Jay Hathaway · 03/21/14 01:55PM

[Turkish graffiti spreads the IP addresses of Google's DNS servers, useful for getting around the government's ban on Twitter. The tag reads "let the bird sing." Image via @FindikKahve/Twitter.]

Here Are Kim, Kanye, and a Really Long Hashtag on the Cover of Vogue

Jay Hathaway · 03/21/14 01:45PM

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West appear on the cover of April's Vogue, along with the word "selfie" and the #WorldsMostImpracticalHashtag. Looks like the "world's most talked-about couple"—sorry, Jay and Bey—got Annie Leibovitz to take the world's most #trill wedding photo.

Antiviral: Here's What's Bullshit on the Internet This Week

Adrienne LaFrance · 03/21/14 01:35PM

Is it just me, or did the internet seem extra hoaxy this week? It's not just me: Wayne Knight is not dead, this woman was not rescued from a desert island by Google Maps, and the world's most exclusive restaurant isn't really. Let's get right to it.

The Inside Story of One of the Greatest Movie Failures of All Time

Rich Juzwiak · 03/21/14 12:56PM

Legendary director Alejando Jodorowsky's Dune has built up a multi-decade reputation as a great production that never was. Now, thanks to Frank Pavich's documentary on the subject, we can see as complete a picture as possible of what could have been—a brilliantly insane undertaking.

Inside the American Id: Chilling With the South’s New Secessionists

Adam Weinstein · 03/21/14 11:45AM

The opening shot, the Fort Sumter of the newest campaign to take back Dixie, was a billboard. Months ago it appeared on the parkway in Tallahassee, just east of the Capitol, positioned so you could see it and the edifice of Florida government side-by-side, the sun popping off both of them together at daybreak. Most of the sign was taken up by six big black letters on a white background: SECEDE.

Rich Juzwiak · 03/21/14 11:23AM

HBO, Lisa Kudrow, and Michael Patrick King are reportedly discussing a second season of the 2005 cult faux-vérité show The Comeback. I do need to see that.

A Nun Just Totally Dominated Italy's Version of The Voice

Jay Hathaway · 03/21/14 11:11AM

Sicilian nun and part-time Alicia Keys Sister Cristina Scuccia blew away the judges on Italy's The Voice with a powerful rendition of Keys's hit "No One." And, because judges on the show vote without looking at the singer, we get to watch their faces as they turn around and see her dressed in a full habit.

Sarah Hedgecock · 03/21/14 10:58AM

[Michelle Obama plays table tennis at the Beijing Normal School on Friday.Image via Andy Wong/AP.]

Jimmy Fallon and Billy Joel Started a Doo-Wop Group With an iPad

Jay Hathaway · 03/21/14 09:55AM

Jimmy Fallon, Billy Joel, and an iPad formed a two-man, one-machine doo-wop group Thursday night, turning in a respectable cover of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." But first, Fallon had to struggle not to fanboy all over the floor while he taught Joel how to use a voice-looping app.

Mt. Gox Magically Finds 200,000 Bitcoins in a Discarded Wallet

Michelle Dean · 03/21/14 09:25AM

Remember that time you left $20 in an old winter jacket and then spring happened and you put the jacket away and then when you took it back out the next winter and slipped your hand into your pocket you realized you were $20 richer than you thought? Funny story: that just happened to Mt. Gox, the troubled bitcoin exchange now mired in Japanese bankruptcy proceedings.

Lacey Donohue · 03/20/14 10:15PM

[Baby gorilla Jengo hangs out in his enclosure at the zoo in Leipzig, Germany on Thursday. Jengo is one of two baby gorillas born at the zoo in the last four months. Photo by Jens Meyer via AP]

Christian Bale Could Be the New Steve Jobs

Jay Hathaway · 03/20/14 09:18PM

Director David Fincher says Oscar winner and second-best-Batman Christian Bale is his first (and only) choice to play Steve Jobs in an upcoming Jobs biopic. The still-untitled film was written by Aaron Sorkin, who also wrote Fincher's The Social Network.

New Photos From Kurt Cobain's Suicide Released

Lacey Donohue · 03/20/14 08:27PM

While Seattle police found no new information in their reexamination of Kurt Cobain's death, they have released previously unseen images from the scene of his suicide nearly 20 years ago.