Awesome Internet

Ok, you asked, and we’re telling. The Awesomer vehemently opposes both SOPA and Protect IP. Help kill these ridiculous, freedom-impeding bills by writing to Congress and expressing your outrage.

The GAG Quartet manages to cram over 40 popular Internet memes into a single jammin’ instrumental track. See if you can spot them all. Trust us, they’re not all as obvious as Nyan Cat.

Vsauce Michael is back with another science-y goodness – this time explaining how much the Internet… weighs. Even packing its massive wealth of information, it manages to keep a slim figure.

The smartass puppets of Glove and Boots are back, taking on all those annoying, intrusive ads that pay for all the video bandwidth you use up watching countless YouTube videos.

Learn how to make a website (that doesn’t suck) with Don’t Fear the Internet, a series of informal and noob-friendly Web Design 101 videos by Jessica Hische and Russ Maschmeyer.

Looking for something online? Google, Bing and Yahoo! too complicated for you? E-Z-Fynd offers a fast, easy, secure way to search the whole of the Internet faster than you can say “HotBot.”

Who here among us created this rather hilarious and (somewhat accurate) infographic that explains the difficulties of the modern-day internet lifestyle? Whoever you are, we love that belly full of vitriol.

Cocoon routes your web browsing through an SSL-secured proxy to make it private. It also provides disposable email boxes and online storage of your browsing history. 45-day free trial avail.

If you have trouble visualizing 1.73 billion users and 90 trillion emails, JESS3’s The State of The Internet is a feast for the eyes and the brain; numbers are provided by pingdom.

V.R. pioneer Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not A Gadget is a manifesto on the dangers of Web 2.0 outpacing cultural needs; in it, he tackles issues such as mob behavior and collectivism.

It was intended as a contest to make your own trailer for an upcoming BBC web series, but The Web for Beginners shows what happens when you mix geek humor and creative editing.

Based on the “xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel” comic strip, I Love XKCD will fill your heart with geeky love; it’s a bit short, but Olga Nune’s performance makes up for it.

You probably spend a bit too much time online if you can identify every single person in this Internet People 2 video: it’s a musical rundown of (mostly) famous web personalities.

Take 333 of the most important websites and the 111 most influential people and you have Web Trend Map 4; it’s mapped in the style of the Tokyo Metro and is limited to 1,000 pieces.