two of my favorite fake music genres: mashups and auto-tune.
Showing posts with label memes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memes. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
happy #newmoon week!
i'm sure i speak for thousands when i say i haven't been on myspace in months.
i'm sure i speak for just as many when i say i can't wait to tune in on myspace to watch the live video stream from the red carpet at the new moon premiere tonight!
summit pulled all the social media stops on this one: with the help of ustream, twitter, facebook, AIM and myspace, visitors have the opportunity to watch live coverage on the red carpet and participate in a live conversation through all the said outlets all on the same page. to be quite honest, i'm surprised they didn't pull a U2 and provide a live stream on YouTube as well but whatevs.
in honor of #newmoon week (which i will be seeing at midnight this thursday!) college humor created a terrible combination of two of my favorite things: twilight and 3 wolf moon. this could have been so much better, but i have to share it:
also, taylor swift did an incredible parody of bella swan on SNL last week, this is much more worth the three minutes :)
i'm sure i speak for just as many when i say i can't wait to tune in on myspace to watch the live video stream from the red carpet at the new moon premiere tonight!
summit pulled all the social media stops on this one: with the help of ustream, twitter, facebook, AIM and myspace, visitors have the opportunity to watch live coverage on the red carpet and participate in a live conversation through all the said outlets all on the same page. to be quite honest, i'm surprised they didn't pull a U2 and provide a live stream on YouTube as well but whatevs.
in honor of #newmoon week (which i will be seeing at midnight this thursday!) college humor created a terrible combination of two of my favorite things: twilight and 3 wolf moon. this could have been so much better, but i have to share it:
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
violence gone viral: on the field
it seems as if these have been popping up a lot lately: violent athletes caught on tape.
a few weeks back, a close up caught Brandon Spikes, Florida linebacker, gauging out the eye of an opponent through his helmet (gross, right?!). unfortunately, the video was taken down after the viral nature of it caught wind. but the aggression doesn't stop here.
earlier this week, Elizabeth Lambert, a New Mexico soccer player, was caught on tape taking an opponent to the ground by her hair. catfight?! the video has reached over 10 million impressions with 24,000 comments. numbers say it is on the rise to reach the viral successes of balloon boy and the jk wedding dance. why the sudden success? see for youself, and pray to whomever you deem holy that you never play on the opposing team of this girl.
a few weeks back, a close up caught Brandon Spikes, Florida linebacker, gauging out the eye of an opponent through his helmet (gross, right?!). unfortunately, the video was taken down after the viral nature of it caught wind. but the aggression doesn't stop here.earlier this week, Elizabeth Lambert, a New Mexico soccer player, was caught on tape taking an opponent to the ground by her hair. catfight?! the video has reached over 10 million impressions with 24,000 comments. numbers say it is on the rise to reach the viral successes of balloon boy and the jk wedding dance. why the sudden success? see for youself, and pray to whomever you deem holy that you never play on the opposing team of this girl.
Friday, November 6, 2009
three rowlf moon
only because its the muppets birthday.
and sesame street defines much of who i am today.
and jim henson was a god among mortals.
and i want to buy the 3 wolf moon shirt.
enjoy!
and sesame street defines much of who i am today.
and jim henson was a god among mortals.
and i want to buy the 3 wolf moon shirt.
enjoy!
Monday, November 2, 2009
z0mG twitter lists!!!11!!!1!
dear diary, today i made and followed my first twitter list.
for those who know me, you would be able to categorize me as one who is often conservative in most areas. however, once i make a change that i find useful, i often embrace it with vigor. such was the case with recent twitter lists.
@mashable provided the web with an excellent review of how to use it and how one can benefit from it. i, however, am a textual learner and prefer to learn from practice. so far i only made 1 list of all the girls in my sorority who are in the twitterverse for us all to get a thread going. i made it private so no creepos can look in on it and spam my sisters, and i also got a few to follow it as well. operation: success!
although i am still new to it, im excited to learn more of what this new app has to offer and blog my adventures. man, i love twitter 8-)
peace, love, @nicole_hering
for those who know me, you would be able to categorize me as one who is often conservative in most areas. however, once i make a change that i find useful, i often embrace it with vigor. such was the case with recent twitter lists.
