If you’re like me, you’re both stoked for the premiere of Arrested Development season three this month and secretly a little worried that you’ll miss out on what’s sure to be a barrage of intertextuality and inside jokes. I mean, the show went off the air seven years ago, and unless you’re one of those people that’s […]
This music video for Planet Online by Dent De Cuir is A+. See the internet’s most popular internet things from the internet — Facebook, Buzzfeed, 4 Chan, YouTube, Twitter, etc. — as remixed ’80s toys. I WANT THE PIRATE BAY SHIP, GIMME, MO-O-O-O-OM!!! It gets kind of dark at the end as these adorable kids start […]
Sorry, white people from Iowa. Columbia University’s Lydia C. Roberts scholarship, established in 1920, offered financial aid to your kind and your kind only. Not a “[person] of the Caucasian race, of either sex, born in the State of Iowa,” who “graduated from a college or university in the State of Iowa?” You’re not eligible for […]
“Soon enough I won’t have to deal with any of you fuckers,” quoth President of the Cooper Union Jamshed Bharucha on the fake CooperUnion.Biz website. The rest is an Onion-esque spectacle echoing the students’ dismay that for the first time in 154 years, Cooper Union plans to charge tuition. It just really needs updates. At this point in the conflict, […]
With so many relying on Wikipedia as the definitive source of “truth” on EVERYTHING nowadays, we often have to remind ourselves that the site’s content is constantly being altered, erased, and reinvented by anyone who feels like it. Now you can watch this reality manipulation in real-time with this interactive map created by California-based duo Stephen LaPorte and […]
Details about the video above are scant, but everything you need to know is in there: there’s a cop, with his hands around a man’s neck, inside the man’s own home, threatening to “beat the living shit out of [him] and drag [his] fucking ass to jail—got it?” According to Michael Schuchman, the 22-year-old being manhandled […]
Across the country, from legal 21-and-over Denver dispensaries to black-market NYC delivery services, steeply priced strains of “killer bud”—so thick with tricome crystals they shimmer like snow-covered pine trees—are readily available. OG Ghost Train Haze, Headband, Blue Dream, Lemon Diesel, and Kosher Kush (and dozens of other similarly named varieties), pick your poison. Containing levels […]
There’s no surefire way to make your creative work go viral, but for designers, there are a few formulas that see success fairly often. One is make over the aesthetics of an already well-known piece of pop culture–especially a movie, and especially especially if that movie happens to be Star Wars. Another is minimalism. So in seeing […]
Canpire, a Canadian company with the stated mission of “[utilizing] advanced technologies and investigative techniques to mitigate piracy loss resulting from the illegal distribution of digitized content,” was caught, um, illegally distributing digitized content. On its website, the company used this image, clearly labeled “All Rights Reserved” from photographer Steve Houk, without obtaining his permission. Houk told […]
How do you host a mixed martial arts fight in a state where the sport is effectively banned? Don’t pay your competitors, apparently. Laws regulating MMA in New York only ban professional MMA fighting, apparently for its violence, but amateur fights are totally legal. So if you’re dropping $50-100 at Terminal 5 for tickets to the Victory […]
