TypeRacer is a one-minute game (depending on your speed) that validates the most basic modern job skill. Type faster than the other people and your little Volkswagen wins a race. The game uses quotes from books, songs and movies. Anyone with a typing-intensive job will probably score second or third place in the multiplayer races.

Barack Obama is like Kermit the Frog: Someone else may be your personal favorite, but he's the one that gets the most attention, so he's the one who ends up in all the parodies. Obama can be mashed up with any meme, because anyone can assign him any qualities: like Kermit, his everyman status makes him ripe for satire. To demonstrate, in no particular order but numbered anyway, here are the top twelve memes that have carried Obama to the nomination.