Follower of Hip as Fuck will probably remember the Mario Kart DUI experiment. If you don’t, just click that link. Anyway, it came, it went, and it got a few hits from people Googling Mario Kart, as well as a handful of hits from iluvspokane and yada yada yada. As HaF is only updated now and again, it usually only gets about 11 unique hits a day, and about 50-100 on the day it’s actually updated. Hardly an Internet destination in other words.

A few weeks ago something happened however. All of a sudden i got about 1,500 uniques in a day, most of them on the aforementioned Mario post. Huh. Turned out A Whole Lotta Nothing, had found the post interesting enough to post a link to it, which, of course, was cool. For those not familiar with the blog, it’s from the dude behind MetaFilter, so it gets a good hit ratio apparently.

Anyway, the hits flattened out again. Then…

What the…? Turns out kottke — the world’s 4th most powerful blog (whatever that means) according to Guardian — also made a mention about the experiment. After that the link started spreading, and sites like Kotaku wrote about the experiment.

So huh… The experiment was, of course, never meant to be taken seriously. It was just an excuse to drink some vodka (Vikingfjord, for the persnickety Mario Karter) and play a video game. It’s kinda hilarious that some people are getting up in arms about the technicalities behind the whole thing. Like: “No, no, no, you need a control, who plays w/o drinking, because people will get better at playing the course as they play it several times.” Well, no, we’ve played the course so many times I doubt we could get much better or worse at it at this rate. But whatever.

Fo realz yo.

… yeah, I don’t really “get” them. I mean, some of their songs are fairly catchy, but whoever called it all, and I paraphrase, “pretentious pap,” was definitely right. Actually that might have been me.

And exactly why do they dress like hippies, look like hippies, act like hippies while claiming they don’t like the comparison. It’s like hipsters bitching about the hipster term.

They really just make me want to go listen to the type of music they’re ripping off.

As anyone with good taste knows, we (”we” being the visionaries behind the gone but not forgotten Tortillaphilia) launched All Over Your Faces yesterday, a site dedicated to the fauxlosophical musings we often come up with. You should visit it right now.

For those interested in these kinda things, here are some fun filled facts about the site:

• As the site isn’t overly complex content-wise, my goal was to keep the design modern, and ignore older browsers, resolutions, etc.
• This is Web 2.0.9 people! All Over Your Faces should really only be viewed in newer browsers, like Firefox 3, Safari 3, Opera 9.5, or IE 7 in a “high” resolution. Various elements’ positioning and use of transparent PNGs certainly wouldn’t work in IE6 at least.
• All the musings are posted to Twitter, and the site pulls them over hourly. Live updating from Twitter is kinda hopeless as, y’know, it’s down all the time. Twitter also has a 140 character limit, so the musings will always be short.
• In fact, you’ll probably stop reading newspapers and just live by our musings from now on.
• iluvspokane was developed to be very modular, which lets other sites hook into its code easily. All Over Your Faces uses a few of its classes, as well as its templating system, which made developing the back-end a fairly quick process.

Cahlupny wassubstituted early in the first halg. Team spokesman Aaron Heifetz after the game her vision had been affected temporarily but that she was expected to be ok.

From a story about how Norway crushed the US in the Olympic opener.

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization

Some highlights:

This obsession with “street-cred” reaches its apex of absurdity as hipsters have recently and wholeheartedly adopted the fixed-gear bike as the only acceptable form of transportation – only to have brakes installed on a piece of machinery that is defined by its lack thereof.

Loosely associated with some form of creative output, they attend art parties, take lo-fi pictures with analog cameras, ride their bikes to night clubs and sweat it up at nouveau disco-coke parties.

Hipsterdom is the first “counterculture” to be born under the advertising industry’s microscope, leaving it open to constant manipulation but also forcing its participants to continually shift their interests and affiliations. Less a subculture, the hipster is a consumer group – using their capital to purchase empty authenticity and rebellion.

Speaking of which, whatever happened to the “yupster”? I loved that classification! Somebody with good taste in music and movies but who was way too lazy/tired/old/had better things to do to actually follow trends? There’s something noble about that.