@mashable provided the web with an excellent review of how to use it and how one can benefit from it. i, however, am a textual learner and prefer to learn from practice. so far i only made 1 list of all the girls in my sorority who are in the twitterverse for us all to get a thread going. i made it private so no creepos can look in on it and spam my sisters, and i also got a few to follow it as well. operation: success!
although i am still new to it, im excited to learn more of what this new app has to offer and blog my adventures. man, i love twitter 8-)
peace, love, @nicole_hering
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
y0 dawg, i herd u lyk batman
yo dawg i herd you like batman so i put some jet blasters in yo trunk so you can drive fast while you speed. ok that wasnt funny but this is: some dude (we'll call him wolfgang15 for now) is selling a batmobile on ebay from marietta georgia. surprisingly, it didnt sell for as much as i would have guessed, but its not exactly movie quality. everyone knows the real batman drives a Lamborghini, a Maserati, and a Jeep for off-roading during his leisure hours. the gotham public would not settle for their volunteer police force driving anything of this nature, but i'm sure the full time cops could deal. gotham will be up in flames by midnight with this citizen-created vehicle.
OK JUST ONE, PLZ?!
Monday, October 26, 2009
holy hashtags: RIP Geocities
raise your hand if you were ever intrigued by having your own homepage in 1999
::admittedly raises hand::
always a fan of the blogosphere, i remember making a customizable 'homepage' via my AOL profile, a blog through xanga, but most ashamedly a site via geocities. i'm not quite sure what it was about, probably good charlotte and how to burn CD's [so badass] but i digress. for hundreds of thousands of us, a piece of our web history died today as yahoo pulled the plug on geocities, one of the first free web hosting services [sadface]
while i spent most of my time creating cartoon dolls for myself and all my friends [dont see right] , i dont think my geocities made much of an impression on the web. tosh.0 posted a loltastic list of things that didnt make much of an impact either, enjoy xx
Months after the initial announcement, today, it becomes official: Yahoo has shut down GeoCities — one of the original kings of free web hosting services.
Now, all of those GeoCities websites (excuse me, "Web Sites") are coming down. It's got me more tear-jerkingly nostalgic than Where The Wild Things Are.
No doubt, GeoCities started a revolution, but many of its ways have gone by the wayside. While Yahoo deploys the virtual demolition crews, let's make one last toast to a few of the relics they'll leave in the rubble.
1) Under Construction GIFs
It's absurd to think that putting up an “under construction” sign on a web page was at one point an idea that was (pardon the pun) “ground breaking.”
Why did people make such a big deal out of being “under construction” in the 90s? It's not necessarily something you want to attract attention to. “Hey! See this fancy animated GIF? That’s just a preview of how impressive my site will be when it’s done.”
Sadly, putting up 37 under construction animations is definitely as impressive as your Family Matters fan page ever got. (Except for when you added the auto-playing MIDI version of the intro song. That was awesome.)
And why the civil engineering motif? Are you trying to tell me that a self-taught HTML geek is like a construction worker? I hope not. Making a website is about the furthest you can get from hard manual labor.
See the other six retro things we'll miss after the jump…
2) HTML
The fall of GeoCities certainly won’t be the end of HTML, but those homespun sites definitely hearken back to when HTML was the
What you are seeing above is the "marquee tag" in action. Yes, there are actually specific tags in HTML for a scrolling marquee or blinking text. For those unfamiliar with basic computer programming, let me explain that: HTML makes it harder to add a hyperlink than to make text scroll horizontally across the page. That’s where priorities were in the Netscape days.
3) Guestbooks
Ah, the guestbook. It was basically the first incarnation of “comments” –- a place to put your name down and provide some feedback. Only, back then, people hadn't quite perfected the espousing of snark and unbridled-racism that make comments so exciting today.
Here is an actual guestbook entry I came across, typical of most guestbook entries: “Very good webpage you have here, and best greetings to all your visitors. You are welcome to visit my webpage.”
Could they be less constructive? Even a “first” or an ASCII middle finger is better.
C’mon! This is the internet. If you want to communicate with random people in other countries just for the sake of it, stick to HAM radio.
(Click here to sign this post’s guestbook!)
