FOTI #6: Humiliated by Socialcam

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In this episode, Alison and Alpine discuss an inspiring new anthem for red-haired people, the startlingly effective food activism of a 9-year-old Scottish blogger, and a Youtube series that reviews frozen meals. Plus, Jeni Sue joins us to talk about Social Reader, Socialcam and Spotify, and we enjoy the music of Young Hines.

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To the links! The tweets we posted yesterday are below — plus bonus links.

Report Card

On the podcast, Alpine walks through how this amazing ginger theme came to exist. Here’s the full “Ginger Kids” episode of South Park that brought the word ginger to the USA in the first place — one of the best-ever eps of that show. Here’s Coppercab’s enraged response, songified above. And more on the Gregory Brothers here.

Lunch before NeverSeconds started blogging:

Lunch after:

Our reaction is a resounding, disappointed sigh. The Webby Awards’ other (better) nominees were Texts from Hillary, the Michelle Bachmann Newsweek cover, and the Neil Degrasse Tyson meme.

(Corrections Corner: Sorry for mispronouncing “Degrasse” and attributing the Bachmann meme to Conan — I guess it was really the Newsweek cover itself that sparked the meme. My Bs. — Alpine)

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