I still think LOLcats are funny. I don’t know why they tickle me so much, but they just do. So I’m happy that BABloggee Katie Watson pointed me to LOLScience. I also found a Flickr group with some LOLScience, too.
But with a tip o’ the biohazard suit hood to PZ, I think I like this one best…
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December 7th, 2007 at 9:20 am
two of my most favorite things in the world have just come together to form one GUT of nerdiness
December 7th, 2007 at 9:24 am
He has a nice book of Literary Critiques to sleep on.
December 7th, 2007 at 9:33 am
…This is quite possibly the greatest Internet meme ever.
*suddenly gets an idea of “The Nine Billion Names of God” except applied to internet memes*
YOU ARE ON THE WAY TO DESTRUCTION
MAKE YOUR PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME
HA HA HA…
December 7th, 2007 at 9:38 am
I think cats are overrated.
DOGS FOREVER.
December 7th, 2007 at 9:45 am
I love LOLcats as well, but I pretty sure that it is related to my being a cat person. The “cattitude” of some of those cats are just so perfectly encapsulated in the captions that there is no way you can’t laugh. Also, cats are just naturally funny.
December 7th, 2007 at 9:55 am
I’ve got a copy of that sitting around somewhere! I must try it on the neighbourhood cats.
December 7th, 2007 at 10:22 am
Harumph! Well, I consider this a debasement of science and all that- ZOMG! Kitties! Eeeeeeeeeeeee! (fall out of chair)
December 7th, 2007 at 10:25 am
— I think cats are overrated. DOGS FOREVER.
Well, FOREVER divided by 7
C’mon, people. End the dog/cat war. They’re *all* good.
I mean, look at the site and-ZOMG! Kitties! Eeeeeeeeeeeee! (falls out of chair again)
December 7th, 2007 at 10:25 am
If you haven’t seen it already, you must, MUST, go look at LOLTrek:
http://granades.com/2007/05/02/loltrek/
December 7th, 2007 at 10:40 am
[...] Bad Astronomy Blog placed an observative post today on LOLscience [...]
December 7th, 2007 at 10:52 am
OMG lolcats and science together in one place. Hooray!
My geekiness is now complete.
December 7th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Imagine how comfy he’d be on a biology text that would meet the approval of the Texas school board.
December 7th, 2007 at 11:07 am
I take it a cat sitting on a physics textbook, and some pun about the cat being simultaneously alive and dead is just too easy?
December 7th, 2007 at 11:24 am
A good lolcat is like a haiku. I captures the essence of something with a minimal expression.
My current faves:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/funny-pictures-tmnt-turtles.jpg
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/funny-pictures-disco-fever-cat.jpg
December 7th, 2007 at 11:41 am
LOL ZOMG!!1!
December 7th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
I can’t believe that people are just finding out about science lolcats now. . . .
December 7th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
I too am a cat person, and I absolutely adore the LOLCats (and anything from Caturday too). Thanks for the link to LOLScience!
December 7th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
I’m in ur skoolz: http://pics.livejournal.com/nutty_irishman/pic/00002hwr/
XD
December 7th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
Of course, the entire internet phenomenon is due to the fact that intelligence is inversely proportional, and inanity of statements directly proportional, to proximity to a cat.
December 8th, 2007 at 3:40 am
That’s my biology book! How’d it…oh.
Darn publishers printing more than one copy…
That really is the edition–should be six–that I used for General Biology about three years ago now. We did all thousand something pages (it was alot, I’m not going to look it up right now) and thirty…chapters in 10 weeks one summer. Probably the most intense class I’ve ever taken, but very well worth it.
Now if I could just find a good physics book and teacher…I wonder if the cat has a physics book. Maybe a hard one to hold the door open?
December 8th, 2007 at 4:53 am
[...] familiar with the general stuff, so don’t expect me to be specific. I am working off my book (conveniently pictured in the BA’s blog!) so if I get it wrong it’s my fault. All photoreceptors require an two protiens [...]
December 9th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
That rung my nerd bell.
/biologist
December 22nd, 2007 at 6:36 pm
I’m going to out myself. I’m the guilty party responsible for the Rise of the Dreaded LOLScience on flickr.
I also plead guilty to being way too amused by LOLstuff, maybe because it’s so silly and idiotic.
Whatever. A couple of months ago I tagged four of my flickr posts with “LOLScience,” and just for the hell of it I did a search a couple of days later for the tag and my four were the only ones that came up. So I said, “I can fix that,” and set up the flickr group.
When New Scientist joined a couple of weeks later, it shocked my socks off! I figured I’d pull in a few scientists, a few scientists-by-training like myself, and a few curious LOLsters from among flickr members, but that was about all. Glad to see there are more scientists-with-the-sillies out there besides me!
p.s. Phil, you rock!
December 24th, 2007 at 11:07 am
@Blake Stacey:
I joined the livejournal group a couple of months ago, but it wasn’t very active, so I decided to run “LOLScience” up the flickr flagpole and see if anyone saluted it. I guess they have. And I’m more than pleased by how many like minds have jumped in, both on flickr and on livejournal, and how many blogs – including Scientific American’s 60-Second Science, at least 3 of Seed’s science blogs, and a number of personal blogs – as well as New Scientist Magazine – have come out to playI
teh seekrit is out: SCIENCE IS TEH FU-U-U-U-U-UN-NE-E-E-E-E-EH!
January 6th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
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