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History's first OMG directed at Winston Churchill?

Today's OMG isn't your grandpa's digital shorthand, but it turns out it is old enough to be your great-grandpa's abbreviated analog slang.

Letters of Note dug up a letter penned by John Arbuthnot "Jacky" Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher of Kilverstone and Admiral of the Fleet in the British Royal Navy (OMG! what a title) to then Minister of Munitions Winston Churchill in 1917 that contains a very early use of the acronym.

In a letter relating a few good rips of the Germans and decrying the current naval situation of the day, Lord Fisher … Read more

Sports fans heart pink unicorns!

ZOMG! Sports lovers who also love glittery pink unicorns with rainbow manes and tails were so in luck earlier Monday. Entering the Konami cheat code (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, enter) at the official ESPN Web site made the cutest little ponies EVER pop up all over the site. And more clicks led to more unicorns.

But that's not all. Visitors also got their headlines in hot pink and the Comic Sans font--enough adorable to make any 10-year-old girl forget about Hannah Montana.

It's a good thing we found out about this little … Read more