Windows Update quietly installs Firefox extension
— which can’t be easily uninstalled; karma, indeed #Zoho CEO on Google Wave, Microsoft Silverlight, and technology karma
— even though Google’s their biggest competitor, they’ve aligned with them because of their history via Delicious #PatchMatch, incredible video demo of interactive content-aware image editing
— taking seam carving to the next level, I really could’ve used this last week #Yahoo! 360 closing down in July
— they’re providing a migration option and export tools, though only six weeks to use them #Normalware's Bebot, surprisingly deep synth for the iPhone
— don’t miss the demo song by Jordan Rudess, showing how it’s a full instrument via John Walkenbach #Twitter, as viewed by everybody who's never used Twitter
— finally, the cliche’s going away via dalasverdugo.com #Google Wave's full hour-long demo at Google I/O
— don’t miss the stunning demo of Rosy, real-time character-by-character language translation #EFF chairman Brad Templeton makes a Hitler Downfall parody
— don’t miss his explanation of how he finally made the clip without breaking any laws via Laughing Squid #Hulu launches Desktop client for Windows/Mac
— also, they just released browsing by air date and recommendations #How Google Wave's spellcheck uses natural language processing
— context-sensitive, it can correct there/their/they’re and its/it’s errors; also: Arrington interviews the founders #Tim O'Reilly on the newly-announced Google Wave
— real-time collaboration tool with an open protocol, blurring the line between email, IM, and personal publishing #Don Bluth's Space Ace ported to iPhone
— cheaper than the laserdisc version, but apparently, just as frustrating via @ironicsans #Jeff Veen announces Typekit, licensing and hosting for web font embedding
— short on details, but glad someone clever’s trying to bridge the gap between developers and foundries #The Legion of Rock Stars
— band wears 30dB noise-canceling headphones and plays along to rock songs #Phreakmonkey surfs the web with a 300 baud acoustic modem from 1964
— at 6:30, he loads Wikipedia in Lynx; amazing it works so well with modern hardware via @textfiles #Dennis Knopf's Bootyclipse series
— booty-shaking videos on YouTube with the booty removed; the angry comments are funny #Highlights from the truly horrible Star Wars first draft script
— constraints led Lucas to make one great film; without them, he turned out films like this draft via MetaFilter #Pick One
— don’t miss the top 10 (Sex, The Internet, Cats) and bottom 10 (AIDS, 9/11, Lil’ Wayne) via buzzfeed.com #Meme Scenery
So I had this silly idea to isolate the backgrounds from famous Internet memes, removing all the subjects from every photo or video. I’m pretty happy with the results.
Like Jon Haddock’s porn sans people, these photos are banal out of context. Only someone familiar with the original memes would sense something’s amiss, like the set of a play waiting for the actors to stumble into history.
Can you name all 22 23? (Click any image for the answer.)
