Comments on: LOLscience

By: Alexander Zh.

Alexander Zh. — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:05:56 +0000

as they say… perhaps Schrödinger’s Cat is the key to Theory Of Everything, no lucky rabbit’s foot required and all this hadron speeding around CERN.

By: We’re #20! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

We’re #20! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:57:36 +0000

[...] are so many humor-impaired people out there: that was a joke! I’m kidding. I love biologists; without them I’d have nothing to make fun of at all without it being [...]

By: anomalous4

anomalous4 — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:07:46 +0000

@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!

By: anomalous4

anomalous4 — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:36:03 +0000

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!

By: AMDubbin

AMDubbin — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:45:12 +0000

That rung my nerd bell.

/biologist

By: Photon Wavelength - Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum

Photon Wavelength - Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 11:53:25 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

By: Man on the Moon

Man on the Moon — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:40:37 +0000

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?

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:37:56 +0000

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.

By: unknownkadath

unknownkadath — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:26:12 +0000

I’m in ur skoolz: http://pics.livejournal.com/nutty_irishman/pic/00002hwr/

By: Patrick Craig

Patrick Craig — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:57:20 +0000

I too am a cat person, and I absolutely adore the LOLCats (and anything from Caturday too). Thanks for the link to LOLScience!

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:13:25 +0000

I can't believe that people are just finding out about science lolcats now. . . .

By: bjswift

bjswift — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:41:37 +0000

LOL ZOMG!!1!

By: Zoot

Zoot — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:24:23 +0000

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

By: Max Fagin

Max Fagin — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:07:17 +0000

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?

By: James

James — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:59:25 +0000

Imagine how comfy he’d be on a biology text that would meet the approval of the Texas school board.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:52:39 +0000

OMG lolcats and science together in one place. Hooray!

My geekiness is now complete.

By: LOLscience

LOLscience — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:40:34 +0000

[...] Bad Astronomy Blog placed an observative post today on LOLscience [...]

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:25:18 +0000

If you haven’t seen it already, you must, MUST, go look at LOLTrek:

http://granades.com/2007/05/02/loltrek/

By: Quiet_Desperation

Quiet_Desperation — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:25:16 +0000

— 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)

By: Quiet_Desperation

Quiet_Desperation — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:22:27 +0000

Harumph! Well, I consider this a debasement of science and all that- ZOMG! Kitties! Eeeeeeeeeeeee! (fall out of chair)

By: Alex Whiteside

Alex Whiteside — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:55:31 +0000

I’ve got a copy of that sitting around somewhere! I must try it on the neighbourhood cats.

By: Godless Geek

Godless Geek — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:45:26 +0000

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.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:38:07 +0000

I think cats are overrated.

DOGS FOREVER.

By: The Centipede

The Centipede — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:33:54 +0000

…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…

By: Thadd

Thadd — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:24:30 +0000

He has a nice book of Literary Critiques to sleep on.