Spears is hardly the only celebrity to get killed by the Web (see "The Dead Pool," below). But please, people, can't we just ?

June 2008: Tyson Gay is an Olympic class sprinter. But at conservative news site OneNewsNow, thanks to a software filter that automatically replaces the word "gay" with "homosexual" in every news story. The result? Headlines like "Homosexual eases into 100 final at Olympic trials."

Tyson wasn't the only homo sapien to receive an involuntary name change; professional basketballer Rudy Gay also got the OneNewsNow treatment, leading to sentences like this one: "Memphis Grizzlies backers hit the hay hoping that Kevin Love would open things up for Rudy Homosexual in the front court." (Thanks to for that juicy nugget.)

The site has since ; so while you may now be Gay on OneNewsNow, you still can't be gay.