Thursday, July 18, 2013

Geekdom Is The Mother Of Strange Internet-Fellows

To me, the fascinating thing about the vastness of the Internet is not that it covers every topic you could possibly want, but that it also covers just about every combination of topics you could want.  Interested in Lego and the art of Roy Lichtenstein?  Here you go.  Want to see Star Wars mixed with 1980's teen movies?  No problem.

Of course, in those examples, the constituents are partially or totally geeky.  So I wonder, can you find combinations of things that are not at all geeky on the Internet?  Let's try it:
  • Two and a Half Men & Limp Bizkit - nothing, though it turns out Fred Durst signed a deal to star in a sitcom.
  • American Idol & Barbie - There is an American Idol Barbie (no surprise) though that probably would have happened without the Internet.
  • Starbucks & Adam Sandler - A fake Adam Sandler Twitter account mentioned Starbucks once, but that hardly counts.

So there you have it.  There is once aspect of the Internet that we geeks still control: bizarre pop-cultural mash-ups.

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