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In case you missed it while you were cooking the turkey (or recovering from a turkey-induced coma), the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade got Rick Rolled! By Rick Astley himself! (Lookin' pretty good, I might add. ) As Rick rollin' geeksugar pointed out, I wonder how many people were in on the joke and how many viewers just thought he was singing his hit song from the '80s Read more
According to my BF, I'm a brave soul. Why? Cause I took my Rick Roll Halloween costume to the streets and into some of the offices around the Financial District to "roll" some innocent bystanders. What fun is making a Rick Roll Halloween costume if you can't use it?! After a few adjustments to the initial plan (no one wanted to rip the email off the face of the box . . . who knew?!), we were off Read more
This year for Halloween I wanted to be something totally geeky, but I didn't want to spend a lot of money. So of course that meant that I had to make my own costume. So to be honest, I don't even remember how I came up with the idea of being a real life Rick Roll, but it must have been lodged in my subconscious from all the "rolls" I've received this year. The best part about this project is that Read more
I lied. I know I said we weren't going to discuss Rickrolling anymore, mostly because I have had that song stuck in my head since March, and you know what? I need a new song. But, since it appears that the geek prank of 2008 just won't die — and, well, because this gag was just too awesome to ignore, here it comes again. A Craftzine reader (my new hero) made a Rickroll cake, and then hid it Read more
It peaked on April Fool's Day, and now I don't want to be RickRolled ever again. It's high time for a new meme — one that doesn't involve the sentiment that one would never give me up, or let me down. Let me share with you a way to banish Rick Astley from your eyes and ears, and then let's be done with it, OK? Just enter your suspected-Rickrolling url into Rickproof and it'll tell you Read more
Have you ever opened an email or IM from a friend directing you to an "awesome" or "really funny" site, only to click on the link and find yourself rockin' out to a Rick Astley video on YouTube? You may begin thinking to yourself "This isn't really that funny or awesome," then you begin to wonder what happened to you. Wonder no more, my friend, you've just been "Rick Roll'd." What is Rick Read more
For the second year in a row, the Recording Academy has given a hip-hop artist the most Grammy nominations. Last year, it was rapper Eminem with eight, and this year, Kanye West leads the nominees with seven chances at the golden gramophone, including a song of the year nod for "All of the Lights." West is also nominated twice in the rap album of the year category for his collaboration with Jay-Z Read more
Stephen Colbert can't stop thinking about the iPad 2 — The Colbert Report The Chronicles of Rick Roll meme movie gets a trailer — Urlesque Half of all 12-year-olds use Facebook — Switched A little girl explains her video game — The Mary Sue Awesome DIY project: use a CD spindle as a terrarium — Unplggd Read more
Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie stepped out of Rome's Hassler Hotel earlier today accompanied by their mother, Fergie, en route to Petra Ecclestone's sunset wedding ceremony. The wedding festivities kicked off last night with an elaborate rehearsal dinner celebrating the couple. The heiress and her fiancé, James Stunt, reportedly invited 250 guests to the lavish event, including Paris, Nicky, Read more
