There needs to be a term for when the shining tech star of the previous generation of the internet burns out then sells for less than the world's most expensive dollhouse. MySpacing out? New York tech incubator Betaworks has bought the skeleton of Digg, once a social networking monster—it even got verbed!—for a paltry $500,000, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Here's an almost-re-edit of Talking Heads' 1981 classic from London's The Reflex. "Almost" because, as explained on the track's SoundCloud page, "I added claps and a couple of sound fx but everything else comes from the stems, all carefully chopped up and replayed." Basically, if you've been wanting a slightly more dance-oriented version of this song for the past 31 years (or however long), today is your lucky day.
At the internet culture conference ROFLCON in May, the assembled geek digerati were asked during one panel if they were readers of 4chan, the legendary butthole of the internet. A bare smattering of hands went up in the MIT lecture hall.
Yo, the best fucking show on the planet, Breaking Bad, comes back Sunday for its fifth season, yo. So to celebrate, yo? I made a supercut of Jesse Pinkman's favorite vocal crutch, yo. (It's "yo," yo.)
The first of four new Onion web shows planned for this summer just premiered on YouTube, and it is predictably Onion-esque in its ability to keep one from crying through laughter.
"I really do feel like it's an organizational-culture thing with CrossFit that breeds that type of asshole."
Some dads read to their infant children before bed; others turn on a soothing TV show and let the kid doze off in front of the glow. Still others perform an acoustic cover of Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters" while their baby sings along until it tuckers itself out.
The United States Olympic Committee officially unveiled its 530-athlete roster for the London this week. Wyoming, a mythical paradise where golden gods with rippling muscles run barefoot through grassy fields and gyms all day, is sending more athletes per capita to the Games than any other state, according to Time Magazine.
Since Dish Network no longer carries AMC due to a dispute with its parent company, AMC Networks, customers fully expected to be left out of Sunday's highly anticipated premiere of Breaking Bad's fifth season.
Now that the Cruise/Holmes divorce saga has wrapped up without much fuss, all of us who had looked forward to filling our silences with discussions of its minutiae over the next several months are left scrambling.
Mitt Romney should pick a trollface mask for vice president. It'll turn Reddit into a bad-art Möbius strip, and it'll give his campaign an identity it's lacked. Yesterday, he spoke to the NAACP national convention, stood firm on an issue, elicited boos and, hours later, embraced the boos in another speech. If the campaign were a message board, he might as well have closed with a Cam'ron-inspired "u mad?"
30-year-old Aaron Collins passed away last week, leaving behind one final wish for his family: To go have a pizza and leave the waiter or waitress a $500.
Above, on the right, you can see the hoodie that Trayvon Martin was wearing the night he was shot and killed by George Zimmerman. On the left his his shirt, on which a bloodstain is clearly visible. Prosecutors released the photographs today along with documents detailing the Sanford police response to Martin's death; among them include a statement from lead investigator Christopher Serino holding that Zimmerman "profiled the unarmed teen because he was wearing a hooded sweatshirt, not because he was black." [WTSP]
