April 4, 2008 at 7:22 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: 2008, 4chan, animals, animation, Anime, april, Art, axolotl, deviantart, drawings, gif, hacks, internet, meme, mudkips, nom nom nom, photography, rickroll, something awful, stupid, washington post, wiki, wikipedia, work, youtube ·
April Fools’ Day, one of the most loathsome and wasteful days the calendar year has to offer, has come and gone. Most everyone seems to have survived, thankfully.
DeviantArt, known for being a haven of artists producing works ranging from hackle-raising (no pun intended) furry fan art to really good photography, decided to celebrate this traditional [...]
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March 31, 2008 at 6:00 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: alternate reality, animals, Anime, Articles of Interest, axolotl, encyclopedia dramatica, Fnord, fun, google, google labs, google trends, image macro, infoporn, meme, mudkips, Nature, pdf, photoshop, pokemon, quantum reality tunnel, Science!, search, stupid, winner, work ·
All this talk of Mudkips (and having to troll around Google Labs for something work related) got me to thinking, just how popular is this whole “mudkips” thing, and what about rival Pokémon meme, Seaking?
Well, the results are in!
The winner for longest running search item? Seaking.
Current most popular? Mudkips.
Overall though, I’d say the winner is [...]
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March 31, 2008 at 1:51 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: adventure, alpha, alphabet, alternate reality, animals, Anime, axolotl, book, description, design, inspiration, internet, kento, letter, meme, mudkips, Nature, photos, pokemon, uglorable, videogame, zoo books ·
Ok, not really. My good friend Kento over at Uglorable has composed an AMAZING compendium of obscure animals - one for each letter of the alphabet - entitled: Obscure Animal Alphabet: Axolotl to Zebu.
For letter A is the Axolotl, which HAS to be the inspiration for that internet famous Pokémon, Mudkips.
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
Sure [...]
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