Where Did That 'What People Think I Do' Meme Come From and How Can It Be...
#memes This was the week Facebook turned into the "What People Think I Do" machine. Has there ever been a meme both so ubiquitous and so uninteresting? This is...
View ArticleHow I Found the Human Being Behind Horse_ebooks, The Internet's Favorite Spambot
#theinternet Horse_ebooks became a bona fide internet celebrity when organizers of ROFLCON, the premier conference on internet pop culture, asked in January:...
View ArticleSomeone Made a Lame Dick Joke on Paul Rudd's Wikipedia Page
#pranks The photo agency Pacific Coast News just breathlessly emailed us to say they had exclusive screenshots of Paul Rudd's "hacked" Wikipedia page, above....
View ArticleWikileaks Becomes Anonymous' Publishing Arm with New Intelligence Firm Leak
#wikileaks Julian Assange took some time from his busy television production schedule to leak internal emails the hacktivist collective Anonymous had stolen from...
View ArticleThe Internet Either Is or Is Not Ruining Teens' Brains, Say Experts
#theinternet Now that teen smoking rates are in decline and rap music has been throughly mainstreamed, the only thing to worry about re: America's Children is...
View Article'Pinterest for Men' Is a Terrible Idea
#socialnetworks Typical men: As soon as they see something women have, they have to have it for themselves. Like thong underwear and mangagement rings. So it is...
View ArticleYour Angry Yelp Reviews Are Worth More Than A Billion Dollars
#ipos Whine-aggregating service Yelp went public today, and is currently trading at $24.60 a share, which values the company at around $1.43 billion, according...
View ArticleThe Strange Images Captured By Russia's 180,000 Election Webcams
#surveillance It surprised no one that Russian President Vladimir Putin was overwhelmingly re-elected on Sunday. But the massive panoptic webcam network he set...
View ArticleAnonymous Snitch Tried, and Failed, to Pass Himself Off As an FBI Agent Last...
#hackers It was revealed today that the notorious Anonymous hacker Hector Monsegnur—a.k.a. "Sabu"—has been cooperating with the Feds for months, and...
View ArticleTwitter’s Secret History As the World’s Worst Tech or Media Business
#leaks Twitter Inc.'s been spinning quite a turnaround story in the press lately. The microblogging service "has finally turned a corner," declares the cover of...
View ArticleDid Twitter Want the Millennium's Worst Merger?
#rumormonger The former CEO of Time Warner famously called his company's merger with AOL the "worst deal of the century." But at least that was a combination of...
View ArticleHow I Was Duped By Mike Daisey's Lies
#ifraud I can't blame This American Life for falling for disgraced monologuist Mike Daisey's lies because I fell for them, too. I once confronted Daisey with my...
View ArticleWhat Else Has Mike Daisey Lied About?
#ifraud Monologuist Mike Daisey, we've all learned, is an excellent liar. Now, let's see what else Daisey has lied about in his decades-long career, besides many...
View ArticleGooglers Must Denounce Evil, Says Google's Ex-Mastermind
#privacy It's been almost one year since Eric Schmidt stepped down as CEO of Google, and sometimes it seems like he's experienced a midlife identity crisis....
View ArticleScreenshots of Despair: The Lonely Side of Social Networking
#theinternet On the internet it's not just hard to be alone: It's depressing as hell. Design Observer points us to Screenshots of Despair, a Tumblr that collects...
View ArticleThe Terrible, Racist-Sounding Quote a Tech Honcho Just Gave the Wall Street...
#valleywag What is it about Wall Street Journal editors that makes tech executives give horrible, self-destructive quotes? They got Google's CEO to say children...
View ArticleMike Daisey Finally Gives the Apology He Should Have Given Days Ago
#ifraud Like a moth emerging from a cocoon, lying monologuist Mike Daisey has reached the final stage of his belabored public apology for making up stuff about...
View ArticleThis Young, Shirtless Playboy is the Most Interesting New Millionaire In Tech
#fameballs Charles Forman made tens of millions of dollars selling his company last week. And thank God for that: It's been far too long since "fuck you money"...
View ArticleHappy Monday: 1.5 Million Credit Cards Were Stolen By Hackers
#hackers It was revealed Friday that hackers had hit the credit card payment processor Global Payments, and stolen potentially millions of Mastercard and Visa...
View ArticleThe Most Famous Mistress in Tech Finally Explains Her Spectacular Revenge
#mysteries Two years ago, a series of odd billboards greeted passers-by in New York, Atlanta, and the San Francisco Bay Area. They showed a cuddling, smiling...
