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What To Do If You Become an Internet Meme

Maureen O'Connor · 05/11/10 04:19PM

A girl who posted pics of her "epic boobs" and inadvertently became an Internet meme lost a lawsuit against the outlet that made her a star. It raises the question: If you become an internet meme, what should you do?

Gawker.TV Invades Urlesque's Urly Show

Whitney Jefferson · 05/11/10 02:19PM

Last week the friendly folks at Urlesque invited Gawker.TV to take part in their weekly podcast. I was lucky enough to take the TL;DR quiz in real life and didn't do such a terrible job...

What Else Doesn't Andy Rooney Know?

Maureen O'Connor · 05/10/10 05:26PM

Self-described "average American" Andy Rooney was recently startled to discover the existence of such rare pop culture creatures as "Lady Gaga" and "Usher." What other mainstream, vastly popular phenomena has professional old person Andy Rooney never heard of?

How 4chan Hacked the TIME 100

Michael Jordan · 04/26/10 03:43PM

Last year, the goofy gif website pulled a stunning prank on Time magazine: they manipulated the voting results for the TIME 100 Listing, making founder Chris Poole the most influential person of the year. Here's how they did it.

Roger Ebert One-Ups the Internet

Scott Green · 04/26/10 01:00PM

Of all I've learned about the Internet, I know that if I say anything negative about video games, a lot of very passionate individuals are going to threaten my life with authentic replica broadswords.

Google's New Government-Tracking Toy

Max Read · 04/21/10 02:00AM

Want to know how paranoid you should be? Google's new toy lets you see how many times your government asked Google for private information. Citizens of Brazil, Germany and India: Fetch your tinfoil hats (chapéus de papel laminado)!

How We Saw the Internet in 1969

Ravi Somaiya · 04/02/10 10:40AM

Women, said the people of 1969, will order clothes from an electronic "console". "What the wife selects on her console, will be paid for by the husband at his counterpart console."

If Internet Distractions Could Talk

Arianna Reiche · 02/02/10 02:34PM

Collegehumor has outlined exactly what our poor, exhausted, annoying, sexy, numerous internet distractions would say to us if they could.