The irresistible story
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Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina answers a question
Miss Teen USA 2007 - Ms. South Carolina answers a question
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The irresistible story
Sort by Seth Godin's Blog (Free subscription) - 09/12/2007
Many stories that spread and stick do so because we so desperately want them to be true. Urban legends (and urban truths) fill a niche that we've built for them. Miss Teen South Carolina has been watched nearly 20 million...
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If Not Romney, Who?
Sort by The New York Observer (Free subscription) - 07/17/2008
Last week, I pretty much wrote off the idea that John McCain will offer his running-mate slot to Mitt Romney. I probably shouldn't have. (Talk about a flip-flop ...) My reason for dismissing Romney was simple: The political style he exhibited in his own presidential campaign -- abandoning just about all previously held principles in an effort to hew to every conservative interest group's issues checklist...
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Test Your Geography Knowledge Online with a Game of Tetris
Sort by Digital Inspiration (Free subscription) - 05/28/2008
Do you know the location of different countries and states on the world map. Test your knowledge of geography with Tetris game.
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But Did She Win?
Sort by Dlisted (Free subscription) - 03/09/2008
Meet Janina San Miguel , a contestant in the Bb. Pilipinas beauty pageant. 17-year-old Janina was doing well through the entire competition until the interview portion came. Janina was asked a basic question and she could barely spit an answer out. She kept apologizing and said this was her first pageant. I think homegirl took a major bong hit before going on stage. That was definitely a stoner answer....
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Google locks up its map maker, Tele Atlas, for Android
Sort by VentureBeat (Free subscription) - 06/30/2008
As the buzz around location-based services (LBS) continues to grow, it’s often overlooked that for them to have any meaning there is one crucial component: A map. Today, Google signed a five-year agreement with Dutch map-maker Tele Atlas to provide maps to not only its Google Maps and Google Earth properties, but applications built on [...]
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Behind the Scenes at Weezer's 'Pork and Beans' Video
Sort by Switched (Free subscription) - 05/30/2008
Filed under: Audio/Video , Computers , Celebrities Weezer 's 'Pork and Beans' video debuted on YouTube last week, and it has since scored over four million views. Its popularity on the site may in large part be due to its aggregation of a seemingly endless string of the most popular memes , which were themselves YouTube hits, ranging from the Daft Dancers to Tay Zonday and the South Carolina contestant...
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John McCain and Geography 101
Sort by YesButNoButYes (Free subscription) - 07/22/2008
Granted, this is a bigger story because it is a slow news cycle right now. Barack Obama is touring Iraqi and Afghan war-zones with 97% of the media in tow. The depleted media needs to report something John McCain is...
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Heather Mills gets booed at Miss USA pageant
Sort by Styledash (Free subscription) - 04/16/2008
Filed under: Style in the media , Celebrity Style Here in America, we love us some beauty pageants, and Miss USA is no exception. The gossip, spills , and thrills make the ridiculous contest a must see for all fiends of pop culture. But apparently, Heather Mills has a different impression of why Americans tune in to watch the pageant -- to see her gold-digging celebrity face. It's hard to imagine...
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Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren't Reading
Sort by Fimoculous.com (Free subscription) - 12/20/2007
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Google Maps Aims To Show Miss Teen South Carolina that the Map Shortage Is Over
Sort by ParisLemon (Free subscription) - 02/13/2008
Google Maps has unveiled another new feature today meant to showcase other users' 'My Maps' creations. The ' Recent My Maps ' page allows you to cycle through recently created custom maps from around the world - which in about 2 minutes has already led me to some interesting ones, including a Texas football recruiting map with players pinpointed and their vitals and commitments given - cool. As Jess...
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Weezer goes viral
Sort by Social Media (Free subscription) - 07/01/2008
Weezer sends up viral videos — and goes viral in the process. From BL Ochman: Does Viral Video Translate to the Bottom Line? Ask Weezer. What made the video go viral? Virals! The video is a collection of Internet memes from Numa Numa to Chocolate Rain, Evolution of Dance, Blendtec, Miss Teen South Carolina Answers a Question, and The Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments. [Plus: Dramatic hamster, Shoes...
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Spelling Bee Goof: “Numb What?!”
Sort by NewTeeVee (Free subscription) - 06/02/2008
Hey, remember laughing at Miss Teen USA South Carolina being an idiot on national television, and then feeling a bit guilty about making fun of someone having a really bad day? Well, this weekend at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, 13-year-old Sameer Mishra won the grand prize after correctly spelling the word “guerdon.” But [...]
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Overstream adds captions to your vids with a little legwork
Sort by Webware.com (Free subscription) - 01/14/2008
Have you ever produced a video without adding captions simply because you didn't want to bother using your video editor's clunky, built-in captioning tools? Better yet, want to add captions to someone else's video? Check out Overstream , a service that lets you add text captions to videos from a handful of hosting sites including the big two: YouTube and Google Video. Diving right in to captioning...
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Does Viral Video Translate to the Bottom Line? Ask Weezer
Sort by B.L. Ochman (Free subscription) - 07/01/2008
Do viral videos actually sell product? Yes if you're Weezer, whose video of their new single, Pork and Beans, has been viewed more than 10 million times (counting all the versions online), including nearly nine million views on the band's official YouTube channel. Those downloads translated to Billboard Top 100 charts within weeks. What made the video go viral? Virals! The video is a collection of...
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Bed-Stuy Photo du Jour: Lost on Madison Street
Sort by newyorkshitty.com (Free subscription) - 02/18/2008
Recently Larry da Junkman, I and a few customers had a discussion about geography at the junk shop. More specifically, we were marveling over the fact that (purportedly) one in five Americans cannot find the United States on a map. The Miss Teen USA contestant from South Carolina’s take on this damning statistic is already [...]