4) FAQs
FAQ stands for “frequently asked questions” but it usually turns into “questions I've obviously made up myself to give me an opportunity to provide information about things no one would actually ever ask questions about.”
Let’s say there’s a site about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The first FAQ would inevitably be “What is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police?”
Who would ever ask that? And if they were asking that, how did they end up on the FAQ page? If you run a site about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and users have to go to your FAQ page to figure out what the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are, you're probably not running a very good Royal Canadian Mounted Police website.
5) Webmasters
“Click here to email the Webmaster.”
Okay, but only after you quit pretending your webmaster is a different person than you.
Who came up with the name “webmaster”? It probably went out of style because, for your average computer programmer, it brought back some sour memories from their old Dungeons and Dragons days.
Need more proof it's a silly title? Try putting it in a modern context. Can you image someone calling Mark Zuckerberg the webmaster of Facebook or Kevin Rose the webmaster of Digg?
6) Take me to the top
On GeoCities, websites were often just one long single page of unedited drivel and found GIFs. Websites just kept going. Who needs more than one page when the web has infinitely long pages?
So, every three paragraphs, a little hyperlink would offer to take you back to the top. Why? I’ve only made it 20% of the way down your site and you want me to go back to the top to read that same 20% again? I'm not trying to memorize every single track on every Limp Bizkit album: I'm just looking for that one specific song title to include in my death threat to Fred Durst.
By the way, the "take me to the top" section of this post is self-reflexive! Here's to you, "take me to the top!"
7) Visitor counters
Visitor counters were the most important part of any GeoCities page. In fact, I believe it was an unspoken rule that you could not remove your "Under Construction" banner until you had added a hit counter, thus making your GeoCities page "complete."
Before handling web analytics became a full-time job, the best option to determine your web-traffic was to put a counter right on the page. These counters had the added bonus of embarrassing your visitors when they would realize how few people had been to your site before them.
But, back then, it didn’t matter that nobody was visiting your site — you could always stuff the ballot by manually changing the number in the settings. If your friend's counter said “114” you could be pretty sure that meant “14.” Why won't Google AdSense let me do this?
Luckily, even without GeoCites, the visitor counter industry will stay in business thanks, entirely, to eBay.
We’re going to miss GeoCities…
We’ll miss the impossible to remember URLs. We’re going to miss hand-coding our pages in Notepad. We’ll even miss the ridiculously invasive ads. So pour one out for the hosting platform that took “bright lights, big city” way too literally.
GeoCities –- farewell.
via @comedycentral
::admittedly raises hand::
always a fan of the blogosphere, i remember making a customizable 'homepage' via my AOL profile, a blog through xanga, but most ashamedly a site via geocities. i'm not quite sure what it was about, probably good charlotte and how to burn CD's [so badass] but i digress. for hundreds of thousands of us, a piece of our web history died today as yahoo pulled the plug on geocities, one of the first free web hosting services [sadface]while i spent most of my time creating cartoon dolls for myself and all my friends [dont see right] , i dont think my geocities made much of an impression on the web. tosh.0 posted a loltastic list of things that didnt make much of an impact either, enjoy xx
Goodbye GeoCities: 7 Retro Things We'll Miss Forever
Posted by: Chris LesinskiMonths after the initial announcement, today, it becomes official: Yahoo has shut down GeoCities — one of the original kings of free web hosting services.Now, all of those GeoCities websites (excuse me, "Web Sites") are coming down. It's got me more tear-jerkingly nostalgic than Where The Wild Things Are.
No doubt, GeoCities started a revolution, but many of its ways have gone by the wayside. While Yahoo deploys the virtual demolition crews, let's make one last toast to a few of the relics they'll leave in the rubble.
1) Under Construction GIFs
It's absurd to think that putting up an “under construction” sign on a web page was at one point an idea that was (pardon the pun) “ground breaking.”Why did people make such a big deal out of being “under construction” in the 90s? It's not necessarily something you want to attract attention to. “Hey! See this fancy animated GIF? That’s just a preview of how impressive my site will be when it’s done.”
Sadly, putting up 37 under construction animations is definitely as impressive as your Family Matters fan page ever got. (Except for when you added the auto-playing MIDI version of the intro song. That was awesome.)
