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Words, Words, Words

Wordle: TMR
So this is pretty neat.

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Charming British Political Protest

Try as they might, British reformers are much too quaint and humble to really ruffle anyone’s feathers (nudge nudge) with their political attack ads.
Kudos to Wifey Duck for a remarkable Terry Jones impression.

White House Tells Bloggers to Suck It

As reported in the Huff Post today, the Obama administration is becoming increasingly peeved at left-wing bloggers who criticize the erosion of its campaign promises and central-shifting policymaking. God forbid anyone criticize the President that isn’t an immediately ridicule-worthy Birther and/or Tea Partier.

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Breaking News: CNN Has Worst Top Stories Ever


This man can’t believe how stupid CNN has gotten.

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OMG Facebook Party!!!

Here’s your newest Mep video, an admittedly crude social networking parody called “OMG Facebook Party!”

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Oh Wow!

Happy Monday, little emus. We’ve got a brand new Mep video in the works, that should be released from post-production sometime this evening. Stay tuned…

Digg: Just Another Faux Democracy?

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Digg.com is one of the largest websites on the planet. Like many of its competitors in the social media arena, it doesn’t purport to create or provide anything of substance. Digg’s value comes in the community that it organizes and speaks for. In Digg’s case, that community’s function is to vote for the most worthy news stories of the day for more casual visitors to consume.

With the announcement of some prospective changes to its voting rules, is Digg capitulating to big money interests? Or has its slow march to corruption already rendered its original mission moot?

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TechCrunch Duped by Amway

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Earlier today, internet business culture behemoth, TechCrunch, posted a riddle for its millions of devoted followers. Branded as a heretofore unbroken code, the decipherer was promised Good Will Hunting-like stardom and a potential job with Google, no doubt as the Alpha Team Leader of a Top Secret Super-Genius Infiltration Training Program. Not to mention a TechCrunch t-shirt…

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Weird Japanese Face Animator (Emu POTW)

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This Japanese site will take any portrait-like picture that you upload and automatically convert it into a blinking, nodding, quasi-zombie animated template ready to model various animal heads, wigs, and facial hair.

It’s easily good for 45 minutes of time wasting. Fun, fun.

Link via BuzzFeed.

Facebook Declares Profit; Astounds Internet

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In a stunning turn of events this week, Facebook revealed that it now takes in enough actual money to pay for its own business expenses.

“There’s a myth that you can’t make money on the internet, these days,” said recently post-pubescent CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

“As it turns out, all you have to do is become a social organizer for a virtual nation of 300 million, and keep them distracted with Mafia Wars while you sell off their personal shopping habits to retailers,” Zuck noted.

Here’s to hoping other internet entrepreneurs heed Zuckerberg’s message and find new and creative ways to engage (exploit) internet users, at large.