A successful speech can be a serious person being funny, a comedian with gravitas, a writer getting loopy, a businessman thinking deep. I guess the only essential “rules” for success are obvious: don’t be boring, be insightful, and be as honest as possible. […] After the jump, find ten, in no particular order, of our (and your) favorite commencement speeches.

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It’s already been an exciting week for accidental on-air cursing. […] video guru Richard Blakeley (who’s explored reportorial bloopers before) collected ten of our very favorite meltdowns by people whose job it is to not curse on TV.

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Obama can be mashed up with any meme, because anyone can assign him any qualities. […] To demonstrate, in no particular order but numbered anyway, here are the top twelve memes that have carried Obama to the nomination.

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While I was pulling an all-nighter this weekend watching YouTube, my stomach started to growl even though I’d had like a whole thing of goldfish crackers and a bottle of Kahlua, and as I popped a diet pill and scratched a couple scabs off my forearm, I had a vision of the eleven ways the Internet could kill you.

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