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First, watch that music video (titled "Starship Baconprise") above. Don't read anything beyond the next sentence. Just let it soak in. More »
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Way back in July of 2004, I spent a month living in Berlin. While there, I was subjected to a lot of unapologetically deranged ear-worm Europop. Two songs were huge that summer: O-Zone's "Dragostea Din Tei" (which had yet to blow up in America) and the theme song to the German comedy Traumschiff Surprise – Periode 1, a Star Trek parody in the vein of the American Naked Gun flicks. More »
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You've got to hand it to Cartoon Network's MAD. They took a heaping handful of inscrutable internet memes, plopped it on top of their new Thundercats show, and made this surrealist smorgasbord that should be all but impenetrable to anyone not in the know. All they need is a guest appearance by Xzibit as Mumm-Ra, bellowing about "shoting" web. More »
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Sn0otchie created this cute drawing and posted it on DeviantArt, and from there it proceeded to rip Tumblr in half. This is basically double-layered slash, people. Can you identify all the references? We'll still love you even if you can't. (Thanks for the tip, Kaila Hale-Stern!) More »
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Silver Age Batman had some pretty insane adventures, but what if his exploits continued into the 21st century? According to Caldwell Tanner and Kevin Corrigan of College Humor, he'd battle macros, memes, internet trolls, and the notorious longcat, of course. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5741940&view=rss&microfeed=true Want to relive 2010's best/worst internet memes? Now you can, over at The Atlantic. More »
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io9 contributor Josh Glenn points out that time travelers with cell phones have been spotted in places beyond old Charlie Chaplin newsreels. Here's a picture from the 1940s movie Laura. See more via HiLobrow. More »
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Need some good book recommendations? Bloggers posted 73 awesome ones yesterday. Young-adult author Elana Johnson sparked a meme called "Spreading The Awesome", encouraging people to post about "ten-star books." The list, including Orson Scott Card and Brandon Sanderson, is here. More »
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A new and totally inexplicable meme is sweeping the internet. Mutant infants with laser vision. Are these tots the harbingers of a new dark age, or a sign that culture is now 100% intellectually bankrupt? Let us contemplate. More »
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I hate to get all indie rock on your ass, but isn't it kind of lame that everybody is going apeshit over Sweding when the whole meme was invented by the marketing team for Be Kind Rewind to get people interested in the movie? I'm not saying Be Kind Rewind was a bad movie, nor that the spirit behind Sweding is bad either. I like the idea of people making cardboard light cycles to parody Tron, or making fun of Predator with an all-female cast like the Swede I've got for you right here. And I think it's great that people are figuring out that it isn't some kind of crime against copyright to create silly versions of their favorite movies. But every time I see a new Sweded flick, I feel like the person doing it is just advertising Michel Gondry's flick rather than making a new cool thing. More »
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