Put that Cookie down...NOW.

This meme was created from the movie, Jingle All the Way staring Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the movie he gets angered at his neighbor, whom is sitting in his house eating a cookie. So Howard(Arnold character) yells at him to put the cookie down. This scene quickly caused people to start producing some pretty funny mash-ups.

Pants On The Ground American Idol

A 62 year old man named Larry Platt auditioned for the 9th season of American Idol with an originally written song. After the audition episode aired with this song, "pants on the ground" people quickly began to sing the song, and post videos of themselves singing the song. The man had written the song to make a message that wearing your pants below your waistline, makes you look like a 'fool.' Larry was not allowed to go to the next round of American Idol because he was over the age limit. But as Randy Jackson(one of the judges) pointed out, it wouldn't be the last time we will hear of Larry, and clearly it wasn't because the video is all over!

Untoons

Untoons are photos created using hyperrealism artwork. They are 3D images of a cartoon, or video game character with realisitc facial features. Untoons quickly spread on peoples blogs, and are now used on websites like flickr. I personally think the untoon are hilarious. It's funny to see what a cartoon would actually look like if you were to see there face in real life. You can find an untoon of almost any cartoon character out there!

Epic Beard Man

This fight between a young man, a man over 50 years old became a video meme on youtube. A small arguement on a transit bus turns into a public fist fight. There was a video posted on youtube the next day with over one million views. The obvious reason this became a meme was because it occured in a public place, people love seeing other people get hurt. Another reason this became a meme was because the younger kid was bleeding all over asking for an 'amberlance' clearing doesn't speak proper english! Overall i found this meme to be quite hysterical!

tl;dr

Too long; Didn't read.

Apparently this internet slang term has been used since 2003. It is used in internet discussions as a response to previous posts. When someone leaves a post on a discussion board that is lengthy and wordy someone else will comment back saying they didn't read the post. It's almost something i wish i could use when people are just talking to me, like Stop talking; not listening!

This is Why we Can't have Nice Things.

This is why we can't have nice things is a meme created as a reponse to disscussions when people start venturing off topic. Most of the photos are of cats laughing out loud, with the caption. This meme is pretty funny considering that people of all ages use it. Parents sometimes use it when a child breaks or spills something, and under kids use it when having an online disscussion. Apparently it is also known as an Arguecat.

Website Number Two

For my second website I am remaking a website made by someone I know so that it will look more professional. The website is a for a memorial/fundraising golf outing that takes place each year in my hometown.

Usability Test

For my usability test i used one of my roomates. I sat her down in front of cnn.com because i know she doesn't often use it. Considering she doesn't know much about what's going on around the world lately. I first asked her to find out about U.S. news, she didn't struggle much at all on this one, because it was just a tab towards the top of the page. Then i asked her to find a blog on a recent article. Again it wasn't too difficult for her to find, however it took a little longer than the first task because she had to scroll up and down the page a few times. The next task was to find a live feed of the news from cnn. This was her hardest task to complete. It took probably about two minutes because the live feed was a small hyperlink just above the footer on the homepage. Overall, cnn.com is a pretty well laid out website. I'm sure that anyone who uses it would not have a problem finding what they are looking for, even if it's not extremely specific.

Escalator Spin

The escalator spin is not the norm when it comes to playing on escalators, however it is so much better. A typical way to play on an elevator is to run up the stairs that are coming down, as if it's a challenge. However the escalator spin occurs on the railing of the escalator. All you have to do is lay horizontally across the two escalator railings that are moving in different directions. Laying acrossed the railings results in you continuously spinning in circles. This idea has become a meme because people have been uploading a bunch of videos of themselves attempting the ESCALATOR SPIN.

Distillagua 6000

The Distillagua 6000 was a group project made for the wiscontrepreneur 100 hour contest. Our group found $15 worth of garbage at a swap shop in madison. However the garbage turned into something fascinating. We turned it into a water distiller. The idea was thought up to help the different communities around the world obtain clean drinking water. The moto for the Distillagua is Refine. Refresh. Reinvigorate.

Our group members were: Anthony Gierczak III, Dustin Bell, Alison Murphy, Mitchell “Disco” Dombrowski, Abbie Murphy, Henry Schwartz, Bri Cox, Rose Schnieder, Kyle Kaul, Travis Potts, Steve Walsh, and Andrew Kielbasa.

Overall I thought participating in this project was a great experience. It was interesting to watch everyone come together with different thoughts. Some people worked on building a distiller that would actually work, and others would take pictures, or work on our website. I think that the biggest challenge for our group was the 100 hour time frame, of course every college student is on a different schedule. However everyone in our group would come together when it was convient for themselves which worked out perfectly. After the finished product we created a facebook page to attract people to our site. Come to find out a former teacher of mine, who started the Wrestling the World Organization, aproached me about an idea to take the Distillagua 6000(or something of the sort) to Africa, where he would have a place for us to stay and help out!

