Someone Made A Video Game About Sandy Hook Where You Play As Adam Lanza And...
Its creator says the controversial game makes a statement about the importance of gun control. The Slaying Of Sandy Hook Elementary was created by Ryan Jake Lambourn, a Texas-born artist, who...
View ArticleFacebook Drives Massive New Surge Of Traffic To Publishers
Can Mark Zuckerberg save the publishing industry? A chart of Facebook referrals to BuzzFeed Partner Network sites from October 2011 to October 2013 illustrates the sharp increase in recent months. Via...
View ArticleFacebook Data Reveals How Weirdly Racist We Are When It Comes To Online Dating
Apparently, though, Asian women are preferred by everyone. The following statistics come from the people at Are You Interested, one of the largest Facebook-based dating apps. The AYI app is a lot like...
View ArticleThere's A Social Network For Dead People Now
But the dead can’t untag themelves in photos. An Israeli entrepreneur has set up a social network called Neshama. It has a slight twist: it's for dead people. neshama.info The site, founded by Shelly...
View ArticleiPads Now As Popular As Disney Princesses On Little Girls' Holiday Wish Lists
All little girls just want to be iPads when they grow up. Laszlo Balogh / Reuters The new addition to children's holiday wish lists this year are iPads, according to the National Retail Federation's...
View ArticleFilmmaker Combines 852 Instagrams Into A Single Short Movie
“I wanted to create structure out of this chaos.” vimeo.com
View ArticleThis Is The Most Uncomfortable Thing In The History Of The Internet
It’s a website that takes your name and generates an image of your privatest parts. If you go to this site, and I'm not saying that you should, but that you could, you'll see an input. It's for your...
View ArticleThe Terrifyingly Violent New Genre Of "My Little Pony Fan" Art
A new fan art genre has cropped up where fluffy versions of the ponies are subjected to mental and physical torture. [Somewhat NSFW due to disturbing MS Paint cartoon gore.] ponibooru.org Let's start...
View ArticleThe Creepy Tim Cook Video Apple Doesn't Want You To See
Apple CEO quotes Martin Luther King Jr. in a bizarre internal video to employees. Sounds like someone’s in trouble. Robert Galbraith / Reuters Apple employees recently received a stern internal memo...
View ArticleApple's Cash Pile To Grow 0.198% After Beating Samsung In Court
A verdict for its trial with Samsung just came in, and Samsung is going to have to pay Apple $290 million. Now, what should it do with all that cash? Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook speaks on stage during an...
View ArticleProof That No One Watches Porn On Christmas
Do people watch more or less porn on Christmas? PornHub crunched its traffic numbers for holidays and world events. (This cat is watching cat porn.) Flickr: peasap As you might expect, Americans watch...
View ArticleTwo Maps That Explain Why Comcast May Want To Buy Time Warner Cable
Reports emerged today that Comcast was exploring a possible bid for Time Warner Cable. The possibility of a deal between the two companies has been a decade in the making. Here’s why. Comcast's...
View ArticleWhy Is Facebook Suddenly Blowing Up Old Posts?
Welcome to Facebook’s greatest hits. The site is sending millions of visitors to old — sometimes years old — stories. Hamlet and the Gravediggers - Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret/John Herrman /...
View ArticleIs This The Last Great Mario Game?
The sun may be setting on the Mario empire with Super Mario 3D World , but wow, what a view. Earlier this month, as part of the publicity push for the new Super Mario game, I interviewed Shigeru...
View ArticleKatie Couric Joining Yahoo As Global News Anchor
Couric has been a special correspondent for ABC News and hosted the daytime talk show, Katie , for the last two years. Yahoo announced Monday that Katie Couric is leaving broadcast television where...
View ArticleMore Top Blackberry Executives Were Just Ousted
BlackBerry is quickly attempting to shed the legacy of its last CEO, whose bet on a touchscreen smartphone ended in near-complete failure. David Manning / Reuters / Reuters In a traditional...
View ArticleHow To Make Your Computer Monitor Invisible To Everyone But You
The ultimate privacy screen. Via youtube.com Turns out you don't need that SkyMall privacy screen after all. As YouTube user Brusspup demonstrates, if you have an old LCD monitor lying around you can...
View ArticleWatch A Mad Genius Insert Himself Entirely Into "Grand Theft Auto"
Virtual reality takes a few steps forward, and then drives around. Students at the Vienna University of Technology have created something called the Virtualizer, a sort of 360-degree treadmill that,...
View ArticleWatch In Real-Time As 3.1 Million Americans Have Their Thanksgiving Plans Ruined
Up-to-the-minute schadenfreude, thanks to FlightAware’s Misery Map . Via flightaware.com Of the 41 million Americans expected to travel to visit relatives and friends this Thanksgiving week, 3 million...
View ArticleThe Epic Loneliness Of Link
The new Zelda game is a strong reminder that the only family Link has ever had was us. Nintendo / The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask / Via ryanike.com Link must be the loneliest guy in the...
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