Gadgetory

hi I'm Hollywood and welcome to the buzz report this week a special episode dedicated to stamping out a scourge on the Internet but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the Samsung instinct this sprint phone made its debut this week at the CTIA Show in Las Vegas and let me put it this way you know how like you totally want an iPhone but you don't want to be like everybody else who gets an iPhone but you really want the pretty and the touchscreen and you need 3G and you'd like it to have built-in GPS and total support for corporate email and a little bit of tactile feedback when you're typing on the virtual keyboard and you'd like it to be available on Sprint sometime around June for like under $300 yeah now you have that and now for the news this week was April Fool's Day which resulted in a collective feeling of boredom and annoyance at the customary collection of web pranks insider jokes and Google tomfoolery this year's day did do us all a possible favor though YouTube briefly replaced all its featured videos with links to rickroll which if you don't know what that is it's the practice of tricking you into clicking a link that turns out to be the video for Rick Astley's never gonna give you up many speculated that by going nuclear with the rick roll on its front page youtube has effectively killed the meme hope springs eternal but actually I think that YouTube used the nuclear option out of sheer self-defense I mean the rick roll has become such a widespread internet annoyance that google rightly feared no one would ever click a youtube link again if things were to continue in this thing actually I'm not sure that Google and YouTube's efforts are even enough I think there's still some chance that the rick roll could continue and let me be perfectly clear here my friends the rick roll is ruining America time is being irrevocably lost people's lives are being ruined we've even seen like death threats here at scene it I swear on the soul of my father that the next person to rick roll silat will not reach the top line you've got workplace vandalism look what it did to Carolyn McCarthy of news-dot-com and just look at this testimonial from one ricktum who was scarred for life from repeated exposure to the rickroll so I was just dreaming peacefully and all of a sudden Rick Astley was in my dream and he was singing and I woke up I'm I couldn't get back to sleep and it was like my own subconscious rickrolled me my friends it is time to take matters into our own hands the Rick rolls time has come it's so bad that this week we got an email on our internal mailing list that said here's a muppet Rick roll what you cannot announce a rick roll and don't even talk to me about that one that you launched and it takes over your browser with an endless series of pop-up windows rick roll virus much the rick roll is over and it has to die and there's only one way to make it die roll it charlie ready to make the trip that's right the rickroll has officially jumped the shark all future rickroll works are now declared derivative and all ye who would roll another will be declared lame and behind the times die rickrolled i i'm mollie would this been the buzz report i'm feeling quite good about all this thanks for watching that's right the rick roll has officially jumped the shark i spit a little bit let's go back