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"Brave" fans fight back against Disney's Merida makeover
Merida, from the animated movie Brave, has just been inducted into the pantheon of Disney Princesses. As the daughter of a king and the star of a Disney/Pixar movie, she does seem like an obvious...
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Inside the making of "Shaun of the Dead"
Edgar Wright's latest blog project is a slice of fried gold. Wright, cowriter and director of the glorious zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead, is providing readers of his blog with a day-by-day look at...
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Lizzie Bennet Diaries team takes on "Sanditon," Austen's unfinished novel
Fans of the recently completed Lizzie Bennet Diaries are in luck, as one of their beloved characters from the hit webseries returns today with Sanditon, an all-new mini-series adaptation of Jane...
View ArticleJoss Whedon is alive and on Twitter
Few possibly fake Twitter accounts have burst onto the scene with as much gusto as Joss Whedon's possibly fake Twitter account. When @JossActual showed up on Twitter this morning, it was with a wit...
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Old architecture and retro graphics blend in new ANI GIF exhibition
Here at the Daily Dot, we swap GIF images with each other every morning. Now we’re looping you in. In the Morning GIF, we feature a popular—or just plain cool—GIF we found on Reddit, Canvas, or...
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Google Easter egg lets you play Atari's Breakout
In what's becoming a spring tradition, Google has hidden another video game–inspired Easter egg in its powerful search engine. This time, Google's celebrating the 37-year anniversary of Atari's...
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Oops: "Doctor Who" season finale DVDs arrive 3 weeks early
In the world of cult sci-fi show Doctor Who, spoilers are a big deal. Such a big deal, in fact, that one of the characters actually warns about them within the show—an important consideration when...
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"Kitchen Nightmares" episode leads to astounding Facebook meltdown
On Friday's episode of Kitchen Nightmares, tireless celebrity chef and amateur culinary psychiatrist Gordon Ramsay finally gave up. In Scottsdale, Arizona, the owners of Amy's Bakery and Cafe are...
View ArticleCellphone footage shows an "Amazing Spider-Man 2" fight scene in action
Every evening, the Daily Dot delivers a selection of links worth clicking from around the Web, along with the day's must-see image or video. We call it Dotted Lines. What we learned from the Vampire...
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Every recurring joke in "Arrested Development"
If I hear someone else say "there's always money in the banana stand" again over the next month, I'll probably throw them to the loose seals. We're just 11 short days away from the first new Arrested...
View Article6.5 million people die every day in League of Legends
Did you know that, for every baby born, roughly 18 League of Legends players meet their deaths? That's a lot of virtual deaths, and it just goes to show how tenaciously popular the 5-year-old game...
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"Brave" fans win: Disney will keep the old Merida
After a huge public outcry, Disney is doing what it should have done from the start, and giving Brave's heroine a nice, sensible dress to go with her sensible coronation ceremony. As a Disney...
View ArticleSmosh launches "Gamers Alliance" on YouTube
Smosh is closing in on becoming the first YouTube channel to reach eight digit subscribers, and one of the duo’s secondary channels is now looking to use their influence to power an entire network of...
View ArticleZach Braff clarifies funding dispute for his upcoming feature
No, Zach Braff did not take any money from traditional financiers to fund his upcoming film. On Wednesday, The Hollywood Reporter published a now-scrubbed article claiming that Braff had obtained...
View ArticleBehind "Lone Star Horizons": A Texas tribute to Jason Molina
Jason Molina was a songwriter of staggering proportion. His output as Songs:Ohio, Magnolia Electric Co., and under his own name warrants inclusion in a new Great American Songbook, full of raw...
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Touring the fake websites of "Arrested Development"
The Internet may have saved the Bluths, but the websites mentioned throughout Arrested Development's initial run no longer exist. Fox actually set up real versions of several sites mentioned by...
View ArticleYouTube star Ray William Johnson inks deal with FX
Blip isn’t the only entertainment entity outside of YouTube with which Ray William Johnson is making deals. The 31-year-old with the third most-subscribed YouTube channel of all time just signed the...
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The Morning GIF: Miguel, his crotch, and the WWE
Here at the Daily Dot, we swap GIF images with each other every morning. Now we’re looping you in. In the Morning GIF, we feature a popular—or just plain cool—GIF we found on Reddit, Canvas, or...
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10 Tumblr webcomics you should be following
Since the days of William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, comics and editorial cartoons have been a fixture on American coffee tables, closely tied to a newspaper or magazine's success. As the...
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Which of these teen YouTube stars is the next Justin Bieber?
In February of 2008, a 14-year-old boy put his cover of Chris Brown's “With You” up on YouTube, the video-sharing website made popular just a few years earlier. Wearing jeans and a polo, the teenager...
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