With the help of the NSA, British spy agency GCHQ captured and stored webcam images from millions of unsuspecting users, the vast majority of whom were not suspected of any crimes. "Substantial quantities" of the images were sexually explicit, according to the Guardian, which broke the story Thursday.
Yesterday, Seth Rogen testified before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and Human Services to raise awareness about Alzheimer's Disease, from which his mother-in-law suffers. The testimony was, of course, hilarious but it was also surprisingly touching.
On Thursday, dozens of masked gunmen believed to militant Russian nationalists seized several government buildings, including the regional parliament building, in Simferopol, the capital of Ukraine's Crimea region, and raised the Russian flag. Meanwhile, across the border, more than 150,000 Russian troops performed readiness tests as Russian fighter jets patrolled the Ukrainian border for the second straight day.
The original freelancer assigned to the revenge-motivated New York Observer takedown of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in an interview with the New York Times today that he was hired straight out of an ice cream shop and quit when he figured out all the paper wanted was a smear piece.
Last night former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne threw on a pair of overalls, printed up some lyrics, and performed a charming cover of the Biz Markie classic, "Just a Friend".
Girls star Allison Williams got a bit of good news today, and then another bit of good news, and then another bit of good news, and so on and so forth until bits of good news arranged in neat, orderly piles covered nearly every square foot of her home. The bits of good news had that hot, paper-fresh-from-the-printer smell that Allison Williams likes, and were stacked so deep that they insulated her apartment from the winter chill and the sad February noises trying to sneak through its big, clean windows. The sun was shining and so was her hair. It was just another good day to be Allison Williams.
This footage of KTVU's Heather Holmes' nose unleashing a torrent of snot on her face as she reports on Miley Cyrus' Monday show in Oakland is great for the snot alone. But what makes it a moment of perfect television is that Holmes begins the intro to her report by saying, "People are just now starting to trickle out." And they're not the only ones.
[Flowers cover the ground and barricades on Wednesday where protesters were killed in a recent clash with riot police in Kiev's Independence Square. Image via Efrem Lukatsky/AP.]
