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The beauty of Twitter in one tweet
On Sunday afternoon, artist Darius Kazemi posted a simple, humorous tweet, that spiraled into something so lovely, it could only have been born on Twitter:Of course, Kazemi’s tweet gets at a couple of...
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Bros who fed each other nachos at Trump rally finally break their silence
Donald Trump's appearance on the University of Central Florida campus on Saturday made headlines—but not because of anything he said. The Internet was instead captivated by two young men standing to...
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Chrome glitch has tech site referring to Trump as 'someone with tiny hands'
With Donald Trump leading in the Republican presidential race and becoming an inescapable media presence, people are taking extreme measures to make their Trump-dominated days a little more bearable....
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The misfits who made roller derby a thing in Beijing
Ask anyone in the roller derby community how their team communicates, and they’ll invariably say “on Facebook.” Known for being body-positive and queer-friendly, roller derby runs on the ethos of “by...
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Someone trolled these ladies with sexist pens on International Women's Day
In 2011, a Jezebel article introduced the Internet to the Hindenburg of marketing that is Bic for Her, a just-for-gals pen brand that was roundly and rightly mocked for condescending to women. After...
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Why Ayesha Curry became a top trending topic
The Internet’s obsession with the Curry family went to a whole new level this week after a video of the basketball MVP’s wife congratulating her hubby surfaced online Wednesday. She did so festively,...
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9 unbelievable moments from the Hulk Hogan sex tape trial
If the O.J. Simpson murder charge gave us the trial of the century, then wrestling legend Hulk Hogan's $100 million lawsuit against Gawker for publishing a secretly recorded video sex tape has the...
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Science magazine writer fired after controversial story
Sometimes fighting for their integrity can cost journalists their jobs. And that's what Michael Balter—a science reporter and longtime correspondent for Science magazine—thinks happened to him. In a...
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Secret Service jumps onstage to shield Trump at Ohio rally
Donald Trump rallies are becoming more hostile as the divisive mogul comes closer to clinching the nomination. At a rally in Dayton, Ohio, Trump's Secret Service detail unexpectedly jumped onstage as...
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There was a lot of vaping at the '@midnight' Periscope taping
In October, @midnight host Chris Hardwick and friends led a 24-hour Periscopereading of Moby-Dick. It was a feat of endurance, to be sure, but also an experiment in engagement. And last night in...
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Muslim woman asked to remove hijab at SXSW
Ibtihaj Muhammad is a world champion sabre fencer and the first Muslim woman to compete for the United States in the sport. But that didn't mean much to the organizers at SXSW, who Muhammad said asked...
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Clinton asks where Sanders was in '90s healthcare fight—turns out he was...
Hillary Clinton is having a disastrous weekend. First she made the baffling decision, at Nancy Reagan's funeral on Friday, to praise the former First Lady for directly confronting the 1980s AIDS/HIV...
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SXSW's Online Harassment Summit tackles the issue of social network harassment
Has online harassment become a game? At SXSW's Online Harassment Summit, the panel that started it all convened Saturday evening to discuss not only harassment in gaming, but harassment as gaming. The...
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#MemeHistory is here to teach you about the history of the world
On Thursday, the hashtag #MemeHistory started trending when @TylerIAm encountered a student’s slideshow presentation about Adolf Hitler. Inspired by the slide, he began adding memes to history’s...
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Why journalists should be afraid of Trump’s media strategy
As someone who fights for the rights of journalists, I’ve been following the U.S. presidential campaign with a particular concern. What strikes me is how the candidates use both traditional and social...
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Twitter bot shows you the comings and goings of Pepito the French cat
With all the mobs and the election and the public shaming, Twitter has lost a lot of its original whimsy. The bot-building community is now the locus of fun and delight on the microblogging service,...
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Portland police forgot to delete these weird old tweets from account they...
The Portland (Oregon) Police Bureau probably should have read through their Twitter account before taking it from a "third party" years ago. Internet prankster god Jon Hendren (a.k.a. @fart)...
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Zardulu is the shadowy artist (and wizard) who faked your favorite viral moments
For the last year, and probably longer, you’ve been living a lie. That viral video you liked so much—you know, the one with that random moment of spontaneous serendipity, a moment that seemed too...
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Pigeons are monitoring air quality over London
Pigeons get a bad rap, but in London, they're doing more than begging for breadcrumbs and leaving their droppings on statues: The birds are helping alert citizens of air quality and pollution.The...
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All the most amazing stuff you can get for free on Craigslist
Given that even a used blow-up sex doll will set the adventurous Craigslist shopper back a cool $25, it's surprising the site even has a "free stuff" section. What sorts of goods and services could be...
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