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5. Ben has appendicitis, or as I like to call it, a real man’s tummyache.
4. Urlesque posted a list of Flickr’s Most Unsightly Sunburn Photos and Ben was so ashamed he didn’t think of it first, he developed appendicitis.
3. Bastille Day.
2. Ben got so excited about Bastille Day, he developed appendicitis.
1. There are no more listicles. The end. No more [...]

If there is one thing that can be said with certainty about the Internet it’s that anything that gets posted to the web will likely outlive the insects who have survived the Nuclear Apocalypse. That’s why, starting today, The Daily What will begin forcibly retiring viral sensations whose time has come – for the good [...]

What is the internet reading about? Politics, celebrities and the World Wide Web itself.
Go To List: http://247wallst.com/2009/02/23/the-twenty-five-most-valuable-blogs/

Facebook owns your soul, according to new terms of service.
Bristol Palin thinks, like, abstinence-only education isn’t, y’know, responsible, given how much teenagers like to do it or whatever.
Connecticut police officers shoot a precious, adorable, killer chimpanzee.
Nate Silver called Barack Obama’s win, why not Mickey Rourke’s?
Twitter users get behind Kiwis’ civil rights.
Is that you, Chunk? (via The Daily What)
Is [...]

Give it up, college students: Facebook is no longer the territory of the young. Time takes a look at all the reasons why the ‘net’s most popular social network is for the olds (”9. We don’t understand Twitter. Literally. It makes no sense to us.”).
Go To List: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1879169,00.html

Hey, it’s Friday the 13th.
British 13 year-old (who looks about 7 years old) becomes a father.
Obama’s stimulus bill passed.
New York’s “Miracle on the Hudson” optimism negated by a fatal plane crash in Buffalo.
A naked picture of Madonna fetches $37,500.
The woman who held the world record for longest fingernails broke them in a car crash.
I cannot [...]

Between the Mother of all Meltdowns and Kids Dropping Nitrous The Darndest Things, last week was a veritable bacchanalia of bitchin’ virals. The parodies flowed like wine-in-a-box, and the mashups were awkwardly slapped together like male reproductive organs involuntarily crossing paths during a drunken tag team.
In all the light-smashing fun, many viral trends naturally fell [...]

The meme enthusiasts at Urlesque let us in on the fun the other day, when the Listicles team cataloged the ‘net’s best celebrity startups. They’re sending some list love our way, too, with this rundown of their favorite meme-based listicles.
As Web-trend-obsessives, we here at Urlesque love lists! In fact, we love lists so much that [...]

Vanity record labels are SO twentieth century–the aughts are all about celebrities’ adventures in the dot-com industry, from Gwyneth’s lifestyle newsletter to Ashton’s celebrity gossip blog to David Caruso’s…well, we can’t figure out exactly what David Caruso’s site actually does. The expert meme chroniclers at Urlesque let us have at the phenomenon, listicle-style.
Check it out [...]

Octuplet lady keeps gettin’ crazier!
Renee Zellweger gets Harvard’s Hasty Pudding award, wears fat suit.
Barbie, in utero.
Dubai has become a parking lot.
Another Facebook relationship casualty.
Christian Bale sorta apologizes.
How much is your website worth?
Ugh, really? A Sex and the City sequel?
Aw, Michael Phelps loses Subway endorsement too.
John Mayer, you’re alright.