Soon you'll be able to download your favorite BBC shows
Amazon’s Instant Video service just launched in the U.K., and it looks like the BBC is stepping up the competition. Right now, the BBC iPlayer site is available for free to anyone who lives in the...
View ArticleStoya takes a bullet for the Internet in her new webseries
When I get on the phone with Stoya, she sounds distressed. She’s talking about Internet censorship in Turkey, and the men who’ve been tweeting… about her ankles. “Every Turkish man with an Internet...
View ArticleThis GIF résumé will make you feel bad about your paper one
Not only has designer Ivan Delgado dressed up his résumé for the job he wants, he’s turned it into a work of art. Delgado is the creator of the GIF resume, a Tumblr-powered portfolio featuring...
View ArticleFunnyOrDie's take on Comcast: It doesn't give a f*ck
Chances are, you are a Comcast customer, even if you don't own a TV or computer. And that means that you have constantly wondered why Comcast continues to grow as a company, despite having the...
View ArticleThe best FCC complaints about the 'Drunk in Love' Grammy performance
Beyoncé and Jay-Z performed Beyoncé’s “Drunk in Love” at the Grammy Awards at the end of January, and it was an undeniably sultry performance. Beyoncé looked like an angel from Sex Heaven as she...
View ArticleWe made you that #Normcore playlist you didn't ask for
Have you heard about Normcore? It’s the hottest new fashion trend that’s sweeping the nation. First articulated in a New York trend piece, Normcore (pronounced ‟#Normcore”) is basically what happens...
View ArticleThis teen's app turns your iPhone into a Game Boy Advance
You'd think that there was a whip-crack team of super hackers behind GBA4iOS, the fantastic new Game Boy Advance emulator that functions on nonjailbroken iOS devices—but there isn't. It’s the work an...
View Article8 much better things to do in the time it takes to watch the Oscars
The night of the Oscars, after the Super Bowl, is my favorite American holiday. Traditionally, I observe both occasions by going out while everyone else is hunkered down in their darkened living...
View ArticleThe story behind the Oscar envelopes
Between red carpet selfies powered by Livefyre, the backstage award show Twitter Mirror that’s certain to make an appearance, and the telling fact that the Oscars are being live-streamed for the first...
View ArticleHow social media is making sure 'The Act of Killing' won't be forgotten
In September 1965, the Indonesian military overthrew the government, and death squads were formed to help execute anyone who was a threat to the country's “New Order”: communists, intellectuals,...
View ArticleEllen's Oscar selfie is now the most popular tweet in history
It's the Oscars, and it's 2014, so this happened. Host Ellen DeGeneres took a selfie with too many stars to count—hey, Brad Pitt! Julia Roberts! Best actor in a supporting role Jared Leto! Best...
View ArticleAnd the award for Best GIF goes to…
For last night's Academy Awards, some of Hollywood's best and brightest gathered at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles to celebrate stunning achievements in film. Ellen DeGeneres hosted the 86th annual...
View ArticleJimmy Kimmel gives viral videos the big-budget Hollywood treatment
When it comes to the Oscars, Jimmy Kimmel isn’t pulling any punches. He already released another edition of “Mean Tweets” during ABC’s Oscar preshow, and his annual post-Oscars special was full of...
View ArticleThe best photobombs of the 2014 Oscars
Last night’s Oscars might be remembered more for a selfie than any speeches or surprise wins. Host Ellen DeGeneres’s expertly composed celebrity selfie pyramid received more retweets than President...
View ArticleThis GIF tattoo is a collaborative work of art
Artist Evan Hawkins has just given the world another reason to admire Eadweard Muybridge's “The Horse In Motion.” The historic photography experiment from 1878 that proved horses have all four...
View ArticleArby's bought Pharrell's hat on eBay last night
The epic Twitter love story between Pharrell Williams’s hat and Arby’s has come to an end. Last night, before the Oscars began, the restaurant chain bought the instantly meme-able brown hat Williams...
View ArticleChallenging gay stereotypes through video games
BY YANNICK LEJACQ Like a lot of guys growing up in the 1980s, Michael Patrick started playing video games at a young age. He loved Street Fighter, expressing a particular fondness for Chun Li, the...
View ArticleThe most popular products from the TV shows you're obsessed with
From ‘House of Cards’ to ‘Breaking Bad,’ here are the 7 hottest ShopTV products When you’re a die-hard fan of a TV show, your love of the program doesn’t end with watching it religiously. Most fans...
View ArticleRob Ford sweats through a rough 'Kimmel' appearance
When that groundhog saw its shadow last month, it didn’t just predict six more weeks of winter. It forecast something even more depressing: At least six more weeks of Rob Ford. The Toronto mayor has...
View Article'12 Years a Slave' won Best Picture—and now everyone's pirating it
The 2014 Oscars subtly urged us, whenever possible, to keep paying wildly inflated ticket prices in order to see big-budget films in theaters—and if the latest BitTorrent stats are anything to go by,...
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