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This story might be epic, and could even go viral, but not if Lake Superior State University has anything to do with it. Just sayin.' The small college in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, released on Friday its annual list of "banished words" -- terms so overused, misused and hackneyed they deserve to be sent to a permanent linguistic trash can in the year ahead. "Viral," often used to describe the rapid spreading of videos or other content over the Internet, leads the list for 2011. "This linguistic disease of a term must be quarantined," Kuahmel Allah of Los Angeles said...

'Viral' and 'epic fail' among 2011's banished words 'Viral', 'epic fail' and 'Mama Grizzly' are among a list of 'banished' words and phrases for 2011. 7:59PM GMT 31 Dec 2010 Lake Superior State University in Michigan, USA, released its annual list of overused and misused words and terms that should be banned for the year ahead. 'Viral' is often used to describe the rapid spreading of videos or other content over the internet, leads the list for 2011. "This linguistic disease of a term must be quarantined," Kuahmel Allah of Los Angeles said in making a nomination. Runners-up included 'epic'...

The Digital Story Of The Nativity In tune with the social media era, Excentric – a Lisbon, Portugal, company – created a video that tells the Christmas story through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google, among other popular media tools. In the last week, the video has been viewed more than 2 million times on YouTube, with most of the viewers liking it. Miguel Figueiredo, president of Excentric, told CNN that he wanted to illustrate how social media tools can work. And he used the familiar story of Jesus Christ's birth to demonstrate so. "The story for us is very familiar,...

Is the Louisiana forest monster Super 8 viral marketing? Remember yesterday's creeptastic news report about a ghoul shambling through the Louisiana woods? Bad news, cryptid fans — this creature is now being pegged as some extraterrestrial horror from the Steven Spielberg-produced and J.J. Abrams-directed alien flick Super 8. According to Movieweb, this image is Super 8 viral marketing that began on a hunting supply site's Facebook page and wended its way to mainstream media: It first appeared on Wildgame Innovation's Facebook page. It is a picture reportedly snapped by a deer hunter on a reserve in Berwick, near Morgan City,...

Enlarge Image Buried gem. Researchers have uncovered "fossil virus" inside the zebra finch genome. Credit: Peripitus/Wikimedia The hepatitis B virus and its ilk have been around for a long, long time. A newly uncovered "viral fossil" buried deep in the genome of the zebra finch indicates that the hepatitis B family of viruses—known as hepadnaviruses—originated at least 19 million years ago. Together with recent findings on other viruses, the work suggests that all viruses may be much older than thought. No one knows exactly where or when viruses originated. They don't leave fossils, so scientists have begun scouring the...

Antoine Dodson exploded into our pop cultural landscape when video footage featuring his enigmatic ranting about an attempted rape surfaced on the internet. Now Antoine is buying his family a new home from the money he earned as the subject of a chart-topping viral video smash based on the incident. Auto-Tune the News's Gregory Brothers posted the song to iTunes and gave Antoine half of what they made. He talked to Us Magazine about his new fortune, and how he's spending it wisely. "We found a house!" he tells Us, adding that he is so "excited ... It's for my...

Life originated in a nebular cloud, over 10 billion years ago, but may have had multiple origins in multiple locations, including in galaxies older than the Milky Way. Multiple origins could account for the different domains of life: archae, bacteria, eukaryotes. The first steps toward life may have been achieved when self-replicating nano-particles initially comprised of a mixture of carbon, calcium, oxygen, hydrogen, phosphorus, sugars, and other elements and gasses were combined and radiated, forming a nucleus around which a lipid-like permeable membrane was established, and within which DNA-bases were laddered together with phosphates and sugars; a process which may...

Previously I have highlighted the benefits vitamin D has with regard to improving the immune response and helping keep infections such as flu at bay. It has been mooted that the upsurge in viral infections during the winter is connected with the generally lower vitamin D levels at this time. The traditional view is that winter infections are due to “indoor crowding.”However, research indicates that flu epidemics do not occur in the summer in crowded workplaces despite the presence of the flu virus around people who should be susceptible to infection. This is based on research by the Centers for...

