If Historical Events had Facebook Statuses

And here I count myself lucky that we didn't have Facebook in high school - yes, I'm that old. (Link via Cool Material, which has many more.)

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Once in a while I like to pretend that I got some grand use for me having a classical studies degree, but mostly it's used to find mythology comics amusing. I wonder why I never get invited back to speak to my alma mater...

Above, two selections from Kate Beaton's disturbingly literate Hark, a vagrant. Below is Zach Weiner's Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.

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Democracy In Action!

Well, Internet, I hope you're proud, because that Saturday Night Live episode was terrible and while Betty White was game it was a one-note horny old lady disaster. But Gary Coleman on Yo Gabba Gabba? Someone get on that. (Link via Chuck & Beans)

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Internet Geek Coupons

"From 30% the droids you are looking for to 50% off any one ring of power in either styles for men or dwarves. Other offers will get your mom off Facebook and make it so that someone sees one of your tweets."

Of course if you redeem any one them your shirt will be filled with holes. Oh the dilemma! (The Coupons Tee via Shirtoid)

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Preaching To The Choir

A little self promotion, if you don't mind. You're reading this you've clearly found your way here, but there are other options:

• Tumblr — Just like looking at the photos without my increasingly smaller amounts of text? The Tumblr version of my feed is the place for you.

• Facebook — Do you like to Like things? Join the Popped Culture page and I'll be the friend with all the stupid links. I won't even ask you to help me move.

• Twitter — My Twitter feed is actually different than my RSS, often a collection of all the other odd things I find during the day but that don't make the page. Consider it an addendum. Follow and find out.

You can also find me over at YouTube, Flickr, Digg, friendfeed, soup and ever StumbleUpon occasionally.

Umm, I don't have a MySpace page — this video will explain why: (via The Nerdist)


Ok, that's it for the naval gazing. Thanks.

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See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
This parody of West Side Story is the kind of thing that some producer of Broadway will laugh off and then calls the writers a few days later and options it. It would hardly be the worst thing ever made into a musical.

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Patrick Duffy Talking To A Crab

You'd think that headline would covering the peculiar randomness that is the above video, but it just scratches the surface. Why is Patrick Duffy (of Dallas fame) talking to a crab? I have no idea.

(Link via YouTube Reviewed)

Meme-tastic

I couldn't resist getting sucked into the latest music-related meme currently taking Facebook by storm and I was so pleased with the results I figured I needed to show it here. I figure Electronic Literature Organization probably plays some fairly unlistenable, art-student prog-rock.

I've pulled together 20 of the albums I've seen just in the last day. I'm sure you all be tagged soon.

Here be the rules and it needn't be relegated to FB:

1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit "random" or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to "Random quotations" or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr and click on "explore the last seven days" or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use photoshop, the gimp or similar to put it all together.

5 - Post it to FB with this text in the "caption" and TAG the friends you want to join in.

Here Be Anthropomorphic Dragons

A map of online communities (click on the map for a larger version) and social networking from the web comic xkcd. It's from last year (so of course I'm only seeing it now) and already some of the lands should be resized (up Facebook, down MySpace) and a new island of lolcats is probably required, but other than that its incredibly detailed and funny.

Strange Maps, where I origianlly came across this clever piece of cartography, has a version with a slew of comments explaining some of the more obscure terrirtories. And I'm off to sail the Sea of Memes on my way to the Ocean of Subculture.

Bits 'n' Bites

• It's the future of personalized news, the Facebook News Network. It makes me laugh and sad at the same time. I'm such an addict...

• Ever wondered who all the people standing behind The Beatles on the cover of Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band? The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has an interactive version of the famous album, with bio links to everyone pictured.

• Seems Heroes creator Tim Kring realizes that his once hot show is now ho-hum and he's promising to do something about it. A sampling:

"We took too long to get to the big-picture story."
"In retrospect, I don't think romance is a natural fit for us."
"The message is that we've heard the complaints — and we're doing something about it."