The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
The Queen made a rare televised speech, beyond the usual Christmas speech, on April 5th. She delivered a message of hope amid the current crisis, thanking the front-line medical workers. And while the historic address was enough to make headlines, something else glued the internet memesters to the screens.
It was the Queen’s dress. That bright shade of turquoise green… did someone say “green screen”? As you can imagine, the rest is history.
Two questions come to mind. Who is addicted to Uber? And more importantly, where’s pronhub??
Created by illustrator H. Caldwell Tanner, this wonderful, mind-numbing visualization of the internet’s very essence brings together more past and current memes than you probably ever knew existed.
Fortunately, he was kind enough to provide an answer key:
And I’ve been kinder to type them all up :)
| 1 | Lemon party | 41 | Juggernaut Bitch | 81 | Chubby bubbles girl |
| 2 | Longcat | 42 | Back Dorm Boys | 82 | Rickroll |
| 3 | Mustard Man | 43 | Rebecca Black | 83 | Chocolate rain |
| 4 | Peter Pan Man | 44 | FFFFFUUUU guy | 84 | Leeroy Jenkins |
| 5 | Cigar Guy | 45 | Y U NO | 85 | Goatse |
| 6 | Leek Spin | 46 | okay guy | 86 | Facepalm Picard |
| 7 | Big Eyed Guy | 47 | Where the hell is Matt | 87 | Scumbag Steve |
| 8 | Admiral Ackbar | 48 | Everything went better than expected | 88 | Chris Cocker |
| 9 | Lime Cat | 49 | Bitches don’t know about my popsicle | 89 | We’ll do it live! |
| 10 | PSY | 50 | Planking | 90 | So I became God |
| 11 | Sad Keanu | 51 | Star Wars Kid | 91 | Shamwow |
| 12 | Keyboard Cat | 52 | Me Gusta | 92 | Hello my future girlfriend |
| 13 | Three Wolf Moon | 53 | F*ck Yea | 93 | Interrupting Kanye |
| 14 | Crazy Mean Baby | 54 | Gentlemen | 94 | Rent is too damn high |
| 15 | ROFLCOPTER | 55 | LOOOOL guy | 95 | Forever alone |
| 16 | Chuck Testa | 56 | Charlie Sheen | 96 | Feels good man |
| 17 | Cool Dog | 57 | Backing up Lady | 97 | Numa Numa |
| 18 | StareDad | 58 | Skateboard Dog | 98 | Crazy Frog bros |
| 19 | Cool Story Bro | 59 | Eli Porter | 99 | Chris Hansen |
| 20 | Philosoraptor | 60 | Lee Hotti | 100 | Pedobear |
| 21 | O RLY? | 61 | Don’t taze me bro | 101 | LOL WHUT |
| 22 | Awesome Face | 62 | Strutting Leo | 102 | Disaster girl |
| 23 | Domo Kun | 63 | Serious cat | 103 | Peanut butter jelly time |
| 24 | Two girls one cup | 64 | Evolution of Dance | 104 | Antoine Dodson |
| 25 | Will it blend? | 65 | Mosh Girl | 105 | Trololo guy |
| 26 | Tron Guy | 66 | Leprechaun ln AL | 106 | David After Dentist |
| 27 | Lil’ Superstar | 67 | Grape Lady | 107 | I like turtles |
| 28 | Green Man | 68 | TechnoViking | 108 | Chuck Norris |
| 29 | Challenge Accepted | 69 | Joseph Ducreux | 109 | Honey Badger |
| 30 | Long Neck Reaction Guy | 70 | Minimall | 110 | Xzibit |
| 31 | Courage Wolf | 71 | Angry German keyboard crusher | 111 | This is Sparta! |
| 32 | Advice Dog | 72 | Aicha | 112 | Afro Ninja |
| 33 | Crasher Squirrel | 73 | Ceiling cat | 113 | Over 9000 |
| 34 | Miss Teen South Carolina 2007 | 74 | Overly attached girlfriend | 114 | Ermahgerd girl |
| 35 | Coke + Menthos | 75 | Corey Worthington’s party | 115 | Double Rainbow |
| 36 | Raptor Jesus | 76 | AYBABTU | 116 | Ikea Monkey |
| 37 | Yatta | 77 | Socially awkward penguin | 117 | Grumpy Kat |
| 38 | NyanCat | 78 | Deal with it | 118 | Kai the homeless hitchhiker |
| 39 | Duckroll | 79 | Prancing Cera | 119 | Dramatic Chipmunk |
| 40 | I heard U like Mudkips | 80 | Basement horse |
From /.
“The BBC has revealed that on the busiest day of its London 2012 Olympics coverage it delivered 2.8 petabytes worth of content, peaking when Bradley Wiggins won gold, where it shifted 700Gb/s. It has also said that over a 24-hour period on the busiest Olympic days it had more traffic to bbc.co.uk than it did for the entire BBC coverage of the FIFA World Cup 2010 games. They revealed they had 106 million requests for BBC Olympic video content, which included 12 million requests for video on mobile devices across the whole of the Games. Mobile saw the most uptake at around 6pm when people had left the office but still wanted to keep informed of the latest action. Tablet usage, however, reached a peak at around 9pm, where people were using it as a second screen or as they continued to watch the games in bed.”
Over the years, I have to say that I’ve been particularly blessed to have met several real life weirdos on the internet, and I love them all dearly. So much so that I even married one of them.
I have come to the conclusion that Katy and I are addicted to FarmVille. This is not good :) Katy and I have decided to set up a FV moratorium for the coming week.
Continuing my investigation on bandwidth usage, I did some number crunching on my raw access logs. on a daily basis, half of the unique referrers in my apache logs come from myspace.
HALF!!!!!
bloody 'ell!
Periodically, I go over my website logs. I'm getting something like a million hits a month and about 10 gigs of bandwidth traffic (which in itself is flabergasting as this is an I-love-me website). A lot of people link directly to the strips in the comic archive. Annoying, but I can live with that. Since I'm still below my bandwidth allocation, I don't mind, really, and I can't be assed to write an htaccess file to limit the referrers.
Sometimes though, I'm worried about the state of humanity. People hot linking comic strips? I can handle. People hot linking pictures from my portfolio and taking them *scarily* out of context? I get worried. Not as in, OMG they're going to steal my identity or start stalking me (and lets face it, most of the time it's from emo kids on myspace). More of the “what the fuck are they thinking” sort…
Case and point:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/nickcerta/
http://myspace.com/plusplusminus
http://myspace.com/risingsunmusicnet
The myspace accounts are typical of all that is wrong with myspace, but that's irrelevant. What is freaky is that they both link images completely out of context. The LJ one is sorta in context, but still, wrong.
