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Digerati Vogues
An exhibition at The New Museum of Contemporary Art is a mixed media tribute to all those things that spread like wildfire on the web that trend to be passed around on e-mails or blogged to death. The message is that if you haven't heard of this stuff you're "not cool". And now that you've discovered this via the MSM, it is really that much less cool.

The artifacts in question are Black People Love Us!, "Nike Sweatshop" (an e-mail exchange), "All your base are belong to us," (a badly translated phrase from a Japanese video game), Hot or Not, Fundrace, Dancing Baby (a piece of animation) and the Rejection Line (a phone number: (212) 479-7990).

Feeling very uncool at this point, since I'm only familiar with three of the items on the list. I'll get over it though.