Microsoft's deeply awkward attempt at a “spontaneous” viral dance video turns out just kind of weird and depressing. Given the proliferation of too cool for school , Mac-fanboy tech blogs, this was probably never going to go well. But yikes.

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1. Microsoft Store employees perform dance of the cringe
2. This Microsoft store is trying too hard
3. Microsoft burns our eyes with Vista promo video

The Auto-Tune The News kids return, this time with all your favorite YouTube celebrities. I hope they manage to auto-tune a cat for the next one.

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1. via Have You Seen This
2. Auto-Tune the News - Featured on BuzzFeed

Ahead of national elections on Sunday, German parties are taking a page out of the American viral-video playbook. “Steini Girl” is Social Democrat Franz-Walter Steinmeier's counterpart to Obama Girl. [ Editor's Note : I feel like they didn't get it quite right here. Somehow. Anyone else feel that way?]

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BUSINESS BUZZ: WTF ad for a WTF candy.

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1. YouTube - Vintage Fruit Gushers Commercial
2. YouTube - Gushers Fruit Snacks Montage of Past Commercials
3. via Reddit via Pixelated Geek
4. Psychedelic Children’s Entertainment

TV BUZZ: MTV's newest cartoon is an homage to the music video-mocking idiots Beavis and Butthead, but without the music videos. Instead, cubicle dwellers DJ & The Fro commentate on the latest viral videos. In my eyes only The Soup can discuss Keyboard Cat and the like, but with all these new web-based shows , only time will tell.

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1. DJ & The Fro @MTV
2. DJ & The Fro on the “One Armed Guitarist”
3. DJ & The Fro on “Horrible Escalator Accident”
4. DJ & The Fro (djfroupdates) on Twitter
5. “Two cubicle jockeys pass their workdays trading viral videos.”

One dude attempts to do what Maru did, except he's bigger. Now that's a dick in a box. Thank you, Internet.

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1. Return of Box Cat

CULTURE BUZZ: Who doesn't love penguins!? Here's a top 5 hilarious penguin moments for your viewing pleasure. Have we left one out?

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Nothing is better than finding out your favorite crush has the same interests as you. Case in point? Zac Efron's imitation of the famed video, ” David After Dentist .” So what if he's completely clueless about Star Wars Trumpet (FAIL), his eyes say that we are still meant to be together.

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1. via Urlesque

Link: http://www.urlesque.com/2009/04/07/th...

Get yer learn on with this comprehensive list (with 20 additions each day this week) of the most iconic, memorable moments in viral video history. Only one missing from the list so far (in my humble opinion)? Liza “Jitarded Children” Minnelli on Larry King . Nvr 4get.

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TECH BUZZ: Actually, the official title is: “Greg Rutter's Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You're a Loser or Old or Something.” And that pretty much explains it, doesn't it?

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1. How Many Have You Seen?
2. You Should Have Seen This…

Does this dude have Kitten Girl beat? Cats who are witches versus cats who blog: it's your call.

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1. via Urlesque
2. @ Steeez
3. Kittens, Inspired by Kittens

There should be some sort of rule that bars State Comptrollers from trying to make “viral” videos. For their own sakes, as well as ours. But now that it's out there, here's “Real Taxpayers of Genius” - a spoof on those old Bud Light commercials that encourages you to e-file your taxes. It's spine-tinglingly bad, and worth watching a couple of times.

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1. YouTube video encourages e-filing
2. Agency.com’s Subway pitch, just because. This is my favorite disastrous “viral” video ever.
3. Bud Light’s Real Men of Genius Commercials

A female body builder in a bikini solves a Rubik's cube to the beat of a steel drum band. But we're on to you, sneaky body builder wearing Ray-Bans. You're doing it backwards!

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1. Bikini Body Builder vs. Rubik’s Cube
2. Bikini Body Builder vs. Rubik’s Cube
3. A Very Weird Video!
4. Never Hide Films Are Viral Successes For Ray-Ban
5. Rubik’s Cube Videos

Link: http://james.nerdiphythesoul.com/benn...

Just type in the youtube ID into the box (what comes after the v=) and this link will add “Yakety Sax” to any video. Turn any video clip into a wacky madcap sequence.

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1. Finnish Dancing…Benny Hillified
2. Street Dancing Video…Benny Hillified
3. Add a New Twist to Viral Videos
4. Rick Roll Meets Benny Hillifier
5. Bizarre Cat Video Benny Hillified

Link: http://videogum.com/archives/viral-vi...

All of (many of) 2008's finest viral videos in one great five-minute package, from Bert & Ernie singing MOP to Tom Cruise being insane to Christian the Lion hugging his old friends. Something to put in the time capsule.

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SPORTS BUZZ: The slinky man provides some halftime entertainment. Can you tell where the guy's body is?

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This is the story of Pete, the Meat Puppet. He went from beef parts on a butcher table to the life of a celebrity coke whore seemingly overnight. Learn the words and sing along! Sometimes advertising is soooo weird. This is what happens when you live a life of $100 jeans.

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1. Your Daily WTF: Pete the Meat Puppet
2. Pete the Meat Puppet (Diesel)
3. Diesel: Pete the Meat Puppet
4. What the Hell is Diesel Smo-kin?

Laughing your abs away is the new exercise craze, and yes, this video will make you laugh. Don’t try this at the gym!

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1. Terrifying New Exercise Video

We’ve all been there. The internet just gobbles this stuff up. Keep ‘em coming, cat viral video overlords.

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1. Pussy versus Printer
2. Show Some Respek
3. Cat KO’s Printer In Vicious Boxing Match
4. This Cat Packs a Good Punch
5. Cat Vs. Printer
6. Who ya got?
7. Cats Do The Darndest Things
8. I have tears in my eyes from laughing so hard
9. I think it’s the sound effects.

TECH BUZZ: Because we’re fascinated with the uniquely amateurish nature of viral videos, we keep treating them like movies. The web show “Internet Superstar” is the latest to the game, joining Current TV’s underrated Viral Video Film School and the comedy series Viralcom, about a viral video production house.

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1. Viral Video Film School
2. Viral Video Film School: After Effects
3. Viral Video Film School: White Guys Dunking
4. ViralCom
5. Viral Video School