This happens all the time. You’re on AIM, Skype, whatever you kids are using these days, and here comes a ping from some heavily made-up young lady you don’t know with a multi-numbered generic name. Most of us ignore or block these, because clearly someone called SexxiGurl087421 is a bot, right? Not Clive Thompson. He decided to have […]
If you’ve been following the Charlie Sheen intern contest, you know 74,000 people applied, including some pretty heavy hitters. Well, it’s now down to 50! Some YouTube Celebs got together and filmed the following PSA to help up one contestant’s chances. There’s no voting or anything. It’s really just a PSA to help spread the […]
In the past six weeks, Amazon passed a major milestone: it now sells more Kindle books than printed books. The statistic doesn’t come as a major surprise: by July last year Kindle book sales beat hardbacks, while in December they began outselling paperbacks. Now the Kindle outsells both paperback and hardback combined by a 105:100 […]
With the exception of Creationists (which is another post entirely), most people know the Earth took a very long time to coalesce and form the big, wet, spinning rock we call home. How long, however, is not common knowledge… apparently. Watch as a sad sort of misinformed hilarity ensues: The guy who said “A couple […]
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A “children’s” book has become a bestseller at Amazon, apparently as a result of it becoming popular via piracy. But there are questions about how strong the connection is and whether it could apply to other books or media. The book, Go the F**k to Sleep attracted attention when it hit number one in the […]
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For those of you who’ve been hiding under a rock all day, here’s the biggest news of the day: Microsoft just bought Skype for $8.5 billion. So in honor of the transaction, we’d like to present you a revamped version of what the Skype logo may look like in a few months. Behold: ’nuff said.
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Mozilla has refused to axe a Firefox add-on that the government says helps users bypass domain name seizures. MafiaaFire Redirector is an automated tool that works a little like a mail forwarding service but for domain names. It hooks up to a central database that tracks when a site moves from one domain name to […]