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May 10, 2010

ROFLcon 2010 Podcast Vol. 1: Berkman Center's Ethan Zuckerman on International Meme Diplomacy
By Carly Carioli

From this week's fishwrap, you can read Chris Faraone's report from ROFLCon 2010, which may be the closest thing IRL to synthesizing the sublime irreverence, shocking duplicity, crass exploitation, and utter brilliance of the internet. The smartest hour of ROFLCon came courtesy of the Berkman Center's ETHAN ZUCKERMAN, who argues that the future of the internet is pluralistic and global -- that developing countries are beginning to catch up to us in meme production, and that the internet, heralded as a tool to make the world smaller, is now splintering into a multiplicity of distinct internets.

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MIT, Makmende Amerudi, internet memes

December 09, 2009

PODCAST: Gregory Mone, "The Truth About Santa: Wormholes, Robots, and What Really Happens on Christmas Eve" [MP3]
By Shaula Clark

^{The Truth About Santa author Gregory Mone speaks at Google's Boston headquarters}

Plenty of authoritative geeks have weighed in on Christmas and its patron saint of gift-giving: According to Neil Gaiman, Santa Claus is a tortured soul who cannot die, a slave to the "dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns."

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Podcast, MIT, Santa Claus

October 23, 2009

Rape a Gay Whale for Jesus: Dispatch from the Protest Clusterfuck Outside Today's Obama-Patrick Fundraiser
By Chris Faraone

I once saw a bumper sticker that read “Rape a Gay Whale for Jesus.” Assuming that the driver was not a homophobic bible boy who likes to diddle blowholes, it was possibly the most brilliant protest ever forced upon my eyeballs. I wish I had a massive oak tag shouting that catch phrase with me earlier this afternoon.

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Deval Patrick, Obama, Boston

October 22, 2009

We Smell Some Serious Autotune-Related Harvard-MIT Beef Cooking
By Chris Faraone

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Harvard, MIT, Sloan

October 08, 2009

Ig Nobel Prize stolen, insane/brilliant lectures delivered
By Shaula Clark

^{2009 Ig Nobel Prize, designed and hand-built by Eric Workman}
Mere days after the strange and terrifying and groin-grabbingly excellent Ig Nobel awards ceremony, we have received a distressing update: some nefarious Enemy of Fun has swiped an Ig Nobel!

The Improbable Research folks posted this Tuesday:

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Ig Nobel, Elena Bodnar, gas-mask bra

Related: Just A Band, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Boston, Danah Boyd, Deval Patrick, Elena Bodnar, Ethan Zuckerman, Futurama, gas-mask bra, Greenland, Gregory Mone, Harvard, Ig Nobel, Improbable Research, internet memes, LSC, Makmende Amerudi, Neil Gaiman, Obama, organ printing

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Law & Disorder: The Best of Last Semester's Campus Crime Logs
Published 1/27/2012 by BARRY THOMPSON
Best time of your life? Hardly. Behold these stunning antics, ripped straight from the campus crime blotters.

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You gotta fight for your right
Published 1/27/2012 by JOE DIFAZIO
. . . to evaluate the quality of various college parties (and assign a grade accordingly)

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