Just when you thought the “two memes one shirt” phenomenon had hit its last iteration (how long before we see a “Three Wolves with Dead Kittens in their Mouths on a Moon” shirt?), The Mountain — the company behind the world’s first viral T-shirt — is apparently looking for a book deal.

The proposal for Sheep in Wolves Clothing, co-authored by Gregg Turkington and Michael McGloin, found itself in our inbox the other day and we thought we’d share some of the highlights:

Read more in “Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt: The Book?”

With record heat in Los Angeles it seemed that anyone who had even remote access to a pool had a pool party over the weekend. But what if you didn’t have a pool-ready friend or didn’t have the cash to plunk down for the Roosevelt or even one of those inflatable numbers?

​Miraculously, there’s a pool in Hollywood that you don’t have to be Nicole Richie or a even a hotel guest to partake in.

Pagoda Bar, a newly opened space at popular L.A. restaurant Yamashiro’s is probably one of L.A.’s best kept secrets, and this Sunday also became the best place to network while slathering on sunscreen.

Read more in “Digital Pool Party: Digital L.A. at Pagoda Bar.”

Thank you Mark Zuckerberg; Because before today I found “Fromage” more useful than the FB iPhone app.

Before you take over Google, please fix “Events.”

Thanks in advance.

The LAWeekly has submitted a SXSW panel that brings together tech scene thought leaders from across the nation and thought I would share our top secret wish-list of panelists. Because I can.

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By Guest Author Jacob Nahin

Cream-colored walls. Cushioned sofas. The smell of succulent Indian food wafts through the air and reaches my nostrils. “It’s going to be a filling night,” I think. I was right.

Photo courtesy Kevin Winston

Digital LA, founded by Kevin Winston and known for its hip mixers and stacked panels, held its “Entertainment Goes Social Panel” August 13 at the Writer’s Guild of America in LA My expectations going into the event were modest, for no other reason than I like to go with an open mind. Besides, it was going to be a little difficult to beat the tweet-up with LA-tech noteables Daniel Egan and KW before the panel. I won an Xbox 360 at TwiistUp a couple weeks earlier and Daniel passed off the prize to me at a nearby Starbucks. ‘Turns out the best was yet to come.

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Lately we’ve noticed a disturbing trend amongst our social networking invites. Along the onslaught of people you don’t know haranguing you to join LinkedIn, there also lies an entirely different breed, friends i.e. people we go grab beers with etc., asking us to become their fans.

Not that we aren’t fans of our friends (we are), but when people we know on a personal level are asking us to become a fan, or by definition an “enthusiastic devotee, follower, or admirer of a sport, pastime, celebrity, etc” it begs inquiry as to what exactly constitutes a “sport, pastime, or celebrity” in this day of instant and abundant fame.

A time-consuming search through Facebook pages reveals some of the dumb things you can become a fan of. And to save you clicking time, we’ve compiled some of the best…

Read more at “Five Most Pointless Facebook Fan Pages.”

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone just announced the launch of “Phase One” of a Re-tweet API called “Project Retweet” on the Twitter blog.

Aside from the fact that this actually seems pretty rad (buh bye copying and pasting!) one of the most striking (IMHO) things about the post is how skillfully Biz has drawn the impromptu API mock-up.

Artwork by Biz Stone

It’s beautifully rendered and makes me wish (albeit briefly) for a hand-drawn sketch version of the popular micro-blogging service. Hey if this Twitter thing doesn’t work out, maybe Biz could hit up the art world?

Video courtesy WALL OF FLUFF.

Look at that little face (I’m such a sucker).

I was joking about this last week and then it actually happened. Now I’m thinking www.bitchstolemytweet.com should be a place when people can register complaints:

For example, Michael Arrington (@arrington) “stole my tweet” about a LAWeekly.com article today and attributed it to Facebook, by making it look like @facebook had actually re-tweeted it.

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Just one thing Sean, how the bejesus did you make and get this up so fast?

Check it out full size here.