CULTURE BUZZ – A simple plea to car thieves. I wrote a message like this once to the person (or people) in my building who kept stealing my paper. It didn’t work; I just finally canceled my subscription. Also, in case you’re wondering: ocarina.

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CULTURE BUZZ – Give a hedgehog a toilet paper tube and watch the hilarity ensue. The poor little guys can’t get their head out of the tube once they stick it in. Humiliating your pet always makes for a good meme.

The Best Links:

1. Hedgehog Tubing
2. My Hedgehog : The Tube Fiasco
3. “Hedgehog owners often refer to this as ‘tubing’ and promote the behavior by supplying clean tubes.”
4. Environmental Enrichment for Hedgehog (Give them a Tube)
5. Hedgehog + Tube = Adorable

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CULTURE BUZZ – The detention letter sent to a student punished for his “blatant disregard” for the authority of his stupid teacher. This started circulating on the Internet in 2006 and we are just doing our part to keep it going.

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The Best Links:

1. Snopes Says It Might Be Real

BUSINESS BUZZ – Cult web game becomes a mainstream ad for Micky D’s. The ad is OK but it is much more fun to actually start your own line rider game.

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MUSIC BUZZ – Tay Zonday of “Chocolate Rain” fame performs “Pork & Beans” acoustically with Brian on the set of the “Pork & Beans” video. He’s officially the indie nerd version of Lonelygirl15.

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The Best Links:

1. Tay’s Now Worke with Girl Talk, Dan Deacon, Lily Allen, and Now Weezer
2. Tay Zonday - Featured on BuzzFeed
3. Tay’s 15 Minutes of Fame Not Over
4. Weezer, “Pork and Beans” - Featured Video on BuzzFeed

CULTURE BUZZ – A guy in an office goes totally bonkers, and it’s caught on surveillance tape. This video pretty much sums up everything you wished you could do but were always afraid to. TOO BAD IT IS FAKE!!!

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The Best Links:

1. Not Your Average Episode of “Office Space”
2. A Play-by-Play of the Meltdown
3. Timur Bekmambetov Punks the World With Viral Video
4. “This might be the best office flip out video every captured on film”
5. Office Worker Meltdown in Color - Taken with Employee’s Webcam
6. The Top Six Types Of Office Freak Outs

TECH BUZZ – Tragedy and comedy come together in this hypnotic new meme, sure to sweep the ROFL set. It’s like Muppets making sad stuff funny!

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The Best Links:

1. So Long, Afternoon…

MOVIE BUZZ – A parody of the creepiest scene from No Country for Old Men where Javier Bardem is overdubbed by a very fey gay male voice. I enjoyed this clip infinitely more than the whole of the movie.

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The Best Links:

1. The Creator’s Blog

CULTURE BUZZ – Cute old lady with a collection of YouTube videos where she lip syncs to songs. If you fetishize the elderly (who doesn’t??), you’ll love Sara Brattman.

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The Best Links:

1. “Sara Brattman Has Lip Synced Her Way Into Our Hearts”
2. Elderly Chiquita Banana Woman - How does she not have 9 million views already??
3. YouTube - Sara Brattman Search Results

TECH BUZZ – The story behind Chumazik, the Eastern Bloc internet phenomenon. After appearing in the background of a Russian news report, covered in soot and making a silly face, miner Yury Tatarenkov was given the nickname Chumazik (or “Smudge Boy”) and became a cultural phenom. And then, after a little research, reporters learned Tatarenkov suffered from cerebral palsy. Whoops! *Cue clown whistle* While this story might normally make you taste your own bile, it’s nice to know that the original photog jokers are now raising money for Tatarenkov, who lives alone with his mother. See? Memes may come and go, but kindness lasts forever.

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The Best Links:

1. The Story Behind Chumazik
2. A Series of Chumazik Memes [Yikes]
3. Chumazik On MySpace