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Yesterday was Pi Day (3.14, approximately), and appropriately enough comes this analysis of the irrational number by Vi Hart , a recreational mathemusician at Khan Academy . You might remember her from her viral video about love and self-delusion on the Mobius strip . In the video below, she explores in seven sonnets whether Romeo and Juliet and other of the Bard s works are encoded within pi.

More than 10 million people have watched a YouTube video of an iPhone being pulverized in a blender. It's actually a commercial for Blendtec -- a company most viewers had probably never heard of. But with the viral clip, Blendtec let social networking spread its name and message rather than paying for a mass advertising campaign.

During the 2008 presidential election, the Internet became a giant rumor mill. For example, there were the viral e-mails claiming that Barack Obama’s birth certificate was a fake