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ICANN haz unlimited domain suffixes? Soon the days of just .com and .org and .net will be replaced with .whatevs and .moar as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved a proposal to allow the creation of unlimited domain suffixes. [WSJ] (Original photo by Lucie Provencher)

blogging for dollars

Want to go through 9,000 photos of cats each day? Get in line

Seattle-based Pet Holdings, the company that runs the photo-blog I Can Has Cheezburger, posted a job listing on Monday. Company founder Ben Huh told the Syndey Morning Herald he has since received over 250 applications. Like the thought of a hungry cat watching me while I sleep, this terrifies me. Not only will Huh's new hire have to go through 7,000 captioned and 2,000 uncaptioned photos of felines each day, this person will be forced to check the grammar and spelling of that cruel and unusual punishment of the English language known as LOLspeak. No can has dignity!

lolcats

CAN HAS SCOBLE? DO WANT!

Matt Schlicht and Mazyar "Mazy" Kazerooni, the teenage minds behind OpenHulu, have created a lolcats-Robert Scoble mashup called LolScobles. What does Scoble think? "Just find a goofy image of me and go to lolScobles.com. Oh, boy. That shouldn't be too hard!" Thanks for being a good sport, Bobby!

forecasts

Valleywag's 25 predictions for 2008

Valleywag is of course known for its dead-on accuracy, so our predictions for 2008 need no introduction. Inside, my 25 predictions (made without inside information) cover the futures of Facebook, Google, Digg, YouTube, Twitter, the Wall Street Journal, Apple, Yahoo, Gawker Media, AOL, Dell, LOLcats, the president, and more. More »

boing boing

Lolcats history video -- yes, it's a gag



Boing Boing's video tracing the origins of Lolcats to a 1912 comic strip, The Laugh Out Loud Cats, is a parody. Or a satire. Or whatever it's a joke OK? I would say I can't believe people think this thing is for real, except they do.

burning man

Scott Beale commits LOLson

Laughing Squid blogger Scott Beale has exploited the LOLcats meme to mock Paul Addis, the would-be arsonist who tried to burn down The Man, the wooden statue at the center of the Burning Man arts festival in Nevada. Inevitable. Brilliant. Wish I'd thought of it first. (Image by Scott Beale/Laughing Squid)

i hate it here

Nine ways the Internet is truly boring

The Internet is boring. Even the most interested/interesting man I know, artist and dandy Jonathan Grubb, is bored with it in eight ways. (Granted, he's also super-excited; the man equivocates like he's running for president.) Grubb's insidery analysis speaks to those embedded in the dot-com industry, but here's a wider view of why the Internet is boring, starting with the pinnacle of mediocrity called LOLCats. More »