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Psy celebrates his birthday and kicks off New Year’s Eve ‘Gangnam Style’ with a performance at PURE Nightclub in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Would one of these covers have been a better choice? You decide!
Ah, our favorite nwktumblr feature is back: the also-rans! These are the alternate versions of our ’First Gay President’ Newsweek cover that were left on the cutting room floor.
Which one’s your favorite? Your tumblrs are really digging Oliver Munday’s #2, but also like the simplicity #6 (the quote over white) brings to the table.
If you haven’t read Andrew Sullivan’s amazing cover story, now’s the time!
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He said yes! Yesterday, President Obama became the first sitting president to publicly support same-sex marriage. Do you think he made the right decision?
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Quote reblogged from Washington ExaminerI participated in a lot of hijinks and pranks during high school and some might have gone too far and for that, I apologize.Mitt Romney apologizes for behavior in High School after Washington Post story on his High School years. (via washingtonexaminer)
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Warren calls Trail of Tears claim “politics as usual”
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Photo reblogged from The Atlantic
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Are LOLCats Making Us Smart?
What could possibly be said of LOLCats that is of any consequence at all? After all, LOLCats are nothing but pictures of cats with silly captions that defy conventional rules of spelling and grammar. What do they matter?
They don’t. Or at least, the content — the “what” — of LOLCats doesn’t much matter. But the *why* of LOLCats has proved to be rich terrain for Kate Miltner who received her Master’s Degree from the London School of Economics for her dissertation on the appeal of LOLCats (pdf) and spoke at ROFLCon — a conference devoted to Internet memes and the mini-celebrities that have emerged — on a panel called “Adventures in Aca-meme-ia” this past weekend at MIT.
Why, Miltner asks, have these cat pictures become the cultural phenomenon that they are? “LOLCats,” she writes, “have spawned two best-selling books, a Bible translation, an art show, and an off-Broadway musical. LOLCats have also inspired the development of a massive international community; in July 2011, thousands of Cheezburger devotees [the central LOLCats hub on the web] converged upon Safeco Field in Seattle for Cheezburger Field Day.” What is it about these little kitties that speaks to people?
Read more. [Image: smosh.com]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3psj2RxzT1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
What could possibly be said of LOLCats that is of any consequence at all? After all, LOLCats are nothing but pictures of cats with silly captions that defy conventional rules of spelling and grammar. What do they matter?
They don’t. Or at least, the content — the “what” — of LOLCats doesn’t much matter. But the *why* of LOLCats has proved to be rich terrain for Kate Miltner who received her Master’s Degree from the London School of Economics for her dissertation on the appeal of LOLCats (pdf) and spoke at ROFLCon — a conference devoted to Internet memes and the mini-celebrities that have emerged — on a panel called “Adventures in Aca-meme-ia” this past weekend at MIT.
Why, Miltner asks, have these cat pictures become the cultural phenomenon that they are? “LOLCats,” she writes, “have spawned two best-selling books, a Bible translation, an art show, and an off-Broadway musical. LOLCats have also inspired the development of a massive international community; in July 2011, thousands of Cheezburger devotees [the central LOLCats hub on the web] converged upon Safeco Field in Seattle for Cheezburger Field Day.” What is it about these little kitties that speaks to people?
Read more. [Image: smosh.com]
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Blaming overweight people for not losing weight hasn’t reduced obesity levels, and a couple of scary new reports suggest that if more aggressive efforts aren’t taken, 42 percent of American adults will be obese by 2030.
