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'Dude, You Have No Koran': The Autotune Version

Maureen O'Connor · 09/16/10 03:34PM

Jacob Isom—the rattail-coiffed Koran hero of Amarillo, Texas—is officially a phenomenon. The video of him telling a local news about how he swiped a kerosene-soaked Koran from would-be burners has gotten its first auto-tuned remix.

When Your Infant is Secretly Famous in Japan

Ryan Tate · 09/16/10 01:55PM

Meet Stephen Rout, the child who spawned an entire Japanese subculture after his baby picture was uploaded to the internet in 2000 — a subculture unknown to his family until nine years later.

Pedobear Panic Hits Tulsa, Oklahoma

Adrian Chen · 09/15/10 08:54PM

We've already explained how the cuddly Pedobear is an Internet joke—not a 'mascot' pedophiles use to lure their prey. Reporters and police in Tulsa, Oklahoma obviously don't read Gawker. In America's Heartland, a full-blown Pedobear Panic is underway.