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Get Free Cookies From Nabisco

Today's One is the most important ever because it involves getting something for free in your real life. Nabisco Cookies, the maker of classic cookies such as Oreo, Chips Ahoy! and Nilla Wafers, is using their resources to beef up their Facebook Fan count by offering a coupon for a FREE box of Chips Ahoy for simply becoming a fan of Nabisco on Facebook. Of course the fine print reads that purchase ...

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The Defaced Presidents Flickr Pool Is Priceless

The web is a big fan of art on non-traditional canvases, especially if it appears on something common from our everyday lives that we look at over and over again without a second thought. Such is the case with The Defaced Presidents Flickr pool where creative folks have taken various bills of currency from around the world and decorated them with a little flair. A BBQ-slinging Washington? Check. A ...

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Catroulette -- Cats Just Want to Video Chat

Are you tired of hearing about Chatroulette yet? I hope not, because despite the site's propensity for NSFWness (and occasional softer side), the anonymous, randomized video chatting site has taken a sharp turn to the cute. Forget people simply acting like cats on the service, because the new single-topic blog, Catroulette, shows that our fur-covered friends have already taken to the service ...

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'We Are the World 25 for Haiti' (YouTube Edition) -- The Internet Is the World

In order to continue to spread awareness for Haiti disaster relief efforts through 'We Are The World 25,' YouTuber Lisa Lavie organized a collaboration of 57 amazing singers from the YouTube music community to offer their cover version of the song. The result is a touching, powerful video that truly demonstrates the world coming together. It's stunning to consider that each singer's track was ...

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Cat Massages Cat (Video)

We've already shown our love for cats giving massages to inanimate objects, other animals, or ever better -- other cats. The following video, in which a cat is intent on loosening up his kitty companion, is making the rounds this weekend and falls perfectly into that realm. You know what? Forget Japan's cat cafes, I would love to attend a spa where kitties make biscuits on my back all day long. ...

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Babies With Laser Eyes

Ohhh boy! You guys may have thought that you reached the apex of laser awesomeness after viewing animals shooting lasers or even the blog authored by one of our very own Urlbots, but you were wrong. Enter Babies With Laser Eyes, the newest single-topic photo blog that's sure to give you a good chuckle. We love babies at Urlesque but if there's one thing that we learned from seeing them in night ...

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Makeup Girl -- Real-Life Model Imitates Painting

Look at the image below. It's a painting, right? WRONG! Look again -- it's actually a photograph of a real-life model snapped by University of Hawaii professor Peter Kun Frary outside of a MAC cosmetics store at Ala Moana outdoor shopping center in Hawaii. ...

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Please Rob Me (The One)

Let me tell it to you straight, Urlbots -- Urlesque wasn't even going to post about the following site because loads of other blogs have already covered it and made all the jokes that there are to make about it. But seriously, the web will not let go, and thus I feel obligated to tell you about it, because it's truly the one thing the web wants you to see today: Please Rob Me. Developed by ...

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Sadie the Scottish Terrier Wins the Westminster Dog Show (The One)

Last night the 2010 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show came to an end with a win by a crowd-favorite: Sadie, the Scottish Terrier. While we refrained from crashing/LOLing the show this year, we think the winning pup does deserve her 15 minutes of web fame. So, step on out there Sadie! Today, you're THE ONE (and we also love you because you have a "Swedish Boyfriend"). See our LiveLOLing of ...

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Barbie Becomes A Computer Engineer, Looks Nothing Like It

One of us! One of us! If you don't follow the world of Barbie news, the world's most famous doll asked the world to help choose her newest career. The votes are in, and THANK GOODNESS the Internet got involved, because ParentDish is reporting that Barbie's shiny new career is as a computer engineer!!!! With her new job comes a great new look -- she's decked out in pink, ones and zeros, ...

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