EPIC FAIL

The FAIL BLOG is kind of lowest-common-denominator Internet, but it's HILARIOUS. LOLZ.

i can has meta-memes?

I can't remember if I already linked to either of these things so [both stolen from boing boing]:
LOLcode (a functional programming language based on the bizarre grammatical features of lolcats)
LOLcats: the musical (photo stills from the musical CATS with amusing lolcats-style captions)

Shakespearean lolcats

I also really like invisible everything.

i'm in ur internets, combining ur memes

Meghan sent me a link to lolsecretz, which combines two of everyone's favourite internet memes: postsecret and lolcats. If this doesn't sound like a good idea, then prepare yourself to be surprised. Many of the submissions are both touching and funny.

Previous entries concerning my lolcats obsession:
My favourite lolcat
Lolcats and lolbrarians

My favourite lolcat

It's just so cute, internets! Normally I try to avoid posting pictures of kittens... especially kittens that aren't mine. (Which is all the kittens, because I don't have any kittens, because kittens are cute but they grow into cats and I don't like cats.) But have to make an exception for this. Plus, the idea of embarking on some kind of epic quest with that kitten (CLEARLY a sissy) is ludicrous! I'm sorry, but it's true.

So, my day is progressing as usual. I have made two trips to Tim Hortons already, but I think I'm done for the day. Also, the elevator is broken, so every time I go downstairs I have to come back up... six flights. For an expedition like that, you need some kind of heroic kitten. I shall go to my class tonight, and it shall be no more or less boring than usual, I expect. I keep expecting some kind of theoretical framework for records management to emerge... and it just doesn't happen. More insignificant detail builds on the original, insignificant-detail foundation. Stupid last class of my degree.

I saw a job ad yesterday for a 12 hour a week job at a library. I immediately whipped out the microsoft calculator to check if I could live on such a small amount of money. The answer: no, but almost. If I were to get some other, similarly slacker job a couple days a week, I would have enough money to live on (and make student loan payments, natch). How much of a loser would I be if I got a master's degree, then spent my whole working life working part-time jobs in order to spend the least possible amount of time at work? I mean, on the Official Loser Scale, where 1 is, I don't know, Shaft, and 10 is Comic Book Guy from Simpsons?

Yeah, that's what I thought. OK, fine, I'll keep looking.

SwapMeat: Send something in, and get something back. Maybe. "You're going to have to trust us on this, but we'll check out what you send and then send you back some stuff of approximately equal value. That might be stuff we received from someone else or some of our stuff, or some combination of the two."

Slate article on LOLCATS, those inexplicably appealing pictures of cats with strange captions that have become an internet phenomeneme. (heh heh, I invented a new compound word that is a combination of "phenomenon" and "meme.") You know, like this:

The Wikipedia article also contains some tips on lolcat grammar. Of course there is a library-themed variation, lolbrarians. This forum has a ton of examples, including some of the very interesting "I am in ur x, doing y" sub-genre. THE INTERNET!

From Mental Floss: How to win at Rock, Paper, Scissors (RPS). There is a surprising amount of psychology behind this game. I was glad to have my own personal RPS hunch verified: "When All Else Fails Go With Paper." That is part of the reason I decided to become a librarian.