Viral Video: There Will Be Dragons (In “Game of Thrones” Second Season, Natch!)

Someone’s definitely going to lose an eye. Also a limb, a head, a heart and, well, you get the idea of this fantastically gory television series.
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While Facebook’s Filing to Go Public, the Rest of Us Are Filing Taxes

While many anxiously await Facebook’s S-1 filing, others are focused on filing paperwork less likely to include the word “millions”: Their tax returns. Here are apps that may help.
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Tasty Geek: Nathan Myhrvold Takes His Modernist Cuisine to “Top Chef”

A side of patent troll pâté anyone?
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For Yahoo (And Me, Too), Time Is Brain

Yahoo has about 30 working days to make what has to be a complex and multiparty deal, in an effort that is akin to herding cats.
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TV Networks See Key Audience Erode

Fewer young people watched TV on traditional sets over the past television season, the second consecutive year of decline as viewers face a proliferation of ways to watch TV shows.

Viral Video: Yankees Versus Red Sox, Celeb-Style!

Here is a very funny ad for a baseball cap company with actors Alec Baldwin (he of the New York Yankees persuasion) and John Krasinski (a Boston Red Sox fanatic) getting us ready for the 2011 season. (By the way, you must still Fear the Beard.)

Viral Video: "SpongeBob SquarePants" Gets to Keep Living in a Pineapple Under the Sea

Nickelodeon has ordered up another season of its popular animated television series “SpongeBob SquarePants” for a ninth season. Yay! No, really–it is the only kids’ show I have been able to endure so far.

Video Meme: Hallelujah for Flash Mobs!

Flash mobs: They’re no longer elite events for cool kids with secret passwords. This holiday season has seen a remarkable run of flash mobs in North America (and subsequently on YouTube), with both participants and audience members eager to partake in an increasingly democratized art form and then post their experiences online.

Cyber Spending Hits $16.8 Billion for the Holidays (So Far)

In the first 33 days of the holiday season, e-commerce spending has already jumped to $16.8 billion, increasing 12 percent over the same period last year. ComScore said in the past week alone, four days exceeded $800 million in spending, including Cyber Monday, which became the heaviest online spending day on record at $1.028 billion.

Apple Ramps Up Holiday iPad Production

Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn is ramping up iPad production capacity to meet demand for the tablet over the holiday season. Taiwanese trade mag Digitimes claims Foxconn has begun using its newest factories in Chengdu, China, to manufacture an additional 10,000 iPads per day, or about 300,000 iPads per month.
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IPad Hits Wal-Mart Friday

Viral Video: Katy Perry Defiles Elmo

Viral Video: Mad (Wo)Men