Five Things You Had To See Online This Week

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This week in “Thanks, Internet” —Kanye gets the “Jerry Roll” treatment, Kermit finds a new pig, the New Yorker is sorta mocked, songs get autocanonized, and ducks make some noise.

1. What’s the Deal with Award Shows?

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Kanye gave an epically Kanye speechat the MTV VMAs on Sunday. By Tuesday it had been turned into a stand-up routineand by Wednesday it had been turned into a cold open for Seinfeld. Thanks, internet.

2. Kermit The Cad?

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The internet was very upset and, in some cases, very happy to learn that Kermit has a new girlfriend named Denise. Not sure where we stand yet, but it’s good to know the green guy has a type.

3.The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Generator

Two dudes at the Verge made a New Yorker cartoon caption generator this week to help just about anyone try and win the magazine’s decade-old caption contest. They took the first, second, and third place winning entries, all 1,425 of them, and ran them through a text generator that analyzes the winners and creates new, totally random entries that echo the original set. Even if you don’t end up winning, it’s a great way to pass some time.

4. TheAutocanonizer

The Autocanonizer

In music, acanon(also known as a round) is a piece where one voice states a melody, anda second voice repeats that melody before the first is finished — think “Row Row Row Your Boat.”Here’s a fancierversion of a canon.The Autocanonizertakes any song and turns it into a canon byidentifying melodies or motifs within the song and repeating those parts over each other in a looping pattern.If you’ve got nothing going this long weekend, we recommend spending a few hours of this nifty tool.

5. Quack

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