476ad

Now I can only speculate as to why the Web site is called 476ad but the first thing that comes to mind for a history geek like me is the fact that the year 476 A.D. marked the fall of the Roman empire. Visit the site and draw your own conclusions.

476ad is like Last Night's Party except for two distinct advantages. 1) It's not firewalled by Integer. Yet. And 2) Unlike LNP anyone can upload photos of their own shindig. As the site says it's a phot blogging revolution.

Romanesque Debauchery Meet the Photo Diary

Now, according to Iconoculture here's why we should care about this aside from the fact that it's really cool—and I'm talking cooler than in the 5th grade when Phil Roth got the new BMX, tore it up on our homemade dirt track, and was king of Naper Carriage Hill for like a week and a half—aside from that here's why we should care:

• Millennials, among scores of others, are into low-level voyeurism. "From personal blog-scoping to full-fledged Facebook stalking to see other people's party pics, the urge to check out the sometimes banal aspects of peers' lives is in full effect."

• Party-pic sites are popping up to cash in on the popularity of Mash Creativity (SM).

Iconoculturelyze! (That's Iconoculture Analyzes mashed together...see, that's clever)