Today in viral videos: Russell Brand gets sympathetic, 50 (completely unscientific) ways to trick people into thinking you're smarter than you are, and summer treat from Disney.
The New York Times announced that beginning Thursday, that their articles and their paywall were going to hit the Flipboard app. While some are still trying to figure out what the heck Flipboard is, we're trying figure out who got the better end of this deal.
Just in time to ruin Gay Pride month, a media relations director for the Salvation Army had no problem reminding us and the queer journalists he was talking to that gays should be put to death.
Dear concerned parents of America, there's a reason your kid is a lazy jerk: You.
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Human organs, exotic pets, drugs--those are types of things we think of when someone says black market trade. In Sweden, they trade in illicit foreign strawberries.
In this week's Bloomberg Businessweek, Peter Savodnik sheds light on two very profitable and symbiotic American exports in the Middle East: Fast food and bariatric surgery.
We aren't even going to pretend to know your thoughts on LeBron James, but we will try and give you a barometer of feelings out there now that basketball's most polarizing figure (oh, and his Miami Heat teammates) has his championship ring.
Anyone who's ever seen The Thomas Crown Affair knows that pulling off an art heist is best handled by experts, but that's not what happened on the Upper East Side where some balding man grabbed a six-figure Salvador Dalí painting on a Tuesday afternoon and walked off with it.
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Since we reported on bullied bus monitor Karen Klein's exposure to the best and worst of humanity yesterday afternoon, people have donated more than $150,000 in her honor--a number we expect to only grow thanks to Klein's morning show rounds today. But it now looks like her white knight is trying to cash on Klein's viral fame.
No, we don't really get why a car company like Ford is creating apps like "Keyfree," which allows you to login to your social networks on your Mac as long as your smartphone is nearby, but perhaps they should do it more often.
Don't you dare call the Brant Brothers Kardashians--they're way too fabulous for that. The New York Times' William Van Meter has your morning bubblegum, hate-read of the day and takes you to a world of couture, Jitrois leather jeans, and Louis Vuitton leather jackets, and the dukes of this kingdom are 15-year-old Harry and 18-year-old Peter Brant II.
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Karen Huff Klein is a 68-year-old bus monitor in Greece, New York who reportedly makes about $15,000 per year to ride the school bus home with awful kids who bully her, and in a video that went viral, she was driven to tears. Today, the Internet showed it cares, and $27,395 (and counting) has been raised to send her on a vacation.
We still aren't sure what or who to believe about the health of Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. His lawyer now says that yesterday's "clinical death" was just a bathroom fall, and it looks more and more like yesterday's drama was a great scheme to get Mubarak into a hospital and avoid a life sentence in prison.
Rumors about the discovery of the magical, mysterious Higgs boson particle have been swirling since December via "gossipy" updates in niche physics blogs, turning the mysterious particle into the iPhone 5 for physics fans. Now comes word that scientists may announce the discovery during the International Conference on High Energy Physics which begins on July 4. Are you ready?
Let's just call Game of Thrones for what it is: A sexy political campaign featuring two years and twenty episodes of people making empty promises to the masses, and power plays for one dumb job. The only thing missing were attack ads, and thanks to Mother Jones, we now have them.
Reports of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak being "clinically dead," have been debunked, but he's currently being kept alive on life support and some are saying his condition is going downhill. Crowds have gathered in Tahrir Square waiting for updates about his condition.
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73-year-old Carl Ericsson is now serving a life sentence for showing up at the front door of his high school bully and shooting him dead for putting a jockstrap on his head in the 1950s.
Call it a match made in news parody heaven: Michigan lawmaker Lisa Brown being banned for saying "vagina" during a house debate on abortion, and Jon Stewart waiting with open arms.
If we're going to give Invisible Children one thing, it's that they're earnest. Earnest enough to threaten a lawsuit against a bunch of NYU kids making a mockery of their brand of activism and earnest enough not to see the obvious joke here of how obtuse their own organization can be.
Our post on Egypt's military takeover brought out one fatalistic view of the Arab Spring.
