After this song came up in my random playlist, I was inspired to create a small tribute to the world’s tragically lost Internet memes.
Once both the sound and the image have loaded completely, hit “refresh” or “go” on your browser to synchronize it.
Familiarity with well-meaning early 90s light rock and the weirder things to come out of the Net in the past decade or so are helpful.
Happy Thanksgiving where applicable!
Here’s a post in a friend’s blog that is well worth a read in its entriety.
There’s a lot I’m grateful for in this world, and that includes all you people who actually read the blather I post, here and elsewhere.
Thank you!
Here are a few mashups/bootlegs/bastardizations I’m enjoying immensely just now..
Challaback Girl – this frail white girl from California has been Hindu, Japanese, and gangsta.. why not Jewish? djBC keeps Gwen Kosher.
Q Unit – Queen meets 50 Cent, makes 50 Cent actually listenable. A full-length album of goodness.
Jesus Walked Back and He’s Black – Kanye West and AC/DC.
The Ciccones – The Immaculate Concoction – Full album of Madonna vs everyone.
Burn Your Radio – Public Enemy meets Queen, with other good stuff layered in.
Supercalibreakz – Supercalifragilistic(etc.) layed over “Rolling” by Shy FX, fun in that way only bastardized D_sney can be.
Come Undone vs Soldier – Duran Duran can even make Destiny’s Child listenable.
For much more, check out GYBO!
Speaking of GYBO, there’s an awesome and huge video file going around – the Club GYBO Plan B mix by Thriftshop XL – lots of video-mashes, remixed video and audio re-remixed together, and just plain video insanity in a non-stop 45-minute-long mix. Seriously awesome, check it out of you have the bandwidth and disk space to handle a 133 meg WMV file.
Two of the best pictures on the Internet, from the latest issue of the b3ta zine…
Hedgehog eating a Milano cookie! Aww, the cuuuuuteness!
British supermarket Tescos recommends incest! Aww, the accidental obscenity!
My pal Arbie’s old McDonalds sign prank also made the issue. Neat!
Have had a damn headache for three days now, and can’t ditch work. MY HEAD A SPLODE.
Saw this on Ilya’s blog and, well, insomnia makes me do bad things.
In another example, its-a me!
Dear readers, if I may humbly direct you to..
Be sure to check out the archives. Genius!!
I sent the author a fan mail, and he replied that it was his first one. I’m sure it was only the first of many.
Words of wisdom from the wonderful Babs…
But overall, life is good. There’s always something to smile over, to laugh about…(and when there isn’t something overt, damn it, I’m going to make something to laugh over). I feel down too, sometimes, but that’s to be expected. Life isn’t even; it’s more like an averaging. ;) And as long as my average comes out in the normal range, I’m grateful.
As of 3:58 AM EST, I’m 28.
Thought I had the hang of this birthday stuff, but I’m not so sure.
Feels different this time..
A recent post by Paul has reminded me how much I love it when people fail at spamming.
For example, sometimes the spammers misconfigure their mail scripts so instead of filling in a name to appear legit, the message literally says “Hey %NAME%, check this out!”
Yep, I’ll be sure to check that out, %KNOB%…
There are also the ones that actually advertise spamming tools or spammable email lists. They spam people, pissing almost all of them off with senseless and time-consuming spam, in hopes that they will then want to pay you to help them do the same thing to other people.
This is pretty much like going up to some guy on the street, belting him across the face with a curtain rod, and then offering to sell him a bunch of curtain rods with which to belt everyone else on said street. I can’t really see this particular business model doing all that well.
A personal favorite of mine is when people try to intimidate me by posing as an admin at one of my own domains. I know this could fool a newbie who doesn’t own their domain, but it’s just silly when I’m threatened by “webmaster@robvincent.net” with messages like “WARNING you are unporctected and will lose of your online connection unless you run of attached file” which is of course a virus.
I’d like to think if I were going to start threatening myself, I’d at least do it in clearly written sentences, and with a bit more style.
You really have to feel sorry for someone who fails at being a spammer, nearly the lowest form of life on the Internet. There’s just not much further to fall.
