I stumbled over a Wikipedia entry named “Internet phenomenon” by chance. If you’ve ever had to try to explain phenomena like 1337-speak to people who don’t use the web for anything but e-mail, you’ve probably wondered where to start in order to describe the unique manner of propagation of memes on the internet.
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Paul of dataisnature has found a piece of unintentional generative poetry that made it through his spam filter. This is a nice example for how spam can get so elaborately nonsensical, that it’s hard to believe people who’d fall for “online pharmacy” scams would be able to decipher it.

Jason Cox has spent a lot of time and liebesmüh recording wonderful and funny cover renditions of all music in Super Mario World all by himself, playing dozens of instruments.
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Via We-make-money-not-art and resetdesign, Hilde De Decker creates vegetable jewelry by placing young fruit onto the ring and monitoring and influencing the progress of the plants’ growth.
The Belgian artist’s site consists entirely of photos. It will take a bit of clicking before you reach the plant-jewelry part.

Free as in free software, not free as in free beer, Vores Øl (”Our Beer”) is the world’s first beer under a Creative Commons license. You can brew your own or change the recipe, but have to release your modified recipe under the same license.
link via we make money not art