Sorry for the late Comment o’ the Week, everyone! It’s because I didn’t feel like posting it earlier.
Let’s get right to it, shall we? This week’s COTW wins for being both funny and a frigging great idea:
Steve
// Mar 3, 2009 at 2:35 pm
At this point, I think the only way to get real science into the public consciousness is to slip it into viral videos and LOLcats.
“2 Girls, 1 Stem Cell Lineâ€
“i’m in ur spaze telescope, lookin for erth-like planitsâ€
I look forward to seeing this take off. Please link to your creations in the comments.
Steve – you win the ability to pick next Wednesday’s Afternoon Inquisition! Send it to us using the Contact form and we’ll put it into the line-up.
Happy Friday everyone . . .
I LOLED!
NICELY DONE! How many wins is this now for Steve? Can’t we just name the award after him already?? :)
Creations? Ok. Let’s kick things off with some memetic genetics.
My reward is an assignment and a deadline? Oh, the pressure! :)
On the meme thing: I’d like to see a youtube channel called “2 Girls 1 Beaker” (or similar) that features Skepchicks (& friends) doing science lessons. You’d get a lot of people viewing initially out of curiosity and hopefully sticking around to learn something.
HAHAHA, congrats Steve, this is SO totally deserving of COTW!!! (LMAO, I reread it and laughed again!)
General purpose BS Cat.
“2 Girls, 1 Stem Cell Lineâ€
STILL LAUGHING.
@Steve:
So, that is a cat scan, right?
And I found a few:
One
Two
Three
Also: quantum cat.
@Andrés Diplotti: LOLCat #3 made me laugh out loud. Thank you!
I am SO using that in my next presentation to our mixed team of physicists and biochemists. They are so pwned!
See that? Where I used the new hep-speak?
Am I cool now?
No?
Oh.
You don’t read http://community.livejournal.com/lolscience ?! There’s a whole community devoted to this stuff! There is also a Flickr pool owned by them if my memories are intact…
Also, a funny joke I just came across:
Police officer: “Have you any idea how FAST you were going back there?”
Werner Heisenberg: “Nope, but I knew EXACTLY where I was!”
What if you did it like Futurama, science lesson then porn.
(shameless plug)
http://www.flickr.com/groups/lolscience/
(/shameless plug)
There’s also a LOLscience group on livejournal, and Paolo Amoroso has a gazillion LOLspace cats on his blog.
@Steve: are you on flickr? If so, please add your tree lobsters to my group! kthxbai =^..^=
http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=3498355
http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=3445685
@themadlolscientist: I’ve joined the lolscience group and added a few things. Lots of good stuff on there.
@Rebecca: I sent in an AI thingie using the contact form. I hope it’s not a repeat.