Not to sound like one of those hipster guys but I actually knew about planking before it was even called planking. But don't take my word for it; the Lying Down Game has been well documented in the centre for internet folklore and all things meme, KnowYourMeme.com. But it goes to show how popular a celebrity can make things. Let's compare: there's planking which is already proving to be popular again from last week, or there's me recommending you try this new Baseball game on Facebook and adding me as a friend like so:
Hey guys there's this new Baseball game on Facebook and add me as a friend because you can add each other to you roster and...
But as I usually play the things on Facebook that no-one else seems to play (apart from poker), I think my skills to detect something interesting are somewhat malfunctioning.
Doomsday. Why is it that every time we pass a predicted date unscathed another one comes up, and yet we still fall under its power of making us afraid and that we should convert to whatever religion to attain salvation. I'm not very good and inexperienced at discussing religion, so I'm leaving that angle alone.
I'm taking the angle that I a partially picked up back when I was talking about conspiracy theories, and that is, are these people getting a kick out of making us scared? Sure when we are, we are more vulnerable to listen and do whatever it is to avoid the worst possible outcome, but to me it really seems like some form of low-scale terrorism, or public "it-might-just-happen-this-time"-ness. Not that I completely disagree with what might happen. Actually, freeze.
By the time you read this the date would have passed. Whoops.
So it never happened. Now what? Consider Y2K. It could have had some implications, but apart from things not displaying the date right, wouldn't the whole nuclear fallout or alien invasion or whatever we were scared of in 1999 be something that Michael Bay would come up with? We got through it, and now we look at it 11 years on and we're like, "Peh, how stupid were we?". If only the people making incorrect predictions could think the same way. And according to Wikipedia people have been getting it wrong for centuries.
Long story short, could we just stop talking about the end of the world for a while? Oh wait, there's still 2012...
The Last Word
A video making the rounds on Facebook this week, comedian Paul Zerdin has a ventriloquist routine involving a member of the audience as the puppet.
And here's a list of where you can find all the interesting stuff I mentioned today:
SEGA Play! Baseball - Facebook [EDIT 11/12/11 This game is no longer playable]
...and that should hopefully get me out of finding an interesting website this week.
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