Link Bait Hall of Fame

The Top Showboaters in Sports

What do Sean Avery, Manny Ramirez, Serena Williams, and Terrel Owens have in common (besides their athleticism)? In a word: showboating. Grandstanding; making a big to-do and hullabaloo about their every triumph and defeat. For better or worse, however, turning every little stride forward or back into a production number rivaling Halftime Shows in their [...]

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Barack Roll

Yesterday I posted the first Link Bait Hall of Fame nomination related to this year’s presidential election, a video about John McCain’s disconnect with the “common man”. In the interest of fairness, this second nomination regards his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama (although this video is a lampoon, not an indictment). It’s a hilarious reimagining of [...]

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Peter K. Austin’s Top 10 Endangered Languages

Ever heard of Jeru? Nju? How about Ainu? Me neither, but apparently they’re all languages spoken by various people’s of the world. And they’re all endangered, all the languages spoken by members of a dying culture. This disturbing and eye-opening list by linguistics professor and author Peter K. Austin of words soon never to be [...]

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McCain’s Million Dollar Parking Lot

OK, I can’t avoid the presidential election any longer. Not with such a preponderance of stellar link bait circulating the web that’s either praising, lambasting, or merely lampooning one of the other of the candidates. This one, about the $10-per-spot Phoenix lot McCain rents to the Arizona Diamondbacks, is link bait for anti-McCain site, TheRealMcCain.com.

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135 Ways to Ruin the Olympics Using Technology

The contest is one category of link bait that you just don’t see enough of (probably because they usually involve prizes which can be somewhat costly and hard to come by). Nevertheless, Gizmodo, publisher of much Hall of Fame worthy link bait, scored a Gold medal with its recent contest in honor of the Beijing [...]

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11 Reasons Why Bill O’Reilly is Completely Insane

Whether you’re a Bill O’Reilly fan or not (I’m not) you’ll appreciate this collection of 11 video clips and write-ups lambasting the controversial Fox News political pundit and his “No Spin” m.o., if for no other reason than because of the controversy it stirs. Reasons include: “His tendency to flip out”, Because he has the [...]

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Giant’s Causeway: Ancient Volcanic Eruption Creates Natural Wonder

Remember this classic musical image? Slorker already got over 1,000 Diggs for a photo-collage of the real-life geographical wonder used in the famous Led Zeppelin “Houses of the Holy” album cover, and if they had used Led Zeppelin’s name in the title, this stunning piece of link bait could have garnered five times that. It’s called [...]

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Angelina Jolie Most Popular Spam Email Bait

Email bait as quality link bait? Apparently. Just ask the folks at the Telegraph (recipients of another Link Bait Hall of Fame nomination just earlier this week). Better yet, ask Angelina Jolie, Barack Obama, and Paris Hilton - the top 3 names on a list of the most used names in recent Spam-dom. Of course [...]

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…So We’ll Know Them By Their Limping

In a definitive example of irony, this minor tirade against linkbaiting seems to have turned into quite the successful little piece of link bait itself. Intentional or no, it just goes to show what extents people will go to in order to get more traffic to their site. Way to go “Andy”, whether you meant [...]

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10 Bizarre Things You Can Buy Online

Would you believe that you can buy real estate on the moon? Would you want someone’s tell-tale signs of adultery - a pair of panties (not the seller’s) and an empty condom wrapper? Or how about a bottle of wolf urine (this one’s not so crazy, believe it or not; it keeps deer out of [...]

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