Google Search Is Only Going To Get Googlier
Hope you like some Google in your Google in your Google. Because you have only yourself to blame. Image by Mark Blinch / Reuters The Federal Trade Commission spent the last 19 months investigating...
View ArticleFacebook Is About To Do Us All A Huge Favor
Soon, everyone with a Facebook account could have a new way to take phone calls. And why Apple and Google couldn't do it first. Phone numbers are already obsolete in one way — when's the last time you...
View ArticleLibrary Of Congress Falls Behind On Twitter Archive
170 billion tweets with nowhere to go . The Library of Congress's Twitter archive is more like a Twitter vault. In April of 2010, Twitter and the Library of Congress announced they had partnered to...
View ArticleHow Almost Anyone Can Take You Off Facebook (And Lock You Out)
Getting your buddy's Facebook account turned into a “Memorial” state is surprisingly easy — and locks them out of Facebook . Warning: this will seriously mess up someone's account. Source:...
View ArticleThe Cutest And Most Annoying Problem On Facebook
It's great when your family loves you on Facebook, right? Eh. My father-in-law recently joined the world of Facebook. He sent me a friend request, which I accepted (mistake #1), and now he comments on...
View ArticleHow Google Beat The FTC
The FTC didn't magically come to the conclusion that Google was in the right: “For 19 months, Google pressed its case with antitrust regulators investigating the company. Working relentlessly behind...
View ArticleGirl-On-Girl Crime: The "Did You Know" Slut-Shamers Of Tumblr
Teenage girls find a great many things to do on Tumblr, but one of the more prominent, and more damaging, uses is slut-shaming each other. How a few little pictures started (and continue) a meme-based...
View ArticleA Photo History Of The Greatest (Tech) Show On Earth
Nearly 150,000 people flock to Las Vegas every January to see the giganticest TVs mankind has ever made at the world's largest consumer electronics event. A peek at the long, dubiously glorious...
View ArticleThe Food Art Instagram Account You Should Definitely Follow
And here you thought people sharing pictures of food was always annoying. If you are an avid Internet user, you've probably seen a couple of these images. They are the work of Brock Davis, a...
View ArticleTwo Teenage Girls Drug Parents So They Can Use The Internet
As told by stock photography. Here now is the report from the Sacramento Bee of this perfidious pubescent act of poisoning. "Two teenage girls were arrested for allegedly using drugged milkshakes to...
View ArticleHow Twitter Gets In The Way Of Knowledge
Twitter has increasingly restricted access to the largest organized database of modern language in the world, despite its immense research value. It's a tragedy. There is a lot to be learned from...
View ArticleHow A Blind Man Takes Beautiful Photos With Instagram
He uses his ears. Via: laughingsquid.com Tommy Edison's Instagram photos fit right in on the service: some are carefully framed, others are tilted; some are filtered, some are pure; some are taken...
View ArticleThe AP Has Started Selling Its Twitter Feed
America's most venerable newswire is experimenting with new ways to make money. And they're going around Twitter to do it, too. During the Consumer Electronics Show, the Associated Press's 1.5 million...
View ArticleThe Rise Of The Twitter Fist Bump
The way people fav each others' tweets is changing. A dash of Instagram culture seeps into Twitter. Image by Isaac Hepworth, Twitter There are a lot of reasons to favorite a tweet: it's a way to...
View ArticleWhy We're Not At The Biggest Tech Show In The World
Because it's not the most important event in technology anymore. The two trends that killed CES. Via: theverge.com For a long time, the Consumer Electronics Show, which began in 1967, was the Super...
View ArticleTeenagers Cutting Themselves To Get Justin Bieber To Stop Smoking Weed Is The...
UPDATE: The whole thing started as a 4Chan joke, which doesn't make it much better. The horrifying #CutForBieber is trending. WARNING: While the below scenes of self-mutilation may or may not be real,...
View Article21 Reasons Why You Should Have Paid Attention In Science Class
You messed up. SCIENCE RULES! Because you would understand what's happening with this mercury: Via: avocadokitten Because you would understand why the devil spawns from mercury (II) thiocyanate: Via:...
View ArticleTeenager Writes About Driving Drunk On Facebook, Promptly Gets Arrested
Well, 2013 is off to terrific start. Jacob Cox-Brown is an 18-year-old living in Astoria, Oregon. Jacob Cox-Brown is also very, very stupid. According to The Daily Astorian:At 1 a.m. Wednesday [the...
View ArticleHow To Date Anywhere In The Country
Find out what food to suggest in New York, where to take a date in Seattle, and how to make a drinks date more attractive. HowAboutWe, the dating site that lets users suggest a specific date (ie,...
View Article29 Poor Excuses For Celebrity Websites
You'd think that some people are so famous they don't even need websites. They think you're wrong. Will Smith Simple and to the point: Will Smith wants you to know that he's really all about Facebook....
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