Culture + charts / graphs = new sites

Despite being a cat owner I’ve never really been super into LOLcats — but this whole culture + charts and graphs mashup thing? Yeah, I can get behind that. Prepare to see the jamphat meme perpetuated indefinitely through the newly launched culturegraph (done by my pal Jeremy, among others), as well as graphjam (by the Cheezburger people), two sites with the same concept launching on the same day. I feel another chart coming on…

Excellent.

Creepy virtual Japanese lady takes over internet

I find it really interesting that all of a sudden the entire internet discovered and blew a gasget over cubo.cc (i.e. MotionPortrait), which has been floating around on various sites since August, 2007. Stranger still that MotionPortrait, Inc., who develops the eponymous Flash app, apparently hasn’t spent much time in the last six months or so making that disembodied, uncanny valley-dwelling virtual head any less friggin’ creepy.