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By Foster Kamer 12/30/11 2:06pm

2011: WTF?

GRPN vs. BDNK (Or: The Battle Between My Fat, Pale Jewish Ass and Groupon)

So, we at Betabeat have been waiting to roll this one out for a while. Seeing as how the business year is coming to a close today—and also, like, nobody’s around to read what you’re about to read—there’s no time quite like the present to disclose the following:

My fat, white Jewish ass has been engaged in a battle with Groupon for about three months now. Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 1/26/11 12:46pm

Memes

People on the Internet Put Their Heads in the Freezer

Goodness, look what the internet has done now.The Observer has learned that a search for the random number “241543903″ in Google’s Images search leads down a wormhole into a Dadaist conspiracy: the “heads in freezers” meme.

The meme peaked in March, but was revived recently by a post on Tumblr, according to Read More

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