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<title>Nate Silver Gets His Own Memes</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>For your dose of Friday journo-geek fun, we have Nate Silver and more Nate Silver.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve been living under a rock, you may have missed that The New York Times&#8217; blogger and statistician <a href="http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/author/nate-silver/">Nate Silver</a> accurately predicted the outcome of the election in all 50 states through impeccable data analysis. <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/the-bizarre-world-of-nate-silver-s-voodoo-political-predictions?cid=db_articles">Despite criticism</a>, much of the social web is now regarding Silver as the <a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/11/nate-silver-facts-election/">nerdy Chuck Norris</a>, and memes are popping up everywhere.</p>
<p>For what appears to be mostly Nate Silver pick-up lines, see <a href="http://natesilver.tumblr.com">Tumblr</a> for images like this:</p>
<p><a href="http://natesilver.tumblr.com/image/35296639141"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16183" title="Screen Shot 2012-11-09 at 10.27.27 AM" src="http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/files/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2012-11-09-at-10.27.27-AM.png" alt="" width="492" height="329" /></a></p>
<p>And for a continual, hilarious flow of tweets to keep you distracted all day, open up a search for the <a href="https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=drunknatesilver&amp;src=typd">#drunknatesilver</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23natesilverfacts&amp;src=hash">#natesilverfacts</a> hashtags in a new tab (there&#8217;s now also a @<a href="https://twitter.com/drunknatesilver">drunknatesilver account</a> and a @<a href="http://twitter.com/nateDRUNKsilver">nateDRUNKsilver</a> account.). You will not be disappointed. Here are a few gems:</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="500"><p>And don&#8217;t listen to that groundhog his data is biased <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23drunknatesilver">#drunknatesilver</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Drunk Nate Silver (@drunknatesilver) <a href="https://twitter.com/drunknatesilver/status/266965529883971584" data-datetime="2012-11-09T18:08:36+00:00">November 9, 2012</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="500"><p>When Nate Silver read The Hunger Games he correctly predicted how far the odds were in each tribute&#8217;s favor <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23natesilverfacts">#natesilverfacts</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Alex Lach (@alexglach) <a href="https://twitter.com/alexglach/status/266973244475723777" data-datetime="2012-11-09T18:39:16+00:00">November 9, 2012</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="500"><p>i may be late to the <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23drunknatesilver">#drunknatesilver</a> trend, but @<a href="https://twitter.com/drunknatesilver">drunknatesilver</a> knew i would be, so its all good.</p>
<p>&mdash; Tom Channick (@tomchannick) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomchannick/status/266970746956419072" data-datetime="2012-11-09T18:29:20+00:00">November 9, 2012</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="500"><p>Nate Silver wasn&#8217;t born, the probability of his existence just increased <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23natesilverfacts">#natesilverfacts</a></p>
<p>&mdash; weldon kennedy (@weldonwk) <a href="https://twitter.com/weldonwk/status/266549847199477760" data-datetime="2012-11-08T14:36:50+00:00">November 8, 2012</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="500"><p>You will NEVER beat me in a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23DrunkNateSilver">#DrunkNateSilver</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Drunk Nate Silver (@nateDRUNKsilver) <a href="https://twitter.com/nateDRUNKsilver/status/266934280175898624" data-datetime="2012-11-09T16:04:26+00:00">November 9, 2012</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Since the election, Nate Silver&#8217;s book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=the+signal+and+the+noise&amp;tag=googhydr-20&amp;index=aps&amp;hvadid=24534053027&amp;hvpos=1t1&amp;hvexid=&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=448140524251484260&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;ref=pd_sl_8nem2c5lgu_e">The Signal and the Noise</a> is now <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/book-blog/nate-silver-s-book-now-no-on-amazon/article_e3bef345-4a24-5190-83ed-7d2a24b0836a.html">No. 2 on Amazon</a>.</p>
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