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  1. Zach Anner is Back with a Show that’s “For the Internet, By the Internet”

    Zach Anner, a standup comic with cerebral palsy from Austin, Texas, captured the hearts of the Internet back in 2010 when he submitted his bid to Oprah Winfrey's "Your OWN Show" contest. He's back again to announce his brand new show, "Riding Shotgun." In a YouTube video released this morning, Anner promises the people of the Internet that they would have a great deal to do with actually making the show.

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  2. Did Team Oprah Rig a Contest Against Zach Anner? We Investigate [Update]

    In case you don't know, Oprah has been running a competition to give one lucky citizen the chance to have his or her own television show. Anyone can enter by submitting a tape, but then the tape must be voted up in an online poll to be in contention for earning its creator a series. One contestant, Zach Anner, suffers from cerebral palsy and wants to host a humorous travel show that would illustrate great trips that anyone can take. He has become an internet sensation via 4chan and Reddit, and for a week up until June 22 was the strong front-runner.

    But in the span of an hour around or just before 3pm EDT, the woman who had been trailing Anner for some time, Doctor Phyllis, took the lead. And she did so at what sounds to be an unbelievable rate. The Huffington Post reports an increase of 300,000 votes in 20 minutes. Reddit reports 600,000 in an hour. Either way, the voting rates being bandied around are astounding, corroborate with what many Internet denizens who have been following the proceedings saw, and justly aroused suspicion.

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  3. Zach Anner: How the Internet Helped a Man (Who Can’t Walk) Fly

    There's a lot of anger and snark on the internet (I should know, I write some of it), so it was great news that this weekend gave us an internet story that just makes you smile. That story is the tale of Zach Anner, a young man with cerebral palsy, who became the internet's latest celebrity when he entered Oprah Winfrey's contest to give a regular person their own TV show. Anner's audition video was hilarious and his overall good nature won over the internet and soon a few well-placed links had landed him more than two and a half million votes!

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  4. Hey, Bioware: Stop Crowdsourcing Your Gender Politics

    Allow Us To Explain

    Bioware, we love to heap praise on you for joining the ranks of RPG makers who, when they include romance options in their games, allow anybody to romance anybody, period. But we need to talk. This started with you opening up a giant can of gender expression worms by allowing the internet as a whole to decide what the default FemShep would look like. Normally, we'd say that it takes three incidents to show a pattern, but in this case, we're going to jump on at two, in the hopes that there won't be any more. This weekend you posted pictures of Kotobukiya's unpainted design maquette of Mass Effect's Liara in a bishojou style, and asked fans what they thought of it. Liara, a doctor, archeologist, and later a ruthless trader of information perfectly willing to break the law; is depicted as a teenager. Her spine is arched to show off her butt, and her arms tightly pressed together, the better to emphasize what seems to be a significant increase in breast size compared to the in-game character model. In other words, she's rendered in a style typical of the market for figurines inspired by anime and manga. And you asked for feedback.

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  5. Geekolinks: 2/12

    Zach Anner is back! (ZachAnner on YouTube) A Love Poem to Video Games (Kotaku) 93% of parents are around when video games are purchased. Hm. (Entertainment Software Association) LEGOs make even A Clockwork Orange adorable! (Surf With Berserk) Neil Gaiman on Internet piracy, selling more books (OpenRightsGroup on YouTube) How to introduce your kids to D&D (The Mule Abides) Anatomical sleeping bag. Thank you, Japan. (Weekly ASCII Store) (Top pic via Neatorama)

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  6. Geekolinks: 8/5

    Massive Digg-fixing ring found (Alternet) Steve Jobs turned away from San Francisco pizzeria (AppleInsider) Why hardcore gamers hate n00bs so much (Escapist) Sports viral video roundup (SportsGrid) Wife learns of husband's secret second wedding on Facebook (AP) The great hidden operating system games (Technologizer) Who could beat you up? (CollegeHumor)

      Bonus: The first episode of Zach Anner's new travel show, covering Niagara Falls:

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    • How Reddit Controls the Internet News Cycle

      Five years ago today, social news site Reddit, the brainchild of recent UVA grads Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman, witnessed its first-ever post. (The site would wrap up private internal alpha testing and open to the public five days later.) Reddit's core idea -- users submitting links to relevant news stories and Internet ephemera and upvoting or downvoting each other's submissions, producing a publication of sorts with minimal interference from top-level editors -- wasn't particularly groundbreaking. Digg had launched in December of 2004, and both sites were arguably grandfathered by the moderator-run Slashdot, which launched an unfathomably long time ago, back in September of 1997.

      The world of social news sites has gotten more and more crowded since 2005, but Reddit, while not perfect, remains the best and the fastest of the lot. Reddit, which is now owned by Condé Nast, isn't a moneymaking giant: Its admins regularly complain about their relative lack of funding. But the online media increasingly depends upon it.

      Reddit's speed and its nose for good stories aren't bad things, but they plug into an online news infrastructure that amplifies its findings to the point of drowning out other signals. Here's how:

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    • Conan O’Brien Announces San Diego Comic-Con Residency In 2015 As Hotel Requests Begin For 2014

      Oh Hollywood

      If you're one of those fans who thinks Comic-Con International: San Diego has gotten "too Hollywood," brace yourselves - Conan O'Brien is coming, and not just for a panel appearance. The host has secured a theater venue for next year's SDCC, giving many a first glimpse at the official convention dates for 2015 and also a huge frakking headache. Speaking of headaches, SDCC hotels go on sale today, are you ready?

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    • Community Recap Season 5 Episode 1 “Repilot”

      New characters come in, regulars shift roles, and some even drop off.

      We're recapping the new season of Community! The first episode of season 5, "Repilot" was a reboot of the show in many ways and brought back series creator Dan Harmon as the showrunner, and we'll tell you all about his triumphant return right here.

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    • Things We Saw Today: A Vintage Breast Washing Machine

      Things We Saw Today

      Offered without comment. (Boing Boing)

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