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Friday Folly – Bad Lip Reading
We’ve all been guilty of messing up song lyrics. From Bananarama’s “Alex the Seal” to Elton John’s “Tony Danza”, a ruined lyric in front of your friends can result in months, possibly years of friendly ribbing. The folks from Bad Lip Reading have taken this to a new level, providing a new take on music [...]
Full StoryKittens Gone Wild: For the Love of Cats and Lenin
Something that the literati and the Interwebs has in common is their love of everything feline-related.
Full StoryFriday Folly: Techno Viking
Following on with the meme theme, this one remains quite the mystery but it seems the mystery has been a strong contributor to the legend that surrounds techno viking. Some great tales, images and videos have spread wildly online and continue to this day.
Full StoryMeme Verse Radio: Sad Keanu
This week we’re going old school way back to 2010 to have a look at the most popular meme from that year: Sad Keanu.
Full StoryPaul’s E-Verse Top Five Top Fives for 2010
It’s that time of year when we review some of the reader data from 2010. While there weren’t many E-Verse Videos this year (I think maybe two) there were plenty of Top Fives to keep us amused. The following are the most popular (by unique visits) for the year.
Full StoryTop Five List of Top Ten Lists
Here at E-Verse, we get a little obsessed with lists. Our Top Fives are a staple and certainly more efficient than the top tens or twenty lists. Who has so much time these days to read a top twenty? TIme and Newsweek have been big on lists over the past few years and it looks [...]
Full StorySometimes Double Rainbows are Really, Really Exciting
Here at E-Verse, we get excited over all sorts of things. A good book will obviously send us into a tizzy. Double Rainbows though, probably haven’t yielded a great deal of wild euphoria that we should be showing towards them. If you haven’t seen anything about the Yosemitebear Meme it all stemmed from one video [...]
Full StoryTop Five Most Popular Websites…E-Verse squeaks in
The world’s biggest search engine Google has revealed the top 1000 most popular websites based on their own system of criteria that includes unique visitors, pageviews and reach. Topping the list is the ubiquitous and controversial Facebook, claiming more than 540 million unique visitors per month, reaching a hefty chunk of 35.2 percent of the [...]
Full StoryPaul Writes in from Down Under with Top Five Requirements for an Aussie Road Trip
I’m a road tripper. I was raised watching a couple of blokes cruising around Australia in a Land Rover and couldn’t wait to do that. When I was 12, my family set out on a road trip around Australia and after 3 and a bit months, we returned and I wanted to do it again [...]
Full StoryPaul Brings Us His Top Five Tech Gifts for 2009 under $100
With the crazy gift-giving season coming up and most of us short on funds, E-Verse is sharing your concerns by offering up a Top 5 Tech Gifts (that may or may not be useful or worth the money) for less than $100. 5. Logitech Portable Lapdesk – It may be called a laptop but that [...]
Full StoryErnest Hilbert Reads the Poem “Cover to Cover” from Rattle Magazine’s “Tribute to the Sonnet”
Ernest Hilbert reads the poem “Cover to Cover,” from the new issue of Rattle magazine. Cover to Cover Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories. – Walter Benjamin I don’t collect them. They just accumulate, Tower higher into shoddy columns, Climbing weirdly like crystal formations Or [...]
Full StoryIs it appropriate that twitter contains the word twit?
William Shatner is maligned for his lyric readings of popular songs, most notably Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and Mr. Tambourine Man but it seems as though he’s found a better format for deploying his wares…Twitter. Earlier this year, he gave his spoken word interpretation of Sarah Palin’s farewell address and followed it up [...]
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