http://www.greatmomentsininternethistory.com The future of total crap. Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:30:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For my 25th birthday, my good pals Julia and Cole and my adoring husband took me to Stanford & Son's Comedy Club.  Dave Coulier (of Full House fame) was the headliner - and apparently, so was everyone else there - They have some sort of Kindergaten logic that they like ... http://www.greatmomentsininternethistory.com/2008/04/25/my-birthday-with-dave-coulier/ Somehow Furbys and Webrings were made for each other. The both share a pre-9/11 ancestry, and although you can still find either they've long past their glory days. Some highlights: Hilary's Furby Furby's United The Furby Fantasy Art Page Furby Crazed! 100% Furby http://www.greatmomentsininternethistory.com/2007/06/25/the-furby-webring/ Consider me bummed, the second major Kurt in my life is also gone now, also in April. Thanks for a whole lot, good sir, you'll be missed. http://www.greatmomentsininternethistory.com/2007/04/11/58/ Creative Commons, no less, so you can use it without being sued.  It's a fart noise, very difficult to record on your own.  Without further delay... http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=26216 http://www.greatmomentsininternethistory.com/2007/02/17/in-which-we-examine-a-webpage-with-a-fart-noise/ Hell yes!  I've now obtained the most wonderfullest of domain names: http://werewolfvagina.clownpenisdotfart.net/org.internet No clue what the fuck I'm doing.  Not a one. http://www.greatmomentsininternethistory.com/2007/02/15/introducing/ Full disclosure: my company made these. We took American Apparel zip joggers, screen printed zippers based of the MJ original, then hand foiled each one to make 'em all shiny. Michael's 3rd nose would be proud.read more | digg story http://www.greatmomentsininternethistory.com/2007/01/31/style-mashup-beat-it-jacket-made-from-a-zip-jogger/ One of the great things about Andy Warhol was the way he altered iconic imagery and made it his own. Warhol's subject material was often covered by copyright, but of course he changed the source material in such a way that it made it his own. Anyone else ... http://www.greatmomentsininternethistory.com/2006/11/06/artist-copyright-buffoonery/ For starters, go here and here for the back story (and Fark's take here).  Briefly, a web opportunist named Michael Crook sent a DMCA takedown notice to 10 Zen Monkeys' webhost demanding removal of an image of his face.  The cited article is here.  Said image was from Mr. Crook's ... http://www.greatmomentsininternethistory.com/2006/11/02/michael-crook-the-dmca-and-hopefully-the-straw-that-broke-the-camels-back/ Prepare for cheese. Josh and I spent a Saturday afternoon making a horror film which we titled Clean Conscience. In case you watch it and don't get the significance of a "clean" conscience...well, that's just too bad for you. I discovered the power of YouTube.com and now present to our "film" Clean Conscience. Please, ... http://www.greatmomentsininternethistory.com/2006/08/27/clean-conscience/ ... I wouldn't even know how to begin to comment on this.  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6776137864046669367&q=label%3Afreaky&pr=goog-sl http://www.greatmomentsininternethistory.com/2006/08/10/i-know-all-i-do-is-post-links-but/