Tag: LOLCATS

For those who design for the Web, securing a placeholder image -- a temporary picture that'll save a spot while the website is under construction -- is often a headache. On top of needing to resize hundreds of images that'll just be tossed anyway, merely locating a group of suitable pictures is a tedious task to which no self-respecting Web guru looks forward. Enter Placekitten, a simple ...

Today at Chez Switched, we are playing with kittens in Oregon. Or, at least, we are virtually playing with kittens. (And by "we," we mean the one of us that still uses Internet Explorer.) Inventor/robotics expert Scott Harris, head of the Boise, Iowa-based company Apriori Control, has created a Web-controlled system that manipulates robotic arms. While waiting for more profitable clients, Harris ...

The Associated Press has seemingly been undergoing some sort of nervous breakdown over the last couple of years. In between being usurped by Twitter as the premier source of breaking news and battling it out with aggregators like Google, the wire service has lost sight of what is truly important: integrity. At least that's what we assume following the collapse of talks between the AP and Pet ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. In celebration of 'Dante's Inferno,' Wired reimagines other literary classics as 'Grand Theft Auto,' 'Modern Warfare,' and 'Sims'-style games as video games. [From: ...

Of all the Internet memes that have come and gone in the years we've been online, few have provided more laughs than LOLCats -- the bizarre but compelling act of taking silly pictures of cats and applying even sillier captions. While there is some historic basis to the trend, it was all created by Happycat -- at least, it was according to this family tree created by a student named Helene Dams at ...

Gather around, all you Internet wanderers, for a little story of a cat and a cheezburger. Once upon a time, a young entrepreneur took a fat gray cat and put, in a sans serif font like Arial or Impact, the words "I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER." Thus, a meme was born. But, as Mental Floss points out, the world of laughter and cats has been closely intertwined since the turn of the century. The gray cat, ...

While the rest of you are heading off with your families for a pleasant, pre-fall long weekend, serious game geeks are in Seattle at the Penny Arcade Expo, a video game convention for the die-hard. Premiering today, Ubisoft showed its new ad for 'Splinter Cell: Conviction,' featuring the tough guy protagonist Sam Fisher getting played off by none other than that electronic maestro himself (or ...

Ben Huh not only has one of the most appropriate names on the Net, but easily one of the greatest jobs, as well. [Ed. Note: The writer still thinks ICanHasCheezburger is funny.] Huh owns the company Pet Holdings, and under its random, hilarious, of-the-moment blogs, he administers FailBlog.org, Cheezburger, canine counterpart IHasAHotdog, and EngrishFunny. His collection of sites may not have ...

The Internet has mostly made our lives better. We love Google for putting piles of information at our fingertips, and, without the Web, there would be no Switched. That being said, it's undeniable that the Internet has ruined some good things, as well. The blog OMG Lists has compiled a list of nine good things ruined by the Internet (one of those things being lists). So, what good things in ...

The lolcats fad simply refuses to die. Case in point, "I Can Has Cheezburger," the go-to Web site for pictures of cats with funny captions and poor grammar, is not only seeing increased traffic with every month, but it's actually making money. Shortly after the site launched in January of 2007, it was snatched up by a company called Pet Holdings Inc., which has miraculously been able to turn ...

Every time we turn around (literally and figuratively), everyone is talking about a new "funniest video ever." Most of those videos come nowhere close to warranting such lofty praise, but every once in a while a true contender comes along and rears its slightly disturbing, fluffy little head. This week's nominee for "funniest video ever" is called "Kittens, Inspired by Kittens" (check out the ...

The popular Web site 4chan was started by a 15-year-old boy in his Long Island bedroom, and continues to be used by 15-year-old boys in their Long Island bedrooms. Boobie pics and skeevy comments are rampant on the site, cuz, well, boys will be boys. And they'll be even pervier cloaked in 4chan's total Internet anonymity (unlike other sites, such as MySpace and Gawker, 4chan does not require ...

For quite some time, if you Googled "Greatest Living American" and hit "I'm Feeling Lucky" you'd be redirected to faux-pundit Stephen Colbert's page. Colbert achieved that status thanks to asking his legion of fans to "Google Bomb" his name with that term, posting it everywhere possible to increase his ratings. He no longer has that honor, thanks to another would-be who is bribing people with ...

If you've ever laughed at a LOLCat or been the victim of a vicious Rick Rolling, then you've helped to perpetuate one of the countless memes that are sweeping the Internet daily. A meme is just a silly Internet fad, usually appearing one day and totally passé the next, its transience powered by the speed of the 'Net. But, last weekend many of those memes earned a bit of respect in the real ...

Imagine being paid to look at pictures like the one above all day. The popular Lolcat (adorable pictures of cats with funny captions and poor grammar) site I Can Has Cheezburger is hiring, and wants you to sit in its Seattle offices and help it moderate comments and sort through the over 7,000 daily submissions of Lolcat photos. Of course, a site powered by bad spelling and grammar isn't going ...