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Disney has made billions off anthropomorphizing animals, Transformers has done the same with vehicles, now it’s the Internet’s time. That is how we get this illustration imagining that If 7 Popular Websites Were People they would look something like the following assortment of vaguely anime-looking characters. Click image for larger version.

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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

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.

Time blogger Claire Suddath didn’t want to know a lot of things she learned through the “25 Things” Facebook meme. I dunno, I absolutely wanted to know that one of Suddath’s Facebook friends thinks “pee smells like Cheerios.”
Go To List: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1877187,00.html?cnn=yes

The Pittsburgh Steelers won a football game yesterday.
Michael Phelps admits to holding the smoking bong.
The aliens of Hulu stake claims on viewers’ mushy brains.
In case you missed the other Super Bowl ads.
Obama says most of our troops will be out of Iraq within the year.
Facebook cashes in on user data.
Google to map the ocean floor.
Will Apple make [...]

Steve Jobs explains mysterious weight loss.
What is the deal with the death of John Travolta’s son?
Katie Holmes spent $14 million in New York in six months.
“Craigslist Penis Photographer,” starring Bob Odenkirk [via The Daily What]
No Son of Mine Plays Oregon Trail Like That [via BuzzFeed]
Should You Be Facebook Friends with Your Mother?
Ew, ew, ew: Ladies [...]

Aaron Sorkin is now in a relationship with his rumored Facebook movie, which will supposedly be more about the rise of boy wonder Mark Zuckerberg than the SuperPoke sexual thriller that I was hoping for. Either way, internet + Hollywood = pure camp, mostly because using the internet is something that requires no real [...]

One of the big year-end lists comes to us today from the rulers of all things online, Google, who released the findings of their annual search tabulations on their Google Zeitgeist 2008 site. The whole Googlegeist site is full of fascinating findings (like that New Zealanders are really into the new hadron collider or that [...]