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MC Hammer in Demand As Business School Lecturer

Ryan Tate — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:58:50 EDT

Ben Huh ate spoiled mayonaisse; KFC inspired a foodie; and MC Hammer knows more about social media than some MBA students. The Twitterati displayed questionable taste.

I Can Has Cheezburger founder Ben Huh learned a hard lesson about food spoilage and expiration dates, while the rest of us cringed.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is truly a man of many talents.

San Francisco Chronicle contributing food writer Derrick Schneider found a KFC concept he could get behind.

Not just a reality TV draw any more: MC Hammer is now in demand in academia.

NYU online communities guru Clay Shirky crossed his social software streams. Don't do that!

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I Can Has Cheezburger CEO allergic to cats

Nicholas Carlson — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:20:00 EDT

Consider this: Ben Huh runs a site that takes submissions of stupid cat pictures with pidgin English captions written across them. That site, I Can Has Cheezburger, pulls about 2.2 million pageviews a day. Like the HotOrNot guys — who sold their site for $10 million earlier this year — Huh is a lucky guy who's making bank off an obnoxiously simple idea. The delicious irony: According to the above excerpt from an interview Huh gave with Internet Superstar, he's completely allergic to cats. "If I pet a cat, which I can't resist, I immediately start crying. I get itchy in the face. I look like a diseased cheeseburger guy." Ben, we're oh so sorry to hear that. The full interview is embedded below.

Want to go through 9,000 photos of cats each day? Get in line

Nicholas Carlson — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:00:00 EDT

Seattle-based Pet Holdings, the company that runs the photo-blog I Can Has Cheezburger, posted a job listing on Monday. Company founder Ben Huh told the Syndey Morning Herald he has since received over 250 applications. Like the thought of a hungry cat watching me while I sleep, this terrifies me. Not only will Huh's new hire have to go through 7,000 captioned and 2,000 uncaptioned photos of felines each day, this person will be forced to check the grammar and spelling of that cruel and unusual punishment of the English language known as LOLspeak. No can has dignity!