Results tagged “missedconnections”

We love interesting socially-focused websites and services. But what we love even more is when they are local operations. Take, for example, WhirtWhirl.com. WhirtWhirl has one purpose: connecting missed connections in Philadelphia. They provide a simple, straightforward interface that keeps the focus on the connections themselves, displaying a timeline of posts. WhirtWhirl also offers the ability to tag words in your post for easy searching later on. Every post has its own "reply" link, too, so if you stumble across the missed connection of your dreams you can try to unmiss it. Best of all, they don't require account creation, so you can dive right in.

Summer Love is in the air people. Have you had a Missed Connection yet? A week's worth of local hijinks, thanks to our friend Craig.

The best from our friend Craig:

A week's worth of local Craigslist hijinks...

A week's worth of local Craigslist highjinks.

A week's worth of local Craigslist hijinks.

A week's worth of local Craigslist hijinks...

This sort of thing usually lands on the "Missed Connections" section of Craigslist. So we have to applaud the dude for originality.

"WAAAAAR-EEEEEEEEEE-ORS, come out and PLAY-E-AY!!"

(with "The Saddest Boy in the World")

...But it's inspired by something we saw there when we got tired of looking for jobs and decided to briefly digress. Namely, this (quite funny) post in the Missed Connections section, and the subsequent follow-up posts. The initial post reads, in full:

Have you voted yet? No? What the hell are you sitting at your computer for then?

We're worried that our leftovers are going to go bad before we can eat all of them. We want to have a party and invite all the other -ist writers and editors to come eat the food. And then help with the dishes.

One of my dearest, darling manhunting partners emailed me this today:

...Because that about sums it up for us.

LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark "Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid." Is that a promise? They also give us this week's best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow.

- Phillywriters give the heads up about an upcoming silent auction to support Philadelphia Stories magazine.