Ars Technica is HARDLY jumping the shark.  Its a good rag with some cutting edge information on it, but I don’t know. I just got that feeling after reading the post that something happened; where a fun meme is stating to be taken too seriously and soon; worse; will have a plethora of ‘experts’ doing the daytime TV circuit helping to explain what these ‘really’ mean little jonny or susy Q decides to use it in facebook.  Sigh..

I guess I’m reacting not at much to what Ars wrote, as to the possibility that some ‘guru’ out there is going to take it even further.  Ug.  Still, I do like the little guide they posted.  Check it out.

BTW, if you want to know more about rage face comics, check out knowyourmeme.

Face	Description
	Cereal Guy: A versatile character, Cereal Guy generally express surly skepticism (if he’s just eating), but he’s been known to spit his cereal everywhere if he is shocked or surprised.
	Forever Alone: Forever Alone is a sad, lonely individual with no friends and few options in life. He can be found in any situation where someone is feeling morose or, as the name implies, alone.
	F–k Yea: Almost the polar opposite of Forever Alone, F–k Yea walks with a swagger that can only come from victory, be it from a major accomplishment or from successfully handling something in everyday life
	Herp Derp: A character no one in the Rage Kingdom enjoys, Herp Derp can sometimes be simply obtuse and dumb, but more commonly he’s self-centered, uninformed, and completely sure of himself.
	LOL Guy: An easy guy to understand, LOL Guy howls with laughter at the funny situations he finds in rage comics.
	Me Gusta: His name means “I like” in Spanish, which is exactly what he expresses. Me Gusta can be used to express enjoyment in anything from the perverse (such as odd sexual activities) to the mundane (such as petting a cat).
	Okay Guy: If you’ve ever felt powerless to change something, you understand Okay Guy. He doesn’t stand up for himself in any situation; he simply sighs and put up with what life throws at him.
	Poker Face: Poker Face tries to hide his embarrassment in any awkward or uncomfortable situation, trying to pretend nothing is out of the ordinary as he waits for the situation to resolve itself.
	Rage Guy: One of the most basic characters, Rage Guy expresses pure, blind rage, typically directed at life’s small, everyday annoyances (like Troll Face’s antics). Rage Guy has also spawned several spinoff characters, such as Derp.
	Troll Face: One of the oldest and most widely-used faces, Troll Face is a prankster who makes others’ lives more difficult for his own amusement. His wide, toothy grin perpetually snickers at his victims.

Most of the images are pretty good quality so you should be able to take these guys to the printers, laminate, and your are good to go!  Dice and Beer not included.

Now, a few random ones I grabbed for your drunk gaming pleasure.

– Paint in the comic
– Drag, enlarge, rotate or flip your memes to layout your comic as you want.
– Export your creations to the camera roll or send them directly by email.
– Use any picture from your camera roll inside your comics.
– More than 240 memes included

This is not the first tool by any means, heck you can even put rage comics in you IM’s, SMS text messages and email. You say you want to use rage comics in Facebook? Got you covered there as well.

And just for fun, here is a brief and incomplete rageface timeline of when they came out.

So good on ya mate, and enjoy your new freedom…  That being said, who wants to me a mod?

This extension does have its limit, if the person who is reading your message does not have this emoticon, then they only see the text version.  Still, its a cool add on.

I have not tried it myself since my Android is stilling in a box somewhere, (using the iphone for now), but I’ll dig it out at some point and replace the iphone screenshot.  However, if someone installs this and can send me a screenshot, that would be sweetness.

As far as I know, there is not an iphone app for making rage comics.

Here is the link to the app and source code.  Its 100% free and open source.  Nice.  Someone by this nice young man a beer.

http://code.google.com/p/android-rage-maker/

They work well enough. Simply click on the rageface you are interested in, it copies it to your clipboard, then paste in SMS.  And with richtext coming in iOS 5, I would bet you can do this in email as well.

BTW here is a link for an iOS rage comic generator in case you were looking for that.

Enjoy.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rage-faces-for-sms/id406504595?mt=8

http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/communication/rage-faces_osfc.html

Org:  http://bit.ly/iXWMVc

PVN: perivision.net/testing/Facebook-Rage-Faces.crx

Here is the source code.

Org: https://github.com/josePhoenix/Reddit-Rage-Faces

PVN: perivision.net/testing/josePhoenix-Reddit-Rage-Faces-5fade75.zip

More Rage Comics posts here.