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I would argue that 4chan is ground zero of a new generation of hackers – those who are bent on hacking the attention economy. While the security hackers were attacking the security economy at the center of power and authority in the pre-web days, these attention hackers are highlighting how manipulatable information flows are. danah boyd | apophenia » “for the lolz”: 4chan is hacking the attention economy (via rafer)

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dtdigital:

Extreme LED Sheep Art. This could well be the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.

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unhappyhipsters:

He couldn’t bear another minute in the company of all that scheming tubular steel.

(Photo: Hertha Hurnaus; Dwell)

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fluffynotes:

PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN

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Instead of acting as an organic cultural touchstone, the modern meme — from LOL, which hasn’t been used to signify physical laughter since 1997, to Lolcats — now sucks the joy out of our interconnectedness. It destroys uniqueness. Once an “enjoyable thing” becomes a “meme,” we stop enjoying the thing for its own sake, but consume and regurgitate our enjoyment of it as a symbol of hipness, as if to say: “I am aware of this thing’s popularity — therefore I, too, exist! Editor of The Onion calls for an end to memes. (via somethingchanged)

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helloyoucreatives:

Want to know every line Bart Simpson wrote? Work Club did so they got an illustrator in to write out every single link on a massive black board.

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Super Sexy CPR.

More than a million people, most of them from the United States, clog Chatroulette’s servers daily. To “next” someone has become a common transitive verb. Catman is an Internet celebrity, as is Merton the improvising pianist. Brooklyn bars throw Chatroulette parties, an indie band has used the site to début an album, and the Texas attorney general has warned parents to keep their children far, far away. Hundreds of articles and blog posts have asked whether Chatroulette is a fad or a good investment, and if it will change Internet culture forever. From this excellent New Yorker article by Julia Ioffe.

Soldiers remake “Telephone” from Afghanistan (via tiaramerchgirl, crustyriotgrrl, fuckyeahladygaga)

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Banana Song.

‘The Sarah Palin Network’

unhappyhipsters:

Choosing a chair without hurting anyone’s feelings was the toughest part of his morning. He couldn’t even make eye contact with the chaise longue.

(Photo: Thomas Ibsen; Wallpaper magazine)

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