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“Meta” jokes only delight people with obscene amounts of domain knowledge. That’s why mashups are the domain of music snobs — the more context you build around individual songs, the more excitement when they merge.

(I still can’t get embed to work in this template. I fucking hate CSS.)

This video could have been a trainwreck, a “Yeah, Rivers, I like YouTube too” moment. Instead, when Chris Crocker starts lip syncing one minute in (followed by the Numa Numa kid and Tay Zonday) the video becomes a celebration of the people involved and the “fuck yeah!” area of my brain lights up.I imagine the last scene is what ROFLCon looked like this year.

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Image via WikipediaThe RIAA has proclaimed victory over Russian MP3 service AllOfMP3.com, declaring that the site is “defunct and out of business,” while turning a blind eye to MP3Sparks.com, the parallel service that sprung up days after Russian authorities were forced to shut down AllOfMP3.

Is this win/win or lose/lose?

• The RIAA shut down one popular service and a dozen others sprouted in its place.
• The site continues doing business, although in a neutered fashion – most US services won’t submit payments to the site.
• Consumer still get cheap MP3s, but it’s a pain without the wonderful AllOfMP3 downloading app.

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Inquistr writes that FriendFeed is new hotness and Twitter is old and busted (Remember that meme? It came out right after “where’s the beef?”) and as a result, the former should bust a cap in the latter.

In honor of this great non sequitur, I offer some additional strategy suggestions:

• Pixar should kill AT&T
• Grand Theft Auto 4 should kill Internet Explorer
• Al Gore should kill the music industry
• The “hang in there” kitten should kill NASA
• Frozen Yogurt should kill the war in Iraq

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