This Digg Original posed an intriguing question: why doesn't audio go viral? Some people convened to see if this could be changed, and nothing prepares you for what they said next:

Oh heavens no. Really. That's fine, we're good, let's all move on to something else.Upworthy for audio? Do you really want an audio version of this?

Nothing prepared him. Never encountered the concept of mortality before. Or this:

No one will click to hear something that scolds them for faulty assumptions about chicken-wing eating.

Apparently "viral" in this sense means "shared on Facebook," not necessarily "popular for its own sake." Just because people are passing something along doesn't mean it's good. (see also, the flu.) It means some people's online persona consists of shoveling inspirational stories or cat gifs into their feed. Anyway, back to the article:

Because the cat video is short and does not require cumulative evaluation. It's a cat. With a moustache. It's not a series of ideas or events you have to hold in your head to understand the point or the story. Now, if someone brought back good radio plays - 24 minutes of suspense or comedy with a payoff - we might have something. I do believe it's been tried before.

BTW, The opening animation is by "Skip Dolphin Hursh." No one who designs animated graphics should go by Skip, even if it is your name, because people will see it and try to click on it, expecting to go to the content they really want. If you click you'll get his website, which has some cool stuff. Here.

VIDEO Via the Mpls Egotist, a Starburst commercial set in Minininneapolis.

I'm not saying it's absolutely hilarious, but it has one comment right now, and that comment is "Lol." I think that says it all. People don't hand those out unless one literally emitted a gust of vocalized amusement at sufficient volume to be heard by others.

FINALLY Holy long trademark battle finally concluded, Batman. Blastr says:

It was a wonderful show. If you were ten. Great theme, of course - Neal Hefti, originally a horn man for Woody Herman, later composer of the Odd Couple theme, which is really a rather melancholic thing. Anyway, Nelson Riddle arranged the theme for the movie, and I'm convinced that one of the singers says "Bat DAN" at the :17 second mark.

Yes, those copyright issues certainly have been sorted out, haven't they?