Although I haven’t been writing a great deal recently, the blagosphere certainly hasn’t lessened in any way its ceaseless attempts to bring the newest and strangest things to the attention of those who care to read the myriad sources of information that now exist. In fact, whilst some people might have celebrated Universal Day of the Jedi, and others welcomed in Towel Day, many others on May 25th were celebrating the breakout of Caturday. Although the majority of my subscriptions in Google Reader are music/science/astronomy based I’ve still heard about this phenomenon a bit too much.

The best thing to come out of it (besides Dubyah’s page on LOLPresident.com) is LOLCODE, an emerging programming language that could be about to kick PERL squarely in the chest. You can read more about it (and contribute) on the official website but here is how to open a text file in LOLCODE:

HAI

CAN HAS STDIO?

PLZ OPEN FILE “LOLCATS.TXT”?

AWSUM THX

VISIBLE FILE

O NOES

INVISIBLE “ERROR!”

KTHXBYE

Insanely stupid but very funny. It has even spawned some attempts at serious analysis, though as with anything to do with cats on the internet, this should be taken with a pinch of salt and some anti-cuteness tablets.

Image: from the ever genius XKCD