Wednesday, May 25, 2011
People
You Can Name The Kardashians’ First Novel!
6:14PM Seth Abramovitch | Stop whatever it is you’re doing and listen up. We bring you now a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to name what is sure to become an enduring work of American literature: the Kardashians’ first book! More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Women Find Happiness A Turnoff
4:33PM Seth Abramovitch | Remember that study that found cultured men to be generally happier than their uncultured counterparts? Well, there’s another new study that says women are less attracted to happier guys! So what’s it going to be? Cézanne and contentment? Or Michael Bay and getting laid? The choice is yours. [ScienceDaily.com, photo via Shutterstock]
Music
4:31PM Jess McGuire | Just in case you’re not aware of this fact (yes, it is a FACT), the new single from The Grates is awesome. I have a soft spot for them for numerous reasons – Burn Bridges was my pump up song for a little while a few years ago, and also… I was once embarrassingly drunk around front woman Patience and the poor thing was extremely nice about the fact I kept singing Phil Collins at her in a fairly aggressive manner. I AM SORRY PATIENCE, FEBRUARY 2009 WAS A DIFFICULT PERIOD FOR ME, I WAS PARTYING WAY TOO HARD AND ACTING LIKE A MASSIVE DICKWAD A LOT OF THE TIME. Anyway! Turn Me On is absolutely delightful. Listen to it now, please. More »
The Grates – “Turn Me On”
4:31PM Jess McGuire | Just in case you’re not aware of this fact (yes, it is a FACT), the new single from The Grates is awesome. I have a soft spot for them for numerous reasons – Burn Bridges was my pump up song for a little while a few years ago, and also… I was once embarrassingly drunk around front woman Patience and the poor thing was extremely nice about the fact I kept singing Phil Collins at her in a fairly aggressive manner. I AM SORRY PATIENCE, FEBRUARY 2009 WAS A DIFFICULT PERIOD FOR ME, I WAS PARTYING WAY TOO HARD AND ACTING LIKE A MASSIVE DICKWAD A LOT OF THE TIME. Anyway! Turn Me On is absolutely delightful. Listen to it now, please. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
1:04PM Jess McGuire | A follow up from today’s earlier viewing, this clip sees our young dancing hero in the Apple store busting out some fine moves to the tune of the Black Eyed Peas’ “Check It Out” – much to the amusement of the teenage girls behind him. Basically, this kid is the raddest person on the planet. More »
YouTube Clip Of The Day II
1:04PM Jess McGuire | A follow up from today’s earlier viewing, this clip sees our young dancing hero in the Apple store busting out some fine moves to the tune of the Black Eyed Peas’ “Check It Out” – much to the amusement of the teenage girls behind him. Basically, this kid is the raddest person on the planet. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Leading Researcher Calls Vanity Fair Writer ‘Simply Disgusting’
12:56PM Ryan Tate | Last year, Vanity Fair contributor Michael Joseph Gross was accused of embellishing stories about Sarah Palin. In politics, of course, the issues are often coloured by emotion. But now Gross faces charges from a famously methodical, and extremely pissed, computer scientist. More »
Online
The FarmVille IPO
10:40AM Ryan Tate | Zynga, the Facebook games company and creator of FarmVille, is reportedly about to file for an initial public offering of stock. There is no better investment for cynics looking to bet on the exploitation of America’s dumbest, most vulnerable consumers. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
9:40AM Jess McGuire | Thank you, thank you, thank you to Marieke Hardy for alerting me to the following marvellous young man performing exuberant dance routines in his local Apple store. This is glorious, and made me laugh heartily last night when I watched it before bed. Honestly, this should’ve been the official video clip for Telephone. More »
YouTube Clip Of The Day
9:40AM Jess McGuire | Thank you, thank you, thank you to Marieke Hardy for alerting me to the following marvellous young man performing exuberant dance routines in his local Apple store. This is glorious, and made me laugh heartily last night when I watched it before bed. Honestly, this should’ve been the official video clip for Telephone. More »
Online
Why Not Let Little Kids On Facebook?
8:11AM Adrian Chen | Mark Zuckerberg is taking heat for recent comments he made about how he’d like to let kids under 13 on Facebook. We say, let the kids play. More »
Small Screen
MTV Finds Its Next Teenage Prey
7:50AM Richard Lawson | The ravenous MTV network, always hungry for sweet teen blood, has found its next victims. Also today: Fox rules and other networks drool, Matthew Modine is rescued from oblivion, and Kevin Costner is headed into it. More »
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