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Tech NewsThis Video of a Father’s Explanation to His Son About the Paris Attacks Went Hugely Viral
Angel Le and his six-year-old son Brandon were visiting a memorial in Paris when a reporter for Le Petit Journal stopped to ask a few questions. The resulting clip was shared more than 11 million times on Facebook, generated a tearful stream of tweets, and millions of views from around the world. It’s not hard … Continued
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Chick-fil-A Local Promotion Disappoints a Nation
A local Chick-fil-A’s offer for unlimited chicken nuggets went viral, prompting social media to lose its shit until it was confirmed that the stuff-you-face deal is not available nationwide. Even Snopes had to step in. Are we so desperate as a nation for nuggets? The offer from the St. Pete’s Beach, FL Chick-fil-A promised unlimited … Continued
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Ken M Is The Most Epic Troll On The Internet
Ken M has lurked since 2011, masterfully trolling comment sections across digital media. As his legend grows, let’s look at Ken M’s greatest hits and find out who is behind the comments. Ken M has achieved what few trolls can dare to dream of. He has his own dedicated subreddit, with 58k subscribers, /r/KenM. The … Continued
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The Internet Is Obsessed With Whether or Not You’d Kill Baby Hitler
In response to an age-old thought experiment resurrected today by the New York Times Magazine, “Baby Hitler” is trending on Twitter. It is officially Friday. For some reason, the Times magazine decided to poll its readers on a pretty old, pretty meaningless question: if you could travel back in time and encounter baby Hitler, knowing … Continued
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Remember All Those Days Everyone Said It Was The Day From Back to the Future… That Day Is TODAY!
When Marty McFly finally arrives in modern-day Hill Valley, California a little later this afternoon, I admit I’ll be a little sad. Because his arrival signifies the end of one of the best internet memes of all time. If you were anywhere near a computer over the last decade, at some point in your electronic … Continued
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The Dopest Pope Francis Memes On The Internet
Have you heard that the Pope is dope? Kim Kardashian set off a kerfluffle in Argentina after tweeting that very sentiment. Argentine media interpreted her tweet as “the Pope is drugs” and took offense, some even branding Kardashian his “enemy.” While I’m certain the Kardashians are signs of an approaching apocalypse, Kim likely picked up … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Internet Is Having a Field Day Over David Cameron’s Pig Sex Act Allegations
A new book alleges that British Prime Minister David Cameron put “a private part of his anatomy into a dead pig’s mouth” as part of a university initiation ritual. This is what the social internet was made for. The gossip that launched a bevy of hashtags and an ongoing flood of hilarious tweets comes from … Continued
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#IStandWithAhmed: The Internet Is Outraged Over 14-Year-Old Arrested for Building a Clock
If there’s one silver lining to the rage-inducing story of the teenager in Texas arrested for building a clock, it’s the mass show of support from scientists, technologists, celebrities, and hundreds of thousands of people online. Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed is a kid who loves to tinker, and was excited to show teachers at his Irving, … Continued
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Captain America: Civil War Already Has a Meme
The clash of superheroes movie doesn’t come out until May 2016. That hasn’t stopped the Internet. Fans of Captain America and The Avengers franchise are awaiting Civil War with anticipation—so much so that any release of information is hotly debated and pictures are fast transformed. After Comicbookmovie.com posted an on-set snap of The Winter Soldier/Bucky … Continued
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The Internet Is Gleeful About Your Impending #AshleyMadisonHack Divorce
Yesterday hackers dumped 10 gigs of personal info from “life is short, have an affair” dating site Ashley Madison. Twitter’s first reaction is to crack wise about divorce. Ha ha. While security researchers continue to parse the hack and pundits wonder about what the attack on a company’s “morals” means to the future of data … Continued
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This Livetweeting of “The Iliad” Is the Best Thing On the Internet Today
Almeida Theater and the British Museum are presenting a 16-hour reading (and livestream) of Homer’s Iliad voiced by beloved actors today. Their insanely awesome Twitter account is providing a play-by-play of the epic with modern flourish. With a huge cast that includes actors like Brian Cox, Simon Callow, Ben Whishaw, Julian Glover, Mark Gatiss (Mycroft … Continued
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Man Pretends to Be Target Rep, Trolls Angry Idiots on Facebook All Day
After Target announced that they would be making their toy section gender neutral—no signs demarcating toys for “girls” or “boys”—some people were upset by the move and took to Target’s Facebook page. They didn’t expect the response they got from user Mike Melgaard, who pretended to be an official Target customer service account. All Melgaard … Continued
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Laser Dinosaurs Prove That Nothing on the Internet Goes Extinct
Adding lasers to photos of cats is a time-honored internet tradition, right up there with Rickrolling and looking at explicit pornography. But this is 2015. Cats are passé. And dinosaurs may be extinct, but they’re breathing new life into an old meme. Paleoart is best known for its scientifically accurate depictions of extinct animals, but … Continued
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How the Web Got Suckered into Thinking Shakespeare Was a Stoner
Headlines that Shakespeare used cannabis for inspiration are making waves on the web, based on a new report by an anthropologist who claims the famous English Bard makes reference to “the noted weed” and “compounds strange” in his writing. Parsing the “news” reveals that no new conclusive evidence was found to link clay pipes dug … Continued
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Buy Your Hard-Working Coworker A Beer, It’s #SysAdminDay
It’s Sysadmin appreciation day! What exactly are you appreciating? The primary duty of a system administrator is the upkeep and ongoing operation of computer systems, especially servers—and that job description means they are responsible for elements like uptime and security that are essential to the health and functionality of computers, networks and the ability of … Continued
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The Entire Internet Is Outraged Over the Hunting of Cecil the Lion
Every so often your faith in humanity is restored when the social world unites to excoriate an event deserving of its wrath. So it goes with Walter Palmer, the American dentist who killed a beloved, world-famous lion, Cecil, in Zimbabwe under cover of darkness and questionable legality. Palmer is not having a good day. Good. … Continued
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Game of Thrones Characters, Autocorrected
Artist James Chapman depicted Game of Thrones characters as the autocorrected versions of their fantastical names, and the results are funny and delightful. Chapman, a physics Phd student and the author of Soundimals: An Illustrated Guide to Animal Sounds in Other Languages, found that his phone’s autocorrect kept interfering when he messaged friends about GoT. … Continued
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Behold, The Most #UnexcitingVideoGames You Can Think Of
This hashtag is more magical than a mushroom. Currently trending on Twitter is the hashtag #UnexcitingVideoGames, which has fast become a goldmine of gaming whimsy. There are 20k Tweets and rising with tongue-in-cheek boring video games, and of course, brands are getting in on the fun—but the best Tweets are from users wielding mighty snarkhammers. … Continued
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#PrimeDayFail Is a Billion Times Better Than Amazon’s Prime Day
Disgruntled shoppers took to Twitter to lodge complaints under the hashtag #primedayfail while staring down sales of granny panties, shoe horns, and 55-gallon drums of lube. Amazon’s much-hyped Prime Day turned out to be just that—a lot of hype. Shoppers expecting sweet deals were disappointed by offers on a motley array of merchandise likened to … Continued
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Tech NewsPluto Memes Are Taking Over the Internet
When the New Horizons spacecraft sent back its first clear image of everyone’s favorite dwarf planet, Pluto became a perfect storm of a meme. Historians in the future will wonder what we were smoking. An endless assortment of related memes can be found under #pluto hashtags across the social web. Pluto’s image was destined to … Continued