Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: memes

memes stories: 5 news summaries

(Newser) - Google’s home page presents a extraterrestrial quandary today, the Telegraph reports. The “doodle”—the sporadic reworking of the Google artwork that usually marks a specific event—depicts one “O” being abducted by a UFO. Mouse over the alien spacecraft and click, and you’re taken... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Google • Internet • search engine • viral video • UFOs • memes • doodle • phenomenon

OPINION

 Welcome
 to Remedial 
 Web Trends 101 

David Pogue searches for the meme canon

May 7, 09 2:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - When the New York Times’ tech guru admitted on Twitter to only recently having heard of “Rickrolling”—the Internet prank in which a link promises something desirable but delivers the video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up—his followers blasted him for being “so... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Internet • YouTube • culture • memes • Rickroll • Twitter • Rick Astley • David Pogue

(Newser) - While swine flu sweeps the world, a YouTube meme is sweeping the Web with nearly equal virulence, Butter Team blogger Z reports: Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat. Amateur video artists splice fail-type situations—guy falling down escalator, Miss South Carolina—with a clip of a keyboard-playing cat, and the kitty... More »

MORE ABOUT:
YouTube • Miss South Carolina • memes • failure • cats • Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat

 Bush Shoe Toss Goes Viral 

Infamous Iraq shoe dodge spawns online games

Dec 17, 08 4:29 AM CST
(Newser) - President Bush's shoe-dodging Iraq press conference has the internet's legions of animators kicking up their heels, Wired reports. Dozens of games—including one called "Sock and Awe"—were rapidly created after the incident, allowing players to be a shoe-ducking president, a shoe-chucking journalist, or a shoe-shooting Secret Service... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Internet • YouTube • shoes • flash games • memes • George W. Bush

Hot Sites Take Voters for a Ride

Strange sort-of-political commentary is latest online fad

Feb 29, 08 5:58 PM CST
(Newser) - Barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com is the latest internet fad: a simple web page that displays a seemingly inexhaustible supply of (likely fictitious) good deeds Barack Obama did for you. He "added you as a friend," "built you a robot," and "made you a mixtape," to start.... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • memes

5 Stories


from our news partners