All week long debate raged in the Crikey bunker over whether we should make this a Video of the Day…
Memes
Why the internet doesn’t need bouncers or door bitches
It’s not easy being an academic at a conference about internet memes, but Ethan Zuckerman did it and explains the higher purpose of memes. Can we get more memes to cross cultural divides?
The true story behind the “saddest book ever written”
Every man and his blog are claiming to have discovered the “saddest book ever written”: Microwave Cooking for One. The author’s daughter, Tracy Grant, is less amused. She tells the real story behind the pages.
Video of the Day: Meet Kenya’s Chuck Norris
Kenya has its first internet meme — a kung-fu fighting Blaxploitation spoof superhero and bad-ass named Makmende, created by funk band Just a Band.
Meet Kenya’s Chuck Norris
Kenya has its first internet meme — a kung-fu fighting Blaxploitation spoof superhero and bad-ass named Makmende, created by funk band Just a Band.
I can has minimum wage? Inside the low-paying LOLcat empire
Ben Huh has built a multi-million-dollar online empire out of the LOLcats internet meme, but his employees tell Gawker they’re underpaid, overworked and miserable.
PHOTO GALLERY: How bacon jumped the shark
The bacon trend is bigger than cupcakes, but it’s time our taste buds moved on and found another meme to get excited about. But as a final tribute, Daily Beast finds the most disgusting uses of bacon around. Bacon cereal anyone?
Internet meme origami
Internet memes and papercraft — has there ever been a more perfect marriage? Get print-out-and-make templates for origami versions of Keyboard Cat, Flying Spaghetti Monster, Hamster on a Piano are more.
What next? Meme, the musical, starring Bumcrabb and Bolt
New internet meme alert! Where does Andrew Bolt get his climate change sceptic facts and figures from? The “University of East Bumcrack”, said Annabel Crabb. T-shirts already available for sale.
The top internet memes of 2009
Balloon Boy, David after the dentist, the Three Wolf Moon tshirt, Susan Boyle, Kanye West at the VMAs… so many memories. Mashable looks back at 2009 through internet memes.
Video of the Day: Hitler peeved by latest Downfall parody
The scene that’s spawned a thousand memes is upset that the whole internet is mocking it. Hitler loses it. Again.
FAIL: how one word went from verb to interjection… to viral
How did the word ‘fail’ go from humble verb to an epically popular interjection and internet phenomenon? A tale of syntax and social media.
