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Whalewatching - Fail whale sightings from June to October

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

After I saw the fail whale on Twitter again after a long whale-free period, I thought it was time to actualize my timeline of whale sightings. The first fail whale had been spotted last June. And after five months this meme is still going strong.
Some users feared that they would not be able to [...]

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A short history of the fail whale

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Yesterday evening, I was thinking about all those strange memes on Twitter and FriendFeed. From the fail whale to epic fail and bacon. I like the fail whale most because it’s such a perfect description and has spread very fast - the picture only has been introduced on May 30 (and posted to Flickr by [...]

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