Geek Friendly » Internet http://geekfriendly.org/blog Posting in spurts. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:04:32 +0000 en hourly 1 Ha Ha! Old Pictures on the Internet! http://geekfriendly.org/blog/08/ha-ha-old-pictures-on-the-internet/ http://geekfriendly.org/blog/08/ha-ha-old-pictures-on-the-internet/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:57:57 +0000 admin http://geekfriendly.org/blog/?p=143 If you, like myself, are a member of that select group of internet riff-raff with their fingers on the pulse of the web’s juvenile yet creative dark corners (4chan, Fark, SomethingAwful), you’ll no doubt be familiar with this image.

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Simply, for lack of a better word, classic.

My best friend Rupert Scammell, while browsing through some old pictures in an antique bookstore in San Francisco, came across this image, which though likely not the source of the original meme, is strikingly similar (and arguably even better– just look at that pose!)

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As one of the creators of Schrodinger’s LOLcat, and a good netizen, I feel it my duty to try and bring some meme magic to this aging sepia-tone print.

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In reference to another classic.

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And finally…

macarena

Okay, so none of them are stellar, but inspiration is a fickle mistress. I’d love to see what others come up with.

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A few months ago, my buddy Chris and I were “shootin’ the shit,” as one is want to do, and he mentioned that he just found a jump-drive that he had accidentally sent through the washing machine. Unsurprisingly for those of us who know their way around electronic circuits, after drying the thing out, it worked. Despite this, we thought it might be fun to see what else could survive a trip to the laundromat, and decided to build Through the Wash.

With video reviews featuring the comedy talent of the Geek Comedy Tour 3000 team, we think Through the Wash has the potential to be a hit– but we need your help, so check it out and spread the word!

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One of the things I’ve been sorely missing since I switched from my old Sidekick II to my iPhone is the ability to hop on IRC and kill some time. On the Sidekick, I took advantage of the downloadable shell client and a remote server with a command-line IRC client installed, but on the iPhone, no such luck.

I was expecting to have to wait until June of this year when Apple starts allowing third-party applications on the device, but out the woodwork has come Mibbit, an iPhone compatible AJAX web application which provides the full IRC experience– arguably better even than that which I had with my Sidekick. Mibbit even manages to provide pre-join scrollback to help users catch up on conversation they may have missed– something I’d like to see in my desktop client as well.

While there are certainly some flaws with the Mibbit+iPhone union– its hard to type and read chat at the same time– it’s certainly a site I’ll be adding to my home screen.

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More importantly however, I’ll be making a slight detour to Cambridge for ROFLcon before heading back to NYC. ROFLcon, if you haven’t heard, is a gathering of everything awesome and fantastic about the internets. Tron guy, Group X, and Leeroy Jenkins are just a few of the internet celebrities attending, and panels will include “Pwning for the Good of Mankind” and “Incubating the Mind Virus.”

Silliness aside, this looks like its going to be an amazing gathering of minds to discuss just what makes the internet such a special place.

Finally, Gotham Books has contacted Kevin and I about having Shcrodinger’s LOLcat included in the upcoming I Can Haz Cheezburger book. More details as soon as we get them.

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Slashdot, as always, has a fantastic analysis of this story in the comments.

AACS, come and get me.

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This is the current encryption key for HD-DVD.

Do with it what you will.

Long live free speech.

Background info.

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In celebration of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, I have decided to make public the work of which I am most proud, a 2007 calendar featuring the skylines of 6 beautiful international cities.

About IPSTD:

On this day, everyone who wants to should give away professional quality work online. It doesn’t matter if it’s a novel, a story or a poem, it doesn’t matter if it’s already been published or if it hasn’t, the point is it should be disseminated online to celebrate our technopeasanthood.

The calendar is a 9″x15″ PDF, but it should scale pretty well to 11″x17″, and really should be printed in full color on good paper to get the most out of the work.

Download it here. (Now a ZIP archive of JPG images.)

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This evening, Nick Douglas introduced us all to The Vagina Game, in which one replaces words in film titles with the word “vagina.” Collective credit for the examples presented below goes to the channel as a whole. As the game progressed, the rules were bent to allow for the inclusion of television shows, video game titles, and podcasts.

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Vagina
  • Harry Potter and the Vagina of Fire
  • Big Trouble in Little Vagina
  • Any Given Vagina
  • Saturday Night Vagina
  • 10 Things I Hate About Vaginas
  • The Texas Vagina Massacre
  • 50 First Vaginas
  • I Know What You Did Last Vagina
  • Vaginas of Thunder
  • Dead Vaginas Society
  • Jay and Silent Vagina Strike Back
  • Sixteen Vaginas
  • Lethal Vagina
  • A Clockwork Vagina
  • Clear and Present Vagina
  • Crouching Tiger Hidden Vagina
  • A Series of Unfortunate Vaginas
  • Ishtar
  • Fellowship of the Vagina
  • Sleepless in Vagina
  • Kentucky Fried Vagina
  • The Man With the Golden Vagina
  • Vaginas Are Forever
  • Vagina the Barbarian
  • Vaginas are Forever
  • Steel Vaginas
  • Jesus Christ Vigina Star
  • Buffy the Vampire Vagina
  • Law and Order: Special Vagina Unit
  • America’s Funniest Vaginas
  • CBS Evening Vagina with Katie Couric
  • Vaginastar Galactica
  • Vagina Time with Bill Maher
  • Snatch
  • Vagina Royale
  • Hannity and Vagina
  • Vaginas Big Adventure
  • Vagina Vagina
  • V for Vagina
  • The Devil’s Vagina
  • Vagina Throat
  • Requiem for a Vagina
  • Field of Vaginas
  • Vaginas on a (motherfucking) Plane
  • Dude Where’s My Vagina
  • Harold and Kumar go to Vagina Castle
  • Vagina of the Dead
  • Vagina Fuzz
  • Geek Entertainment Vagina
  • Vaginaboom
  • This American Vagina
  • 28 Vaginas Later
  • On Her Majesty’s Secret Vagina
  • The Shawshank Vagina
  • I, Vagina
  • Oh Vagina, Where Art Thou
  • Intolerable Vagina
  • Pretty Vagina
  • The Truth About Cats and Vaginas
  • Napoleon Vaginamite
  • Grumpy Old Vaginas
  • The Hunt for Red Vagina
  • Crimson Vagina
  • Everyone Loves Vagina
  • A Midsummer Night’s Vagina
  • House of Flying Vaginas
  • Blazing Vaginas
  • World of Warcraft: Burning Vagina
  • VaginaCraft
  • Pac Vagina
  • Vagina Invaders
  • Mortal Vagina
  • Splinter Vagina
  • Donkey Vagina
  • Tom Clancy’s Vagina Recon
  • Grand Theft Tom Clancy’s Vagina Recon
  • I Think I Married an Axe Vagina
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