I’m a big fan of video meme subcultures who are self-aware enough to get it when their tired spoof isn’t amusing or original anymore. And so, here is the Angry Hitler Meme death-knell piece…

One of my new favorite toys is this online tool that allows you to indulge your wildest internet egocentricities. The tool seeks out your each and every Google-worthy act and unceremoniously dumps it into one of many pre-determined category bins, forever branding the nature of your service to the human race.

It’s so uncompromising and final… This pleases me.

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Speaking of Bing, I will bet you dollars to doughnuts that this scene from Groundhog Day inspired the whole silly branding…

I wonder if they’re paying Stephen Tobolowsky royalties for his Needleheaded improvisation.

If I were Google, I would be truly frightened right now. I mean, Bing now has it’s very own jingle, and a silhouetted man doing squat thrusts in its honor.

As featured in Wired magazine, the Cybraphon is an autonomous, antique-looking music box that is programmed to compose and play its own music. More interestingly. it’s also programmed to neurotically track its own popularity on MySpace, Facebook, and the intrawebs, at large.

A happiness meter featured prominently near the head of the structure reports on how the Cybraphon perceives its search for fame is going at the moment. Unlike its human counterparts, though, the Cybraphon doesn’t post inane facebook status updates of drunken weekend Cabo pictures in the vain hope of seeming more interesting. That remains a uniquely human convention.

As part of its continuing quest to inspire Random Acts of Collateral Patriotism, Fox News recently posted an interactive web map of the US-Mexico border. The map uses advanced satellite imagery and a state of the art news feed to track the advance of Subhuman Non-Citizen Parasites and their Malevolent Taco Stands.

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Last week, I guest hosted an episode of We’ll Fix It In Post. If you like nerdy discussions of different types of cinematic time travel, this episode is for you. There was also some eating of disgusting candies for novelty’s sake — a feat first unleashed in this earlier episode…

For those of you who are musically inclined…

This mashup via “directorial collective,” Crush, is comprised of over 400 intertwined video pieces. The result is a little overwhelming — it’s hard to know where to focus your attention. I found myself drawn to the giant wormhole into nothing on the third tier — and then found a line of treadmill runners to the left. Overall, it’s a strangely addictive mishmash.

Ever wanted to be depressed by Youtube in five minutes or less? Check out this interview series from the Resident (known in our world as the owner of a highly popular non-Mep Kurt Vonnegut video.)

Of course, none of the attendees can actually verbalize what’s good or useful about Twitter, they just enjoy being around like-minded Twits.