Shepard Fairey’s latest, portraying Trayvon Martin.
- May 24
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A bird’s eye view of Chinese rice fields. Beautiful.
- May 23
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British children with impressive pre-K vocabularies review Skrillex. So brilliant for so many reasons. Cheers, Vice.
- May 22
- , 2012
Seriously, who buys discounted gynecological exams from Lifebooker?
- May 17
- , 2012
Sure, Shop Your Values Week isn’t until May (May 3-10th!), but it’s never too early (or too late) to be aware of the implications associated with all the crap we’re buying.
- April 16
- , 2012
OMG, So Generous!
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg are among the long list of cutthroat tech CEOs who’ve been accused of excluding people from deals, but OMGPOP CEO Dan Porter just did the opposite. He cut people back in.
Before selling his company to social game-maker Zynga in a $210 million deal — based mostly on its popular app Draw Something — Porter rehired former employees he was forced to lay off earlier this year in order to keep the cash-strapped company afloat. Then, when the acquisition was announced March 21, all of OMGPOP’s 40 or so staffers received $30 million in total in employee retention payouts. (click here for the full story)
Update: Fox News picked up this story. And I fully admit that, if you told me a year ago that my work would be cited by a Fox pundit (and not in a calling-me-a-crazy-stupid-liberal-Canadian kind of way), I would’ve laughed in your face. :S
- April 16
- , 2012
So tasty.
- April 16
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- April 4
- , 2012
This #FirstWorldProblem comes courtesy of WhiteWhine.com
- April 1
- , 2012
Mashable has put together 14 of its favorite #FirstWorldProblems as discussed on the fabulous showcase of I-can’t-believe-these-people, White Whine.
This ditty, wherein CNN focuses on Sun Chips’ noisy packaging instead of, you know, bring prime time audiences news of a 14-person fatality in Nepal, is one of my favorites — but it’s just the tip of the iceberg. Combined, the collection sums up our complacent, overprivileged, perspective-lacking society. (The ones from spoiled rich kids are particularly gag inducing.)
Instead of #FirstWorldProblems, they could call them #ThisIsWhyTheyHateUs.
- April 1
- , 2012
My story in today’s issue of The Daily: Some dude stole Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s identity and used the billionaire’s bank card to buy… video games.
- March 28
- , 2012
THE FACEBOOK OF WEBSITES
OK, so whodat.biz isn’t really affiliated with Kanye West, but it’s still THE BEST WEB HOAX OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!!!!!
- March 28
- , 2012
My story in today’s issue of The Daily is about an 8-year-old who busted up a $350,000 crime spree by tracking the thief who took his iPad using the “Find My iPhone” app:
A series of robberies in Tennessee came to a screeching halt last week after a thief stole an iPad from the wrong 8-year-old.
It had been two weeks since Landon Crabtree’s iPad was stolen, so on March 20, the tech-savvy youngster took matters into his own hands.
Determined to find his favorite gadget, he searched YouTube for ways to find missing iPads and, using the Find My iPhone app, traced his missing tablet to a hotel just 4 miles away.
“It was easy,” Landon said from his home in Manchester, Tenn. “All you had to do was go to ‘your device,’ and press on ‘map’ or ‘satellite.’ I went to satellite, and it said Ambassador Inn.”
Click here to read the full story.
- March 27
- , 2012
This is a must-watch, people. It’s an amazing, entertaining piece of legitimate journalism from The Daily Show.
These guys do it better than the big boys. No wonder more Gen X and Y’ers get their news from Joh Stewart and Steven Colbert (and, to a lesser extent, Bill Maher) than CNN, Fox, NBC, or any of the others.
Bravo, John Oliver.
PS: Part 2 is here — which is when shit gets real. Real good, I mean.
- March 26
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- March 26
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