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24 May 2010 23:03

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Offbeat: @BPGlobalPR: A @FakeAPStylebook for the Gulf oil spill

  • Oh man, this whole time we’ve been trying to stop SEAWATER from gushing into our OIL. Stupid Terry was holding the diagram upside down.
  • A tweet by @BPGlobalPR • Which, in the span of 57 tweets, has managed to capture the imagination of 15,000 Twitter users worldwide with an often hilarious parody of one of the worst oil spills on record, and the major oil company’s inept response. We wish we could be so hilarious that @Alyssa_Milano says that our tweets are awesome. And also so that we’d respond like this: “We’ve been told @Alyssa_Milano loves our tweets. I guess that officially makes us the boss. #bpcares #bpistheboss.” A blog can dream, can’t it? source
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23 May 2010 11:33

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Culture: Diehard Conan fans fight Leno on all fronts – including Hulu

  • Yeah, that’s one way to handle Leno angst. Some smart Conan fans on Hulu have been tagging episodes of The Tonight Show to trash on the guy who got “The Tonight Show” back. While it’s funny, it’s also against Hulu’s own terms. Still pretty funny. source
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22 May 2010 14:20

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Politics: Dale Peterson carries a big gun, says whatever the hell he wants

  • Key quote (as he pulls out a rifle): “We’re Republicans, we should be better than that.” Dale Peterson, who’s running for a fairly random state position in Alabama, has been getting a lot of attention for this this ad, which seems to fit absolutely every cliche of the current GOP. It’s not ironic. Well, at least we don’t think it is. Someone actually made a “Chuck Norris Facts”-style parody site for Peterson, and Peterson linked to it on his campaign site. Nice. source
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19 May 2010 20:56

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Politics: Arizona and L.A. fight over keeping the lights on; everyone wins

  • I feel like if you’re going to boycott the candy store, you’ve got to leave all the candy alone. I feel like Arizona is the candy store.
  • Arizona Corporation Commissioner Gary Pierce • Making an entertaining douchebag claim to the city of Los Angeles after the city promised to boycott the state over their immigration bill. Pierce’s claim: You make 25 percent of your power for L.A. in Arizona, and we’re gonna shut it down! If you think that’s kinda jerkish. You should see the response by the city’s energy manager, where he points out the city owns the plants. Key highlight: “I might add that, as the City’s Job Czar, I certainly would welcome any conventions or meetings that were going to be held in Arizona to come to Los Angeles. We have fantastic facilities and incomparable weather and we’d welcome them to the City of Angels.” Ouch. Take that, jerkwad! source
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10 May 2010 11:20

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Offbeat: Turtles not exactly the fastest form of canine transportation

  • After the Greek debt crisis leaves us all broke and without means to support ourselves, we won’t find the humor in videos of dogs riding turtles. So we might as well take advantage of it now before the world ends. So, without further ado, a dog riding a turtle.
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09 May 2010 20:59

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Tech: Is “Facebook login” still confusing internet users en masse?

  • YES this thread is STILL getting comments months later source
  • » The backstory: Three months ago, this ReadWriteWeb article somehow hit the magical SEO combination that made it the first item on Google when you search for “facebook login.” Hundreds of people got lost on a fairly tech-savvy site. Techies laugh and get depressed at regular intervals. To this day, it’s still one of the site’s most popular articles ever.
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09 May 2010 11:43

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Politics: Joe the Plumber says John Wayne should play him in a movie

  • I definitely cried when ‘Old Yeller’ got shot. I also cried in ‘Remember the Titans.’
  • Sam “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher • In an fairly cheeky interview with AOL News. On the scale of attractiveness, Wurzelbacher gives himself a 7. He types with three fingers, not two. He says he wishes John Wayne were alive so he could play him in a movie. And he notes that when he was 28, he could bench press over 450 pounds. The conservative icon recently became a politician, winning a seat on the Republican party committee in Lucas County, Ohio. And he knows when to cry at a movie. source
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09 May 2010 10:30

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Culture: The Betty White “Saturday Night Live” episode: Full of win

  • Her one-liners are pretty priceless. How did the 88-year-old Betty White get on “SNL” anyway? Facebook, of course. She gives the site lots of credit, but gets in a lot of ribbing in the process. “In my day, seeing pictures of people’s vacations was considered a punishment.” Many of the sketches this time were pretty stellar.
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08 May 2010 18:24

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Offbeat: Google News run by computer with juvenile sense of humor

  • “Jack Meoff” ≠ Jake Tapper. The other day, the poor ABC News political reporter got mis-bylined by the computer-driven service, instead calling Tapper by his real name. The article was about some topic we don’t care about, but the second we realized it got turned into a childish prank, we immediately showed interest. Good show, Google News, getting regular people like us interested in the news. source
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08 May 2010 17:55

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Culture: Suburban family raps about playdates, driving swagger wagons

  • This commercial is awesome for lots of reasons. The biggest reason? It’s directed by Jody Hill of “The Foot Fist Way” and “Observe and Report.” The other reason? It’s a suburban family rapping about being a suburban family.
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