... an Epic FAIL! Slate wrote an article about the "FAIL" meme. I do love how these articles explain things coming about from the internet. It's a special sort of wonderful when poor translation work achieves greatness. ... the words: "You beat it! Your skill is great!" If you lose, you are mocked: "You fail it! Your skill is not enough! See you next time! Bye bye!" Proof for my on-going ...

... 3 days", you're screwed. Sorry. Collect data. Document everything. Use everything as a learning experience. If you fail, study, learn and start again. Ask for advice! There are lots of people (like me) who will ... need to be ready to smile, hug or put them in restraints. But I digress... It's fun! Internet marketing is the best game on earth. You get to try stuff, measure and try again so fast it'll ...

... holds a "fail" sign at a Senate hearing on the financial crisis." /> Teh Pwnd. All your banks are belong to us. Internet culture, to the uninitiated, is probably very very confusing to outsiders: in a world of LOLcats and ... once a quiet pleasure-taking is now a public—and competitive—sport. It's no wonder, then, that the fail meme gained wider currency with the advent of the ...

... a total fail, an epic fail - or even an adjective - you are fail - but it's unclear whether this will last or if it's just another passing language fad. Have you come across it? Is it part of your vocabulary? Or just another nerdy internet thing like w00t and pwned which two students (Leanne and Henrietta, hello!) and me (hello...oh hang on) ...

... that one was. So while search ads will probably not stop growing, it's possible that the rest of internet advertising could fall by more than a quarter, taking the ho-hum companies at the bottom ... fees, as the ad model stops bringing in sufficient cash—which may itself fail, since people are so used to everything being free. And what about our heroes, smartass blogs? Publishers may not be immune ...

Why has fail become so popular? It may simply be that people are thrilled to finally have a way to express their schadenfreude out loud. Schadenfreude, after all, is what you feel when someone else executes a fail. But the fail meme also changes our experience of schadenfreude. What was once a quiet pleasure-taking is now a public—and slang