Ahhh del.icio.us!

woop woop, woop woop...

warning, warning, geek alert, geek alert!!!!

Although there is some zingy funness embedded down below, so don't skip, lest you miss it...

I just love del.icio.us the social bookmarking site, both for my being able to agilely bookmark online, accessible anywhere (rather then just your computer) and actually make use of later the nearly 2000 bookmarks I have. They're now searchable by tag, viewable as simply a list or as a tag cloud (tags are different sizes depending on how many sites you tagged with that, well, tag) and I was able to import all the bookmarks I already had on my browser, and del.icio.us autotagged those, going by what they'd been tagged by others already, and by the title of the folder you had them in in your browser's bookmarks. But going to the del.icio.us site itself (You can use www.delicious.com just fine) you can see what's currently popular with other people. Or search for sites by tags, arguably a more robust, current, accurate reflection of what you're looking for versus the algorithm driven Google. Thus the "social" part in social bookmarking.

It was while tiptoeing through the popular sites of today that I came across an intriguingly titled one that said Hip Hop Violin. It's a Youtube video, and for the first minute, I was impressed. An obviously talented violinist, with a dj behind him mixing. Perfectly in sync, it was all so...smooth. Overdone. Began feeling more "look at me" then interesting to listen to. Then...I noticed to the side in the related videos, another hip hop violin video. I clicked it, and up pops this pixieish woman. She proceeds to jam along to a Black Eyed Peas song. Musically interesting for sure, but then she adds these most unique dance moves. A potpourri of the recognizable (a bit of ballet in there) and...I don't know what. Great, really fun to watch, and she's clearly having a great time to. Check it out here.