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Slate readers: Pro athlete will come out October 2014, will be in baseball

Cyd Zeigler Outsports Mar 26 2012, 11:30a

Dave Kopay started paving the way in the '70s Slate.com asked its readers to predict when a professional male athlete in the United States...

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FT: You Are What You Meme

posted by -PS-, Oct 17, 2011

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If you have an email inbox, you will, even if the term is unfamiliar, have come across what it denotes: the viral ephemera that washes across the Internet, proliferates on Facebook walls and trends on Twitter. The Internet is the most potent medium of mass communication in human history, but we use it to exchange videos of cats jumping through cardboard boxes, old Rick Astley songs, and pictures of a rabbit with a pancake balanced on its head. The success of these memes prompts certain questions. Not least, what’s wrong with us? But also, what do they tell us about our relationships with each other? And what is it that makes certain memes catch fire? .... One of the most enduring and easily remixed meme genres is what users on Internet forums call the "image macro"—that is, a picture with lettering across it—of which the best known is probably the LOLcat. There are now millions of these in circulation. The archetypal LOLcat—back in the dawn of time, i.e. 2007, was a fat-looking gray mog asking: "I can has cheezburger?" Subgenres sprang up, multiplied, divided, and adapted. The Bible has been translated into LOLspeak, and LOLwalruses are already old, old news. Image macros may use a specific image and an associated running joke, or a phrasal template of the sort known as "snowclones": for example, "to X, or not to X"; "X is the new Y." Snowclones are catnip to the Internet. A catchphrase from online war games, "I’m in your base, killing your men" (and numerous misspelled alternatives), has spawned the snowclone, "I’m in ur X, Ying ur Z." You’ll find it on LOLcats: "I’m in ur fridge, eating ur noms." Kanye West’s famous interruption—"I’ma let you finish"—was another instant snowclone; "Yo Jesus, I’m real happy for you, and I’mma let you finish, but Allah had one of the best ideas of all time. Of all time!" And so forth. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/ft/2011/10/what_memes_like_maru_the_cat_and_star_wars_kid_say_about_us.single.html

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Why "The Dukes of Hazzard" is the Greatest Movie Ever Made

T Kyle King May 4 2011, 12:15a

The 2005 film adaptation of "The Dukes of Hazzard" starring Seann William Scott, Johnny Knoxville, Jessica Simpson, Willie Nelson, and Burt Reynolds is the greatest movie ever made. No, seriously.

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What would it look like if famous filmmakers directed the Super Bowl?

posted by Jay Preece, Feb 05, 2010

What would it look like if famous filmmakers directed the Super Bowl?

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Slate Covers Fedor vs. Rogers

posted by Zak Woods, Nov 10, 2009

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Slate's sports podcast, "Hang Up and Listen" covers Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Rogers. While there is some ignorance (they can't remember Andrei Arlovski and say MMA fans want blood more than boxing) it is good mainstream coverage for Strikeforce and CBS. Update: Mike Pesca is a boxing fan so don't hold that against him.

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