And why the civil engineering motif? Are you trying to tell me that a self-taught HTML geek is like a construction worker? I hope not. Making a website is about the furthest you can get from hard manual labor.
See the other six retro things we'll miss after the jump…
2) HTML
The fall of GeoCities certainly won’t be the end of HTML, but those homespun sites definitely hearken back to when HTML was the
What you are seeing above is the "marquee tag" in action. Yes, there are actually specific tags in HTML for a scrolling marquee or blinking text. For those unfamiliar with basic computer programming, let me explain that: HTML makes it harder to add a hyperlink than to make text scroll horizontally across the page. That’s where priorities were in the Netscape days.
3) Guestbooks
Ah, the guestbook. It was basically the first incarnation of “comments” –- a place to put your name down and provide some feedback. Only, back then, people hadn't quite perfected the espousing of snark and unbridled-racism that make comments so exciting today.Here is an actual guestbook entry I came across, typical of most guestbook entries: “Very good webpage you have here, and best greetings to all your visitors. You are welcome to visit my webpage.”
Could they be less constructive? Even a “first” or an ASCII middle finger is better.
C’mon! This is the internet. If you want to communicate with random people in other countries just for the sake of it, stick to HAM radio.
(Click here to sign this post’s guestbook!)
4) FAQs
FAQ stands for “frequently asked questions” but it usually turns into “questions I've obviously made up myself to give me an opportunity to provide information about things no one would actually ever ask questions about.”Let’s say there’s a site about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The first FAQ would inevitably be “What is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police?”
Who would ever ask that? And if they were asking that, how did they end up on the FAQ page? If you run a site about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and users have to go to your FAQ page to figure out what the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are, you're probably not running a very good Royal Canadian Mounted Police website.
5) Webmasters
“Click here to email the Webmaster.”Okay, but only after you quit pretending your webmaster is a different person than you.
Who came up with the name “webmaster”? It probably went out of style because, for your average computer programmer, it brought back some sour memories from their old Dungeons and Dragons days.
Need more proof it's a silly title? Try putting it in a modern context. Can you image someone calling Mark Zuckerberg the webmaster of Facebook or Kevin Rose the webmaster of Digg?
6) Take me to the top
On GeoCities, websites were often just one long single page of unedited drivel and found GIFs. Websites just kept going. Who needs more than one page when the web has infinitely long pages?
So, every three paragraphs, a little hyperlink would offer to take you back to the top. Why? I’ve only made it 20% of the way down your site and you want me to go back to the top to read that same 20% again? I'm not trying to memorize every single track on every Limp Bizkit album: I'm just looking for that one specific song title to include in my death threat to Fred Durst.
By the way, the "take me to the top" section of this post is self-reflexive! Here's to you, "take me to the top!"
7) Visitor counters
Visitor counters were the most important part of any GeoCities page. In fact, I believe it was an unspoken rule that you could not remove your "Under Construction" banner until you had added a hit counter, thus making your GeoCities page "complete."Before handling web analytics became a full-time job, the best option to determine your web-traffic was to put a counter right on the page. These counters had the added bonus of embarrassing your visitors when they would realize how few people had been to your site before them.
But, back then, it didn’t matter that nobody was visiting your site — you could always stuff the ballot by manually changing the number in the settings. If your friend's counter said “114” you could be pretty sure that meant “14.” Why won't Google AdSense let me do this?
Luckily, even without GeoCites, the visitor counter industry will stay in business thanks, entirely, to eBay.
We’re going to miss GeoCities…
We’ll miss the impossible to remember URLs. We’re going to miss hand-coding our pages in Notepad. We’ll even miss the ridiculously invasive ads. So pour one out for the hosting platform that took “bright lights, big city” way too literally.
GeoCities –- farewell.
via @comedycentral
i cant tell if this is serious, or another 3 wolf moon
speaking of 3 wolf moon, lets revisit the greatness that is the amazon phenomenon...all 1,525 comments of it :) to be quite honest, i've thought of buying the shirt just to write a review except there are some pretty tough ones to top. enjoy!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
all my base are belong to you <3
because its my dads birthday today, i decided to post some cakes that really tickled my html and fangirl fancy. theyre part of holy taco's 25 hilarious cakes, the other ones really brought on the lulz.
also, just for old times sake:
