Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1090

sage — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:32:00 +0000

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1090, originally uploaded by Ape Lad. Creative Commons-Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives 2.0

Yesterday, the new Laugh-Out-Loud Cats Wikipedia article appeared in Did you know (with a freely licensed example that the artist made available specifically for Wikipedia.)

Today, Ape Lad posted this gem. For those unfamiliar with the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats, he provides the following…
“Context: the big one loathes ducks!”

LOLstuff

sage — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:11:00 +0000

I’ve been shopping on eBay lately for some original Harry Whittier Frees kitten photos. I have a feeling they might be very valuable some day (not that I would ever want to sell them if I do get any), and I can think of no greater service to Wikipedia than scanning and touching up a proto-lolcat (or a whole set) for featured picture status.

In lieu of a long post about the virtues and great significance of lolcats, allow me to share some LOLstuff I’ve found worthwhile:

Hobotopia, the home of the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats by Adam Koford. See the complete archives on Flickr. (Thanks, Melinda.)
Ethan Zuckerman’s Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism, a fascinating post about what must have been a great presentation. (Thanks, reddit.)
Like my blog? It’s even better through a LOL feed! This site takes random photos from the “Cute Cats” Flickr feed and combines them with headlines from any RSS feed. (Thanks, Ethan Zuckerman.)
LOLCat Bible Translation Project, an epic win, if it ever makes it to completion. (Thanks, Wikipedia.)
Яolcats – English Translations of Eastern Bloc Lolcats. (Thanks, SJ.)
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus, Clay Shirky’s brilliant talk on cultures of participation (transcript). Among other great moments, it includes the instantly classic line “If you have some sans-serif fonts on your computer, you can play this game, too.”
The one, the only, I Can Has Cheezburger? (Thanks, Melinda.) The only shortcoming is the near total absence of copyright/authorship details, making it tough to re-use good lolcats in free content projects, even though some are derived from free images. Compare the high-quality front page of icanhascheezburger to the abysmally unfunny lolcats on Wikimedia Commons. (And the somewhat decent, but way too small, set of “cat behavior” pictures, a.k.a., lol-ore.)

LOLcats as Soulcraft

Sometimes, there are no words

sage — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:39:00 +0000

for the power of internet. It almost makes me cry.

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Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1090

LOLstuff

Sometimes, there are no words