Today Cambridge will be crowded with unrecognizable celebrities—even more than it is usually is—as ROFLcon kicks off at MIT. Bostonist has no idea what Brad Neely looks like, or The Guy Who Does XKCD, or The Guys Who Do Homestar Runner, but they'll be participating in panels, sipping Brawndo, monetizing their niche humor, and presumably Rolling On the Floor Laughing. (This Bostonist only remembers what Jeph Jacques looks like because we've held onto some incriminating photographs from our incriminating hippie-college days.)

Organized by free-culture-loving Harvard and MIT undergraduates, ROFLCon's noted experts in the fields of linguistically-challenged cats, white people (and the stuff they like), Tron, and Chuck Norris studies will present their findings to an audience of compulsive Twitterers and Rick-rollers.

The Internet also has evening plans: an all-ages "Music Show of the Memes" at the Middle East tonight will feature the songs of Lemon Demon, Group X, Leslie and the LYs, Trocadero (of Red vs. Blue fame), and Denny "the Average Homeboy" Blaze. The woefully scarce tickets are only available to registered conference attendees—fortunately, Saturday evening's "huge ass dance party" is open to the public after 11 p.m.

Registration for ROFLCon is way closed, but if you want to participate virtually (and what better way?), check out the live streaming video.

Rick Sawyer contributed to this post.

ROFLCon promotional image by Dino of Bert is Evil. Used under a Creative Commons license (natch).