Here’s what the world’s largest Tetris game looks like
Tetris turns 30 in June, and lovers of classic games are already starting to celebrate the famous geometrical challenge. This Saturday, hundreds of Tetris fans gathered to play the classic...
View ArticleThe best new gay comedy is airing on YouTube
Years from now, we might look back on Whoa, Dude! as some sort of watershed in gay comedy. At its core is the germ of an idea that could be both relevant and interesting to a wider audience than just...
View ArticleVimeo wants to help you find your new favorite filmmaker
It’s pretty easy to find your new favorite band or song online, but what about your new favorite filmmaker? When’s the last time you fell in love with a movie and couldn’t stop watching? Over the last...
View ArticleA documentary called 'American Blogger' is really only about white lady bloggers
Casey Wiegand started blogging after having a miscarriage in 2011. Her blog, The Wiegands (the other Wiegands are her husband, Christopher Wiegand, a filmmaker, and their three children) has created a...
View ArticleWWE mole has public breakdown after the Undertaker loses
During World Wrestling Entertainment’s WrestleMania XXX Sunday night, legendary brawler Mark “The Undertaker” Calaway wasn’t the only person to have his winning streak broken. Reddit user...
View ArticleHow realistic was the pilot episode of startup satire 'Silicon Valley'?
The opening scene of Silicon Valley’s pilot episode, “Minimum Viable Product,” does swift work world-building the money-flooded, dorky, pompous, slightly misogynistic off-kilter version of northern...
View ArticleDavid Letterman is making the Late Show go all kinds of weird
After announcing his retirement from the Late Show last week, host David Letterman invited Martha Stewart on as a guest. And it got weird, fast. Stewart had brought with her a tray of devilled eggs,...
View Article'Game of Thrones' season premiere sets another piracy record
Game of Thrones has reigned supreme as the top-pirated show three years in a row and last weekend’s premiere of Season 4 is no different. After HBO’s streaming service, HBO Go, crashed under the weight...
View ArticleCan you spot the big mistake in Julia Louis-Dreyfus's nude Rolling Stone cover?
Stare at the new issue of Rolling Stone awhile and you may notice something odd. No, it’s not that Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus appears to be aging backward. Think bigger. Think historic. My sis...
View ArticleTrailer for Zach Braff's Kickstarter film is Zach Braffiest thing ever
If you like Zach Braff, you’ll love the trailer for Zach Braff’s new movie, starring Zach Braff as that character Zach Braff always plays, written and directed by Zach Braff. Funded via Kickstarter,...
View Article'Star Trek' actress says she didn't know she was narrating a crackpot film
It’s been around since December, but you likely first saw a trailer for The Principle—a far-out “documentary” that claims the sun revolves around the Earth, a “fact” that NASA is obviously committed...
View ArticleCNN is making a news show just for Twitter
Over the last month, CNN has devoted most of its coverage to finding missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, and tweeting out the hard-hitting questions. Despite the sensory overload of their 24-hour...
View ArticleStephen Colbert to take over Letterman's Late Show throne
Stephen Colbert will take over as the next host of The Late Show, CBS announced Thursday. Follwing David Letterman's announcement that he would retire as host of The Late Show after 21 years in the...
View ArticleAre we ready for the 'real' Stephen Colbert?
But will he be Stephen or "Stephen?" The Internet is having a collective braingasm over the news that Stephen Colbert is going to be replacing the legendary David Letterman as the new host of The Late...
View ArticleRob Lowe's Reddit AMA is literally about one word
So, this is, like, literally a story about one word. Literally. When actor Rob Lowe answered questions in a Reddit AMA on Thursday, the Internet essentially reached its daily quota for the word...
View ArticleApparently, rappers get their style inspiration from pre-16th-century art
Rappers often posture themselves as kings, gods, or reincarnated deities, and their aesthetic mirrors those assertions. But what if there was a deeper parallel? Say, between rappers’ aesthetics and...
View ArticleHere's what Stephen Colbert might be like on 'The Late Show'
The biggest question people have since CBS announced that Stephen Colbert would take over as the next host of The Late Show is how Colbert, who plays a right-wing pundit on The Colbert Report, will be...
View ArticleDrake went undercover to find out what people really think of him
Drake indulged Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday night with a prime real estate, six-minute version of "Lie Witness News." You've seen these: a correspondent in the field prays on the accommodating and...
View ArticleWatch Lorde perform 'All Apologies' with Nirvana
Last night, Nirvana was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and while it’d been rumored Joan Jett would front the band’s performance (she did “Smells Like Teen Spirit”), other singers...
View ArticleMeet the teenager who asked Netflix to prom
This is modern romance: Boy asks corporation to go to prom with him on Twitter, corporation agrees, boy goes to prom and gives corporation its own unique brand of social media promotion. That’s the...
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