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It was only a matter of time. Thanks in part to a trove of inappropriate e-mails, Brett McGurk, President Obama's nominee to be the next envoy to Iraq, has withdrawn his nomination reports ABC News' Jake Tapper.
Two major aspects of geek culture are supporting outsiders and rooting for underdog. So can someone please explain how it turned itself into its biggest villain: A giant, self-congratulating fratboy?
The patron saint of local newspapers told The New York Times' Christine Haughney that there's no magic formula for his papers' success. That's a pretty modest statement from a self-professed newspaper "addict" who bought 63 papers last month, and we don't buy it one bit.
Whole Foods banks on Father's Day to rise in the rankings, BIC knows you like to win, while Zuffa, better known by their UFC brand, got you talking about the free fight night.
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Sid Meier, that nerdy wonderful man who created Civilization has finally weighed in on Reddit user Lycerius' epic 10-year game.
File this under your feel-good Friday news: Shortly after officials banned 9-year-old Martha Payne from taking pictures of her sometimes-gross school lunches and posting them on her blog, Scotland's Argyll and Bute Council reversed their decision to censor Payne's photos.
As The New York Times Andrew Jacobs reports, there's one gigantic drawback to being one of China's lucky, power-wielding officials: Any misstep could land you in the shuanggui, a system of secret torture complexes complete with simulated drowning, cigarette burns, and sleep-deprivation.
Nik Wallenda will attempt to be the first person since 1896 to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope tonight—a feat that may seem insane, but is actually less daring than that of some daredevils who went before him.
OMG. OMG. Did you hear? Matt Lauer's like finally tweeting, and he like, has all the deets about Biebs' concert today on Today!
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As The Nation's George Zornick reports, it's hard to expect Senators to ask tough questions of the CEO of JPMorgan Chase when the members of the Senate Banking Committee are collective sitting on $582,088 in contributions from JPMorgan Chase.
The silver-haired WikilLeaks creator has one appeal left in the U.K. and he's expected to lose it, which could land Julian Assange in Sweden by the end of the month where he faces accusations of sexual misconduct.
The reduction of the "Double Gulp" from an excessive 64 ounces to a moderate 50 ounces, the company says, isn't because of Bloomberg or his nanny state rules about sodas (not that convenience stores would be affected anyways) or your looming diabetes: it's because no one could fit the massive drinks into their car's cup holders.
Leave it to the creative team at Bloomberg Businessweek to find a way to turn the worst fonts on the Internet, the silliest Obama products, and all the president's bundlers into a hilarious cover.
With a speedy apology following a half-day blog uproar, you can bet that the folks running HBO's of Game of Thrones totally regret impaling the 43rd president's head on a spike. Or at least, regret saying it was him on a DVD commentary track.
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As we watched Colin Powell sing "Call Me Maybe" on CBS This Morning, a little piece of us died. These trend-killers, or, as we here dub them "trenemies," must be stopped.
Don't take our word for it. Just ask the nine international judges who thought the New Jersey bottles were as good, if not better than some (way more expensive) $650-per bottle French bottles.
This morning we were greeted by some pretty dismal retail sales figures, but according to Yahoo's Daniel Gross, you shouldn't fret just yet.
What could possibly go wrong with an unarmed truck advertising that it's holding hundreds of iPhones, iPods, and BlackBerrys?
By now you're probably wise to the fact that many celebrities' "official" Twitter and Facebook accounts are actually run by their handlers and their teams, and the FLOTUS isn't an exception. Which is why we were surprised that her newly-launched Pinterest account feels almost personal.
After Stephen Colbert announced his intentions to take over Sweden's national Twitter account (operation #artificialswedener), we're betting that it's only a matter of time before the Swedish tourist board hands over the password to the Comedy Central personality.
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We're all attachment daters on some level. That's what dating is: Attaching, and detaching, and sometimes attaching again. You're probably not as bad as the "Overly Attached Girlfriend" meme, but chances are, you show some signs of attachment to whomever you are dating.
When we heard that the Pulitzer-winning New Orleans Times-Picayune would be cutting back to three days per week, we knew that cuts were on the way. Today, we learn that half one-third of its staff will be losing their jobs, and they're in meeting rights now finding out who's getting the axe.
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