Spotify's massive library of subliminal messages will make you perfect
BY BEN RICHMOND First Spotify blew my mind. Now it wants to tap into it through the backdoor. After resisting its pull for ages as a cratedigging Luddite, I finally downloaded Spotify last year....
View ArticleTrolls make "Weeds" star Mary-Louise Parker want to quit acting
Mary-Louise Parker is thinking of quitting acting because of the Internet. The 48-year-old actress who played the sexy suburban drug dealer Nancy Botwin for eight seasons on Weeds told the Australian...
View ArticleThis "Wizard of Oz" mashup is brilliant—but is it tainted by scandal?
Move over, Pink Floyd. There’s a new Oz in town, and it’s not your parents’ alternate soundtrack—though it may have an even darker backstory. Yesterday, former American Idol contestant and songwriter...
View ArticleWikiLeaks is not impressed with the new WikiLeaks movie trailer
The trailer for the new WikiLeaks movie, The Fifth Estate, was released yesterday, and WikiLeaks promptly took to Twitter to voice its dissent. Benedict Cumberbatch, he of Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek...
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One Direction's new single is the best leak ever
Three weeks ago, the heartthrob hub known as One Direction announced a new upcoming single. On Wednesday afternoon, after weeks of teasers and five days before the song's official release, Twitter...
View Article"Best Daym Takeout": YouTube star gets super official
It's early for an interview, 7:30am to be exact, but it’s the only time that Daymon Patterson can fit me in. The larger-than-life YouTube star, best known for his reviews of fast food menu items from...
View ArticleHow a Directioner-Belieber war became the biggest trend on Twitter
Fans of One Direction and Justin Bieber have come to an accord. Maybe. Directioners managed to make the phrase "Beliebers shut up and make Directioners a sandwich" trend by tweeting it en masse...
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This is your life, reduced to a vinyl record
When you die, there’s a company that will press your ashes into a vinyl record—a jazz funeral at 33rpm. It’s no mere gimmick. And Vinyly (rhymes with “Finally”) has been in business for four years...
View Article“House of Cards” and “Arrested Development” break new ground with Emmy nods
Netflix has broken down barriers with House of Cards, the first Internet-based show to earn an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Drama Series. The show got nine nominations in total, including nods for...
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What happens when Netflix crops your favorite movie
Netflix had a great day today, receiving Emmy nominations for two of its original series, House of Cards and Arrested Development. But Netflix doesn’t always show the same care for the movies it...
View ArticleA moving tribute to the movies
Movies showcase every subject from superheroes to romance to tornadoes filled with sharks. So what happens when movies feature the subject they should be the foremost authority on—movies? Chances are,...
View ArticleIn Africa, memory cards are the new cassette tapes
African musicians are increasingly turning to memory cards from mobile phones to distribute music. With access to the Internet limited and prohibitively expensive, cell phones are a cheap alternative...
View ArticleThe most legendarily terrible video game ever is now thriving
BY ERIC FRANCO Desert Bus was created by American illusionists Penn and Teller in 1995 for the Sega CD, devised as an intentionally bad video game that was to "work as a satire against the...
View ArticleAriana Grande's Arianators might be the new Beliebers
If you thought the “Baby I” Twitter hashtag had to do with the forthcoming royal child, you were wrong. Turns out fans of Nickelodeon actress and Broadway singer Ariana Grande have taken over Twitter...
View Article"Sesame Street" reaches out online to kids with incarcerated parents
Sesame Workshop, the company behind the ultra-popular children’s television program Sesame Street, has turned to social media to promote a new campaign aimed at kids with at least one incarcerated...
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This Taiwanese singer started a major online scandal with just 3 words
Taiwan’s uneasy and often quite touchy political relationship with mainland China colors even the realm of lowest-common-denominator pop culture, as Uni, an aboriginal Taiwanese singer, recently found...
View ArticleYou've never heard "Ice Ice Baby" like this
All right stop, supercut, and listen.YouTube remix artist Don Draper Says What has made a number of supercuts over the years. This time around, he took over three months to edit 280 movies into one...
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Breaking down the appeal of One Direction's best video ever
The video for One Direction’s “Best Song Ever” (actual title) just came out, and it’s basically the best way you could be spending six minutes of your life today. They sing (mostly “yeah yeah yeah”...
View ArticleWatch the first footage from the "Veronica Mars" movie
BY SAM GUTELLEVeronica Mars‘ record-setting $5.7 million Kickstarter campaign set off a wave of similar big-name online fundraising campaigns. A little more than three months after the campaign ended,...
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Publicists are already trying to capitalize on Cory Monteith's death
Hey, people who work in public relations: Stop trying to capitalize on Cory Monteith’s death. The 31-year-old Glee star, who died July 13 from a toxic mix of heroin and alcohol, has been used in...
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