_Jung_galleries/Abaco_Bahamas.html

WARNING - link may be NSFW, although doesn't contain nudity.

[geekdw]

Martin, you should go an entire episode nonchalantly wearing a pink tutu. Just cause...ya know...you can.

[autodas]

The Republic of Molossia is 1.3 acres of micronation located in Nevada.
http://www.molossia.org/countryeng.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG2NRHkWR6s

[branflakes]

Martin might wanna webdrift this

http://www.spermcube.org/

A bunch of French artists are accepting sperm donations to contribute to a tank of sperm to be used in an "art project".

Only the French could be behind this.

[wheeler916]

You should interview Art Bell.

[swingsetmafia]

how about a scientology episode.

[worm]

how about a scientology episode.
They're unfortunately not mainly internet based and would sue the pants off poor rev3.

I like the elimination of end episode skits. I prefer the banter in the interview. The situations are what is humorous. For example the MedicalToys episode was funny, while I didn't mind the skit, but the episode definitely didn't need it and could have simply used more weird stuff.

[knoxrox156]

http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/

this guys a total nutjob who seems to think he crossed into the second life and wants to tell us about it.

[knoxrox156]

i also think that a visit to the Westboro Baptist Church would be very interesting...or maybe too controversial/offensive

[nathan79]

Solaris BlueRaven ...She seems like your average everyday psychic/witch type kook trying to peddle off her mystic services. That is until you listen to her video explaining how the band Rush is planning to take over the world by using a complex series of mind control devices!

[techgirl75]

The girls in the office and I can't wait until the next season of Web Drifter! It has become our water cooler. But what we'd really like to know is, what is really going on in Martins head? Some of the facial expressions are priceless! We'd like to see an episode (maybe in the Best Of), Episode 5 - Never Never Again Land- what was going on in your mind when you were squeezing into that fairy suit, or the last episode, Episode 24 - Come On, Feel The Noise, how awkward was that! LMAO! There are so many to choose from. How do you manage to keep it together.....

[shorelifenj]

Hey...コスプレの写真が大好きです。:cool:

There are tons of different variations of cosplay; I think Martin would have the most fun with the Gothic Lolita type cosplayers, as they take their stuff realy seriously but stand out on a whole different level against the mainstream from the more standard ones.

Yeah...I do that. But I don't take it seriously, probably because I'm new at it. I don't follow all the "rules" hell it's hard to follow everything as they don't have outfits put together for us already at local malls like they do in Japan.

[shorelifenj]

OK, I know MANY of these people. I'm pretty wierd myself. And I know why they call themselves Vampires/Vampyres. It's all to do with prana and energy exchange...and some blood-letting with some. There are thousands in the USA alone.... most are goth some are not. And the best part is they LOVE attention and being on TV. Around halloween you can see them on History channel, Sci-fi, and even CSI.

I first read about them from Katherine Ramsland's book: "Piercing the Darkness: Uncovering the Vampires in America" and I actually had a nightmare from it because a reporter dissapeared...but really I was naive! They only THINK they're scary. Martin would be fine!

Your BEST bets (most media hungry) are...

The Vampire Don Henrie of Vegas (was on scifi's mad mad house): http://vampiredon.net

Father Todd aka Aaron aka Sabasitaan ...or whatever he goes by at the moment (writer and club owner from NY): http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Todd_Hoyt

And my fave (of Ohio) who I actually like as a person...and she's pretty well educated, the writer Michelle Belanger: http://www.michellebelanger.com/
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Michelle_Belanger

OK....yeah. Just don't tell them who sent you. Because well, I sometimes attend their parties. Around Halloween, ya know? LOL

Or you could do a story on "Otherkin"... one step up from "Furries!" *shivvers* Furries are MUCH scarier than Vampires! PS: if you are even at a sci-fi con...don't venture past the furrie room after dark...

But the Vampires are harmless goths.

[troper]

I would have to say Powerlabs would be badass to web drift.... but that is because i enjoy fire ^_^

[alaskalonewolf]

Give us more explosions and ninjas.

[alaskalonewolf]

Give us more:

...smart chicks who are hot wearin' skimpy hackerish swag
...crazy door-kicking-in episodes exposing real-life spammers
...actual features on "the-best-WiFi-hotspots" coast-to-coast
...Live! WebDrifter meet-ups w/ keg-stand slash drinking competitions
...reviews of lamest versus best destinations for an actual Web Drifter
...cameo appearances from talent like Phil Defranco, and HotForWords
...JackAss style run-ins with actual Internet Phenoms like Mr.Babyman
...senseless or needlessly sarcastic snark and dry-wit, bad jokes and angst

[boldfire]

Outside of the US? Although me thinks the finance department may say neigh.

[alaskalonewolf]

I know, that's why I think they oughta do a telethon, and maybe a show on how they're actually spending the money.

[lieutenant-com-data]

I want to see season 2 of webdrifter.

[tadpole256]

Give us more:

...smart chicks who are hot wearin' skimpy hackerish swag
...crazy door-kicking-in episodes exposing real-life spammers
...actual features on "the-best-WiFi-hotspots" coast-to-coast
...Live! WebDrifter meet-ups w/ keg-stand slash drinking competitions
...reviews of lamest versus best destinations for an actual Web Drifter
...cameo appearances from talent like Phil Defranco, and HotForWords
...JackAss style run-ins with actual Internet Phenoms like Mr.Babyman
...senseless or needlessly sarcastic snark and dry-wit, bad jokes and angst

I can agree with all of those...

[tadpole256]

Is there any truth to the rumor I heard that there is talk about doing away with WebDrifter? I know it's an expensive program because of all the travel involved, but it is exceptionally entertaining... I'd hate to see it go.