When the Internet goes IRL, it just becomes animal abuse. No?

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1. via xkcd

As if cats don't already think they're better than us enough, someone gave this smug bastard a suit and top hat. From 1906 if the text is to be believed.

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1. The Oldest LOLCat

CULTURE BUZZ: This is kind of a NYC-only post (sorry, deal), but apparently, there is a meme musical at this year's Fringe Festival. It is called I Can Has Cheezburger: The MusicLOL , and it will surely be better than the Jem and the Holograms show I saw at Fringe last year. Maybe they will even set cats loose in the audience.

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1. All your info (and tickets) here.
2. Urly Show Podcast #14 - I Can Has Cheezburger: The MusicLOL
3. NYC Fringe Festival

The Kate Gosselin Hair meme gets the cat treatment. Which is how you know it's really a meme. Get your own Kate Gosselin Hair here.

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1. Kate Gosselin Hair

The Whoafish has 3D vision and just can't believe his little blowfish eyes. What does he see!? Whoa.

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1. The Official Whoafish Blog
2. Old School Taxidermy Goes 3D
3. Whoafish is Searching for Meaning
4. Single Serving Tumblr of the Day

My new favorite lolcat. Now I just have to figure out how to photoshop a storm trooper riding the cat .

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1. Hovercat in Training
2. via My[confined]Space
3. Remember Hoverdogs??

Sometimes you just need a short sweet cat video to start out your day. I wasn't sure if this was a real cat or a robocat.

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This video encapsulates a wide range of emotions in just 11 seconds.

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1. Via Monkey See

This cat has a secret and highly effective weapon. Watch out!

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1. Winston and Rudy

Cats of Japan: Now's a good time to renounce your Japanese citizenship and run as far away as your little kitty legs will take you. That is, unless, you enjoy getting dressed up in ridiculous kitty costumes and laughed at on international TV. Then, stick around. They'll find you.

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1. Japanese Cat Show
2. Cat Vs. Sellotape
3. Japanese Cat Show 2 (with human!)
4. Japanese Woman Torturing a Cat By Humiliation
5. Cats Humiliated on Japanese TV Show
6. CatFeed

Paul Krugman is a little busy accepting his Nobel Prize, so he posted this LOLcat to his blog instead. To quote NYT commenter Aaron K: “More like the NobLOL Prize.” Try the veal!

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CULTURE BUZZ: LOLhipsters are the latest and greatest take on the lol(whatever) meme. But could the appearance of LOLhipsters mark the end of the endearing lolcat meme? It happened to bacon …it could happen to anything.

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1. I Can Has Hipster
2. Your LOLhipsters Are Awesome
3. Lolhipsters on Blogspot
4. LOLblanks

Link: http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/12...

This captioned LOLcat photo was found in a Seattle antique store, and the photograph is dated 1905. I Can Haz Cheeseburger notes a few grammatical differences, but it is close enough: our internet meme calendar is now over 100 years old.

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Putin confirms that Russia can see Alaska, too. And he hates Governor Palin’s design taste.

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LOL Bush is the new LOL Cats . I can has gol medal?

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1. More LOL Bush Photos!

Oh hai! I can has Batzman? This cat is even more terrifying in IMAX.

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TECH BUZZ: The man who started the internet meme-machine and creator of LOLcat, 4chan , at age 15 was profiled in the Wall Street Journal . He's a mystery wrapped in an enigma. In researching him, I feel like I've delved into the seedy internet underground of teenage boydom.

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The Best Links:

1. Moot is Time’s Most Influential Person!!!
2. A Virtual Unknown Meet ‘Moot,’ the Secretive Internet Celeb Who Still Lives With Mom
3. 4Chan Creator Christopher Poole Interviewed by Rex Sorgatz
4. OMG is That a Photo of Christopher Poole? (he’s Hot!)
5. WSJ Article: “Modest Web Site Is Behind a Bevy of Memes”
6. The Master Of Memes - Christopher Poole Profiled in “Time”
7. 4chan.org Website Is Shockingly Ghetto
8. Traditional Media All of a Sudden Obsessed with “Memes”
9. 4chan on Wikipedia
10. What is 4chan? - a Forum Discussion
11. 5% Chance That Christopher Poole is in Fact Real But Just Some Incredibly Filthy 4chan Inside Joke
12. Did Christopher Poole Write This Mother’s Day Poem?