Chris Onstad Answers Your Questions About…Stuff…

Answering the overwhelming number of requests from the public, we’ve been able to successfully salvage the complete 2-hour chat transcript between various members of the crowd at last week’s Titans of Small-Town gallery show and creator of Achewood Chris Onstad. It’s pretty enlightening (as evidenced above).

Read it here! (warning: pdf).

One Time Opportunity To Own The DNA of the Internet

Just got word from ROFL-MC (and Reddit honcho) Alexis Ohanian that his outfit Breadpig has officially launched the auction for the ROFLDNA project!

If you were at ROFLThing-NYC, you might remember Alexis shadily going around and getting a bunch of our speakers/guests to swab their cheeks for DNA. These swabs were sent to the good people over at DNA11, who promptly combined them and created the gorgeous DNA Mini Portrait that you see above. It contains the genetic material of the following web folks:

• A.J. “HatPerson” Mazur of Lil’ Jon-Lazy Town Remix “Cooking By the Book”
• Jay “TRON guy” Maynard who needs no introduction
• Ian Spector of Chuck Norris Facts AND Mr. T Facts
• moot of 4chan
• Irina Slutsky of GeekEntertainment TV
• Jason Scott, owner of Sockington & master of TextFiles
• Charlie Todd of Improv Everywhere
• Damian Hess, AKA MC Frontalot of nerdcore hip-hop fame
• Vincent Connare, creator of Comic Sans
• Jamie Wilkinson of the FFFFF.AT Lab and Rocketboom

The hope, of course, is that one day we’ll be able to use the Mini Portrait to resurrect the entire internet in some grim bombed out cyberpunk future. But until then, you can own this totally sweet wall ornament and conversation piece. Keep it safe for future generations!

The auction ends this Thursday, so act fast if you want to get in. Best of all, the entire proceeds from the auction will be donated to the good people over @ Science Commons. Rock.

Benjamin Palmer To MC Titans of Small Town

Good news! This serious lookin’ dude we’ve got here is Benjamin Palmer, co-founder and CEO-honcho of The Barbarian Group. You might remember Benjamin from the original ROFLCon back in April, and we’re glad to announce today that we’ve brought him back to MC the Q&A session for the night!

He’ll also be exhibiting. Parts of his series, AWESOME_SCENES, will also be framed and on display that night (personal favorite).

Also, since we realized that in our excitement to announce Titans of Small-Town that we actually forgot to update the rest of the ROFLCon site. Our schedule, sidebar and registration pages have been updated accordingly. We’ll be opening doors at 6:30 PM on April 11th.

MUXTAPE LIVES

Oh man guys! This is probably the most exciting news that I’ve had since I found out that peanut butter indeed actually came in a slice form and skimmed 45 seconds off of my lunch packing time as a child.

Muxtape, the super awesome music playlist-sharing site that was taken down awhile back, is making an epic return: “relaunching soon, in the service of bands.”  The new guys up top, Justin Ouellette and Luke Crawford will be hanging out and handing out some swag. Be sure to show them some love.

UPDATE: No way: Muxtape for Bands is sponsoring Saturday night’s Afterparty for the Internets!!  You’ll see them on the dancefloor, joining us for some Serious Bu$iness.