Katie Couric: "Can You Explain What Internet Is?"

Matt Cherette · 01/28/11 05:15PM

Here's a recently re-discovered oldie—and goodie!—to show how far technology has come in the last two decades. Watch this Today Show clip from 1994, featuring Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel's complete confusion about what, exactly, the Internet is.

Raise Your Hands

Richard Lawson · 01/28/11 04:48PM

Looking for a little light to get you through darkest winter? Well we're giving away two charming lamps from Typewriter Boneyard and all you have to do to win one is enter a caption contest!

Rich Uncle Sam Always Looks Out for the Struggling Bankers

Hamilton Nolan · 01/28/11 04:46PM

The Way We Live Now: expanding and contracting. It's natural, like inhaling smoke from menthol and fiberglass. The economy grows; the economy shrinks. People on the margins get crushed. The only way to survive: go crying to your rich uncle.

'Hooker Overcomes Illness, Slaps Beaver'

Richard Lawson · 01/28/11 04:38PM

Today in inadvertently funny headlines, there's this high school basketball piece from Kansas's Leader & Times. Sadly, the article does not tell the tale of a hard-luck working girl overcoming the odds to issue her traditional mating sound. (via)

TV News, Links, and What to Watch Tonight

Whitney Jefferson · 01/28/11 04:30PM

Leah Michelle will sing at the Super Bowl, Andy Garcia will appear on The Simpsons, the new cast of Charlie's Angels, and a few surprise guests will pop up in tomorrow night's Saturday Night Live.

Here Is a Snow Monster That Breathes Fire

Brian Moylan · 01/28/11 04:10PM

It seems counterintuitive to build a snow monster that breathes fire, but that is just what one family in Bel Air, Maryland, did with their snow day yesterday. This is really one seriously ornate snow sculpture.

Science Reveals: Guys Love Lesbians

Hamilton Nolan · 01/28/11 03:21PM

People fossils! Dinosaur fossils! Sexy science! Cheating ladies! Lucky black hearts! Weights losing weight! Faraway planets! Implant perils! Monster alfalfa! And black holes that trip you out! It's your Friday Science Watch, where we watch science—with forgiveness!