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How Levi's Jeans Duped The Internet With Their New Secret Ad
My friends are blogging about this viral video of guys doing backflips into their jeans. So neat! So shareable! So worth the million views the three-day-old clip already earned! But I could tell instantly (and I have no idea why no one else did) that this was a stealth ad — because it's a direct copy of a stealth ad that got over 3 million views last year. More »
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Super Deluxe Becomes The Internet's Arrested Development
It's over! The most consistently funny comedy site on the Internet is getting folded into AdultSwim.com. Turner is shutting down Super Deluxe and laying off most of its staff, according to paidContent.org. Now the original web content will get stuck with clips from Family Guy and Adult Swim's increasingly weird-without-payoff lineup. The good news: The guy below gets a TV deal. More »
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Penguin Books Proves The Entire Internet Can't Write A Novel
Before inviting the web to create a collaborative novel using a wiki in 2007, Jeremy Ettinghausen asked, "Can a community write a novel?" The answer is yes but a terrible one! A year later the Penguin publisher told researchers at De Montfort University (Penguin's partner in the project), "It's the best thing I've ever done...but I would never do it again." Which means "The book was awful but I'm not going to insult the 1500 people who wrote it for me." Of course no one expected the novel to be any good — the excerpt below is about as terrible as one would guess. That's why this was a great project for Penguin. More »
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Kanye West is Sorry He Said That Thing (Sorta)
Yesterday, Kanye West got all screechy and babyish about a luke warm Entertainment Weekly review. Today, he has blogger's remorse. He says on his website, "Unfortunately for certain media outlets, you will never be able 2 'Michael Jackson' me. That means 2 make it seem like everything I do is so weird or out of place... they always try 2 make it seem like everything is about my ego! That joke is getting old." More »
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Viralcom, The Production Company Behind Every YouTube Hit
The premise: A major production company is behind all the classic viral videos like "Laughing baby." See behind the scenes of "Girls make out at party" and "Boy puts Mentos in sister's Coke." (My favorite scenes are with the writers, who churn out one-line scripts but now I'm spoiling all the jokes.) The bittersweet irony behind this video keeps the momentum up, even if a few jokes fall flat. And it'll surely spark a dozen discussions of the future of online video in boring "new media" business blogs. See the non-businesslike clip below. More »
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Eleven Ways The Internet Can Kill You
While I was pulling an all-nighter this weekend watching YouTube, my stomach started to growl even though I'd had like a whole thing of goldfish crackers and a bottle of Kahlua, and as I popped a diet pill and scratched a couple scabs off my forearm, I had a vision of the eleven ways the Internet could kill you. (Please don't sue: Of course not all the sites and practices listed below are directly responsible for any deaths. But if you're already at risk, you might just get yourself killed when you use them.) More »
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Crazy Unsexed Housewife Of New York YouTubes Angry Tell-All Video
The wife of a Broadway exec (she's 25 years younger than him, about as old as his daughter) tours the flat he's kicking her out of and calls his office to ask about the porn, condoms and Viagra she found despite never having sex with him. Tricia Walsh-Smith, soon-to-be-ex-wife of Philip Smith, chokes up while she tells how he's divorcing her with "no grounds." This is like the lovechild of that old soap star with the embarrassing house tour and those girls who striptease on Megarotic.com and talk dirty to their ex-boyfriends. More »
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The Silent Staring Japanese Girl Is Ugly, Not Japanese
Well ugly is such a harsh word, so judge for yourself in the videos below: first, one of the videos I talked about from the silent (but occasionally Japanese-speaking) cute camgirl known as Magibon. Then a clip of her on a Japanese talk show, where she needed an English translator. Without the flattering bird's eye angle of her webcam, her face is long and plain; her teeth are terribly crooked. There's more information in this juvenile wiki article. More »
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"McCain Girls" A Prank, Mercifully
The three women who dubbed themselves the "McCain Girls" and made a series of YouTube videos on behalf of the Republican presidential candidate were working for 23/6, the "humor" site from IAC/Huffington Post, and their entire campaign was a joke. To hear 23/6 President Sarah Bernard tell it, the first video was supposed to be an obvious parody of the Obama Girl videos, but no one understood that. Then 23/6 decided to keep the "prank" going as long as possible, which turned out to be one month. McCain watched the video repeatedly, he told Fox News in the clip after the jump, but his description of it as "very entertaining" hints that he knew something was fishy. More »
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Little Scotty Mouthbreather in Disturbing Paris BFF Bid
Icky Blue States Lose thing Little Scotty Mouthbreather is using his pull at icky American Apparel in an icky attempt to be cast in the upcoming reality TV nightmare Paris Hilton's My New BFF. A mass email sent by the leg-warmer marketeers yesterday reads, "American Apparel's heiress, Jonny Makeup is searching for a new BFF. And as luck would have it, so is a certain Miss Paris Hilton. Let's bring these kids together so they can search for boys, toys and trouble on the streets of LA." Oh, and, in case you want to go ahead and skip brunch, here's his retarded video.
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A YouTuber Explains How He Made It In Hollywood
One of YouTube's few deserving runaway hits, Brandon Hardesty got popular first for his skit "Strange Faces And Noises I Can Make III." Then he started re-enacting famous movie scenes. Sounds boring! Except Brandon is so energetic, so funny, and so faithful to the original that you feel like you're watching the movie again. (My favorites were The Big Lebowski and There Will Be Blood.) Now Brandon's making it in Hollywood, as he explains in the video below. Fun to hear a young talent talk about his acting coach, his manager, and how fucking great his life is. More »
Top 10 Tips For Writing A Top 10 List
The "Best Week Ever" blog outlines the method that made it the most popular online source for top 10 lists since College Humor, Cracked.com, The Onion, McSweeney's, and Something Awful. I have the short version below. [Best Week Ever]
The "Best Week Ever" blog outlines the method that made it the most popular online source for top 10 lists since College Humor, Cracked.com, The Onion, McSweeney's, and Something Awful. I have the short version below. [Best Week Ever]
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The Jim Cramer Of Weather Reports
If I shot sixty-five videos a day I'd probably want to scream too. Slate interviews Jim Kosek, loud jokey weather reporter for Accuweather.com, in the clip below. Maybe it's just because I grew up without a zany local weatherman, but I'm less annoyed than amused; I actually want Jim Kosek to give me my forecast. Look below, see if you like him. More »
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You Look Nice Today: A Journal Of Emotional Hygiene
The twee title belies this podcast's hearty tone (and the twee bits are like John Hodgman, not Dave Eggers). It's a new comedy show, hosted by three terribly clever guys who met on the Internet: "You Look Nice Today," starring Scott Simpson (editor at iTunes), Adam Lisagor (movie editor), and Merlin Mann (productivity expert/comedian). Topics include White Bill Cosby, the queen's royal watchers, and an ad slogan: "Secret: You can put it on your inner thigh." Listen to the mp3 or subscribe on iTunes.
The Flash Game That Melted My Mind
It's called "Fruit Mystery," you feed zoo animals, and then you get a seizure. [Fruit Mystery]
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Smooth Jazz 9/11 Slideshow
This time, this time, we've really found the craziest Internet crackpot. One minute into this slideshow of photos of the World Trade Center, images of the towers smoking on 9/11 pops up. But the smooth jazz playing over the whole video keeps going. Two hastily consulted New York Gawker writers were split on whether this terrible editing decision was horrifically-funny-awful or just plain awful-awful. And then we saw the user's second, altogether more bizarre (and thankfully disaster-photo-free) video. More »
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