Welp – rumors are all true – and it really happened.

We’re pretty much absolutely thrilled to officially announce today that America’s nicest, most family-friendly little community on the entire internet, Encyclopedia Dramatica, has come on board as a sponsor for ROFLCon III!

Just epic. We’re still processing how to deal with it all. It’s sort of like the Internet just reached out and gave us a call saying that they wanted to buy us a kitty or beat us up or something.

ED itself, of course, needs little introduction for anyone who happens to be reading this blog. So, we’ll just leave this here to represent how we feel about it all and let that be that.

If you’re like us over at ROFLCon HQ, you may have had the pleasure of catching Taiwan-based Next Media Animation’s bizzarely awesome short machinima reproductions of current events: the Tiger Woods car crash, the Zuck IPO, Steve Jobs, and so on. We generally are all agreed that pretty much all information on the internet should be presented this way.

And so, we’re thrilled today to announce that the overlords over at NMA are dispatching Chris Vespoli, the lead writer and mastermind behind much of this work, to represent at ROFLCon III!

And that’s not all! Happy to pair out the announcement with the additional twist that Next Media Animation itself is coming aboard as a sponsor on the event — I have to admit tangentially we’re sort of hoping to team up to produce a piece that features a polygon’d Tron Guy. Welcome aboard, folks!

He’s back! Mr. Leeroy Jenkins (Ben Schulz) of World of Warcraft fame will be returning to Cambridge and running amok, so prepare yourselves for some action, homies

So much moar coming soon y’all, get ready for an excited week! For now, at least we have chicken.

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DOCTOR MOOTY MOOT MOOTKINS WILL AT ROFLCON III.

THANK YOU INTERNET THAT WILL BE ALL

Only 98 days left until ROFL3 kicks off, and we are starting to really pick up steam! Next up we have Jonti Picking, known better as Weebl of Weebl’s Stuff. You may remember Weebl from such things as Badger Badger Badger, Narwhals, and Magical Trevor.

He will be rolling through town, providing some good laughs and memorable meetings for everyone in his path!

Happy Friday y’all!

…and by that we really mean that we’ve confirmed Dan Sinker, the voice behind that which is @MayorEmanuel.

If you’re not familiar with the whole saga of Dan and the role of his deftly-fuck-laden anonymous bit of Twitter epic poetry in massively disrupting the election news cycle of a major metropolis, you really need to get yourself to this here article.

You may be also interested in the inexplicably published book of those tweets. We’re mentioning this because we’re hoping that Dan will relate that time that Rahm himself showed up at his book party and signed the book, “You are an Asshole.” For serious.

You can read more about Dan at his website, in particular his awesome work with the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership, which we’ll be sure to force him to talk about at the conference in addition to the lolz. Excited!

The man, the myth, the legend.

We had the pleasure of meeting the classy and inimitable Mr. Christian Baker – who is the mastermind behind Tastefully Offensive — when we were out in Portland a few months back running ROFLCon Summit.

As we learned later over lunch, in the true spirit of ROFLCon, Christian is basically a scrappy upstart – a one man army operation devoted to single-handedly digesting the web and distilling it into a fresh, single-malt data stream of the amusingist things the internets has to offer.

In any case, we’re thrilled to announce today that Christian will be breaking the mold and jumping on board as the first non-veteran sponsor of ROFLCon III! Welcome aboard!

Oh, also just another note today.

Excited to announce that Matt Oswald, the originator of Me Gusta, will be at ROFLCon III.

ME GUSTA.

As we’re finding this round around, old friends are sometimes the best friends, and the good people of the e-mail newsletter list management juggernaut Mailchimp are no exception. They were sponsors for ROFLCon II a few years back, and we’re thrilled to announce that we’re teaming up again for getting ROFLCon III together.

Additionally, we’re proud to let word out that MailChimp has come in rare company at our highest DEFENDER OF THE INTERNET REALM level. In addition to all sorts of shady favors in tropical isles and black helicopter rides, this means that we’re partnering up with their absolutely amazing team to develop out the design of the swag package this year. This has usually been a pretty involved thing in the past.

You’ll see more of this as it comes together, but suffice it to say that what’s being planned is amazing (if you haven’t seen the sorts of things they get up to and support outside the e-mail list biz, please see and this).

So to Mark, Ben, and the entire Mailchimp team, you rock. Welcome aboard!

