Why were Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb wearing full-body dog suits on television this morning? Why were they begging for Facebook "likes"? Why are morning shows still on the air? I don't know. But I do know we are asking all the wrong questions. The real question is: what does "liking" Kathie Lee and Hoda on Facebook say about you, Internet?
The annual Evolo skyscraper award celebrates novel, bizarre, and whimsical designs for vertiginous buildings. In its aim to award innovative use of materials, building organization, aesthetics, and technology, Evolo often opts for the most beautifully outlandish structures you ever did see. This preference is obvious in the three winning proposals and the 24 honorable mentions.
"Dark news cometh in an unholy land." A Bible verse that prophesied our modern Gomorrah called America? Actually it's just a phrase I made up. Now let us segue into the news that religion in America is at an all time low.
Four people are dead and two more injured following a shooting spree across two towns in New York state, and police are still searching for the suspect. A fire and possible explosion at a Mohawk, N.Y. apartment building is said to be connected to the spree.
Two friends who first met at a party four years ago received the shock of a lifetime after a random Facebook status update posted by one of them led to the realization that they're closely related.
Where in the world is Dennis Rodman? Dennis Rodman is, at this moment, in Vatican City, where he is apparently campaigning for Ghanaian cardinal Peter Turkson and seeking to arrange a meeting with whomever is elected. On the one hand we don't want to encourage this; on the other, well, anything to keep Rodman out of North Korea.
The Welsh Sexagenarian who made international headlines after he was caught on camera using his bare hands to drag a 6-foot dusky shark away from children bathing in the ocean off Australia's Sunshine Coast revealed this week that he had been fired from his job at a children's charity after his bosses saw footage of his heroic actions.
Porn search site PornMD has, for the sake of publicity and social science, collected its most-used search terms for the last six months and accounted them by location—not just in the U.S. but across the world. Is your home state into Teen or MILF porn? What are Iranians jerking off to? All these answers—and more!
The trial of two high-school football players accused of raping a 16-year-old girl at a party last year begins today in Steubenville, Ohio, following months of social media-fueled speculation and accusation. Trent Mays and Malik Richmond, two 16-year-olds who play for Steubenville High's massively popular Big Red football team (Mays is the starting quarterback, Richmond a wide receiver) both claim that all contact with the victim, whose name has not been made public, was consensual; their defense team will argue as such.. The case gained national attention last year thanks to a loose network of bloggers and "hackers"—in particular a woman named Alexandra Goddard and groups claiming affiliation with hacking collective Anonymous—who tirelessly publicized the case, accusing local authorities of protecting the football players and uncovering a disturbing social media trail, including Twitter messages from friends of the accused and fellow partygoers, and, most infamously, a 12-minute video of Steubenville student Mike Nodianos making a series of graphic jokes about the victim: "She is so raped right now... They raped her quicker than Mike Tyson raped that one girl." (On Sunday, one of the associated groups released audio of what it claimed to be Nodianos' voicemail inbox.) The trial's new judge—the original recused over ties to the football team—has allowed media to be present at the trial, but has forbidden cell phones, iPads and laptops. [NYT | The Atlantic Wire | Jezebel | Deadspin]
The man who secretly filmed Romney's infamous 47% video during a campaign fundraiser last September has finally agreed to reveal himself tomorrow night on MSNBC. The Huffington Post interviewed the man several times over the past few months and, while they won't reveal his name until after MSNBC's big interview, they have released some information about the filmmaker, including his job and how he was indirectly inspired by Bill Clinton.
A six-month-old died Tuesday morning, the day after she was the victim of a shooting in Chicago. The baby, Jonylah Watkins, was shot five times, reportedly while her father, the reported target of the shooting, changed her diaper in his mini-van in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood. The father, Jonathan Watkins, was also shot several times and was taken to a nearby hospital, where he remains in critical condition.
