The Awesome 'Secret' Behind the Music in Inception

Max Read · 07/26/10 07:52PM

Did you like Inception? Especially the booming score? Do you like having your mind totally blown? Then you will enjoy watching this one-minute explanatory video about exactly how awesome the movie was. You just got incepted. [Via]

Water Under the Bridge

Richard Lawson · 07/26/10 06:09PM

[A 350-foot-long replacement for the Willis Avenue bridge, which connects Manhattan to the Bronx, is floated up the East River on a barge today. Image via AP]

The Teleporting Fat Guy

James O'Donnell · 07/26/10 06:00PM

While waiting for the bus these two friends discover the true creepy/annoyingness of the one and only Teleporting Fat Guy! He uses his power glove to teleport around the globe and foil his arch nemesis Burt Reynolds!

Yelp's Sex Bunny Doll

Ryan Tate · 07/26/10 05:47PM

A skanky mannequin has been discovered in the San Francisco headquarters of Yelp. The doll is supposed to represent a Yelp user, but she also makes the perfect mascot for the self-consciously trashy local ratings site itself.

Your Monday Night Lineup

Whitney Jefferson · 07/26/10 05:30PM

TONIGHT: The Bachelorette faces her rejects in a reunion show, The Daily Show and Colbert Report are back, Real Housewives continue their insanity, Warren the Ape dates an "it girl" still in rehab, and Bill O'Reilly hits the Tonight Show.

Today's Celebrity Twitter Chatter: Extra! Extra! Mondays SUCK

Kristina Lucarelli · 07/26/10 04:45PM

Did you know it's Monday? And that Mondays suck? Even for celebrities!! Even though their jobs don't exactly adhere to the typical 9-5 schedule us normal folk have, they complain about it none the less. Bring on the b*tching.

Nintendo Hacking With Paul B. Davis

Emily A. Farris · 07/26/10 04:34PM

This video maestro teaches us how to hack old Nintendo cartridges. Davis does so for the sake of art, mostly datamoshing. He talks about the technical and political aspects of doing this, which creates interesting proprietary issues for an artist.

Have You Seen This Masturbating Gentleman?

Maureen O'Connor · 07/26/10 04:30PM

Riding a Brooklyn-bound 4 train, amateur photographer Kate Black noticed a man "pitching a tent" and "thrusting his hips" in ladies' faces. Thinking quickly, Kate photographed him, then declared a jihad against the pervert on her Flickr page.

AT&T's iPad Cover Up

Ryan Tate · 07/26/10 04:23PM

AT&T is refusing to say how many iPad 3G customers had their private information compromised in a security breach last month. So much for the company's promise to "shed some more light" on the situation.

Every Cigarette Smoked in Mad Men

Whitney Jefferson · 07/26/10 04:18PM

This video of every single cigarette smoked on the Mad Men series—literally—will either have you totally revolted or itching for a fix. Either way, these ad men sure go through a lot of smokes!

The World's Tightest Parallel Park

Emily A. Farris · 07/26/10 04:13PM

A man from New Zealand attempts to regain the world record from China for Tightest Parallel Park. He successfully wins it back by breaking a 32cm gap, and goes even further to make it a 27cm gap.

The Wikileaks 'War Logs' Media Backlash Is Here

Hamilton Nolan · 07/26/10 04:11PM

Last night, Wikileaks—which is not a classic professional media organization!—got one of the biggest scoops of the year with its trove of documents on the Afghanistan war. The day-later meta-media insta-reaction: "That's not such a scoop, meh."

TV News and the Best of the Rest on the Web

Whitney Jefferson · 07/26/10 04:00PM

Paul Rudd and Halle Berry will lend their voices to The Simpsons, Barack Obama makes a little time for The View, Liam Nesson signs onto The Big C, and Alfred Molina will star in Law & Order: Los Angeles.