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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 »
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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 »
I need a humidifier. I’ll head to Amazon. They have deals. I’ll scroll through their front page—oh, here are some good deals. Oh look, at the bottom there’s a list of sites Amazon owns. Oh, the—OH GOD NO. More »
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 »
Celebrating the new House of Representatives’ YouTube channel, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi posted this clip that included a surprise announcement by Rick Astley. We’re just happy she avoided recreating 2 Girls 1 Pelosi. [via TechCrunch]
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Chris Matthews and the CNBC crew did their best to report last night’s vice presidential debate between Biden and Palin, but it appears that a rogue squadron of mavericks was able to sneak into the shot with a VP write-in of their own. I can’t speak for anyone else here, but if an internet meme gets elected to office, I’m so moving to Canada—for real this time. [Fark]
