February 15th, 2008, 5 Comments »
If you’ve been alive and on the web over the last year, you’ve probably discovered the joy and weirdness of LOL Cats (Anil had a good explanatory roundup a while back).
I was over on Shipment of Fail (a newer, less nuanced meme), viewing the latest installments, and found this entry featuring coitus interruptus (rated R for animal phallus) between two tapirs. That pointed to, you guessed it, LOL Tapirs. Here’s a sample:
That, of course, is a reference to a cousin of LOL Cats–the bucket-obsessed walrus. This is all profoundly weird.
Speaking of new blog discoveries, I found an awesome new one courtesy of Metafilter. It’s entitled Stuff White People Like, and features short, anthropological studies of, well, things that Caucasians dig. You know, like bicycles, recycling and co-ed sports.
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May 10th, 2007, No Comments »
Una points to this Red Herring article about Layoffspace, “the only social network for the unemployed”:
LayoffSpace.com, based in the Philadelphia suburb of Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, addresses issues that go beyond sites like Monster.com, whose primary role is to list jobs, Jake Ludwinski noted.
“People who are unemployed are really down on themselves,” said the former business analyst. “They have all this time on their hands. What do they do with it? We need a place where we can get them together.”
Soon we’ll have a social network for everything, and for subsets of everything:
- OrkOrk: A social network for walrus enthusiasts
- OrkPhile: A social network for walrus lovers
- OrkWidows: A social network for the ignored spouses of walrus lovers
And so on. There’s an interesting side effect of launching a network for the unemployed–do users leave when they find new jobs? And is that a problem?
I’m not crazy about the name. I generally advise against a name that’s a take-off of another, more recognizable brand, unless it’s a short-lived satire or something. Brands change over time, and so MySpace’s reputation will, in some way, always stick to Layoffspace. Plus, I definitely would have capitalized the ’s’.
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