Most recently working with her old pals over at Buzzfeed as their Senior Creative Strategist, Lindsey has been active in the blogosphere and social media realms as the former Social Media lead for the Barbarian Group and blogger for Urlesque.

As you can see, Lindsey is a funny gal and we are stoked to welcome her to the party! You can check out here personal blog here or check up on her musing over at Buzzfeed!

Back for 2012, Joel Veitch of rather good is going to be back in Cambridge again for some love and lols and lager (perhaps not all or in that order). Since then he has continued to keep the Internet chuckling with claymation videos of Royal Wedding and all other amusing videos.

More big news soon! The week only gets more exciting from here

Exciting news ROFLers. Say welcome back to David and David DeVore for some more after dentist shenanigans! We had so much fun last time that we decided to get back together for another round of good times. So check in on the boys or watch the interview from ROFLCon II to get pumped in the coming months!

We’re always kind of surprised over here at the shady, underground lair (read: basement) that is ROFLCon Global HQ that this conference actually somehow works out to be a real thing each year. It absolutely would not have made it for so long without the sheer awesomeness of some friends that have been with us since the very beginning.

The good people over at Laughing Squid are no exception. They’ve been with us through thick and thin ever since we got started on those fateful few days in April 2008. And so, we’re thrilled to announce that they are teaming up with us and sallying forth with us once more as official sponsors for ROFLCon III!

It’s gonna be awesome. Thanks for being on board, folks.

Registration is open, Mystery Passes are rolling out, and the excitement is just starting.

Chris Torres, the man with the brains behind the pen behind Nyan (Poptart) Cat will be around to chat a bit at MIT. Check out his site LOL-Comics for more drawings, musings, and in general fun.

And what do you get when you combine the adorable kitty cat with an obnoxiously cutesy tune? Why this of course. I hope four months is enough time for y’all to either manage whistling just right, or to purge it from your brain, either way enjoy!

As promised, registration for ROFLCon III is now open! We’re thrilled to offer this year’s passes to you in three, unique tasty flavors:

* Student Pass: $45 (student ID required)

* Regular Pass: $65 (for everyone else)

* MYSTERY PASS: $500 (???????????)

Yep. All available now at ye olde Eventbrite ticketing. This is the early bird discounted registration fee, prices for passes will rise on March 1st. We will also be capping registration when we hit our capacity limit over at MIT, so act now while supplies last.

Have at it, ladies and germs.

The names may be rolling out faster and faster, but the excitement never ceases!

Andy Baio is another ROFLCon Summit alumni who will coming to the east coast for a ROFL-style party! In case you don’t know Andy used to work at Kickstarter until last year and is now working with Expert Labs. He was the first person to coin the term “Supercut,” a collection of which can be found here, and if you have not been to waxy.org then you are missing out on insightful and entertaining blogging. Most recently about a full length remix of Pulp Fiction and copyright infringement. There are plenty of fascinating reads to keep you going until May, so read up!

That’s right y’all. Mr Chuck Testa of Ojai Valley Taxidermy is locked in and ready to come out to ROFLCon. Nope! Chuck Testa has been used on current events such as the death of Steve Jobs and Muammar Gaddafi as well as on such childhood memories as Mufasa’s tragic end and the hard to cope with end of Albus Dumbledore, and even worked into some notorious Internet scandals.

Hope you are as excited as we are to meet him! More updates and registration info soon!

Back for another round of excitement we have Ethan Zuckerman, director of the MIT Center for Civic Media and ROFLCon alumni. Ethan has been quite busy this last year, discussing topics from SOPA to cultural developments in Nigeria. Here is his ROFLCon inspired post from last year.

Moar soon!

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If you ask someone who Nate Dern is, you might just get a blank “huh?” which is a surprisingly appropriate response. His one liner in this AT&T commercial and resulting rage face created quite a bit of excitement on reddit, and now he is getting ready to meet you at ROFL3!

Still curious about Nate? You can have a good read up about him here. Until next time homies

Good news everyone! The new year is upon us, hangovers are in effect, the countdown to natural disasters only John Cusack can get away from has begun and our speaker list is filling up.

What does it mean?! That’s right, Mr. Vasquez, aka Yosemite Bear, aka the Double Rainbow guy will be coming to you live from Cambridge. If you have not seen the video (impossible, I know), or the autotuned version then you definitely want to get hip to that ASAP.

Welcome to 2012 everyone