Here's the classic video where a nervous teen flu

Rob Walker discusses how NIcktoons is leveraging the internet popularity of NHK mascot Domo-Kun and runninig Domo-Kun cartoons in the fall.

This feed of pages tagged "lolcats" on del.icio.us is rendered as lolcats.

I'm not sure I buy this 100%, but this piece describes the "Stabbed in the Back" rhetorical strategy used by conservatives. They argue that internal disagreement is at fault for disastrous wars like Vietnam and Iraq.

This looks like Digg for hipsters. Yeah, yeah, whatever.

Nice chronology of the online response to Alaska Senator Ted Steven's speech comparing the Internet to a "series of tubes." If they had only used that Ajax framework used in the JFK timeline, my life would be complete.

Bruce Sterling discusses America's fastest growing buzzword, "Crowdsourcing."

Cat and Girl discuss the utility of Web 2.0.

Nice photoshop satire of Howard Kaloogian's photographic truthiness.

Bruce Sterling on buzzword mutation. "Personomy" doesn't strike me as a useful concept, but it is an interestnig case study of memes.

Background on _Snakes on a Plane_.

The upcoming Samuel L. Jackson vehicle _Snakes on a Plane_ is inviting bands to submit music for the project's soundtrack.