How Not to Get Censored on Twitter
Everybody flipped out on Thursday when Twitter announced it had developed the capability to censor tweets in specific countries, should that country's government require it by law.
Today we review two new thrillers: The Grey and Man on a Ledge.
Everybody flipped out on Thursday when Twitter announced it had developed the capability to censor tweets in specific countries, should that country's government require it by law.
After a long day spent staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention. Today: Danny Boyle's vision for the London Olympics opening ceremony, Joseph Gordon-Levitt reminds us again he's not James Franco, and a close reading of this cycle's worst campaign ad.
Kim Kardashian heads to Lifetime, Sarah Jessica Parker replaces Demi Moore, and Matt Bomer is Darren Criss's brother.
A peak at the calendar reveals that it's late January, but to look around New York, you'd think otherwise.
Unfortunately for President Obama (and the TV networks that carried his State of the Union address), all his oratory skill could stop more than as quarter of viewers from tuning out right away, opting mainly for (sigh) sitcom reruns and college basketball.
Thanks to some close reading of the lyrics in Ice Cube's "It Was a Good Day," we now know that when the rapper rapped about his perfect day, he was rapping about January 20, 1991.
Today in sports: Peyton Manning and Jim Irsay promise his final days with the Indianapolis Colts will be civil, Cleveland once again is a prime target for "sports blackmail," and college basketball is getting tough on taunting.
When it comes to being a class warrior, Elizabeth Warren is merely a studio gangster.
Discovered: lube works, caffeine alters estrogen levels, rap meets medicine and conspiracy theorists don't care about the truth.
The world is suffering from a toilet shortage, and at least one activist wants to do something about it with his non-profit, the World Toilet Organization, or WTO.
As the U.S. government spends billions and billions outfitting the military with sophisticated spy drones, one hacker's taken things into his own hands and built a very cheap but very functional drone-ready surveillance device.
It cost a lot of money for Mitt Romney to regain his lead in Florida polls from Newt Gingrich.
Colton Harris-Moore, aka, the Barefoot Bandit, was sentenced to six and a half years in prison Friday.
Occupy D.C. is one of the last major Occupy encampments left, and now its last stand has been scheduled.
Hillary Clinton gives the same answer whenever a reporter asks her if she'll serve a second term as Secretary of State, yet it's huge news each and every time.
A controversy is brewing among Japan’s fanatical followers of Hello Kitty: Is the character who has been plastered on everything from stickers to face massagers to toasters to panties to deodorant sprays and long officially described as an English citizen actually a Japanese national?
Marco Rubio looks like he's ramping up his let's-talk-about-me game this week.
Expensive sports channels are pushing cable bills to levels that make Internet-only subscriptions seem ever-more appealing.
Rick Perry is trying to get back some of the swagger he lost by failing so badly in the Republican presidential primary by tweeting pictures of himself with weapons.
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