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Charting The Popularity Of Tech Through Hip-Hop Lyrics
Rap music is usually a pretty good marker of what’s trendy — or what’s going to be trendy in a few months. Maybe people were bragging about Sidekicks in the early aughts, but when did that drop off? RapGenius’s new RapStats feature shows you.
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The Internet In 2012 In One Glorious Image
Because the internet has such a short memory and moves at such a breakneck pace, it’s hard to remember what happened on it in any given year. Like was Rebecca Black a 2012 thing or a 2011 thing? But if you consider yourself an advanced internet person, you should have no problem figuring out the…
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Facebook’s 2012 Trend Report Reveals What Really Matters To Australians
Twitter did it, and then Google did it, and now Facebook has done it too with its fancy trend report for 2012. What did we talk about the most this year? Where did we insist on checking in? What were our favourite songs? And what does it say about us as Australians?
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I Hope Temporary Teeth Tattoos Never Become Popular Here
Trend hunters in Japan say the island nation’s latest fad is for people to stick temporary tattoos to their teeth. If these pics are any indication, it looks as if someone’s teeth are falling apart.