It’s with bittersweet jealousy and joy I link this.  Basically Rocketboom has a site where it explains internet memes, under the header of “The Rocketboom Institute of Internet Studies.”

Internet Meme Database | Know Your Meme.

This is a great site.  It looks like they add one video a month or so, their research is flawless.  They really knock it ( Read more... )

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Wow, Wow… Wowwowow. This video is all of my favorite things. What’s interesting is that the visuals don’t seem to mesh much with the lyrics but they really blew the roof off with all of the people they managed to get together for the video. And to even seal the deal they had them all in a scene together, looks like. Granted it could have been ( Read more... )

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I liked the dad on the computer…

YouTube - H.P. Papercraft

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He also does the Solja Boy. WTF?

YouTube - Obama Girl is Lobbied by Senator Mike Gravel

I love it when people do funny things to people who hotlink their pictures.  I’ve done it, it’s fun.  This person did it to a politician.

How to upset an Italian Politician, Part One

“New Scientist commemorates spam’s 30th anniversary, a week from today. The first spam message - archived here - was sent to 393 users of ARPANET on May 2 1978 by someone from computing pioneers DEC. They had to type in all the addresses by hand first.”
Slashdot | Spam Is 30 Years Old

I went to Boston this past weekend.

I finally got to meet Neil and Emmy Cicierega
I went to Nan Ling.
The RoflConcert was awesome, videos coming soon.

Everyone’s ‘internet fame’ was a fluke, barring MillionDollarHomepage guy. Very, very much a fluke, in lots of different ways. Lots of flukes. Related to this: If you want to be famous on the ( Read more... )

Gossip Girl

I don’t know much about this show, and haven’t watched it, but I saw a row of signs with people kissing on them with the text “OMFG” on them. For as corny as it is, it’s kind of amazing that that’s a ‘low brow’ enough bit of text to be able to finally put on an advertisement.

ROFLcon was amazing. It was so completely and utterly surreal. I have lots of notes and stuff to share, so I’ll make the obligatory “When I get around to it” post now.

I am back, decompressing, and re-adjusting to reality. Surprisingly, (not surprisingly?) looking at stuff at work through different eyes as well.

So you are probably following my internetting with my new friend, fake pretend marketing internet person. » Update: Grand Theft Auto IV Viral Bloggery - ScatteredGenius.com

I challenged him specifically, saying:

Well, mister pretend internet marketing liar man, I don’t believe you! You say you are real, then I challenge you to update your blog in ( Read more... )