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Meme Hunters – Join the Clan
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)
BoingBoingTV Epilogue
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.
Rent is Too Damn Up
New York’s zany seventeenth party, The Rent is Too Damn High Party, has officially become an internet meme.
Swiss Herald New Tunnel Record with Star Wars Theme
This is a cute thing. It’s as if the Swiss are a Rebel Alliance in rebellion against an evil Alp Empire. Quite a way to celebrate building the longest tunnel ever built.
The Simpsons Intro to End All Simpsons Intros
This piece isn’t as fresh as I’m accustomed to posting, but it caught my eye today. It’s a jarring look into the third world consequences of something as innocuous-seeming as animation. The sequence is purportedly inspired by the street activist/artist, Banksy.
Taking Congress Seriously.
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.
Night of the Living Trekkies
Two overexposed memes just had a baby full of awesome. It’s too bad this isn’t a real movie.
Night of the Living Trekkies: Book Trailer from R. Giskard Reventlov on Vimeo.
Flintstones Vitamins Placed in Birthday Cakes Nationwide (Mep Report #122)
Lecturing Prison Gangs, Michael Richards Riot Redux, Fantasy Theater of the Abhorrent, Know Your Audience, Don’t Celebrate Mediocrity; Celebrate the Jersey Shore, Malnourished Pet Superheroes, And the Legend of Ten Fists and the Lost Soul Fragments.
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