This picture of flesh colored crayons is George Takei’s Facebook meme a few days ago, and it’s a fitting one in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
My first thought in response to the image: “Because only Nixon could go to China.” There are lots of inferential leaps from
1. Our avatars, our projected selves — A Jezebel bit about how men respond to female avatars, and a discussion of racism and sexism in Second Life. Rather predictable, but still something to talk about. One blogger inaccurately cites another writer’s claim that 40 percent of the folks come to SL looking for sexual activity. The writer corrects the mistake; a more accurate number would be closer to 15 percent. Sorry, I call BS on that. If you have to purchase genitals for your avatar, you can bet there’s lots of
1. Instant Chewbacca — a new take on instant rimshot.
2. Jeff and Erin’s EPIC Wedding Trailer — a wedding I want to go to!
3. Salvador Dali on “What’s my Line?” — A surreal bit of old black
There’s a cute article in Salon this week about the meaning of the lolcats phenomenon. I have to confess, I didn’t get lolcats at first. I guess I’m dumbing down due to the time I spend on the intartubes. But now I think they’re great and I giggle at them all the time. The Salon article overreaches in its explanation of why lolcats are humorous. Of course. The article also has a link to lolpresident, which has some cute entries, one of which is posted below:
Eric conveys an emotion is a hysterical website by a very creative and expressive guy. He takes pictures of himself enacting emotions nonverbally. He should be an actor or something. He even takes requests for emotions.
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