Cakes: no lie

Previously I blogged about a Rickroll cake that was hidden beneath a 'cake that was a lie'...


Well, here’s yet another Rickroll cake.



It’s not too surprising though. It seems that the Internet memes and in-jokes have long been the inspiration for some fantastic cake ideas. It all goes to show, if it exists, there is cake of it.

Check out some of these geeky masterpieces:

The perfect Portal cake, baked using the recipe found hidden in the Portal game. (Instructions via instructables)


The AYBABTU cake from Flickr


The Mudkip cake made by Clever Cake Studio. Here's another.


The Domo cake found on Deviant Art and instructions on how to make your own.

 The Dramatic Hamster/Prairie Dog cake (via Flickr)

 The Lolrus cake... made of fish!

Two 1337 cakes

Pirates vs Ninja cake from Scienceblogs

The Chuck Norris cake

The Hypnotoad inspired Hypnocake.




And here's a bonus: a FAIL cake - they asked for it to read "Best Wishes Suzanne" and underneath that, "We will miss you".

For more Internet-inspired cakes, see Gizmodo’s cake gallery and this geekcake blog.

And while we’re on the subject of baked goods, here’s a Pi Pie.

Spot the Memes in this Weezer music video

This new Weezer video for the band's latest single 'Pork and Beans' features a number of YouTube in-jokes. Check out the video and see how many you can spot.




(Here's the YouTube link)

You should recognise Peanut Butter Jelly Time, Dramatic Hamster, Chocolate Rain, AYBABTU, Star Wars Kid, Numa Numa and many more.

If you're not familiar with Chris Crocker of 'Leave Britney Alone' fame, Mentos and Diet Coke or Afro Ninja - stay tuned, I'll get to them.

But of course - like most great ideas - this one has been done before. The Barenaked Ladies also made a music video featuring internet memes and celebs. But their video just isn't as good, so it didn't have the same appeal. Check it out:

Do Not Want

You gotta love bad Engrish translations. ‘Engrish’ is loosely defined as the humorous mistakes that come from translating Chinese or Japanese into English.

Previously I blogged about the AYBABTU meme which developed because of the strange translation of Japanese text into English.

DO NOT WANT is also a meme that developed from a strange translation:

A pirated version of Star Wars Episode III appeared for sale in the US soon after the movie release. This version had subtitles that had been translated into Chinese and then back into English – with some strange results.

Even the opening credits, where the English words appear on the screen have been mistranslated.
(The backstroke of the West?)








But the scene that started the meme appears right at the end of the movie when Darth Vader screams “NOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

Darth Vader’s cry appears in subtitles as “Do Not Want”.





And the rest is history.

The phrase has been used to create hundreds of Image Macros (many feature LOLcats, but the meme is certainly not limited to pictures of cats).

All your base are belong to us!

What is it?

“All your base are belong to us" is a broken English phrase taken from the opening cut scene of a 1989 video game called Zero Wing. It sparked an Internet phenomenon in 2001 and 2002 that was incredibly popular amongst gamers.


The year is 2101, and a war has started. The scene is the interior of the command deck of some form of battle cruiser, in which a captain is stood watching an explosion rip around the ship. The captain enquires 'What happen?', to which the ship's mechanic replies 'Someone set up us the bomb.' Next, the ship's operator states 'We get signal' and 'Main screen turn on', revealing to the captain that the perpetrator is none other than the dastardly, borg-like CATS! CATS asks 'How are you gentlemen!!' and then tells the captain of his impending downfall - 'All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.' Finding it hard to take this news, the captain replies 'What you say!!', but CATS simply replies 'You have no chance to survive make your time', following which he laughs rather maniacally and then disappears. Resolving to win despite the odds, the captain orders the operator to 'Take off every Zig.' The captain instructs the Zig pilots, 'You know what you doing', then repeats to them to 'Move Zig' and states that he fights 'For great justice'.


Huh?
The intense popularity of this clip derived from it’s poor – and therefore humorous – translation from Japanese into English. After an animated GIF of the opening sequence was posted on a gaming site, the craze started to catch on. Altered images of road signs, cereal packets and other photographs containing the words 'All Your Base Are Belong To Us' had started to appear. Techno remixes of T-shirts featuring the line were sold by enterprising online stores. The story was picked up by newspapers and TV-stations around the world.

But as more and more TV channels, newspapers, websites and 'celebrities' began to jump on the bandwagon, it became important for those who wanted to remain credible to reject the craze as old news.

Soon it died out, although new parodies pop up every now and then. These include 'All your Iraq belong to U.S.' and the techno remix of the video clip.