Tag: Internet
Aw, poor Boston police. They joined the force in search of excitement and danger, hoping to save the city from the perils of crime — just like the cops on TV! But what do you do if you’re protecting and serving an affluent, relatively tame college town? Go after those damn kids playing basement shows, […]
Why is Miley Cyrus twerking in a unicorn suit to J. Dash’s “Wop”? Who knows? Being young, rich and bored looks fun as hell, though. Is it art? Yes. But is it ratchet? Watch for yourself. CHECK IT#WOP #1Z #UNICORN #TWERK tinyurl.com/WOP1ZMC — Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) March 21, 2013 Verdict: Not ratchet. […]
Hacker Andrew Auernheimer, a.k.a. “Weev,” was sentenced to 41 months in prison today for his role in accessing AT&T’s website and aggregating email addresses and data from around 100,000 iPad users, then publicizing the hole in AT&T’s security system. The last tweet Auernheimer sent before being sentenced was an apparent display of indifference. No matter […]
Did you ever want to know the biggest causes of death in the 20th century, but from an infographic complete with cheerful colors? Information Is Beautiful has you covered. With clean, peppy design, you’ll almost forget you’re looking at the statistics behind millions of deaths. View a full-size version here. […]
Earlier today, we talked about cool things you could do with Twitter’s new line breaks, and now it seems that Facebook might add another bell/whistle to their interface: hashtags. How much you’d be able to see through hashtags hasn’t been determined yet, as Facebook requires friending as opposed to Twitter’s majority of public accounts, but […]
Fun news for Twitter users: Line breaks are now recognized in your tweets. This is cool but will also be a total catastrophe for the first week or so while everyone’s getting adjusted. For now, though, try doing these fun things: – Flex your humor muscles with some programming jokes -Organize your thoughts into paragraphs […]
It’s perplexing enough that Charmin’s commercials revolve around adorable, innocent bears shitting all the time. But their social media presence is essentially the same way, too. Charmin’s Facebook page and Twitter account talk about poop, a lot. It’s not surprising though, considering that, duh, they’re a toilet paper company, but the detail is a little…unexpected. […]
Ever wonder what it takes to rule Twitter? A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have reduced the art of increasing your followers to a simple science. After studying 500 different (non-celebrity) Twitter accounts over a period of fifteen months, they concluded that the most popular Twitters are, most importantly, those that […]
The Harlem Shake is all but dead (hopefully), and people might be voraciously searching for the new horse to beat past death. Gallon smashing–in which one carelessly tosses two gallons of liquid in the air near unsuspecting supermarket patrons as he pretends he slipped– is not it. As hilarious as this is, please don’t make […]
AsapSCIENCE has created a video illustrating the process of what constant viewings of pornography can do to you, and surprise, it can have lasting effects on your brain, like literally everything else that exists that a person repeatedly does. The video explains how watching porn, like eating or other activities, triggers dopamine in the brain […]