View ArticleAfter Three Mistresses, Google's Chairman Still Adores His Wife
#valleywag Eric Schmidt has either gone through a sudden midlife transformation or is a hopelessly tangled web of contradictions. Either way, the Google...
View ArticleGoogle's New Cyborg Glasses Are The Creepiest Tech of the Millenium
#privacy We've seen plenty of dystopian tech since 2000. Phones that track and record your every movement. Drones that stalk and kill people. An enormous...
View ArticleHow Mark Zuckerberg’s Sister Descended Into Reality Television (and How Tech...
#celebrityscience Randi Zuckerberg has been awarded a Bravo reality show, a show that will follow young people trying to become "Silicon Valley's next great...
View ArticleFacebook Bought Instagram for $1 Billion
#deals In by far its largest acquisition to date, Facebook said it will buy photo-sharing service instagram for $1 billion, or about $100 million per Instagram...
View ArticleThese Filthy-Rich Lovers Are Tech’s Newest Young Power Couple, Thanks to...
#instagram Kevin Systrom, 28, made off quite well when he sold his company Instagram to Facebook, personally clearing a reported $400 million, or $725,000 per...
View ArticleSilicon Valley's Secret, Vicious Lust for Hollywood Fame
#television Motivations are supposed to be pure in Silicon Valley. Facebook, for example, was developed to make the world a better place; its billions of dollars...
View ArticleHere's the Dubstep-y Trailer for Julian Assange's New Talk Show
#wikileaks In this new trailer, the screech of dubstep summons the lucrative 18-34 year-old male demographic to Wikileaks editor Julian Assange's upcoming talk...
View ArticleNo One Can Correctly Google Any More, Basically
#modernandawkward Google has been placing more and more crap around search results, which is very annoying, but it turns out this crapification may work out...
View ArticleThe Secret of The American Teen Is Contained In This Massive Text Message...
#teenagers Have you ever wondered what teens do all day on their smartphones? We haven't either. But a psychology professor has amassed an enormous database of...
View ArticleAnonymous Accidentally Sent Us This Boob Picture
#anonyboobs Hey everyone: Before you send an important email make sure you check to see that you didn't accidentally attach a webcam picture of a topless woman....
View ArticleProfessional Video Gamer's Charity Campaign Tries to Outdo Kony 2012 In...
#theinternet Now that Joseph Kony is in jail thanks to everyone tweeting that Kony 2012 video (he is, right?) all future activism will consist of slick viral...
View ArticleWorld's Best Twitter User Jose Canseco Mysteriously Disappears From Twitter
#poets A brilliant neutron star winked out of existence today, when grammar-challenged baseball player Jose Canseco abruptly shut down his wonderful Twitter...
View ArticleWill Facebook Crush an Anonymous Social Network?
#theinternet If Facebook had its way, nothing on Earth would be called a "book" without its explicit permission. Now, Mark Zuckerberg's Big Blue Death Star is...
View ArticleIt's Mark Zuckerberg's 28th Birthday
#facebook Boy King Mark Zuckerberg turned 28 today, striking fear and loathing into the hearts of everyone who is not a 28-year-old billionaire. Facebook will go...
View ArticleThe Facebook IPO Frenzy Turns Depressing
#bubbles Perhaps you've heard that Facebook is going public this week in a massive IPO that values the company at over $100 billion. There's an apocalyptic air...
View ArticleFacebook's Stock Tumbles Harder Than a Drunk Bro In a College Sophomore's...
#facebookipo If Facebook's IPO on Friday was a one-day Web 2.0 Gold Rush, then today is when the prospectors realize all the gold has already been taken out of...
View ArticleGoogle's Most Glamorous Employee Now Head of World's Least Glamorous Company
#yahoo Google VP Marissa Mayer has appeared in Vogue and Glamour; she shut down a good portion of San Francisco in order to install a massive Dale Chihuly glass...
View ArticleNew Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Is Pregnant
#yahoo Not only is glamourous Google VP Marissa Mayer the new CEO of Yahoo, she's pregnant and expecting a boy in October, reports Fortune. Mayer is married to...
View ArticleRacism Doesn't Exist in Tech Because White Tech Blog Millionaire Jason...
#shutupwhitey People of color looking to break into the startup world or tech journalism will be happy to learn, per blowhard entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, that...
View ArticleTech Bros' Google-Sponsored Trip to India Turns Into Naked Beach Romp [UPDATE]
#dickmoves "Geeks on a Plane" is one of those sponsored clusterfucks rampant in the tech industry where the rich and near-rich gather to disruptify their apps...
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