CAN A REVILED TROLL BECOME A GEEK HERO?
There will always be terrible people, and out of all of the terrible people on the internet Auernheimer is one of the best. The pureness of his awfulness-for-awfulness' sake is something to marvel at.
4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 = YOUR POWERBALL NUMBERS
The origins of Lost, as told by the people who made it.
ART IMITATING DEATH
In video games, we know that death is just temporary, that another life is just a magic mushroom away. But as games become more and more realistic, some designers are saying this relic from the arcade era has overstayed its welcome.
THIS GETS AN A+
Mike Rosenthal collects and illustrates Twitter's funniest tweets.
SEX
For some reason, narcissists never seem to have trouble finding a willing mate. Psychology finally explains why.
SOMEBODY HAD TO PAY
Apple Inc. (AAPL) has fired the manager responsible for its troubled mapping software, seeking to win back the trust of users disappointed after the program debuted in September, according to people familiar with the move.
READING THIS STORY IS DEFINITELY WORTH IT
“If you carry a penny in your coin tray, how long would it take for that penny to cost you more than a cent in extra gas?”
APPS WE LIKE
8bitCamera turns any photo into an 8-bit video game. It makes your photos crappy and cool at the same time!
PLACE YOUR INTRADE BETS
These are the accounts of the Second American Civil War, also known as the Wars of Reunification and the American Warring States Period.
LOOK AT THESE PEOPLE ARGUING WITH A ROBOT
An alarming amount of people are arguing with a Twitter bot that corrects their typos.
THIS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL
A Brazilian hidden camera show made sure no one in Brazil would ever enter an elevator alone again.
OMG
Doesn't beat that time George Washington was all like, "King George III did what? SMH."
NSFW
Some naked protesters stormed the Speaker of the House's office today.
APPLE
If you want to understand Apple, watch this video.
HISTORICAL HISTORY
This succinct note from Bill Baxley, Attorney General of Alabama in 1970, to the Grand Dragon of the KKK, is admirable in its brevity, forcefulness, and clarity.
PREPARE TO GET ANGRY
Speed limits are the ultimate constraint on the roadways. Some places it's too low. Others, even though we thought it was impossible, are just way too high.
PRIVACY
When a cellphone is reported stolen in New York, the Police Department routinely subpoenas the phone’s call records, from the day of the theft onward. But what happens to the records after that?
ACADEMIC FREE-FOR-ALL
It's a match made in electronic academic heaven. JSTOR, the beloved digital scholarly journal archive usually available only to those affiliated with an educational institution, will now be available to top editors at Wikipedia.
THERE'S SOMETHING THAT CAN'T BE GOOGLED?
Billions of Google searches are made every day—for all kinds of things—but we still look elsewhere for certain types of information, and the company wants to know what those things are.
MARKETING GENIUS
Each week a team of developers are given a brief by Wieden and Kennedy, an ad agency representing Old Spice. They then have five days to turn around a game.
CHIC CLUES
Clothing labels left behind in the Bangladesh fire that killed 112 workers prove that the factory was manufacturing clothes for multiple global retailers.
CRIME
Three months later, cops are still stumped by the grisly murder of four in the French Alps. Could a 2011 shooting point to a new lead?
CASTRO FURIOUS HE WAS OVERLOOKED
China's Communist Party newspaper, People's Daily, congratulates the North Korean leader on being named the sexiest man alive by the the satirical American publication. Seriously.
FANTASY ISLAND
A Kiwi librarian may have discovered the origin of a nonexistent island that's been outfoxing cartographers for more than a century.
MILITARY
A Chinese fighter jet recently carried out the first successful landing and takeoff on the country’s first aircraft carrier.
THE 1930s ARE SO HOT RIGHT NOW
Rising temperatures, persistent drought, and depleted aquifers on the southern Great Plains could set the stage for a disaster similar to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, scientists say.
TOO BOUNCY... OR NOT ENOUGH
Why has there been a fifteenfold increase in the number and rate of children treated by emergency departments for injuries related to inflatable bouncers?
DRUGS
There's no business like snow business — not in Times Square, where over 100 pounds of cocaine were seized in a dramatic drug gang takedown, officials said today.
WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE...
Per a new report from the University of Edinburgh Business School, the more friends you have on Facebook -- or, perhaps more accurately, the more "friends" you have on Facebook -- the more stressed you're likely to be about having them.
FIREARM FRIDAY?
For the second consecutive year, prospective gun buyers joined Black Friday shoppers in record numbers as firearms dealers swamped the FBI with required buyer background check requests.
MOVE IT OR LOSE IT
One particular car has set a Chicago record for receiving the most parking violations ever and accumulating the most parking fines in the city's history.