[Images below have been removed from site, 9/2014. The new website for totally looks like” is at http://memebase.cheezburger.com/totallylookslike ] If you don’t already know, LOLcats are artfully captioned photographs of animals, as in the image above. They’re pretty funny, entirely created by the visitors to icanhascheezburger.com (whose domain name refers to one of the first… Continue reading LOLcats and Digital Doppelgangers
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My Unheimlich LibraryThing Books
My Library at LibraryThing [NOTE: Those covers above go to amazon.com with an “associate” link — this was necessary to include the widget with cover graphics. To just visit librarything, not amazon, click here!] What you see above is not a complete bibliography by ANY means. But over the past few years, I have slowly… Continue reading My Unheimlich LibraryThing Books
Slideshow on Freud’s Uncanny
[UPDATE 4/29/12…] Dr. Rob McMinn (the UK teacher behind the We Study Media edublog) gives a succinct overview of Freud’s work on the uncanny (das Unheimliche) in relation to horror texts and the media, in the following slideshow (formerly a “slideshare”, now a google document) related to one of his courses: I particularly liked this… Continue reading Slideshow on Freud’s Uncanny
The Web Browser as Ouija Board
I recently came across The Blog of the Damned — a group weblog that has compiled some interesting instances of “forteana 2.0 and the uncanny internet.” One entry in particular really jumped out at me: The Browser as Scrying Tool — that is, the literalization of the metaphor that “the Internet is haunted, and that… Continue reading The Web Browser as Ouija Board
Post of the Living Dead
This blog will someday end, whether by choice, by ennui, by hacker attacks, or by the author’s demise. In anticipation of its death, I begin with this first post. A post of the living dead. And the zombie hoard is only rising: “Dead Blogs” (Times Daily, June 2007) “Millions of Dead Blogs Won’t Stop Blogging”… Continue reading Post of the Living Dead