Job Networking Site LinkedIn Filled With Secret NSA Program Names
Want to know all the code names for America's massive intelligence gathering programs? Just browse through the "intelligence analysts" who post their resumes on the public career networking site...
View ArticleRedesigned 'MySpace for Millionaires' Promises 'No Fakes or Frauds'
ASmall World, the invite-only social network for rich wastrels, seemed destined to go the way of MySpace. After all, what's a socialite network good for besides Style Section stuffing? But like that...
View Article"A Different Kind of Patriotism": Russell Brand on Bradley Manning
Today marks the eighth day of Bradley Manning's court-martial for leaking more than 700,000 United States government documents to Wikileaks. Although the 25-year-old former Army intelligence analyst...
View ArticleStoya's Dad Is Angry at Her for Ruining Porn for Him
During her interview on HuffPost Live yesterday, award-winning alt-gone-mainstream porn star Stoya revealed that her dad isn't the biggest fan of her adult entertainment career. That part might not be...
View ArticleGays Have a Harder Time Renting Places
A new study from the Department of Housing and Urban Development confirms: it is somewhat more difficult to rent an apartment if you're gay. But there is a bright side, for lesbians. Yes, there is...
View ArticleSerena Williams On Steubenville: "I'm Not Blaming The Girl But ..."
Serena Williams is letting the press back into her life, big time. If you're unfamiliar, this is the "Serena comes out of her shell" part of the Serena dialectic, which is only a few pungent quotes...
View ArticleScientists Endure Hours of Sean Connery Impressions to Better Humanity
With the noble goal of elevating the subtleties of speech, a group of scientists at the Royal Holloway University in London endured an awful task. They studied "non-professional impersonators" doing...
View ArticleWhy Is This Sea Of Children Crying?
Because they are feeling it. The PS22 Chorus is one of the most exceptional group of people I have been around in a long time. Gregg Breinberg, the choir's director, graciously accepted an invitation...
View ArticleTen Iconic Photos and a Shocking Video of Brazil's Explosive Protests
Brazil's large and growing anti-government protests—now entering their second week of rallies and demonstrations—have got their own iconic "nonviolent protestor gets faceful of pepper spray" photo,...
View ArticleSnake of Nightmares Opens Door, Flops on Ground like Big Drunk Taffy
Meet Julius. Julius is a female python who lives in your nightmares and also Germany (or, at least, she did when this video was uploaded to the Internet three years ago). In this clip, Julius...
View ArticleGawker "A Different Kind of Patriotism": Russell Brand on Bradley Manning |...
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View ArticleOne wishes there were a better explanation for this neon-green liquid...
One wishes there were a better explanation for this neon-green liquid bubbling up from a sinkhole in a Philadelphia street—is it the ooze?—but it's just food dye used to help city workers trace the...
View ArticleThis Is How You Respond to an Unjust Cease and Desist Letter
When retainer attorneys employed by Big Deals send out scary cease and desist letters to nobodies on behalf of their Super Important clients, it's typically a pro forma matter. That is to say, they...
View ArticleJournalist Michael Hastings Killed in Car Accident at 33
BuzzFeed reporter and Rolling Stone contributing editor Michael Hastings died in a car accident early Tuesday morning in Los Angeles. He was 33. Perhaps best known for his 2010 Rolling Stone profile of...
View ArticleNoah Gallagher Shannon, whose New York Times Magazine essay about being on a...
Noah Gallagher Shannon, whose New York Times Magazine essay about being on a doomed plane drew critics skeptical of his story, has given an interview to the Atlantic to walk back some of his earlier...
View ArticleDeadspin Hundreds Of Heat Fans Leave Game 6 Early; A Nation Laughs | Gizmodo...
Deadspin Hundreds Of Heat Fans Leave Game 6 Early; A Nation Laughs | Gizmodo A Disturbed John McAfee Teaches You to Uninstall His Software (NSFW) | Jalopnik The Electric-Converted 1963 'Zelectric' VW...
View ArticleThis Is Your Michael Cera On Drugs
Here is the trailer for Crystal Fairy and the Magical Cactus, which is not a twee children's tale, but rather a road trip-drug trip movie with Michael Cera and Gabby Hoffman. It looks like so much...
View ArticleA Discussion With Cryptome
When the Guardian and Washington Post published their blockbuster NSA reports based on Ed Snowden's leaks, journalists lined up conga-style to congratulate them on the scoops. Not Cryptome. Instead,...
View ArticleDolce and Gabbana Sentenced to Sexy Italian Jail
Luxury fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, two men who have almost certainly personally adjusted the breasts of many of your favorite celebrities, were each issued a jail sentence of...
View ArticleInsufferable Article Written
Thought Catalog presents, "25 Rules For Living From a (Semi-)Successful 26-Year-Old," by Ryan Holiday, a young flack who is "successful" because he wrote a book about lying to journalists on behalf of...
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