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You may have heard a clip of Britney Spears saying something rather un-lady-like during a recent show in Tampa, and of course there was that whole Christian Bale thing a little while back. Every such lapse in locution, once seized by the Interweb, has a way of spinning off into innumerable parodies and tributes and [...]

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 [...]

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.

The ubiquitous audio clip of Christian Bale’s now-notorious freak-out over Terminator Salvation DP Shane Hurlbut’s “light tweaking” has been the talk of the tubes for the past few days. Considering the brevity of its existence, the amount of viral material Bale’s on-set meltdown has produced is staggering, even by Internet standards. We’ve seen everything from [...]

Bill Gates releases mosquitoes on TED audience to prove a point/take some coverage away from Jobs’s ill heath.
The AP sues Shepard Fairey over Obama image.
Hey, New York figured out where that weird maple syrup smell was coming from.
Titanoboa!
Paul Rudd and fellow comedic types explore “literally, hundreds of thousand of sections, all in one newspaper!”
Cookie Monster’s 99 [...]

It’s about time somebody made this listicle, ’cause we’d had it just about up to here with all the noise about Christian Bale’s on-set, on-tape flip-out. We especially appreciate Underwire for their quick recap of the Bale meme and their thorough historical exposé of disastrous on-air, on-camera and on-tape freak-outs. Not only do they cover [...]

With today’s news that Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich was essentially auctioning off President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant senate seat to whomever could promise him and his wife the best career boosts, the Windy City’s historical tendency towards corruption has come full circle (how fitting that such news should break on International Anti-Corruption Day).
With that history [...]

The year-end list onslaught continues, this morning with Entertainment Weekly’s retrospective list of the 15 Most (and Least) Stylish Movie Characters of 2008. Important detail: the characters have to display fashion sense, but the movies they inhabit can be (and some were) completely awful. Culled from the list of 15, here are EW’s top 3 [...]