Rickroll never dies... it just evolves.

My Rickroll Database currently contains 262 confirmed rickrolls, culled from about 1400 submissions since November 2007.

Traffic peaked in April (around the "basketball game rickroll", the Rickroll singing telegram, and the LATimes interview with Rick Astley), but we're still seeing about 3 new confirmed rickroll URLs per day.

tags: art, ascii, memes, rickroll

The Red Hot Chili Peppers “Right on Time” (from Californication) with all of this stuff removed, and some other parts looped

Download MP3 (4.44MB)

tags: audio, hacks, mp3

» Click to install ‘Fix New Facebook’
(hassle-free!)

Before

The changes…

After

The extension is simply a compiled Greasemonkey userscript that adds a few CSS styles → fix-new-facebook.user.js

tags: facebook, firefox, greasemonkey, hacks

“For when LOL just doesn’t cut it.”

Printed on high-quality Apparelle Americaine from the FFFFF.AT T-shirt Shoppe

One in my ongoing series of internets t-shirts. See also:

It’s Fun To Do Bad Things

I Can Has Cheezburglar

O RLY?

x-posted from fffff.at

tags: art, internet, lols, tshirt

Add-Art is a new Firefox extension which replaces online advertising with art. A new show is released every 2 weeks.

Our first show are Hiroshige prints selected by the Asian art curators at the Brooklyn Museum, here’s a sample:

• Click here to install Add-Art!
• more info: add-art.org.

If you like the project please show some support! Vote for us on Digg or Reddit, or consider volunteering to curate a show.

The code-inclined should check out the project page on dev.eyebeam.org and sign up for the mailing list. The team is really great and we’re looking forward to future development!

tags: advertising, art, extensions, firefox

Shi Tao is serving a 10-year sentence in prison for writing articles calling for political reform in China. Yahoo helped put him there.

FuckFlickr is open-source image gallery software that won’t narc you out. We created it as an alternative to hosting your photos on a certain Yahoo-owned photo sharing site.

Download FuckFlickr 2.0 (PHP, 268kb .zip)

» More info on fffff.at: installation instructions, videos, etc.

» Code repository: http://tramchase.com/svn/fuckflickr/trunk
» Development info on dev.fffff.at

A F.A.T. Lab production

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Lamar Clarkson of ArtNews Magazine wrote about The Great Internet Art Wiki Marathon that went down on January 26, 2008. We had several dozen participants from all over the world, hundreds of edits, and tons of fun! Marathon #2 is coming up this Saturday, April 26th, save the date.

Article scan: (thx Steve)

Transcript:

WIKI BUSINESS: “If it’s not on the Internet, it doesn’t exist,” Irene Polnyi said as she clicked through gallery Websites, looking for information about William Powhida’s large-scale drawings to add to the Wikipedia page she was creating for him. “He’s one of my favorite contemporary artists,” she added. “He recently became my friend on Facebook.”

Polnyi was one of dozens of people around the world participating in the Art Wikimarathon, a daylong effort to increase the visibility of contemporary art on the popular website Web encyclopedia, which anyone can edit. The online event, organized by artists Steve Lambert and Joseph del Pesco, drew art enthusiasts from Malta to Marfa, Texas. Marathoners armed with laptops gathered at artists’ homes, at bagel joints, and at Eyebeam, the experimental art & technology center in New York where Lambert is a senior fellow. Altogether, the groups made nearly 100 edits by the end of the day. They kept in contact via an instant-message group chat, which dinged every few seconds with tips, links, and chatter.

Despite Wikipedia’s reputation for sloppiness and amateurism (contributors must cite sources but needn’t vet them), the site is often a first reference for Web users. As a result, artists without a Wikipedia presence might suffer, said video and performance artist Marrisa Olson. “I’ve actually heard people dis artists by saying, ‘He doesn’t even have his own Wikipedia page,’” she told ART-news in an e-mail.

Lambert hopes that people will continue contributing entries and says he may organize another marathon. Among the new entries logged that day were the 1990s Australian cyberfeminist collective VNS Matrix and a catchall page on the Bay Area art scene. Because Wikipedia forbids article subjects from editing their own entries, the artists confined themselves to starting pages for their friends — also verboten, but as one participant told the chat group, “I think they mean, ‘Don’t make pages for your nonfamous friends.’”

tags: artwikimarathon, press, wikipedia

Sarah Meyers from new videoblog Pop17 interviewed me about the Internet Famous class on her show today: link

Pop17 was dropped on TechCrunch yesterday so tertiary famo should be good. Interview got some reblog love, too, my favorite is ‘wearesuperfamous.com’

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