What could possibly be said of LOLCats that is of any consequence at all? After all, LOLCats are nothing but pictures of cats with silly captions that defy conventional rules of spelling and grammar.

We've posted about the original LOLCats cartoons by Adam Koford before; a truly wonderful and geeky series of retro-strips with hilarious geek pop-culture references. Now Adam is self-publishing a ...

The internet phenomenon of lolcats was around long before the world wide web it seems, with even the venerable Victorians letting out a wry chortle at funny felines, as these pictures show. A picture ...

The grammatically challenged felines known as LOLcats are clawing their way off computer screens and into the mainstream art world. Works by nearly 30 artists influenced by the pidgin-speaking-cat ...

The first time I saw a lolcat — those funny images of felines with grammatically questionable captions — it took me a minute to understand the joke. “What’s with the misspellings?” I wrote the friend ...

Even if you're not a cat lover, if you know which button to push to turn on your computer you're probably familiar with ICanHasCheezburger.com. It's the wildly popular Internet meme factory that takes ...

A developer made a LOLCats app that cycles through over 150 LOLCats images from I Can Has a Cheezburger while cats bounce around in the background. That’s it, really. You can purchase the “game” for ...

Matthew Inman is sick of memes about bacon and kitties. Better known as web comic artist The Oatmeal, Inman gave TechCrunch the lowdown on what’s funny, what’s not, and how he finds inspiration. In ...

A quick look at Reddit.com offers a bizarre snapshot of internet culture. There are the odd protest piece, scientific trivia or political punditry. There's meme pictures with captions, music videos ...

If you’re distracted by lolcats at work all day, new evidence from evolutionary biology suggests it’s not your fault. Human visual attention evolved thousands of years ago to track the movements of ...

At least according to one boffin who has written an entire dissertation on the matter. Graduate student Kate Miltner has been awarded the best masters degree ever from the London School of Economics ...

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