Rick Astley

Science

The First Rickroll In Space

4:40AM October 23, 2010 | Brian Barrett

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Hiding a Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up in a college paper? Small time. This is what it’s like to Rickroll the entire planet. More »


Geek Out

Student Hides Rick Astley’s Song In School Assignment

1:40PM October 21, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

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I once wrote the football results in the middle of a literature paper to see if the teacher was really reading it. This guy included Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” in acrostic form. This is how he did it. More »


Online

YouTube Pulls The Original Rickroll Video

2:41AM February 25, 2010 | Matt Buchanan

Really? Really Sony BMG? After over 30 million views you just now decided to make YouTube pull Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” for a terms of use violation? If you were going to try to stop rickrolling, couldn’t you have at least done it a couple years ago? More »


Mobile

Jailbroken iPhone? Watch For The Ikee Virus

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10:15AM November 9, 2009 | Nick Broughall

The Whirlpool forum has been overwhelmed these past few days with jailbroken iPhone users waking to discover they’ve been rickrolled – a photo of Rick Astley seemingly permanently attached to their iPhone’s screen and the words “ikee is never going to give you up” emblazoned across the top. It seems jailbreaking may not be as safe as it seems. More »