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[ Comments Off ]Posted on June 24, 2008 by admin in Popular Media, Technology
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008MagCloud lets you start a magazine with nothing more than a PDF file and a PayPal acount.
I’ve always been a bit of a magazine fetishist. Over the years, some favorites have included rags like The Face, I.D., i-D, Wired, Surface, and many more. Lately I like Radar. Although they got a little too fanboy/fangirlish sometimes, they present some pretty amusing skews on pop media. All of our magazine content frustrations are now over, though, thanks to MagCloud. If you can create a PDF and setup a PayPal account, you can start a magazine. They take care of the printing, mailing, and subscription management. The profit model is based on the same idea as services like CafePress. You design the product and (over)price it, they manufacture, bill, and ship. Pretty cool. They’re still in Beta, but don’t be surprised to find a print version of Dissociated Press for sale soon. Read the rest of this entry »
Hey God, Wrong George!
[ Comments Off ]Posted on June 23, 2008 by admin in Popular Media
Monday, June 23rd, 2008We thought this George Carlin routine on death would be a fitting eulogy. So long, George.
Bless your soul George Carlin, you maniac, you linguistic genius. Here we have George Carlin at his surly best, talking about death:
Yoda Was a Boogie Knight
[ Comments Off ]Posted on June 20, 2008 by admin in Popular Media
Friday, June 20th, 2008Mark Wahlberg’s thingy really shines in this Boogie Nights/Star Wars Lightsaber Mashup
I’m a big fan of a good mashup (I loved the re-cut of The Shining trailer), but I was never too taken with the Star Wars lightsaber genre, until this one. Check out the Boogie Nights Star Wars Lightsaber Mashup below. Starring Mark Wahlberg’s thingy in an encore performance. If you’re not familiar with the genre, just search YouTube for “lightsaber”, or check out VideoGum’s 10 best Lightsaber Mashups.
Las ultimas palabras de la Pequeña Hillary Clinton
[ 1 Comment ]Posted on June 19, 2008 by admin in Politics, Popular Media
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Little Hillary, the disturbing Chilean cross-dressing midget, says goodbye.
Adios, Little Hillary, we barely knew you…
The Meme Generation
[ Comments Off ]Posted on June 18, 2008 by admin in Lifestyle & Culture, Popular Media
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Memes and Internet Memes 101: From the Smiley Face to Rickrolling
Have you ever heard of a LOL cat? Rickrolling? All Your Base Are Belong To Us? Goatse? (I’m not going to link that one, it’s really disgusting) The Star Wars Kid ? Chocolate Rain? Little Superstar? Numa Numa? The Flying Spaghetti Monster ? YTMND? Demotivators? You haven’t? O RLY? Then you really haven’t seen the web in all its glory. Web phenomena like these are called Internet Memes, and become a pervasive part of heavy Internet users’ lingo and thinking. It’s hard to track just how a meme originates sometimes, but they often come from discussion board threads or people just naiively expressing themselves. In any case, I think I just witnessed one being born. On a fairly obscure discussion thread the other day, this dialog occurred. Within 24 hours, we already we have these interpretations, quickly repurposing other memes. Before you know it, someone will create a t-shirt on Cafe Press, and: voila! An Internet Meme is born. A piece of advice if you ever find yourself in the midst of a meme-birth: Trademark it! Don’t be like Harvey R. Ball, creator of the Smiley Face Icon, who only collected his original $45 fee…