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Alexis Madrigal - Alexis Madrigal is a senior editor at The Atlantic. He's the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology.
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The New York Observer calls him, "for all intents and purposes, the perfect modern reporter." Madrigal co-founded Longshot magazine, a high-speed media experiment that garnered attention from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the BBC. While at Wired.com, he built Wired Science into one of the most popular blogs in the world. The site was nominated for best magazine blog by the MPA and best science Web site in the 2009 Webby Awards. He also co-founded Haiti ReWired, a groundbreaking community dedicated to the discussion of technology, infrastructure, and the future of Haiti.

He's spoken at Stanford, CalTech, Berkeley, SXSW, E3, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and his writing was anthologized in Best Technology Writing 2010 (Yale University Press).

Madrigal is a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley's Office for the History of Science and Technology. Born in Mexico City, he grew up in the exurbs north of Portland, Oregon, and now lives in Oakland.
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The 12 Best/Worst Memes of 2010

By Alexis Madrigal

Dec 23 2010, 12:39 PM ET Comment

Behind every great meme, there is the another meme that is the exact same, and it is terrible. So, here are our favorite memes of 2010, which we also hated. We present them context-free to honor the genre.

1. Old Spice Guy
Catchphrase: "I'm on a horse."

2. Double Rainbow
Catchphrase: "WHAT DOES IT MEAN?"

3. Bed Intruder
Catchphrase: "Hide your kids, hide your wife"

4. Sad Keanu
Catchphrase: This was more of a strong and silent meme.

5. This is a Big Fucking Deal
Catchphrase: "This is a big fucking deal."

6. Xtranormal's Animated Bears (especially this video)
Catchphrase: "It.Is.The.Best.Phone."

7. Insane Clown Posse's song Miracles
Catchphrase: "Fucking magnets, how do they work?"

8. Crying Don Draper
Catchphrase: ...

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9. The Vuvuzela
Catchphrase: BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

10. The Rent Is Too Damn High
Catchphrase: "As a karate expert, I will not talk about anyone up here."

11. Demon Sheep
Catchphrase: Sheep can't talk, not even demon sheep.

12. General Larry Platt's Pants on the Ground
Catchphrase: "Pants on the ground"



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