May 2012
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WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THAT THERE IS A VINTAGE... →
Productivity = over
SAFE AT LAST FROM SHIA LABOEUF.
Best Thing Ever: Prince Charles Does The Scottish... →
This is not a joke. Does what it says on the tin, I swear. IF ONLY THERE WERE A VIDEO EMBED, TELEGRAPH.
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WatchDEAL WITH IT
Are LOLCats Making Us Smart? →
I don’t even know what to say about this article except that I cannot believe that my dissertation was linked to and quoted in The Atlantic.
::searches for smelling salts::
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WatchCharlie Schmidt gives a demo of Keyboard Cat, the toy. Wrong song (they’re fixing that), but he still plays ‘em off like a champ.
WatchHARD HITTING JOURNALISM
The Ownership of Memes
So, I just read that Mashable article about the guy who manages meme creators. Yes, yes— in the news cycle of the internet, responding to something that is older than 5 minutes is the equivalent of finding a crumbling, yellowed newspaper and wanting to write a letter to the editor (or at this point, writing about Girls), but it brings up a point that is larger than just whether some guy can...
