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No, this is definitely not the next keyboard cat, but Pancake could be part of KC’s band, like in the kitteh keyboard band of my dreams! In Pancake’s Meowsic Video, we see this tie clad little kitteh getting into some seriously heavy grooves, channeling Thelonius Monk on a kitteh shaped keyboard. It’s a meowsical delight!
–via BuzzFeed
The person who uploaded this video found the kitten all alone and took it home, where she was cleaned, fed, and introduced to their other cats. Within a few hours, she was as comfortable as you see here. I only wish they had put harp music behind the video. -via Arbroath
The question is not why the Internet loves cats, but rather which cat the Internet loves the most. Is the Ceiling Fan Cat the best cat there is? Or does the title of Internet’s Favorite Feline belongs to Keyboard Cat?
Thankfully, to settle the matter once and for all, Urlesque has come up with the perfect solution: a catfight, of course!
Urlesque has chosen the top 16 internet cats of all time (of all time!), split them into divisions (Old School and New School) and seeded them in a bracket (oh yes, we did go that far). The winner of each round will be chosen by your votes, leading to the final feline who will earn the ultimate title.
You can vote for your favorite feline here: Link – Thanks Annemarie!
Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you’ve probably heard that newspaper and magazine sales (and therefore, print ad revenues) are down. To combat that decline, several big magazine publishers have come together on a multimillion-dollar ad campaign to diss the Internet:
The ads press the case that magazines remain an effective advertising medium in the age of the Internet because of the depth and lasting quality of print, compared with the ephemeral nature of much of the Web’s content.
"The Internet is fleeting. Magazines are immersive," says one ad, which is slated to appear in May issues of the participating publications. The first spread features a photo of swimmer Michael Phelps from ESPN The Magazine, with the headline "We surf the Internet. We swim in magazines." [...]
"A lot of us sat back for way too long and listened to all this abuse and said nothing about it," says Jann Wenner, who orchestrated the campaign. "Meanwhile, we sit on top of one of the greatest mediums," adds Mr. Wenner, whose Wenner Media publishes Rolling Stone and US Weekly.
That’s a big mistake because the Interwebs don’t take that sort of thing lying down. Asylum has just penned an open letter to the magazine from the Internet:
However, when you start talking trash about the Internet, you’re throwing down the gauntlet. [...] Everything you can do, we can do better and faster. Plus, we can broadcast it everywhere instantly, while you’re still trying to convince us magazines are as cool as Michael Phelps circa summer ’08.
I love reading magazines, and of course, I love the Interwebs – so when these two favorites start fightin’, I feel a bit conflicted. That and I’m looking forward to more LOLcats!
Check out the full open letter over at Asylum: Link
You know you’ve made it as a meme when someone put a giant mural up …
Josh Zubkoff did one on the Invisible Bike LOLcat in a building in San Francisco: Link – via MySA Blog Favorite office Time Wasters
John of The Zeray Gazette asks this interesting question: what causes an Internet meme? What gives some web sensation staying power?
What makes some video, idea, or motif a predominant meme? Why do people blog about bacon, zombies, and lolcats, but not so much about pork shoulder roast, mummies, and parakeets? Why does one guy mouthing the words to Numa Numa in front of his PC become famous, while almost all others who do likewise do not?
John went on to explain his theory, which includes penetrability (i.e. how a successful meme crosses niche web communities) and instantaneous comphrehensibility (how easily it can be grasped in under 10 seconds).
Actually, I can answer that question with one word: 4chan.
What do you think? Link
Finally. After years of being an internet meme, the Lolcats have their own theme song. And like a bad car wreck on the freeway, there’s just NO WAY you can not look at it.
I dare you: Link (with apologies to The Cure)
