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The Slacker Secret To Facebook's Success

Ryan Tate · 09/21/10 03:16PM

Facebook's board somehow distilled a hugely successful strategy from threadbare briefings by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who explains in this video how he would scrawl all the board's Facebook news on a single sheet of yellow paper.

Beware of Snakes in Your Toilet

Brian Moylan · 09/21/10 11:55AM

A Bronx resident went to his bathroom last night and found a three-foot corn snake "comfortably coiled" on the toilet seat. Apparently it swam through the plumbing. He told the cops to get the motherfucking snake off his motherfucking toilet.

The Night Twitter Turned on Justin Bieber

Adrian Chen · 09/20/10 10:34PM

This is a historic night! Currently, #getsomejustin is a trending topic on Twitter: It's the first Twitter trend started by Justin Bieber fans with the express intent of tormenting Justin Bieber. The Bieberacolypse has begun.

How White Is Your Neighborhood?

Ryan Tate · 09/20/10 03:12PM

Photographer Eric Fischer's color-coded maps of racial segregation are captivating, particularly once you find your own neighborhood. A look at his work follows after the jump, courtesy of Fast Company's Cliff Kuang.

If Lost Ultimately Didn't Work, How Can The Event?

Richard Lawson · 09/20/10 03:01PM

Tonight is the premiere of The Event, NBC's latest stab at a big, loud, rumbling mystery machine, a hybrid of Lost's tantalizing obfuscation and 24's globe-trotting government intrigue. It's not a miniseries, it's a full series-series. So can it work?

'Exhausted' Lady Sticks It to Obama

Jim Newell · 09/20/10 02:51PM

Barack Obama doesn't want businesses thinking he's anti-business. So he held a town hall today for CNBC, which literally all businesses watch. A common middle-class person posed a brutal first question, however, saying she's "exhausted of defending you."