‘Anti-Obama’ Billboards Go ViralApril 5, 2010 - 1:19 PM | by: Elizabeth Prann If you have something to say – put it on a billboard. Atlanta commuters are noticing electronic billboards in metro Atlanta posting anti-Obama messages. The idea turns what is normally a staple of commercial advertising into a platform for political opinions - a bumper-sticker slogan aimed at a wider audience. The signs include: ‘Stop Obama’s Socialism.” “If You’re Not Outraged, You’re Not Paying Attention.” “Now It’s Personal! America’s Coming for You Congress! Vote Liberals Out in 2010.” “Stop the Lies.” The billboard sponsors consists of about 12...

I put Glenn's CPAC speech on YouTube, but it's in 6 parts- so I decided to combine them together into one video..let me know if you have any problems with the video. Watch The FULL Speech in ONE Video at http://www.watchglennbeck.com/CPAC2010

(IsraelNN.com) Protests against the release of terrorists in exchange for kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit are continuing. The following video (with English subtitles) was posted on YouTube and was partially publicized on Israel's Channel 10 TV newscast as part of a news report. The goal of the video is to remind people of the terror that was carried out by the terrorists whose release is being demanded by Hamas.

A video of a Santa Cruz city council meeting has gone viral thanks to loopy testimony made by a local woman. In a speech reminiscent of Miss Teen South Carolina, the Santa Cruz City Council girl, as some have dubbed her, rambles on about the need for California to rebuild its economy through agriculture. Or at least that's what we think she's talking about. All we can really make out is that she thinks "food is good." Then things start getting weird when she brings up slavery. "We can be rich in cotton and mining metals and silkworms and we...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Militants and hate groups increasingly use social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and YouTube as propaganda tools to recruit new members, according to a report by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The report released on Wednesday noted a 25 percent rise in the past year in the number of "problematic" social networking groups on the Internet. The report was based on "over 10,000 problematic Web sites, social networking groups, portals, blogs, chat rooms, videos and hate games on the Internet which promote racial violence, anti-semitism, homophobia, hate music and terrorism." "Every aspect of the Internet is...

Viral Batteries: A Case for Evolution? by Brian Thomas, M.S.* Researchers at MIT have invented a “greener” battery with the help of viruses. Three years ago, they engineered a virus that coats itself with material that serves as an anode, a structure within a battery that attracts positive ions. They have now engineered a virus (bacteriophage) that serves as a cathode, which indirectly links to the anode to help make the battery functional. The result is a battery with little impact on the environment. National Public Radio (NPR) ran a report on its Morning Edition that compared the development of...

Freepers if any of you work with Flash or are game designers I have an idea to share with you. If you can picture in your mind's eye a video game or flash animation where we can toss pitchforks at certain members of congress. I can think of a few names and have pictured in my mind the appropriate audio files that would play those elected officials were "tagged" so to speak. Actually the design of the game could be a freeper collaboration. Freepers could select which politicians deserve to play with us. I have an idea that if done...

"We the People" never forget. This is one company I will not give a dime to unless they admit to misjudgment and fire the idiot who authorized payment to this murderer. What did they do give him a high five for a head shot to unarmed Vicki Weaver? My money will go to Remington, Smith & Wesson, etc. He also states: I’d like to thank TD and Ry Jones for bringing this to my attention. Update: David Codrea confirms that this is definitely not a hoax. This entry posted at the Gun Nuts Blog under “Boycott HS Precision“. Personally, I...

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[Permission granted to copy, paste, and circulate in its entirety] Endorsed by Obama: "He's one of the greedy Jew bastards killing our [black] people. Don't give the Jew a dime."Ready-to-go viral E-mail and blog entry: please copy, paste, and circulate as widely as possible. Unlike the smears and urban legends that are being directed against both Presidential tickets, the reader can verify the following material independently. Keep [going] right on past Freddy's, he's one of the greedy Jew bastards killing our [black] people. Don't give the Jew a dime. The above anti-Semitic tirade came from Morris Powell, the head of...

Barack Obama expects to buy the Presidential election with eight figures' worth of advertising on radio, television, and other media, just as his supporters at MoveOn.org claim to have bought the Democratic Party. If you circulate the following information to friends and neighbors, blogs, and other media, it will eventually reach every voter with Internet access, and then Obama's big money sources won't do him the slightest bit of good. Barack Obama needs to learn the hard way that the United States is not for sale to him and his big money sugar daddies, and MoveOn.org needs a good hard...