Here’s a treat for you Meppers. It’s a full-length documentary about Wikileaks and the intrepid man of mystery, Mr. Assange. Confidence is low that this link will remain up forever, so enjoy it while you can.

Presuming that you’re an American reading this, the odds are fairly strong that you heard this juicy tidbit in the internet/sports rumor mill today. The story is about a woman who is adored for her ability to play pretend, who filed for divorce from her husband, who is adored for his ability to throw a sphere into a standardized hoop.

Unless you are a facebook friend of mine, or happen to follow CERN’s twitter stream, you almost certainly weren’t appraised of this story today. That one told of the most complicated device ever constructed by your species, spawned something that, until fairly recently, was thought to be a purely theoretical type of stuff and sustained it for longer than it had ever been sustained.

I would love to say it was a good day for the human race. I’m not so sure.

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I was tempted to title this post, ‘Enter the Void.’ While the execution of this video is nearly flawless, I was especially fond of the dark, ominous Stones track playing behind it. I think the video leaves it as an open question as to whether it was a good thing that this particular life was lived out completely reliant on a virtual social network.

Kudos to Frequency for picking up on this first.

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I’ve recently created a facebook page called, Meme Hunters: Who Thinks They Can Win the Internet?

The tentative idea is to have a huge cross-section of internet people contributing viral material to the page, as a way to both draw attention to their respective websites, but also as a way to really determine who has the internet inside dope. Ideally, I’d like to link some classic meme-droppers to the side bar like BoingBoing, LaughingSquid, various Redditors, etc.

Obviously, I can’t create this community alone. I would really appreciate your help in getting out the word to the super-serious-Hall-of-Fame-caliber internet junkies out there. Let’s see how amazing this page can be.

(pic created by Flickr user, Negatendo)

This video was released today by Beet.TV, offering an official explanation as to why BoingBoing has “ramped down” its video production since the Halcyon days of the daily BoingBoingTV show.

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A not-so shocking revelation this morning about the sinking Titanic that is Digg. Not only have they abandoned their core users, not only are the walls crumbling down, but a brand new investigative report revealed that they actually created dozens of fake user accounts to increase traffic to their publishing partners.

Umpteenth user backlash incoming. And hey, did we call it, or did we call it?

New York’s zany seventeenth party, The Rent is Too Damn High Party, has officially become an internet meme.

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As I’ve said before, the Tea Party is largely a Corporatist attempt to harness and steer the sort of populist rage movements that crop up during times of severe recession. It is being steered away from blaming banking cartels and Wall Street for its woes (primarily by Fox News and friends) and steered towards protesting government regulation. As such it is nothing more than a pitchfork-wielding arm of the Corporate Lobbyists..

And frankly, the Dems and more traditional Republicans are both solidly on that team as well, if in a less screamy fashion.

This is mindblowingly brilliant…and perhaps the best use of a Congressional hearing in decades.  Proof that this hits home: the face of bigoted jackass Rep. Steve King, who understands the target of the joke.  I’d ask the Republicans who don’t understand to read up on Voltaire, but I doubt they’d get the reference.