What's New, Memecat?

I was a teenager when MC Hammer's take on the Running Man and other dance moves stormed the hip hop dance scene. Kid N' Play, Roger Rabbit, Robocop, and Cabbage Patch were all knocked out as everyone began dancing variations of MC Hammer's moves. I used to play his videos backwards and forwards in slow motion on my family's VCR, but even that dedicated research did not teach me as much as getting out onto the dance floor, watching and performing my own interpretations of what I saw.

MC Hammer has been building up DanceJam, a social community around dance moves where members can upload or point to videos and then compete. It already has an impressive list of dance moves, some of which we track here on Memecat.

It is all now accessible to the public so check it out!

In case you're wondering why many Memecat vidoes are not playing, the YouTube web site and video clips have been failing for at least an hour.

Update: YouTube is now back!

Cats In Sinks.

The wonderful Encyclopedia Dramatica has been upgraded, now sporting a blog and who knows what else. This wiki is a great collection of memes and internet phenomena, but better stay away if you don't like seeing some horrifying image with the caption: "MOAR!". If that is what you like, well, hit the random page link a few times (maybe you'll change your mind).

Yahoo Underground launched a few months ago but I just ran into it off of the Yahoo news page. Edited by Brad Miskel, this online mag covers alt topics such as grafiti and krumping in a way that takes the combination of different media sources to a whole new level.

Flickaday is a web app that makes it easier to create an everyday video. Putting an everyday together is deceptively easy - as anyone who tries to create a useful habit knows, it is easy to get off-track. Flickaday would ideally make all sorts of noise if its user forgets to add photos for a few days. I'll leave it to someone else to give it a test run.