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omg lol cats wtf?

  • May. 31st, 2007 at 10:47 AM
bella
So, instead of actually reading my email and communicating with my friends and behaving like a normal well adjusted human being I've been spending the past few evenings hacking. What's unusual is that I managed to get my little project to the point of actually being usable and useful. Who would have thought?

The LOL Cats meme is hilarious yet lame, so I made a script to auto-generate them: http://lol.ianloic.com/

It centers around turning feeds into pages of cat images. I was initially motivated by twitter but it works pretty well for most kinds of feeds.

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[info]dearanxiety wrote:
May. 31st, 2007 07:30 pm (UTC)
yay! neato!
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[info]loic wrote:
Jun. 1st, 2007 06:44 am (UTC)
yay!
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[info]anxiolytic wrote:
May. 31st, 2007 07:40 pm (UTC)
destined for greatness.
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[info]loic wrote:
Jun. 1st, 2007 06:45 am (UTC)
I'm on, like metafilter! That's close enough to greatness for me.
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[info]alibee wrote:
May. 31st, 2007 08:45 pm (UTC)
You == the bomb.
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[info]loic wrote:
Jun. 1st, 2007 06:45 am (UTC)
Why thank you. The cats did all the hard work.
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[info]enf wrote:
May. 31st, 2007 09:04 pm (UTC)
Excellent.
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[info]loic wrote:
Jun. 1st, 2007 06:46 am (UTC)
Indeed. I'd spent long enough working on this that by the time I was done I'd forgotten how neat it was.
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[info]msvyvyan wrote:
May. 31st, 2007 10:31 pm (UTC)
Headdesk.

Very, very clever. If maybe a little misguided. The universe does not need more bloody lolcats!
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[info]mpfl wrote:
May. 31st, 2007 11:03 pm (UTC)
When I see the pain and suffering in this world today, I come to only one conclusion: We need more lolcats.
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[info]loic wrote:
Jun. 1st, 2007 06:46 am (UTC)
And when you read the news with cute cats it's like sugar for the bitter medicine of doom.
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[info]loic wrote:
Jun. 1st, 2007 06:46 am (UTC)
Why do you hate cats so much? :)
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[info]vokzal wrote:
Jun. 1st, 2007 12:20 am (UTC)
I'm sorry, this is just awesome. I'm reposting in my lj and sharing the rotfl^H^H^H^Hagony.
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[info]loic wrote:
Jun. 1st, 2007 06:47 am (UTC)
Memes are for sharing, kind of by definition :)
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[info]arjache wrote:
Jun. 1st, 2007 02:15 am (UTC)
Man, some of those are impressively apt. Yay randomness! This is awesome.
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[info]loic wrote:
Jun. 1st, 2007 06:53 am (UTC)
People had suggested some kind of keyword-to-cat mappings but really - any bizarre phrase will map to any bizarre feline facial expression.
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[info]dealingwith wrote:
Jun. 1st, 2007 02:43 am (UTC)
the mefi one is right now very, very meta
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[info]loic wrote:
Jun. 1st, 2007 06:56 am (UTC)
Wow! That's pretty funny.
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[info]scromp wrote:
Jun. 1st, 2007 02:50 am (UTC)
#memepool has been having a lot of fun with this.
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[info]loic wrote:
Jun. 1st, 2007 06:58 am (UTC)
It turns out that random cats + dissociated words = some value of hilarity... Glad you guys found it useful.
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[info]trs80 [typekey.com] wrote:
Jun. 1st, 2007 07:58 am (UTC)
More *lol: http://www.flickr.com/groups/lolburners/pool/ http://www.ee0r.com/lolckyhorror/ and a whole bunch more linked at http://laughingsquid.com/roll-your-own-lol-not-just-for-cats-anymore/
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[info]badgerbag wrote:
Jun. 4th, 2007 10:42 pm (UTC)
genius!!!
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[info]loic wrote:
Jun. 4th, 2007 11:42 pm (UTC)
thanks!
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[info]wintersweet wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2007 03:48 am (UTC)
Very, very, very clever. Though I'm having a little trouble convincing [info]jenniferward that they're truly random. ([info]hoshizora's were very good, too.)
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[info]loic wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2007 06:41 am (UTC)
Folks have encouraged me to attempt to match up the right cat with the right words, but I really don't think it's necessary. You can read just about anything into a cat's face.
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[info]wintersweet wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2007 06:45 am (UTC)
That's pretty much what I said to her...

Thanks for the dose of random silliness--I'm in the final throes of my thesis and I really needed.
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[info]loic wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2007 07:05 am (UTC)
No problem. Thank the cats, they provide the faces, I just give them words.
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[info]crankynick wrote:
Jun. 7th, 2007 01:26 pm (UTC)
You are a bad, bad, man

They did this to one of the right wing lunatics that infests Larvatus Prodeo
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[info]loic wrote:
Jun. 7th, 2007 07:46 pm (UTC)
I only use technology for evil.
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[info]crankynick wrote:
Jun. 7th, 2007 11:41 pm (UTC)
Fair enough, too.

Should be more of it.
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[info]f00lsw1sd0m wrote:
Jun. 7th, 2007 07:41 pm (UTC)
Having helped http://icanhascheezburger.com move over to http://WordPress.com, you would think I have had enough lol cats, but Ian this is great!
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[info]loic wrote:
Jun. 7th, 2007 07:45 pm (UTC)
Ooh, I should make it easier to lolcatify your wordpress.com blog...
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[info]f00lsw1sd0m wrote:
Jun. 7th, 2007 07:55 pm (UTC)
Haha, I am contributing to the lol cat monster formerly known as Ian.
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[info]loic wrote:
Jun. 7th, 2007 08:06 pm (UTC)
I can't help it! They're so cute!

And I've got a wordpress section on my page now. I need to improve that page for long-term use.
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