THIS IS NOT A JOKE: The Lolcat Bible Translation Project
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Hugh Upsher is a recent Michaelis graduate who lives with his parents in the suburbs. He loves rock n roll, skating, art, booze and chicks. "The LOLCat Bible Translation Project is a wiki-based website set up in July 2007 by Martin Grondin, where editors aim to adapt the entire Bible into "LOLspeak", the pidgin popularized by the LOLcat Internet phenomenon." (Thank you Jimmy Wales, and fuck you Harvard referencing). I have known about the project for a while now and was extremely excited to find out that the Bible is not only finished in it's entirety (Old and New Testaments with images) but about to be published. Pre-orders are now available from amazon.com. A massive collective effort over a period of more than three years has led to this astonishing achievement. The entire project is essentially based on a single meme called ceiling cat and the parallels one could draw between this particular image and God.
It is easy to disregard this ridiculous concept as pure Internet trash on face value but seeing it as a well executed, completed book really did change my initial reading of it. This project is not only a testament to the "If you build it, they will come" misquote but a loving tribute to people's need to dumb themselves down.While we are on the topic, here is Wikipedia in book form (Artist unknown).
posted by Hugh Upsher at 10:34 PM
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