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The Most Offensive Meme Costumes
Culture Buzz I couldn't resist giving the “we're a culture” treatment to some of the great meme costumes from this year's Hallowmeme. I'm going to hell for this.
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How To Explain What A Meme Is In One Image
Culture Buzz Sick and tired of people calling any and every image macro or Rage cartoon a meme? Show them this image and they should finally get it once and for all.
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Video: Credit Is Due (The Attribution Song)
Sharing of content is awesome, but only as long as you give credit where credit is due. Nina Paley sings a song explaining why those Source and Via fields are so important. (via laughingsquid.com)
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Video: Yung Jake’s DATAMOSH Masterpiece
The glitchy video art genre called DATAMOSH has a theme song, and it, along with its trippy music video, is tremendous. Big hat tip to Animal New York for this one.
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The Periodic Table Of Advice Animals
Culture Buzz All great memes are made up of an animal head, a color wheel, and two lines of text. Except for the ones that are made of a pop culture character, a vignette, and two lines of text. And also the ones that are made of a Rage character and a single line of text. Confused? Know Your Meme breaks down image macro memes, periodic table style!
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Image: If Browsers Were Celebrities
I like the part where browsers are compared to celebrities. (Via Walyou.)
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Video: MemeFactory Celebrates teh Interwebz
From LOLs to trolls, Memefactory celebrates the history of internet culture in this fast-paced performance featuring three gentlemen, five laptops, and several hundred internet memes and webvideos.
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Link: The Most Epic Comment Threads On the Internet
http://www.urlesque.com/2009/08/12/the-most-epic-threads-...
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Redditers “sing” Beastie Boys, 4channers reproduce 'Enter Sandman' with lolcats… what's BuzzFeed's most epic thread?
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Caitlin Hill
Tech Buzz Meet the new host of Rocketboom: Caitlin Hill. Formerly known by YouTubers as TheHill88, Caitlin has officially taken the big seat at Rocketboom and says “Uranus” in the first episode.
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Link: Black Girl Posts on White Power Message Board
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=535452&a...
A self-hating black girl posts on a white power message board. The best spokesperson for the white power movement is a black girl. Maybe someday she can be the first Grand Wizard of The KKK who also “happens to be black”. That would break the ultimate color barrier.
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Image: The Meme Tree
Let’s collaboratively create a huge “meme tree” that starts with early viral hits and extends forward through the history of the viral web. Post memes. Post responses to those memes. Post responses to the responses. Keep going until we have a big branching tree of related memes. Start with the big classics viral hits and work forward to the present. Where possible embed actual videos or screen shots using the video and image post formats.
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Obama Sign CCTV
Tech Buzz After thieves stole two Obama signs from 16-year old Preston Fosback’s yard, he set up a web cam to try and catch the culprits in the act. Not long after, a web community had grown around the stream, and today it has attracted over 40,000 viewers watching the sign, the squirrels, and the occasional bypassing car. They call themselves CHAOS, or Citizens Hanging Around the Obama Sign, and they are the digital sentries of Portland, Oregon.
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Image: You Can Live Forever In Paradise On Earth
Artists Case Simmons and Andrew Burke have created a collage compiled of imagery inspired by (and culled from) the Internet. (But where the F is Tay Zonday?) The exhibit is currently on display at the Kim Light Gallery in Los Angeles.
