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Filed under: Fun, Internet, Humor

Halloween costumes from the Internet: happy Hallo-meme!

While it's still not possible to download a Halloween costume, stepping away from the computer for a few hours to trick or treat or go to a costume party doesn't mean you have to leave the Internet behind. In fact, Know Your Meme has come up with a guide to dressing up as your favorite online meme. They have instructions for everything from Keyboard Cat to the Flying Spaghetti Monster to that rabbit with a pancake on his head.

Unfortunately, because you can't trick-or-treat the Internet (yet), you and your friends might be the only ones who think your costumes are funny. To be fair, though, some of them are really, really funny, and going door-to-door with your kid dressed as the pancake bunny is a guaranteed candy goldmine.

If you're planning to dress up as an Internet meme or something software-related - anybody going as the Mozilla Firefox? - let us know in the comments. And post some photos if you've got them. This is the Internet, after all: pics or it didn't happen!

Filed under: Audio, Fun

Oh, cheer up! Just push the red button ...

We've noticed a meme traveling around Twitter lately that seems to be making people's days at the office a little more fun. Or, depending on how you look at it, making their coworkers' days just a little more annoying. What is this life-changing trend? Old-school sound effects buttons.

If you need a drummer to punctuate all your snappy remarks, like some kind of quirky late-night talk show host, visit Instant Rim Shot. If something doesn't quite go as planned for you or someone in the room with you, go to Sad Trombone. These are perhaps the two most indispensable sound effects in any jokester's repertoire.

Safari users, take note: this is where you finally get some use out of that Web Clip feature, so you can keep these in your Dashboard for the appropriate occasion. We hope you enjoy them -- or loathe them -- as much as we do.

Thanks to Jim Ray for the Web Clip idea!

Filed under: Internet, Video, News, Web services

Megite and Tailrank make it easier to find popular videos

Tailrank
Ever spend hours looking through YouTube videos only to find out that there's a famous clip of Mentos and Coke being played on CNN that you missed? Well, I don't know if that's the problem these new sites are set to fix, but there's a new crop of services designed to help you find popular videos.

Megite and Tailrank are sites that track popular news stories based on how they are linked to in other blogs. This week both sites added video tracking, which determines how popular online videos are based on how often they are linked to or embedded in other sites.

NewTeeVee writes that Megite has a prerelease version of their video tracking service, while Tailrank 2.1 with a "Video Memetracker" was released on Tuesday.

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