By Drew Grant 11/02/12 12:34pm

New York City Marathon

Zeddie Little: The real reason you shouldn't run on Sunday

Thursday Styles Reveals Real Reason Behind Calls for Marathon Cancellation: Ugly Photos

If you have been spending your days reading only the A section of The New York Times lately, we can forgive you for thinking that this weekend’s NYC marathon might be canceled over something as mercurial as a hurricane. After all, that’s what Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer said today: That holding a major event in a city while its still reeling from a crisis is potentially not the best idea. (Although hey, it certainly would be the fastest way to get over any of New York’s bridges.)

And that makes sense, at least on the surface. But dig a little deeper … say, to Thursday Styles, and you’ll find out the real reason people don’t want to spend Sunday running around a ghost town. They’re afraid someone will take a stupid picture of them. Read More

By Foster Kamer 2/29/12 6:54pm

MEMES OF MEMES

Jonah Peretti.

Newest Single-Serving Tumblr: ‘Has Buzzfeed Hired Anyone New Today?’

Jonah Peretti’s meme-spewing startup recently launched an original content initiative, which is already successful if not for the way in which they can simply memes by hiring people. With sharpened poaching-spears in hand, Peretti has taken from Politico (with Subject #1: Buzzfeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith), Gawker, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, New York, and surely a bunch of others that are difficult to keep track of. Until now! Read More

By Foster Kamer 10/06/11 1:41pm

Occupy Wall Street

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Muppets In The Name Of: Occupy Sesame Street Gets Violent

The recent downtown occupation of frustrated, furry creatures protesting the unseen hands and strings that literally control them has become, against all expectations, violent. One wouldn’t think, given their peaceful dedication to teaching children everything from the value of being somebody to the value of the number six. And yet, the police state of Sesame Street has shown them no mercy. Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 2/22/11 2:44pm

lulz

Buzzfeed Launches Search Engine for Memes

Memes are Buzzfeed’s business–the New York company tracks the Internet’s celebrity obsessions, favored news items and inside jokes in real time, similar to a Digg or a Reddit.

But Buzzfeed is trying to position itself as an aggregator for all the mememakers and memewatchers on the Internet. The company announced a “pop culture search Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 1/26/11 5:46pm

memetown

People on the Internet Put Their Heads in the Freezer

Goodness, look what the internet has done now. The Observer has learned that a search for the random number “241543903″ in Google’s Images search leads down a wormhole into a Dadaist conspiracy: the “heads in freezers” meme.

The meme peaked in March, but was revived recently by a post on Tumblr, according to meme-detective Jay Read More