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A little bit late with the unboxing video backlash, but we'll take it.

Via his Twitter , John Hodgman (yes, that “PC guy”) takes a stand against “meh” — calling it “…almost universally seems to signal: I am just interested enough to make one last joyless, nitpicky swipe and then disappear.”

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1. ‘Meh’ —- the Apathetic Expression Enters Dictionary - Chicago Tribune
2. Urban Dictionary: meh
3. John Hodgman’s Twitter
4. John Hodgman on “meh” - Waxy.org

The rom-com about unlucky ladies and gentlemen in love (imagine that!) is looming on the horizon, and apparently the marginal characters - or “three gays and a Black guy” - prove to be almost as insulting as the fact that He's Just Not That Into You was made into a movie.

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We're glad to see we're not alone in thinking that the new ad campaign from Ask.com are 100% creeptastic.

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1. Creepy Commercials Not Helping
2. Feel the Backlash On Twitter
3. Ask.com Vs. Google?
4. “Why is the Music So Sad? Why is She Obese? More Important: Why is She BRITISH?”
5. The One Where the Obese Lady Hangs Onto a Tiny Child
6. The One Where the Indian Guy Hangs On the Pregnant Lady

He’s getting his big chance to become the new John Cusak with Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist opening this weekend, but the internets are rumbling that he’s always playing the same character, and it’s getting old.

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1. VIDEO: Michael Cera on Letterman
2. “Maybe it’s just all about the damn fleece zip hoody sweatshirts.”
3. In Early Defense of Michael Cera
4. Almost Famous, for Better or Worse
5. “I said to myself, ‘Okay, fine, whatever…this again.’”
6. “We can’t put up with this innocent guy shtick for too much longer.”
7. “No one is that bewildered all the time, sorry.”

Spore fans are not happy with the game’s anti-piracy DRM, so they’ve taken their protest to Amazon.

The Best Links:

1. Backlash: Anti-DRM Protesters Trash Spore’s Amazon Rating
2. Reviewers sabotage Spore’s Amazon rating in protest to ‘draconian’ anti-piracy measures
3. Spore on BuzzFeed
4. Spore on Amazon
5. Amazon Reviewers Do Not Take Kindly To Spore’s DRM
6. Amazon Users Savage ‘Spore”s DRM
7. Backlash on Reddit
8. Amazon reviewers clobber Spore DRM
9. Spore losing the DRM Fight
10. DRM Opponents Attack Spore’s Amazon.com Rating

The results are in, and it looks like 90210 was a hefty disappointment, as echoed throughout the blogosphere.

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1. “Sort of Terrible in the Same Way As the Original!”
2. Team Gossip Girl!
3. “A Travesty to All That Was Holy and All That We Missed from the Original.”
4. “Our Heart is a Little Broken and All We Can Say is Holy Cliché.”
5. “This New Series, in All Honesty, is Not Particularly Good…yet. Granted, Neither Was the Original.”
6. There’s No Such Thing As Hamburgers in Beverly Hills, You Know
7. “I Only Winced About Once Per Minute.”
8. “A Minor Character Better Die in a Tragic Accident Soon, Or I Doubt I’m Going to Be Able to Sustain a Prolonged Interest in a Show That Makes Gossip Girl Look Like a Work of Timeless Genius.”
9. 90210 “Will Have to Prove Itself”
10. “I Wanted to Click My Heels and Go All the Way Back to the Safe and Ancient Walsh-infested Corners of Dear Old Minnesota.”
11. “Too Much Old 90210” (But Applause for Jessica Walters)
12. Brenda Walsh Has Got Some Haterz
13. “Dully Inspid [and] Oddly Wholesome Despite Its Best Efforts, 90210 Smells Like ‘Degree Girl.’”