YouTube Wants You to Use Your Real Name in the Comments

YouTube Comments: Can Real Names Prevent Flaming and Trolling? YouTube comment threads: you'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. Google wants to put an end to it by encouraging YouTube users to...

Life of Pi Trailer: Lush Colors, Huge Tiger

Ang Lee's Version of The Life of Pi When bringing Yann Martel's The Life of Pi from the page to the big screen, enlisting Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon director Ang Lee was a really good move. The trailer for The...

Keifer Sutherland Axe Ad: An Axe Commercial for Grownups

Keifer Sutherland & Susan Glenn: Beyond Adolescence Axe has launched a daring new ad, featuring 24 and Lost Boys star Keifer Sutherland. This is Axe's first commercial that suggests that you are the one with the...

Wet Koala with Fangs Photo: Is It Real?

Wet Koala with Fangs: Holy Shit!There's a fantastic photo going around depicting a wet koala baring a vicious-looking set of fangs. Here's the evil wet koala pic, guaranteed to give you bad dreams:The photo isn't real, which anyone even vaguely familiar with marsupials should...

The xx New Song: 'Angels' Streaming Online

Listen to The xx's new Song Free Finally! The xx, whose stellar debut album is still part of any discerning listener's playlist, are releasing their sophomore album, Coexist, on September 11, 2012. You can listen to...

Walking Dead Season 3 Trailer: Fear the Living

Walking Dead S03 Trailer: Samurai Swords, Helicopters, & a Big PrisonHere's the new trailer for The Walking Dead Season Three, which debuted at San Diego Comic-Con. The Walking Dead S03 trailer features Michonne being a badass, as you would both hope and expect. Also, we...

New Game of Thrones Cast Members for S03

Game of Thrones S03: New Cast Members Revealed Hello, Dire Wolf fans! Below are the new cast members for Game of Thrones Season Three. I'm psyched to see Diana Rigg as a Game of Thrones character, though, as you all...

First Internet Photo Reveals Geekiest Girl-Group Ever

July 18, 1992: First Photo Uploaded to the Internet The first-ever internet photo was not a picture of a cat. It was, however, a Photoshop Disaster. The first internet pic featured Les Horribles Cernettes, a...

BBQ Chip Bandits Rock Saanich, BC to Its Very Core

Saanich Will Never Be the Same after Bold Barbecue Chip Heist Saanich, British Columbia: a suburb of provincial capital Victoria, and home to tasty, tasty barbecue chips. These are BBQ chips that will drive you to...

The Physics of Batman: Could Batman Really Fly?

Trajectory of a Falling Batman Thank you, British physics students, for clearing something up for the rest of us. It turns out that, using the costume and equipment shown in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, Batman...

Kiss from a Rose: Drunk Guy Serenades His Cat (Video)

Drunk Dude Serenades His Cat with Seal Song YouTube user Bradweiser came home drunk one night, switched on the video camera, and serenaded his cat. The song he chose was Seal's "Kiss from a Rose".  He gets...

Blur New Singles: Lyric Videos, Interview, Live Footage

Blur Releases Two New Singles Art-school pop-rockers Blur are back. After the sea-change that was Gorillaz, Damon Albarn hasn't forgotten his first band. Blur has two new singles, and you can hear them here. Blur...

Cat Power's New Song: 'Ruin'- Welcome Back, Chan

Cat Power is Back! Cat Power's newest song, "Ruin", just hit the web. "Ruin" is a harbinger of her upcoming album, Sun, which drops September 4. This will be Cat Power's first album of original material since 2006's...

Orbitz Charges Mac Users More for Hotel Rooms

The Mac Tax 2.0: Higher Prices for Mac Users on Orbitz Flight- and hotel search site Orbitz charges you more if you use a Mac, it turns out. The Wall Street Journal found that Mac users were quoted $20-$30 more per...

Robot and Frank Trailer: Robot Jewel Thief

Robot and Frank: A Feel-Good Robot Heist Flick This looks... awesome. Robot and Frank is about an older guy who's having trouble living alone, so his son gets him an Asimo-esque robot helper. Wouldn't you know it,...
 

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