Continuing internet education.

Yo dawg! This is a soccer tournament weekend for the Free-Rides. (First game: 8:00 AM. Time of departure from Casa Free-Ride: 6:30 AM. Zombification complete!)

At the moment, the younger offspring and I are chilling before the younger offspring's team's second game; the younger offspring is watching Fred videos, while I am filling in gaps in my knowledge with the help of Know Your Meme.

Know Your Meme is a good way to catch up on memes that are currently part of the collective memory of the internets, but which might have peaked before some of us Luddites were sufficiently plugged in to be paying attention. And the videos explaining them do a nice job placing the memes in a larger cultural context and providing some analysis of why they caught on.

Here's an episode that had me and my better half giggling last night:

Be sure to stay near the pause button -- some of the images go by quickly, and you're going to want to be able to read the captions. (The last one is our favorite.)

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Some things spread like wildfire across the blogs. But, can an artificial meme, designed specifically to measure the speed of its spreading, spread as fast? If we know its speed, can we know its position at the same time, and vice versa?
Matt and Mrs.Whatsit tagged me with the 7-meme and 8-meme and I have bee
I got tagged with a meme by Greg who is trying to track the branching tree of this meme, so go check his post out (especially let him know if you do one of your own).
Over at Uncertain Principles, Chad writes:

Just to be asinine, DAWG also stands for directed acyclic word graph. Not that that's apropos of anything.