Well, Young Money -- breadpig-style.

The laughter/cheering/wtf-is-that-noise alone makes this video worth watching. Enjoy!

Internets, How Do They Work?: Lessons from ROFLCon

What do you learn when you get the entire internet together in one room? In this panel, the cofounders of ROFLCon (Tim Hwang and Christina Xu) will share what they’ve learned from cramming the internet’s celebrities, content creators, and community organizers into the same space as their fans and the academics that study it all. We will give you the condensed, Cliff Notes version of what guests like moot, Mahir Cagri, Ben Huh, Tron Guy, and Autotune the News have revealed about the currents at work underneath the internet universe. Beyond merely sharing some moments and the usual pictures of funny cats, we’re also going to focus in a bit on the even more amusing backstage of putting something like this on. What have we learned? How are we thinking about events around internet culture now? And how/why did we get Leeroy Jenkins to do our conference security? This panel will also be taking a step back to grapple with some of the questions that have emerged as the most important in our dealings with the internet at ROFLCon: what happens when internet culture becomes big business? What counts as an “internet culture”? What are the ethics of operating in this evolving ecosystem?

Our very own Christina Xu, of breadpig, will be rocking it with Diana Kimball & Tim Hwang, her cohorts of ROFLCON fame.

Damn, I love our city. This stunning photograph was discovered at the top of /r/pics.

Yep, that's me, 1m10s into the video. Now I want all my news delivered this way. Well, at least I've got a new facebook photo. The animators at NMA.tv did a great job reproducing my TED Talk outfit -- my hair (blond?), not so much.

Spend that money wisely, Ben -- entirely on cheeseburgers!

We miss ya, Carl.

There's not a lot to go on, but as usual on reddit, there's a great discussion with some clever tips and a few photoshops/sketches.

What's up with the chipmunk wearing aviator goggles? Oh, he's just the mascot of new-ish flight search site Hipmunk.com. We've been kind of obsessed with it the last few weeks, and for good reason. Hipmunk is a very cleanly designed site, like if Kayak and Google Search had a baby, and made it display plane ticket options in very appealing ways.

"It's easy, it's fresh, it's informative without inducing headaches, and—perhaps most uniquely—Hipmunk is actually cute."

Why thank you, Jaunted!

One of these days, I'm going to publish my 'making of hipmunk' images so you can see the different iterations of our mascot. For now, I'll keep being tickled by how many people gush about how cute it is (true-story: if it weren't for a good friend of mine, our hero may still look like a bear with buckteeth).

Combine a memorable brand with a killer product/service and I reckon you've got a force to be... well... reckoned with. At least, that's what we're hoping for with hipmunk (and you've got to admit, Steve & Adam did a killer job with the elegant, fast, and user-focused search).

Thanks to all of you who've been rooting for us from the beginning. It's much appreciated -- especially those of you who've told friends, family, or total strangers. You rock. Seriously. In fact, email me about that, because I'd like to thank you.

It's the first time it's ever been recorded in moving pictures, according to the New Scientist article. Thanks to mosquitos, malaria kills an estimated 1,000,000 people worldwide each year -- hopefully this new evidence proves useful in combatting this nasty parasite. And even if it doesn't, it's still a badass video. Fuck you, malaria.