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Tardar Sauce is going to Hollywood. A talent agent for the grumpy feline, who specialises in representing internet memes, confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that the cat's owners had signed a deal to have a once-off movie made featuring the famous fluff. The film will be produced by Broken Road Productions, the team behind films like 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice', 'Knight and Day', and '13 Going on 30', and some reports suggest it may even be a Garfield-style animation movie. ...
A recent Reddit post of Miss Korea contestants titled “Korea’s plastic surgery mayhem is finally converging on the same face” led to a gif that has been meming its way around the net and provoking some heated discussion:(These are actually Miss Daegu contestants, not Miss Korea finalists as netizens claimed – I will spare you my rant on the need for fact-checking in social media.)After the pics went viral, Korean beauty practices yet again fell under the digital spotlight. Many ...
The "White Men wearing Google Glass" is a killer meme, a potential product killer.A friend who is a prominent geek, always a bit of a rebel and very comfortable with self-promotion, is very concerned about posting a picture of himself wearing Google Glass.He just got them and was super excited to finally have them, and he told all his social networks about it days in advance. When they finally arrived he told his friends he couldn't post a photo of ...
The memes are striking back. Warner Bros is being taken to court for using Nyan Cat and Keyboard Cat in a game without their respective owners' permission.The authors of the two feline memes claim that their property was used without their permission in the game Scribblenauts, published in 2009. The game's developer 5th Cell is also named in the suit.Keyboard Cat is the older of the two memes. Uploaded to YouTube in 2007, it consists of ...
This is one of those long-forgotten gems that occasionally make their way back to your computer screen after some accidental digging up on the web.Some of you might remember China’s race to create its first humanoid robot back in the eighties -- a time that, according to PC Mag, “witnessed a rare explosion in American robot mania.” China was one of many countries eager to be part of the boom in this exciting field of science.Its ambitious project took off ...
We're not quite sure what to make of this. A meme has emerged comparing Oscar Pistorius, who stands accused of murdering his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, with the plot-line of the Star Wars prequels.On the one hand, we know that memes are becoming an important means of disseminating news. It's not news as we know it though, as objectivity isn't even a consideration.In comparing the recent events surrounding Pistorius to those which drove Anakin Skywalker to become Darth ...
So there was a little launch yesterday. You might have heard of it. Apple, iPhone 5, ring any bells?Anyway, the biggest launch in tech was bound to generate the odd meme. Judging by what's out there at the moment, it looks like large portions of the internet agree with my assessment that Apple missed the boat with this launch.To save you the monumental effort of having to trawl through the cess-pits of the web, we've gathered together some ...
If there were an Olympics of likeability, Bert Le Clos would stand a very good chance of getting gold. Deadspin deemed his BBC interview “the media moment of the games” at the time, and to date it has scored over 353 000 views. #chadsdad trended in the UK and Bert became part of the cultural lexicon:Considering asking Bert Le Clos to form a Government.— Prince Charles (@Charles_HRH) August 3, 2012In fact, his only serious rival would probably be Oscar Pistorius, ...
Unless you've just woken up from a coma, or have been tracking dangerous animals in wild over the past few days, you're probably aware that NASA's Curiosity Rover landed on Mars.Millions watched the live stream, the NASA geeks went wild and people sent out some funny tweets. Standing out above them all though was Bobak, 'mohawked NASA dude' Ferdowski.The flight director, who changes his hairstyle for every new mission, has captured hearts around the world. And of course, once ...
The media has been obsessed with the developments in South African president Jacob Zuma's Lenin-esque nude portrait saga. Brands and consumers alike have meanwhile taken to social media with offerings of their Spear of the Nation memes. Below is a selection of our favourites.1. Gabriel's image is hard to absorbGabriel employs shock tactics.2. John TerryA meme within a meme.3. Helen ZilleTit for tat: the leader of the opposition is unknowingly pulled into the paint-slinging affair.4. Spear SpiesSports meets politics. ...
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