The Sony Hack and the Yellow Press: Aaron Sorkin: The Press Shouldn’t Help the Sony Hackers. I think Sorkin is exactly right. He quoted Princess Bride, but I will quote Douglas Adams: This must be some interesting new definition of newsworthy with which I wasn't previously familiar.
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Which didn't stop me making fun of the situation. I made the HumorLabs list:
The Top 11 Surprises Found in the Hacked Sony Emails
 9> "'After Earth' is in the red, because we had to pay theaters to show it."

Humor Labs: Two on one list!
11> "The Merry Wives of Windsor" was originally called "Ye Old
    Real Housewives of Windsor."

 8> The famous buffoon wasn't named John Falstaff. His original
    name was Donald Trump.
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India’s new prime minister, Narendra Modi, aims to rebrand and promote yoga in India
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Two from Daniel Dern
Goodbye Dr. Dobbs (which was briefly the parent of byte.com just after I edited the site), in turn linking to
the editor's farewell.

Also Hobbit trailer parodies. The Hobbit Games. (lots of other hits in this category, no surprise.)  Plus this, suggested by a friend:
middle-earth-the-office parody from SNL.
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I joined Pottermore and got sorted into Ravenclaw
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The ubiquitous Ken Jennings is running a news quiz at Slate.com/