18 Pop Culture Billionaires And How Evil They Are
Only one guy is a better person than Bruce Wayne, and even he's a bit of an outsider.
The Harsh Reality of Questing In RPGs
Accepting and completing a quest doesn't always go as smoothly as planned.
Eight Crazy Hacking Scenes That Shouldn't Exist
Hack the planet! And I thought Hugh Jackman's dancing scene with the 3D cubes from the 2001 movie Swordfish was weird, this recent video from Dorkly proves some movies and TV shows had much crazier scenes with hackers doing the impossible.
Corporations' Sad Attempts at Using Memes: Death Is Too Good for Us
Like every other instance of vaguely subversive youth culture, text slang and internet jokes are now the property of people who want to sell you breakfast cereal and pasta sauce. One sub-Reddit called /r/FellowKids is dedicated to tracking all of these nauseating attempts at internet youthfulness.
Richard Scarry's Busy World Transformed Into A Silicon Valley Town
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Richard Scarry's lovely children's series Busytown becomes a deeply disruptive, data-driven, gluten-free Silicon Valley town in Tony "Lunchbreath" Ruth's project, with the appropriate jobs and descriptions.
Wait I can blog here?
cool. had no idea. just testing out the waters here. ~so cool~ hehe diggggin' it 4 real dude :)
Cool Site Lets You Draw Pictures Using Emoji
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Emoji Ink is a new site designed for one purpose only: drawing stuff using nothing else but emoji. It might sound ridiculous but some people, like Daniel Angione above with Smaug from The Hobbit, have already made amazing pics.
Dance Moms Fans React in Totally Normal, Sane Way to Essay About Them
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Yesterday, we published a quick internet deep dive essay investigating the young, Instagram-based fandom of the Lifetime show Dance Moms. Amy McCarthy wrote about this manic and self-contained social media universe: the constellations of fake accounts, password-hacking, promises to leak "secrets" about the young…
A Scary Choose Your Own Adventure, Now Playable On...Twitter
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"They're here. Oh God! They've found you!" And so it begins. You have two choices: run, or hide.
Guy Saves His Drone From Drowning At The Last Second
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Nice catch! Zweier Spanjer's first day testing out his DJI Phantom II drone took an unexpected turn when its batteries started to deplete and the $700 gadget started plummeting towards the nearest pond.
The Promise in Elena Ferrante
In a year so crammed with both cultural stasis and accelerated political mania that it resembled nothing else so strongly as a trash fire, there was Elena Ferrante, oasis of the terrifyingly good. The pseudonymous Italian author has made a quiet, graceful transition from cult fame to widespread obsession, and…
Hey Good North Korea Internet Joke, Everybody!
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Earlier today, reports abounded that North Korea had suffered an unprecedented internet outage. While it remains unclear whether it's the result of a cyber attack or the country's longstanding technological woes, one thing is certain: you got jokes!
Justine Sacco Is Good at Her Job, and How I Came To Peace With Her
The internet is a mountain, and if you climb that mountain, waiting for you at the top will be the person with whom you need to make peace. I climbed my mountain and a woman named Justine Sacco was there.
That's One Way To Play Jenga
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Impressive Jenga skills right there.
The Amazing Attempt to Blame the Internet for Everything
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In recent weeks, several respected magazines, their publishers, and writers have fallen prey to various journalistic malfeasance and scandals. Who is to blame? Internet boogeymen, of course.
16 Signs You’re in a Women’s Magazine List About Some Bullshit
What with human banality, the steady expansion of female-centered media and the slow morph of the internet into a honeycomb bristling with echo chambers for one, it's hard not to feel that we are truly living in a golden age of the woman's magazine list about some bullshit. Every day, more and more web content is…
Seth Rogen and James Franco Play Freaks & Geeks Game, Recall Memories
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The folks at TheFineBros got none other than James Franco and Seth Rogen in their latest clip to sit down and try out an interactive mini-game based on Freaks & Geeks, a fan favorite show that ran about 14 years ago, with younger and much different versions of these two guys in it.
Tiny RC Cars And Drones Battle For Precious Batteries
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A two-wheeler trying to save its car friends, a teddy bear awaiting lifesaving batteries... There's a lot of drama in Corridor Digital's latest short where remote controlled cars are trying to escape a group of aggressive mini drones.
I Met Grumpy Cat and It Was Fucking Abysmal
Before last Thursday, I had no idea that Grumpy Cat was coming to San Francisco. And if someone had told me that less than 24 hours after learning about her impending arrival I would be in a conference room trying to ask her questions and sweating profusely, I wouldn't have believed it. I would have also been wrong.
How Guardians of the Galaxy Should Have Ended
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The folks at HISHE made several animated alternate endings to Guardians of the Galaxy, with many of the movie's memorable scenes getting derailed and Thanos in his hovering chair becoming the most chill villain in the Marvel Universe.