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Play Wikileaks: The Video Game
Adrian Chen · 12/12/10 11:42AMWant to know exactly what it feels like to run Wikileaks? Play this game. You, Julian Assange, must sneak into the oval office and download 300,000 classified documents from Barack Obama's laptop using a thumb drive while he sleeps.
The 15 Best Videos Ever of The Week
Richard Blakeley · 12/11/10 12:00PMThe Top 100 Videos of 2010 in 170 Seconds
Sarah Natochenny · 12/10/10 12:35PMBetween pranks, sports, tech, video games, singing, dancing, and television, there was a lot to choose from this year! Here are the Top 100 videos that became famous on the web in 2010—all in under three minutes.
Ancient Greek Computer Remade with Legos
Richard Blakeley · 12/09/10 02:56PMThe Antikythera is an ancient mechanical computer designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was found in a wreck in 1900 and it's complexity and significance were not understood until decades later. Now it's been remade with Legos.
Gawker Dating: Uniting You in Awkwardness
Richard Lawson · 12/09/10 11:48AM1978 Star Wars Holiday Special Ranked as Worst Television Holiday Moment of All Time
Richard Blakeley · 12/06/10 02:50PMIn the late seventies, holiday television specials were all the rage-so you would think The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978 would be a hit. It wasn't.
The 15 Best Videos Ever of The Week
Richard Blakeley · 12/04/10 12:00PMU.S. Military in Iraq Tries to Intimidate Soldiers Into Not Reading Wikileaks
John Cook · 12/03/10 04:55PMRent Mark Zuckerberg's House!
Max Read · 12/02/10 01:24PMMySpace Is for Sale; Could Google Buy?
Ryan Tate · 11/30/10 02:40PMIf Wikileaks Broke the Espionage Act, So Did the New York Times
John Cook · 11/30/10 01:22PMWatch a Visualization of 200 Countries' Health, Wealth Over 200 Years
Matt Cherette · 11/29/10 05:21PMIt doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that life expectancy/income across the world was less in 1810 than in 2010, but how—and where—did the statistics tick up over time? In this stunningly visual presentation, Hans Rosling explains.
Naked Gun Actor Leslie Nielsen Dies
Max Read · 11/28/10 08:49PMHow Twitter Scooped Wikileaks (Updated)
Adrian Chen · 11/28/10 11:40AMThe Best 10 Videos Ever of The Week
Richard Blakeley · 11/27/10 12:00PMWoman Kicks off Black Friday by Threatening to Kill Other Shoppers with Gun
Max Read · 11/26/10 09:19AMWhy the iPad Newspaper is Doomed
Ryan Tate · 11/24/10 02:25PMShep Smith Reads the TSA List of Prohibited Items
Ena Brdjanovic · 11/23/10 04:42PMIn case your only access to the outside world is Fox News, don't fret; Shep Smith has your back. Watch Shep list all the prohibited food items that the TSA will confiscate (and later consume) during Thanksgiving travel.