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Obama's new online war against ISIS needs a reboot
As a rookie reporter covering the Air Force in the early 2000s, a plain-spoken four-star general adequately summed up the Defense Department's frustrating penchant for standing up a task force to...
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Michael Ian Black and the golden age of idiocy
Michael Ian Black does a doubletake. Our waiter has just instructed us to “hashtag enjoy your meals,” and I ask if that really just happened. “Yes, that is what happened,” he says. We hold back a laugh...
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9 people who'd better not win the f**king Powerball
Have you bought your Powerball ticket(s) yet? Why wait? The jackpot for Wednesday night’s drawing—which will happen at 10pm CT—is an unbelievable $1.5 billion, which is almost enough to run for...
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Twitter tale of pizza fail will make you madder than anything
There are many unspoken, sacred rules of life you shouldn’t break, one of those rules being: Never carry a pizza any way besides horizontally.Twitter user @sad_tree had the misfortune to witness the...
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U.S. CTO Megan Smith has few solutions for Silicon Valley's diversity problems
I've heard Megan Smith, CTO of the U.S. speak a handful of times before. Each time she gets up on stage to resounding applause, she talks about women in technology. Grace Hopper is clearly a favorite,...
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Man who ordered Kindle gets tumor in the mail instead
James Potten just wanted to cozy up with a new Kindle and do some reading. FedEx, unfortunately, substituted a different item entirely when attempting to deliver the device: a human tumor sample.The...
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Whole Foods feels Black Twitter's wrath for collard greens recipe
Remember when the New York Times got owned by the entire Internet—and the president himself—for floating the idea of peas in guacamole? Well, seems white people are far from finished ruining other...
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No, retweeting spam won't get you any Powerball money
If you’re like every other thinking American, you’ve spent the last few days contemplating what you’d do with $1.5 billion. After buying that castle in Monaco, shark-tooth-encrusted Jordans, and...
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Uber tried to make this guy snitch on a driver who brought her kid along
By this time, most people have hilarious stories about riding in an Uber to wherever they have to go. But they have nothing on this guy.Last September, when he was working and living in Washington...
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Instagram playboy Dan Bilzerian hacked because he uses AOL
On Thursday afternoon, hackers accessed the Twitter and email accounts of infamous “playboy” Dan Bilzerian due to a flaw, the attackers say, in AOL customer service. A professional poker player,...
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Please tell us this dude didn't really tweet his debit card info
Some people still don’t understand that Twitter is a public platform and that you should never, ever put certain information on there. One of them is Liam Ketley, who tweeted at HSBC with all of his...
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'Horny Ted Cruz' is the Twitter parody our nation deserves
By now you may have noticed that senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz is... problematic. Whether he’s holding a gun event following a public shooting, cooking bacon with a machine gun, or...
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Twitter's @WWESubway pairs the absurdity of wrestling with the joys of eating...
Glorified shredded iceberg lettuce operation Subway has been hard up for quite some time. Its once-amiable spokesperson turned out to be more reprehensible than the sandwich chain’s concept of...
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The tech world has yet to embrace Martin Luther King’s dream
Today, America will unite to celebrate the brave contributions of one of the country's most celebrated and notable civil rights leaders, Martin Luther King, Jr.While the dream he envisioned for the...
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The incredible true romance of a woman who reviewed her dates on Yelp
It started innocently, as most romances do. A couple of weeks ago, Natalie Walker, a New York-based actor and writer, decided to review a handful of old dates on Yelp. But she never imagined what would...
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17-year-old film critic in hot water after tweeting Amy Schumer
Following the Critics' Choice Awards Sunday, 17-year-old film critic Jackson Murphy is receiving a wave of backlash for his tweet of a picture with Amy Schumer.Although it isn't the picture that's...
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5 big changes coming to social media
It’s been a memorable year in social media. 2015 saw the birth of live social streaming, with apps like Periscope and Meerkat winning over early adopters. Snapchat fully shed its reputation as a niche...
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Televised boyband apology crashes Twitter in Japan
One Direction's hiatus may be a tragedy to millions, but it has nothing on the tribulations of Japan's most popular boyband, SMAP. Following rumors of a potential breakup this week, SMAP had to...
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Swedish park staff can't remove this giant penis drawn on thin ice
There’s petty vandalism, and then there’s anarchic genius. Today we are delighted to share a shining example of the latter in Gothenburg, Sweden: a giant dick drawn in the snow on ice apparently too...
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What is this mysterious New Zealand sea creature?
The ocean is a mysterious place full of all sorts of undiscovered or newly-discovered animals. Scientists often catch glimpses of these creatures using remotely operated vehicles mounted with cameras....
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