Thanks to Maria via Facebook for this one:
And if you’re thinking what on EARTH is that, that’s just what I thought, while recognizing instantly that this had all the ingredients of an internet meme. So many thanks to the awesome www.knowyourmeme.com, here’s the whole history of the Trololo meme, complete with graphs and explanation. I used to love the net, this stuff makes me adore it.
Posts Tagged ‘web’
Trololo, it’s meme heaven
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
PDF The future through the back door
Monday, February 15th, 2010
OK, I have found it, possibly the coolest thing ever to hit my corner of the internet. The Backdoor Broadcasting Company go around recording your event, and broadcasting it on the web when it happens, with an archive to listen to if you missed it.
It came my way via an ad for a forthcoming lecture by Andrew Bowie on philosophy and improvisation. He’s given the lecture elsewhere before, so if you can’t go, you can listen to the broadcast (Here it is: called Background Capabilities and Prereflexive Awareness).
There’s an elegant and beautifully reasonsed apologia for the audio medium on the impact page with which I wholeheartedly agree. Youtube has its moments, but moments are what they are. This kind of guerrilla radio captures the big thinking from the margins and distributes it from another centre. Not for everyone I know, but for me, this is what the web and digital techology are for.
InvisibleHand add-on for Firefox
Sunday, February 14th, 2010If you use Firefox and do internet shopping, Invisible Hand is a great add-on. It sits there quietly and unnoticed in your add-ons in Firefox, until you start looking at a product on the web that it has found cheaper somewhere else. Up comes a discreet yellow bar at the top of your screen telling you where to go to get it, and any other price offers, as in the screenshot below, where it turns out Asda have a better price on an academic text book than Amazon.
