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The auction got another bump from ScienceCommons before bidding ended this afternoon at $455. I trust they’ll enjoy the ROFLDNA.

This is breadpig’s second ROFL-success (last year’s ROFLaptop contest ended at $521 raised for OLPC) but this one-of-a-kind-DNA-artwork was the idea of Erik Martin, reddit community manager, troublemaker, and member of the breadpig honor guard. And the folks at DNA11 were all-stars for accommodating our rather unorthodox request — delivering a gorgeous final product.

Also, we couldn’t have done it without the great folks of ROFLCON and of course, our fabulous DNA-donating Internet celebrities:

• A.J. “HatPerson” Mazur of Lil’ Jon-Lazy Town Remix “Cooking By the Book”
• Jay “TRON guy” Maynard who needs no introduction
• Ian Spector of Chuck Norris Facts AND Mr. T Facts
• moot of 4chan
• Irina Slutsky of GeekEntertainment TV
• Jason Scott, owner of Sockington & master of TextFiles
• Charlie Todd of Improv Everywhere
• Damian Hess, AKA MC Frontalot of nerdcore hip-hop fame
• Vincent Connare, creator of Comic Sans
• Jamie Wilkinson of the FFFFF.AT Lab and Rocketboom

Thank you. The breadpig salutes you.

We kept the auction period for this ScienceCommons fundraiser to a crisp 3 days. ROFLDNA has done well thus far. Thanks to breadpig’s friends at Laughing Squid, ROFLCon, and all the wonderful people on the Twitter, we’re looking to send a nice check to a very worthy organization.

Bidding ends tomorrow (April 9th) at 14:00:20 PDT. This is a once-in-a-lifetime piece of geek memorabilia and humanities only hope for breeding a new super race of Internet meme generators.

Update! ROFLDNA also got some props from Sniffing the beaker (please keep sending in other shoutouts that we missed).

The breadpig couldn’t be more pleased. This DNA artwork will be a handsome addition to someone’s desk, mantle, or dinner table. The designers at DNA11 did a great job synthesizing meme-master DNA and style it with their signatures.

Bidding will start on Monday, April 6.

Democracy isn’t always pretty, but it’s the best thing we’ve got right now. The breadpig solicited your thoughts on the two designs for ROFLDNA and we came out with a pretty clear winner.

The artists @ DNA11 are now at work producing this genetic ROFLmasterpiece. More details to come.

We’ve just received word from the wonderful folks @ DNA11 (makers of DNA art) that ROFLDNA is nearing completion. But we’re at an impasse and we need your help. There are currently two designs on the virtual table for how we can arrange our collection of signatures within the DNA artwork.

ROFLDNA art version 1

The above version has a wholesome uniformity to it.

ROFLDNA art version 2

Whereas this version better reflects the chaos that is the Internet memescape. It’s profound, really.

Well, we’d like you to weigh in, either in the comments, on the twitter, or via email. The breadpig will make a decision by this weekend. It’s counting on you, Art History majors, we all are.