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Uh oh, the b-tards got their hands on Google's Chrome comic

Nicholas Carlson — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:40:00 EDT

The seditious perverts on bizzaro community board 4chan got their grubby hands on Google's Chrome comic and now they're doing to it what they already did to cute cat pictures when they came up with LOLcats. We'd link to 4chan but their links don't stay static and a commenter tells us the images originated from Yayhooray anyway. Sure, more topical and certainly more earnest parodies of Google's Chrome Comic are already out there, but for my money they can't beat the sociologically-revealing collection of awkward non sequiturs we've gathered below.

Hamlet, the Facebook News Feed edition

Nicholas Carlson — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:40:00 EDT

We present you Act I of Hamlet, the Facebook News Feed Edition, in its entirety. Click to embiggen. For the full story — including Polonius's riveting status update: "Polonius thinks this curtain looks like a good thing to hide behind," please see McSweeney's.

Why using desktop software is like watching Paint dry

Owen Thomas — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:29:37 EDT

This parody video pokes fun at Microsoft Paint, the aging art software included with Windows. YouTube commenters already point out that Vista Paint, the latest version, isn't much of an improvement. But that's not what makes it so funny to me.The real humor in the clip is its reminder that no one gets this excited about desktop software anymore. Take Apple's announcement earlier this week of iLife '08: The only real selling point of Apple's newest iLife software, used to manage photo collections, edit movies, and so forth, is that it's integrated with Apple's .Mac Web service. Yes, Microsoft Paint seems hilariously out of date. But to today's Web generation, it's not Paint that's outdated — it's the entire field of programs written to run on a PC instead of on a website. If you're in your 30s, this video will make you laugh out loud. If you're in your early 20s, I'm betting it will just bore you.

Sporkk

Nick Douglas — Thu, 31 May 2007 12:03:43 EDT

NICK DOUGLAS — The site for fake startup Sporkk is cute enough ("Business Sporkk! Student Sporkk! Kid Sporkk! Minority Sporkk!"), but the parody (yet another fake site from blogger Sean Bonner, creator of isolatr) comes with a Twitter account for the personification of Web 2.0. The account's message last night: "Falling asleep to my 'get rich the pets.com way' tapes I bought at a yardsale today." Update: Sean says it's not his; it's by "some dude" who told him to be the first to blog it.

Google: We funny, you no funny

ndouglas — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 18:59:19 EDT

Google on its April Fool's Day prank:

Ha ha, wasn't that amusing and harmless and mostly in good taste and not all psychologically damaging under various and sundry aspects of contemporary tort law, please don't sue us.

Google on someone else's April Fool's Day prank:

You have registered, without Google's permission or authorization, the domain name googlecircles.com (the 'Domain Name'). The Domain Name incorporates the famous GOOGLE mark in its entirety. Please note that your registration and use of the Domain Name incorporating the famous GOOGLE mark in its entirety constitutes trademark infringement, dilution, and bad faith registration under the UDRP.

404 Not Found [Google Romance]
Google Circles after takedown [googlecircles.com]
Google Circles before takedown [Google cache of googlecircles.com]

Scobleize yourself — get on the A-list (and kick ass)

ndouglas — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:47:32 EST

Hey, kids! Robert Scoble here! I'm a famous blogger, and you can be too! Then you can have fun coining words like "brrreeeport." Because "brrreeeport" is now an important Internet zeitgeist! Actually I just like to say "brrreeeport."

Step 1: Cool titles. A title needs conflict! Action! "A brief treatise on attention-credit in stabilized online communities" is BORING. Better: "A brief treatise on how attention-credit in stabilized online communities KICKS SOME ASS." Whose ass is being kicked? It doesn't matter. You are on the A-list and they are not.

Step 2: Be unique! For instance, I cover topics usually untouched by other bloggers: blogs, the blogosphere, how to blog, the process of blogging, and brrreeeport.

Step 3: Tags. They are cool again! Not like metatags, which got ruined when people overused them to get search traffic. These tags are healthy and happy. Use them a lot to get search traffic.

Step 4: Make friends with other bloggers. They will love you and will not feel used at all!

Step 5: Get hired by Microsoft as a high-profile spokesperson.

Tips for joining the A list [Scobleizer]