Ken Ober Dead: Alas, It's True

Ken Ober might actually be dead. I don't know how these random celebrity death rumors start, but Ken Ober was both dead very much alive at the same time this morning, due to the magic of the web grapevine. However,...

President Obama China Town Hall Youth Future Leaders-watch live!

President Obama is providing a live stream of his town hall meeting in China with future leaders and youth of China. Many issues will be talked about I'm sure as China has over 300 million internet users that are very interested in the relationship between the United States...

Carrie Prejean Sextape Stream: Can You Watch Her 8 Sex Tapes?

The answer is maybe, you might be able to watch some of Carrie Prejan's sex tapes - the streams do apparently exist... just remember that as with all things sexual, play it safe and use protection - all these...

Wille Nelson: The Only "Straight O.G." to Outsmoke @snoopdogg

The D-O-double-gizzle himself, that is Snoop Dogg, Snoop Doggy Dogg, or @snoopdogg for all you tweet fiends, took to the Twitterverse to declare Willie Nelson a "straight O.G." a prodigious title indeed, especially...

Google Tests SPDY, Wants to Rule the Internet Even More

Google is quietly testing SPDY, an web protocol meant to replace HTTP. Basically, Google wants to control how web pages are written, indexed, found, and read. What could possibly go wrong? I mean, if one company...

Wolfgang Werle's Laywers Try to Censor Wikipedia

German lawyers are trying to get Wikipedia to censor one of its pages, which states that Wolfgang Werle murdered an actor named Walter Sedlmayr. I can hear netizens 'round the world all-caps'ing CENSORSHIP even as...

@Jordanknight Spammin' Tough on Twitter

"New Kids on the Block had a bunch a hits, Chinese food makes me sick [...]." Sorry about the LFO reference but it seems NKOTB frontman Jordan Knight didn't have enough hits to stop him, or at least his Twitter...

Joe Hewitt Quits Facebook iPhone App Project Over Apple Tyranny

Joe Hewitt, Facebook's iPhone app developer, is quitting the Facebook iPhone app project, citing Apple's tyrannical oversight policies. This is a pretty big deal, since Joe Hewitt was a one-man dev army who put...

#DontHackBritney: Twitter Users Rally for Britney Spears

Looks like Britney Spears got her Twitter account hacked again. This time, it's spewing out these weird pseudo-Illuminati messages. Well, Britney's fans are stamping their collective tiny foot, and starting a...

'Stop Making That Duckface': Anti-Duckface Campaign

Thank the interwebs for the anti-duckface campaign! You've all seen the duckface: when someone's getting photographed, and she sort of sneers/purses her lips/makes a sort of kissy-face while trying to (I think)...

Stuff Hipsters Hate: Hipster Blogger to Be Unmasked

The mastermind behind Stuff Hipsters Hate will be unmaksing himself at last, and stepping out from behind the curtain of cowardly anonymity. We'll finally find out just who this hipster-baiter is on November 16. Try to contain the anticipation that's growing in the pit of...

List of Animals with Fraudulent Diplomas

Ah, yes, a new meme: List of Animals with Fraudulent Diplomas. Seems that some citizen education reformers (and pet lovers) are into proving that a college or university is just a diploma mill by enrolling their...

Firefox Turns 5, But Worked Better When It was 2

It's Firefox's 5th anniversary! I'd be in a more celebratory mood if Firefox was better. C'mon, let's be honest here: it's been a while since Firefox was really all that reliable. It crashes more often than a...

Facebook is Getting Old, Says Pew Internet

Facebook is getting old! The median age for Facebook users is 33. While so many high school and college students are poking each other, their parents are getting in on the act. That's not as creepy as it sounds....

CNNChallenge: How Much Don't You Know About the News?

CNN just launched CNNChallenge, which is a too-Flashy quiz site. I'd love CNNChallenge if it actually worked. But it doesn't, so I don't. I had enough trouble answering questions about real news as it was...

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