Last year's infographics craze taught us all some very basic facts about every topic imaginable -- including, in the end, the infographics themselves. Graphic designers love self-referential whimsy, and they loved making fun of the often amateurish data visualizations, using the infographic designers' own format against them. So here are 16 meta-infographics that mock, defend or explain ...

We've been talking quite a bit to Blake Boston, AKA Scumbag Steve. He comes across as a nice guy who's excited about all the internet attention and almost feels bad for crashing his own meme party. So Urlesque's resident artist Susie Cagle drew a new picture of Scumbag Steve (which you can use to make your own memes), and I used it to write a ballad. Now we just need someone to sing it. ...

Pixar's Brad Bird (writer-director of animated hits like The Incredibles, The Iron Giant and Ratatouille) is accepting the Winsor McCay Award, a lifetime achievement recognition from the Annie Awards, and he has some huge career news to share with everyone. I won't ruin it for you. ...

Blake Boston, the rapper whose MySpace photo was used for a meme character named Scumbag Steve, read Urlesque's Scumbag Steve post. He's a fan. We "did him a solid," he says in a rambling email he (or someone posing as him) sent me this weekend. In the email, he says his girlfriend's pregnant, which is definitely a logical thing to share with a blogger who already published his last email. He ...

NSFW language in links. Scumbag Steve is your douchebag roommate. He borrows your lighter -- permanently. He leaves a mess in your kitchen. He might even daterape. Scumbag Steve is a character invented on Reddit's Trees subforum and developed on the AdviceAnimals subforum, which features pics of animals or people with a line of text above and below them, like the one of Steve here. But ...

Koalas aren't supposed to eat apples. They eat eucalyptus leaves. And they hang out in trees, not on sidewalks. So when you see one hanging out on a curb munching on fruit, you know he's had a rough time lately. That's why when I saw this video, I made a tribute to the roller-coaster life of a former koala tycoon. ...

The History, Discovery and Learning Channels are no longer anything like they used to be. Everyone knows this. Compare their lineups. It's a regular internet joke. Sometimes done well, sometimes not. In this one-minute clip, the Learning Channel gets mocked in a deadpan parody that doesn't oversell its jokes. I snorted. ...

Surviving the World is a simple kind-of-comic, where a guy in a lab coat (Dante Shepherd) teaches you things about life. Sometimes he uses graphs, often he just writes up an aphorism or observation on his blackboard. It's simple stuff. But there's no padding. And somehow, the creator's bro-ey look makes his lessons seem wise. ...

I wanna warn you, the pictures that stream across mlkshk are often NSFW. Most social media sites begin with a friendly collection of nerds, like Twitter and Reddit and Tumblr and Facebook (Harvard students, all nerds). Mlkshk is one of those weird ones, like 4chan and Dump.fm (birthplace of the Deal With It meme), that starts with chaos. Like 4chan and Dump, mlkshk is a picture-sharing ...

Dude, I found this guru. He blogs the great works of philosophy in language we can understand. He is known as Philosophy Bro, and by that... shall... he be known. Man. The Tao, Pascal's Wager, Plato's allegory of the cave. He says Hobbes' "Leviathan" bongs down to "Dudes are f*cking d*cks." Bro is on it like me on your mom. That is to say often, and loudly. BRO CALM DOWN I AM TALKING ...