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Why the Internet can't stop overanalyzing 'Too Many Cooks'
You’ve seen Too Many Cooks by now, right? In certain corners of the Internet, it’s probably the only thing you’ve been seeing over the past few days. In a nutshell: Williams Street, the production...
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FDNY rescues window washers from World Trade Center scaffolding
Two window washers dangled precariously alongside One World Trade Center after their scaffolding partially collapsed. They were 68 floors up. Manhattan *High Angle Rescue* Box 8084- 1 World Trade...
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YouTube's iJustine wants to teach your grandparents how to Internet
YouTube tech guru iJustine has joined forces with DoSomething.org to show you only have to be “super-ish” to help older adults how to get wired.Grandparents Gone Wired is a campaign aimed to having...
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Jennifer Lawrence: I will never get Twitter
Hollywood actress Jennifer Lawrence has vowed never to get Twitter, saying that “the Internet has scorned me so much.”In an interview with the BBC, the 24-year-old actress said she doesn’t “really...
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I tried to out-chill @chillsitch, the chillest dude on the Internet
Is the illustrious @chillsitch, Twitter’s most laid-back dude, really as relaxed as he seems? friday is my monday because takin’ it easy is my job ;)— Chill Situations (@chillsitch) July 25, 2014 We...
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A 'gay' bull is about to be slaughtered unless you #SaveBenjy
A U.K. animal sanctuary, an Irish animal rights group, and media site TheGayUK have teamed up to save Benjy, a pedigree Charolais bull who may go the slaughterhouse because he prefers other bulls to...
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New users will never know what Twitter used to be
Twitterhas a growth problem, one that it just can’t seem to escape. Try as it might, new people who join the service just don’t know how or why they should use it. So to bolster the user base, Twitter...
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Leonard Nimoy lays smackdown on Obamacare traitor
What happens when you help to draft the Affordable Care Act and then say it was carefully designed to account for “the stupidity of the American voter or whatever”? Leonard Nimoy takes you to a shed...
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Everything went wrong in this New England Patriots Twitter stunt
Thursday the New England Patriots Twitter account, @Patriots, tweeted that in thanks to their 1 million followers, it would create “digital jerseys” for anyone who retweeted the celebratory...
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Here's how Twitter tricks our brains
In an attempt to understand how its product affects our brains, Twitter has commissioned a study in the UK to learn about the human brain’s response to tweeting. The results suggest good news for the...
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We've lost contact with the Philae comet probe
The brave space probe that inspired by the world by becoming the first to land on a comet has gone to sleep—likely for good. Philae didn’t make its target landing Friday, plunging into the comet’s...
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Jose Canseco's finger fell off, and I regret looking at it
Warning: This story features a graphic photo of Jose Canseco's detached finger. There are a lot of things I will tolerate from former MLB player Jose Canseco in my neverending quest for whimsy: putting...
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This is how Twitter is going to make money off you
This week, Twitterannounced plans to fundamentally change the way many users experience the social network, including populating new user accounts with “instant timelines” to keep them interested,...
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How the Internet fueled Catalonia's independence movement
Catalonia is stretching—warming up before a tedious legal battle with Spain about its autonomy. On Nov. 9, secession from Spain was overwhelmingly approved. Catalan authorities say 80 percent of voters...
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GOP reportedly used Twitter to cheat election finance laws
The tangle of U.S. campaign finance laws just added another knot thanks to Twitter. In 2010, the Supreme Court’s Citizen United ruling opened the floodgates to effectively limitless campaign spending...
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The best way to release an album is to drop it overnight
BY EMMA GARLAND On Dec. 12, 2013, Beyoncé rocked up out of nowhere and dropped a massive album without so much as a hint that something was on the way. It changed the game. The record was never meant...
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You can once again put links in Twitter direct messages
Thanks to an update to Twitter’s direct messaging function, you can once again add links to your DMs.As you might remember, last year Twitter cut off the ability to send links from the majority of...
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Minor league hockey team crushes it with 'Seinfeld'-themed night
In a perfect world on Puffy Shirt Jersey Night, Newman would be barreling down the ice on a breakaway only to be stopped cold by Jerry Seinfeld in goal on a tremendous kick save. In a not-so-perfect...
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Who said it: Rust Cohle from 'True Detective' or Jaden Smith?
“Someone once told me, 'Time is a flat circle.' Everything we've ever done or will do, we're gonna do over and over and over again,” Rust Cohle once mused. That means that every nihilistic tweet that...
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Happy Cyborg teaches a Twitter bot to act like you
I love social media just as much as the next Internet-obsessed person, but I have to admit that juggling a slew of accounts on various platforms can feel like a full-time job. Every morning, I find...
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