Makyo picked up on my LOLCategory picture (“This category macro will, I suspect, make no sense to any of you, but amused me tremendously”). In the comments there, currytastegrit pointed to the lolscience LiveJournal community. My favorite there, I think — the one which truly made me “LOL” — was the following:
This one of Oppenheimer is also good, particularly because it spans several generations of meme-time:
RELATED POSTS:
- “Science-Themed Lolcats” (16 May 2007)
- “Lolquarks” (25 May 2007)
- “LOLCreationists” (26 May 2007)
- “LOL-foo” (29 May 2007)
- “More on Lolcode” (30 May 2007)
- “Teh Edg of Evilushun” (5 June 2007)
- “On the Falsifiability of String Theory” (17 June 2007)
. . . oh yeah, and don’t forget, pop-sciunce cat sez, “Oh noes! They be takin my maths!”
Your grammar is wrong. It’s “up u”, not “u up”. SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB.
@David Marjanović: JEEEBUS CRHIST ITS TEH GRAMMR POLEESES!!!1!! GET IN THE CAR!!!!!!1!!!11!!!!
And now, it seems, LOLScience is breaking out all over. First a small LOLScience community on livejournal, and now a LOLScience group on flickr, a “New Scientist” blog dedicated to LOLstuff, mention by Scientific American’s “60-Second Science” blog as well as at least a couple of mentions in various Seed Magazine Science blogs………..
WE ARE OUT THERE.
SCIENCE IS TEH FU-U-U-U-UN-NE-E-E-E-E-EH!1!!11!!!!!
STAND UP AND BE COUNTED!