Peter Kafka got a chance to ask Reddit founder, Alexis Ohanian, “How Reddit Got Obama”: There’s not a lot to it. I’ve gotten to know quite a few folks in the WH & Obama campaign team over the years and it was always something I brought up when I got the chance. There are quite …
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There is a new meme floating around the internet and it involves finding the rarest of cult hits on Netflix. Anything from classic 80s comedies, to Japanese cartoons, even art-house flicks from the 50s. Well, here is a new one, the 11-minute entertainment clips Netflix created to test out new streaming devices. “This is television …
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Even if you have only a passing familiarity with the massive multiplayer online game World of Warcraft, you’re probably aware of “Leeroy Jenkins,” a comedy sketch/meme/recreation of real events about an oblivious player who dooms his teammates charging into a battle (video here, watch this first if you’ve never seen it). For the CFC Worldwide …
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In what was quite certainly one of yesterday’s more complicated (sophisticated?) April Fool’s gags, the folks at Twilio rolled out an actual API… for telegrams. Built in the same spirit as their drop-in telephony services, the Telegram API lets any third-party developer add hand-delivered, TaskRabbit-powered telegram functionality to their applications. I was curious as to whether or not …
My favorite chef, Jacques Pépin, cooks up four delicious, and mostly healthy desserts: Tartelettes Aux Fruit Panaches Tarte Tatin Mémé’s Apple Tart Individual Chocolate Nut Pies Episode 103: Jacques helps his daughter Claudine relinquish her fear of making pastry with his easy Tartelettes Aux Fruit Panaches. She goes on to assist her father in the …
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Meme – An idea or pattern of thought that “replicates” like a virus by being passed along from one thinker to another As an idea or pattern of thought government 2.0 (gov 2.0) is still being defined and debated. To some it is merely an extension of Web 2.0, to others it is the serious …