For years now Flickr has been greeting newly logged in users with messages in different languages. It’s a really nice touch with helps one learn something new each day, but without getting in the way.  While I do pay attention to these messages, usually they don’t puzzle me for more than a couple of seconds (as in “how do I read that?”).
Today, however, was different. It was the first time ever that I was greeted in Lolcat.
Lolcat, if you don’t know, is a sort of broken, but funny, English language, which usually goes together with an image of a cat. The name comes from LOL – an acronym for “laughing out loud”, and cat – an animal on the picture.
As I said, it was the first time I saw Lolcat used somewhere outside of a lolcat web site (like i can haz cheezburger). And I was surprised to see at Flickr, which is not exactly the most serious of web sites, but is still rather big and popular.
My second reaction to this Lolcat spotting was to write this post. My first reaction was “Oh culz!!!”
