Politics Buzz Occupations can win tents and laptops, even if they have nowhere to put them.
Hot on the heels of Herman Cain’s strangest campaign ad, Stephen Colbert offers some (very similar) homages of his own. Then he challenges Cain to a slow smile contest.
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Neatorama and Reddit are combining forces to bring you a new generation of oddly talented video stars. Can you lick your elbow? Make a 90 second video and submit it, and you just might win an iPad.
Culture Buzz Scotch is holding a contest featuring “free-form” sculptures made from sticky tape. The winner will receive a prize of 3,200 pounds, which is like, what, a million dollahz in America?
Tons of really, exceptionally cute foods to choose from, but the votes are in, and the cutest food of all was Elrod's actual dog in a hot dog. Which is cute but also disturbing, depending on the chef's intention. Second and third place went to Scott's cute apples, and Brian E's adorable Panda Sushi! Check out all the other awesome entries here! Hooray for cute foods!!!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/contests/cutest-food-item
Today is “unusually shaped food items” day on BuzzFeed!!! Find an item of food that is shaped like something cute and post it here. The image with the most cute votes by Tuesday wins! Hooray!
Tech Buzz We're having a contest to try and decide what is the most regrettable thing to have appeared on the internet so far. Vote with your black, black hearts! Here's what's currently leading: YouTube comments, RickRolling and Mom On Spring Break. But what about SpyMaster on Twitter? Doesn't it deserve your hatred? To vote, give the thing you hate a black heart. To submit, enter yours on the Worst of the Internet contest page.
Your votes are in and Jennifer Aniston has won the Most Boring Celebrity award! I kinda feel bad for her now. Wonder if there is something nice we could all do for her?
Congratulations to Travis B. for his awesome, pirate-focused winning entry in the Best Random Conversation Contest! Props are also due to Brian for confusing his stranger and to girl! for her Professional Molester role-playing action. I'd also like to shout out Elizabeth G's entry, which didn't place but which features wizards and thus deserves special recognition. It's totally worth checking out all of the entries via this handy slideshow.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/contests/best-random-conversation
New contest! Have a random conversation with a stranger on Omegle, then post a screenshot of the result as your entry. Funny conversations get gold stars and featured on the front page, so late entries will still have a good chance of winning. The funniest conversation posted by Monday night is the winner!
Help this guy win a world waterslide tour for his 30th birthday! This video is his entry in a YouTube contest with the grand prize being the trip. Feel free to check out the other entries but I think Oscar here deserves to win. Plus, it's his birthday! Go Oscar!
The results are in! The most WTF image has been decided! Congrats to Mr Endswell for his victory with Weirdest Family Photo Ever. And big up to Damian and Chris for taking second and third. View a slideshow of all the entries. This was fun. Anyone have a creative idea for a future contest?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/contest/most-wtf-image
BuzzFeed now has awesome contest technology. Help us test it by entering the Most WTF Image Contest! You win if you post the most WTF image on the Internet! To enter, just choose an image that you think is WTF (and safe for work) and upload it here. Do it!
This lovely British man has a composition/contest for your consideration. If you can name all 100 movies and TV shows sampled in this video, you win a prize. I was not even close, but I did hear a lot of John Williams in there. I think.
Science Buzz The San Francisco Zoo's newest baby Gorilla needs a name. Contest winners get a zoo membership, plush toy, framed photo with footprint, and a 30-minute Q&A with a real-life gorilla keeper! Got any good gorilla names kickin' around?
http://contest.jimbeam.com/jimbeam/
Jim Beam is running a pretty clever contest, in which users upload videos spoofing Jim Beam ads that already exist. Now try figuring that out after a couple shots of Jim Beam. Not that easy now, is it?
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The second annual “Doodle 4 Google” competition starts today. Kids in grades K-12 can submit drawings on the theme of “What I Wish for the World” and the winning doodle will be displayed on the Google homepage on May 21.
http://www.copyblogger.com/twitter-writing-contest-2/
Win a MacBook Air for a clever haiku. For more information check out the link.
I’ll never forget Harrison Greely III vs. Charles McHutchence vs. Reverend Anders; its Really great. What else should be on this list?
TV Buzz AMC is holding a video contest in which the winning entry will earn one lucky person a walk-on role on the hit series. Of course, you could also slick back your hair, drink a lot, and start talking all snappy-like, too, and you’ll never even know you lost the contest!