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“The thing about memes is that through repetition, they create a shared language,” says Professor Julie Levin Russo, an adjunct assistant professor at Brown’s Modern Culture & Media Program . “If you understand the premise of the meme, you can communicate a lot very easily, with whatever twist you’re putting on the meme structure.” On Jan 4, the “Shit Girls Say” meme was radically transformed.

Poland thinks twice about passing ACTA, Google will no longer use CDMA devices as developer units, and a new study begs the question, “Do iOS apps crash more frequently than Android apps?” More??

This year’s Super Bowl will be more social than ever before. With the rise of social TV and the first-ever 2,800-square-foot social media command center , fans who have trekked down to Indianapolis and people at Super Bowl parties across the country can now opt to have a super-connected experience. This marks the first time that the NFL has partnered with a Super Bowl host city

Wired’s Garth Sundem sat down with the Robert Bjork, director of UCLA’s Learning and Forgetting Lab, to discuss how you can best “[pack] things in your brain in a way that keeps them from leaking out”. What he learned? A lot of our basic assumptions are wrong.

This is old (as in 2007 old). The kid in the video is now seven years old and undoubtably jailbreaks his iPhone and programs Arduino boards.

Earlier this week, we reported on efforts by an Indiana state legislator who was interested in getting creationism inserted into the state’s science classrooms. He managed to get a modified bill , one that was less sectarian but still overtly promoted religion, passed by the state’s Senate. Yesterday, however, the leader of the Indiana House voiced unease about having the state wade into an area that the Supreme Court has declared an unconstitutional promotion of religion.? Many similar bills are introduced in state legislatures each year and, in cases where their sponsors speak to the press, they tend to reveal a great deal of ignorance regarding both science and the law. In terms of science, they tend to misunderstand the meaning of the term “theory,” think that there are multiple scientific explanations for life’s diversity, or suggest evolution is a theory for life’s origin

Remember Clipboard Magic ? No? Then you are in good company as the program has not made the news in the last six years. The developer of the clipboard manager has released version 5 of the program after six years of radio silence.