Website Number One

So i've been trying to come up with a good idea for our first website for web development, but i haven't really came up with much of anything. So i've decided to make a website about myself with a homepage, a link to my resume page, and a link to a page with information about my interests/hobbies. That's basically all i have for now, here's my color palette.

Cinnamon Challenge

The Cinnamon Challenge has become a popular video to post on youtube. The challenge consists of simply swolloing a tablespoon of cinnamon. However to call the challenge simple is definetly an understatment. It's really an interesting thing to watch other people attempt the challenge, I got quite the laugh out of it. I'm not quite sure why anyone would want to torture themselve doing this. Basically what happens is that the majority of the people breathe in the cinnamon right away and start choking so they spit it out. On the other hand some people actually gag enough to throw up! I personally find it very amusing, and could watch them all day because there are so many different ones on youtube. Classic form of entertainment.

Grammar Nazi

Sometimes people seem be so critical when it comes to internet conversations. This 'grammar nazi' is the type of person that corrects your every spelling mistake when having a instant messaging conversation. Usually when a grammar nazi corrects someone the converstation becomes very dull. What happens is the person that gets corrected stops talking to the grammar nazi because they no longer want to be corrected. There's nothing worse then having someone correct your spelling when the conversation is not professional, some words are spelt wrong on purpose by people.

GT TV..Coming In 2010

Mass Effect 2, Red Dead Redemption, God of War III, Super Street Fighter 4, NBA-Jam, Alpha Protol Call, Halo Reach, Heavy Rain, and Gears of War 2. These are some of the most anticipated games to come out in 2010. This is quite the list of facinating games. After watching Game Trailer TV I am pretty amazed at how far gaming has come. I am also very interested in the fact that arcade classics are beginning to make a come back in the gaming realm. The graphics for almost all these anticipated games are unbelieveable, they look great! The one that stuck out the most to me was Heavy Rain, GTTV showed a world exclusive of the game. I'm not usually one to play video games, however this exclusive drew me in. Overall I thought this site was very professional on introducing the up and coming releases.

Amazon-Amazing

A consumer website has to be understood by all consumers. Amazon.com fits this perfectly, it's an easily navigated website so pretty much anyone knowledgeable enough to use a computer should be able to find there way around. It has a search bar at the top making the searching even easier, just type in what you want, and you got it. There are also categories on the side to choose from, so if nothing specific is in mind, then this option makes it possible to take a look at related items. Another great thing about it is that the prices, and other information on the product come up right in front of you when you click on an item. Each product comes with a rating as well, so it's always nice to be able to rely on ratings and comments rather than just looks.

What is this...

What is this..I don't even. This phrase is commonly used to confuse users. This phrase began in 2007 but has recently sparked in usage. So in a typical conversation someone would use this phrase to reply to someone who previously said something idiotic, just to make everything a little more confusing. Most people who recieve this repsonse usually have nothing to say back, a.ka. end of conversation. I find this meme somewhat hysterical, what's better than confusing someone who doesn't even make sense in the first place? This meme was previously unknown to me, however i see myself using it in the future.

Ray Kurzweil

Technology and Science come hand in hand. It is unbelieveable how unpredictable, yet predictable the future. The possibility of overcoming poverty is amazing, maybe this will lead to equal social classes in most societies. As Kurzweil basically pointed out the future of technology will only make our lives more convienent, and possibly change the age of life expectancy with the nanotechnology that is starting to bloom. Most of the lecture that Kurzweil gave was beyound me however his main points made complete sense. Exponential growth is very important, and most people even if they are not very technologically advanced can see that every day there is something new introduced in the world of techology. Is it even possible that computers will be out of the picture because everything around us will have the capabilities of a computer? Multimedia is rapidly expanding and will continue for generations to come. Overall the thought that Kurzweil being able to attempt to predict the future is very interesting. I think that things will develop so quickly that maybe Kurweil will be behind in his predictions.

Web Pages That Suck

Control Driving Skills..

More like control your punctuation's. When arriving to this site I wasn't even sure where to start. I'm pretty sure the homepage of this website has more punctuation's on it than you would find in a 10 page paper. This is a business website designed to make 'good drivers better.' The problem with this website was that I had to scroll almost half way down the page to figure out what kind of business it is! The next thing was the background full of clouds mixed in with the red and blue font, just because the font is HUGE doesn't make it legible. The business is located in Ontario, Canada yet the site managed to throw a U.S. flag in. The last thing that was very bothersome was that I couldn't for the life of me figure out what underlined words were hyperlinked and which weren't! One of the most unprofessional websites I personal have ever came across.

Play Dead.

This quite interesting meme considers playing dead a game. Which doesn't seem like the most interesting of games to play, but hey why not. It was introduced in South Korea and has now spread throughout the world. If you are interested in this 'playing dead' all you need to do is take a picture of yourself or a friend literally acting dead, but make sure it looks realistic. The most interesting thing about this was that it apparently is suppose to be comical.