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Paper Mistakes 'Pedobear' for Olympic Mascot

Cartoon bear is associated with pedophilia, not sports

(Newser) - From the fact-checking department: When publishing an image of Olympic mascots, check to make sure there's not a cartoon bear with ties to pedophilia mixed in. A Polish paper made just such a mistake, accidentally lifting the meme known as "Pedobear"—widely used to mock pedophiles—from Google...

Hitler Rant: A Meme That's Run Its Course

Perhaps it does make evil look silly, but enough already

(Newser) - Surely you’ve seen some variation of the World War II film Downfall in which the subtitles of an Adolf Hitler rant are repurposed as commentary on one of the day’s pressing events, like the iPad, or the breakup of Oasis, or Twitter being down. Mercedes Bunz has had...

Who Will Be the Next Chuck Norris?
 Who Will Be the 
 Next Chuck Norris? 
men in the running
Jan 10, 2010 5:16 AM CST

Who Will Be the Next Chuck Norris?

The new decade needs a new Chuck-like legend

(Newser) - Chunk Norris is more than a legend—he's a meme, a man who can kill other men just by looking at them, and a conservative who helped Mike Huckabee lose an election, writes Drew Grant for Urlesque . But it's a new decade, which means it's time for a new Chuck....

Meet YouTube's Unlikeliest Hero

YouTube's removal of lukeywes1234 sparks uprising

(Newser) - The meme-producing, viral-video-pushing nature of YouTube made a young boy who likes Star Wars and ghosts into an Internet rock star—and, just as quickly, a martyred hero when his channel was inexplicably suspended. YouTube’s “Lukeywes1234” was just another kid making videos with his grandma when prankster site...

Stop Mocking 'Sad Cowbell Girl': She's Blind
 Stop Mocking 
 'Sad Cowbell 
 Girl': She's Blind 

squelch those mashups
Jan 6, 2010 10:51 AM CST

Stop Mocking 'Sad Cowbell Girl': She's Blind

Miraculously, Web tones down response after revelation

(Newser) - Perhaps it was because it occurred at the Fiesta Bowl that web memesters got so much mileage from a video of a Boise State band member whacking on a cowbell with nary a hint of fiesta to be found on her face. Cut the mockery and stifle the spinoffs, Brenna...

Google Homepage an 'Unexplained Phenomenon'

(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 to...

Welcome to Remedial Web Trends 101
 Welcome
 to Remedial 
 Web Trends 101 
OPINION
May 7, 2009 2:04 PM CDT

Welcome to Remedial Web Trends 101

David Pogue searches for the meme canon

(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...

Keyboard Cat: Web's Swine Flu
 Keyboard Cat: Web's Swine Flu 
May 5, 2009 3:54 PM CDT

Keyboard Cat: Web's Swine Flu

(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...

Bush Shoe Toss Goes Viral
 Bush Shoe Toss Goes Viral 
Dec 17, 2008 4:29 AM CST

Bush Shoe Toss Goes Viral

Infamous Iraq shoe dodge spawns online games

(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...

Hot Sites Take Voters for a Ride
Hot Sites Take Voters for a Ride
Feb 29, 2008 5:58 PM CST

Hot Sites Take Voters for a Ride

Strange sort-of-political commentary is latest online fad

(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....

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