Rickrolling the Teacher

You may have heard of the Internet meme called "Rickrolling," which is surprising an audience with the music video of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up." The surprise comes when the audience thinks they author is sending them to one site, but instead sends them to the video.

(For the Wikipedia article on "Rickrolling," go here.)

If you just clicked on the link above, you've seen what I mean.

The actual Wikipedia article is here.

Ok, it's actually here.

Recently, a student "rickrolled" his physics professor by starting the first word of each line of his paper with one of the lyrics from the song. This is an interesting way to remediate new media back into old media, taking an online meme and putting it offline in a printed document. This rickrolling also required the student to think about layout, whether or not he consciously understood his design choices this way at the time.

Click below the full article from io9.com (for real this time).

Student Rickrolls His Teacher in this Ingenious Quantum Physics Essay