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'Downton Abbey' Meets 'The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air' To Create 'The Fresh ...
'Downton Abbey' Meets 'The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air' To Create 'The Fresh ...

Think Twice Before Donating to Kony 2012, the Charitable Meme du Jour
Fine, I thought, clicking on the video and wondering why the people who usually bombarded me with cat memes and status updates about getting high and eating McDonalds were suddenly fervent supporters of Ugandan children. "Nothing is more powerful than ...

How Animated GIFs Grew From Meme To Medium
In the 25 years since the invention of the GIF file, it's undergone an incredible metamorphosis developing from little more than a static image to become stunning cinemagraphs. PBS's Off Book explores the history of the GIF. GIFs are one of the oldest ...

Gail Collins Explains Mitt Romney Dog References: 'We Need All The Diversion ...
Gail Collins Explains Mitt Romney Dog References: 'We Need All The Diversion ...

MSNBC's Jansing Pushes 'War on Women' Meme on Intl. Women's Day, Carts Out ...
MSNBC's Jansing Pushes 'War on Women' Meme on Intl. Women's Day, Carts Out ...

LACMA Rock's Final Journey: A Guide To Levitated Mass' Last Night On The Road ...
LACMA Rock's Final Journey: A Guide To Levitated Mass' Last Night On The Road ...

Here We Go Again on the “TARP Worked” Meme
But I'm going to focus on this zombie meme that TARP somehow worked to fix the financial system at no cost to the taxpayer. Rather than have the taxpayers assume the risky and expensive burden of taking over the banks—an expense that Congress, ...

The animal celebs of Japan: Maru, Otousan, Shironeko and more
Memes featuring lolcats have been popular since 2006, Cute Overload spearheaded the cute animal blog movement in a huge way years back, and a cleverly shaved Pomeranian named Boo has more than 3 million fans on Facebook. Clearly, people really enjoy ...

#Draping: 'Mad Men' Sparks A New 'Tebowing' Meme
Don Draper's official pose at the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce offices on Madison Avenue has become the Internet's latest photo meme: #Draping. Don's pensive pose -- reclined, arm casually draped over the back of an armchair, a cigarette dangling from ...

What's the Power of a Meme?
The cynic's take is that most viral Internet memes are fluff, just passing fancies with about as much heft as a basket of #LongWarmBreadsticks. When something like the LRA's history of terrorizing villages, torturing opponents and recruiting child ...

Draping: Anatomy Of An Anatomical Mad Men Meme
In a year that is proving fortuitous for akimbo limbs becoming memes, Draping is now a thing. Not draping draping, but Don #Draping. The iconic image of a silhouetted Don Draper, back to camera, arm draped across a sofa, holding a cigarette at distance ...

Why LACMA's 340-Ton Boulder Is Good for the Economy
In place of dancing Nubians and studio-bankrupting pyrotechnics, a peanut gallery of meme-hounds, bar fiends, and city officials watched as the massive monolith, which is the centerpiece of Michael Heizer's soon-to-be-unveiled work Levitated Mass, ...

Bright lights, big game? A Rajon Rondo meme
by DJ Bean By Paul Flannery As everyone knows, Rajon Rondo plays his best in big games, especially when the national spotlight shines brightest. He's recorded 17 triple doubles in his career including playoffs and 13 of them have come on national ...

Feature: Fffuuuuuuuu: The Internet anthropologist's field guide to "rage faces"
Because they have become so ubiquitous, and because any surfer worth his salt should have a working knowledge of top Internet memes, we've created this Field Guide to Rage Faces. In any expedition, preparation is key; for Internet adventurers, ...

The Future of Data Science
First Wikibon, and then IDC, promised a big data market in 2015 of between $16.9 billion (IDC) to $32.1 billion (Wikibon) (more on these reports in Chuck Hollis' Big Data: From Meme to Marketplace). And the Strata conference showcased the promising ...

Top 5 Rick Santorum Campaign Memes
Memes like… In this video brought to us by SantorumExposed, a website popular during the 2006 campaign which has not lost a step in six years, we get a “Shit …. Says” of Rick Santorum quotes, old and new. While many of them could probably fit onto a ...

8 Of The Scariest Cats On YouTube
We email around pictures of adorable kittens and send links of cat-based memes to our friends and family to pass the workday more quickly. Cats are so popular on the Internet that entirely new genres of cat memes like LOLcats have been born, ...

Chuck Norris Records Robocall For Newt Gingrich
Chuck Norris, the martial artist-actor famous for playing "Walker, Texas Ranger" and more recently for being an Internet meme, has recorded a robocall for Newt Gingrich. The robocall is going out to voters in Alabama and Mississippi, which are holding ...

YOUR FRIENDS' ACTIVITY
[Blues] • The folks at Pension Plan Puppets are organizing a fan-made "If You Can Play, You Can Play" video. [PPP] • We can get behind the Fry Ref meme. [Quick Meme] • Finally, here's Brendan Shanahan on the GM meetings and what he's trying to get ...

Cheezburger's Ben Huh Wants to Break the News So He Can Fix It
But it's not because as the CEO of the Cheezburger Network he's already moved on to the next meme. It's that for him the video, while socially relevant, has taken a groundswell of internet attention and pointed it at a single issue, while scores of ...

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