Rickroll has officially entered mainstream culture with a surprise performance by Rick Astley during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Over 7000 diggs and over 1800 points on Reddit:

The dark side of Black Friday, with 3945 diggs and 1730 points on Reddit:
Long Islanders Fatally Stampede Over Walmart Worker

Pictures rounded out most of the top dugg stories of the week…

Not-quite-Engrish grabs 4844 diggs:

From The Onion, but truer than some might like (4496 diggs):

Ongoing fun with beauty pageants (4352 diggs):

Religion again (4496 diggs):

And from our friends at BuzzFeed…

A clear top story with 84,000 views, Lois Feldman gains internet infamy for having semi-public drunken bathroom sex. I cry (real) pics or it didn’t happen

In second place with almost 60,000 views is Michael Phelp’s new girlfriend, “cocktail waitress” Caroline Pal

The film Twilight hit theatres last week, but it’s star Kristen Stewart smoking a bowl in public that gets attention:

Boston.com’s (excellent) Big Picture highlights photography from the Mumbai terror attacks:

Switching gears to Reddit we see some attention to retouching, not dissimilar from our own Evan Roth’s Detouch project:

Ripe to be punched into Detouch, which highlights changed pixels. Code freely available of course (info)

And in more ER news, the highlight of my week… Evan does a music video for Jay-Z ! “Brooklyn Go Hard” w/ Santogold done with typographical illustration, which he originally developed while at Parsons (nudge nudge)

Catch the video’s ending credits? “Download Source Code” — one step closer to making open source the 6th element of hip-hop.

What’d you do this week?

We’ll start with Digg again:

- The #1 most dugg article of the week with a whopping 14,292 diggs is You should never ask for help on the internet. One thing we know that the internet loves is sincerity, and I think part of this posts popularity is that you can really feel Peaveh’s pain as he is gotten by nerds with photoshop skills. Great example of title poetry as well.

- The #3 most dugg was Matt Damon’s Sarah Palin statement. Could be good re-mix material?

- Is this one really worth 6050 Diggs! I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again…. NERDS LOVE WORD PUNS.

- Cats will never go out of style on the internets:

- Palin/McCain tally = 13 in the top 30

- And here is some more evidence to support the nerds love signs theory:
Church signs scores 4,648 diggs, while the ‘security’ sign scores 5,088 diggs.

Since we are after all in an MFA program I thought it might be worth while to take a departure into some art famo from last week:

From rhizome.org we have:

- How to make a perfect Malevich using only basic HTML:

- MGM (1975) – Jack Goldstein:

- Jonathan Schipper’s Slow motion car crashes:

- form study #9 (2008) – Robert Wodzinski

- vvork.com brings us this new one by John Michael Boling:

From we-make-money-not-art.com:

- Manifesta: the Chernobyl’d Matrioska

And moving right along to the world of BuzzFeed:

- The number one most viewed article of the week on BuzzFeed is…. Howard Stern auctioning off the virginity of 22-year-old San Diego student Natalie Dylan to help her finance her college education.

- miracle toast maker:

- Human catapulting:

- From the Internet Famous team that brought you Coke and Mentos:

EepyBird’s Sticky Note experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo.

- The Internet can’t get enough Kanye:

- Melted Sign:

- Freestyle Battle Rap Translated:

And a couple of personal favorites, and examples of solid one day projects:

- Every Photoshop Filter. This has high damn, I wish I thought of that value.

- And LHC Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment Webcams. Timely and well executed.