How Many Retweets Is San Francisco's Tax Break Worth?
When “giving back” means encouraging people to use your product, everybody wins. A blackboard in Twitter's cafeteria where Twitter employees are asked to share ideas on how the company can "better...
View ArticleThis Real-Time Emoji Tracker Will Blow Your Mind
Seriously, it will. This is emojitracker, a hypnotizing, real-time, and possibly seizure-enducing look at everyone's favorite Japanese emoticons as they're being used on Twitter. Looking at this, it's...
View ArticleTop Executive At AOL's Local News Business, Patch, Resigns
Mark Josephson, senior vice president of marketing and revenue, has resigned, sources told BuzzFeed. Patch, even to this day, is still finding its feet. Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL, has lost another top...
View ArticleThis Weekend, Play The Hateful, Wonderful Teleglitch
It’s the closest videogames have come to Yeezus . One of the challenges of writing about games for a mainstream audience is the relative uselessness of genre terms, which to gamers connote extremely...
View Article12 Reasons Gamers Make The Best Parents
These moms and dads prove that gaming can be an advanced parenting tool. The dad who woke his kid up, adorably, Doom-style. The dad who built his son a barn-side gaming rig. Source: reddit.com This...
View Article8 Things Jeff Bezos Just Doesn't Care About
Step one: Report quarter that doesn’t meet expectations. Step two: Don’t care about the earnings. Step three: Watch stock reach record high. Via: Rick Wilking / Reuters It seems unlikely that after...
View ArticleThe Only Apple Rumors That Nobody Cares About
The seemingly impossible task for China Labor Watch: to make a world of Apple lovers care about worker abuse. A heartbreaking report, and a disheartening response. Workers sleep outside Pegatron's...
View ArticleIf Game Developers Want To Be Artists They Should Start Acting Like Artists
Lesson No. 1: If people hate you, you’re probably doing something right. Source: powerdownkids.com Phil Fish is a very smart, very disputatious Canadian independent game developer. He's known best for...
View ArticleBiggest Mall Owner In U.S. Waiting For Washington To "Feel Good" About...
The CEO of Simon Property says the company is “treading very, very carefully” regarding deploying technology that tracks shoppers in stores. Via: facebook.com When it comes to using technology to...
View ArticleThomson Reuters Twitter Account Hacked
The official @thomsonreuters Twitter account was apparently hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army late Monday when it began broadcasting a collection of political cartoons on the conflict in Syria....
View ArticleThis 14-Year-Old Boy Is Kicking Your Ass At Photo Manipulation
Meet Zev, also known as Fiddleoak. Through his self-portraits, he creates a wondrous and whimsical world that you’ll wish you lived in. A very literal photo of Fiddleoak. Source: fiddleoak / via:...
View ArticleThe 1880 Novel That Predicted Catfishing
And so much more. Love in the age of the telegraph. LINK: The 1880 Novel That Predicted Catfishing And so much more. Love in the age of the telegraph.
View ArticleBradley Manning Found Not Guilty Of Aiding The Enemy
Developing: A military judge has ruled that the 25-year-old private is not guilty of “aiding the enemy” but is guilty of 20 of the 22 charges against him and faces a maximum of 136 years in prison. He...
View ArticleWhat If Video Games Caused Serious Physical Injuries?
An artist imagines. Game Arthritis is a neat/gnarly/hysterical 2011 project from the artist Matteo Bittani, and IOCOSE, the Italian culture jamming collective. It imagines a variety of motor...
View ArticleThe 15 Best Uses Of Recycled Video Game Hardware
So, your old Dreamcast is bricked. Now you can actually do something with it. Source: pinterest.com Source: pinterest.com This deskmate made out of a Dreamcast controller. Source: etsy.com View Entire...
View ArticleHow Slow-Motion Video Will Take Over The Internet
The next iPhone will reportedly support slow-motion video, just in time for the mobile video boom. The internet is about to get real slow, real quick. GIF by John Gara. Clipped from this video. In any...
View ArticleThis Is What It Looks Like When A Brutal Dictator Starts Using Instagram
It looks eerily, disturbingly mundane. Here’s what Syrian President and serial human rights abuser Bashar al-Assad has been using his new Instagram account for. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's...
View ArticleYou Will Never Look At Your Favorite Old-School Games The Same Again
Get inside Bomberman , Donkey Kong , Street Fighter , and Contra . Bomberman (Surprisingly disturbing!) Street Fighter (Surprisingly tedious!) Contra (Surprisingly modern!) View Entire List ›
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