Take A Break With This Cat Who Plays Your Favorite Tunes
Want respite from a hectic, stressful world? Here, have some Bongo Cat.
Twitter's Emerging Competitor Doesn't Want To Be Twitter
Twitter is a hellhole. Mastodon isn’t trying to replace the trashcan fire that is Twitter, but it is offering its users something different.
We Can't Fix The Internet
As a teenager in the early 2000s, I was a member of a large, passionate, and loosely affiliated community of Harry Potter lovers (known, like other, similar communities, as a fandom), mostly gathered on LiveJournal. We discussed the books and characters; we wrote fanfiction and long diatribes about the movie…
Proposed EU Copyright Law Could Cause Problems For Fan Content In Games
Yesterday, the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs voted to approve a controversial new copyright directive that, if made into law, could change the internet as we know it. Just one of the many potential terrible results of the directive, which tasks companies to monitor user-submitted content for…
LonelyStreams Shows You What Happens In Twitch Streams With Zero Viewers
Many stories about Twitch revolve around celebrities, the influencers and tastemakers who have “made it” to a career of all-day gameplay streaming. But Twitch isn’t just star gamers; it’s pirate streams, bizarre Tim and Eric-style broadcasts, and average Joes just streaming their Overwatch matches. Many do so without…
Popular YouTubers Try To Trademark 'React' [UPDATE]
The Fine Brothers have built successful careers showing how folks, old and young, react to everything from split-screen gaming to the Oculus Rift to rotary telephones and 1990s internet. And now it’s the Fine Brothers that people are reacting to and their decision to try to trademark “React.”
Anime-Style Sex Scenes Can Make Good Meme Fodder
Fate/stay night has spawned several mainstream console games and anime, such as above. The original visual novel, known for its engaging story, does have sex scenes. One Twitter user decided to one moment in particular would be perfect for a Photoshop meme.
The Forward-Thinking Genius Of Neuromancer
It’s astonishing to think how much of the world has changed thanks to the internet. It’s difficult to think of another recent technology that has so totally changed how people experience the world - the invention of the telephone well over 100 years ago is probably the only thing that comes close.
Twitch Streamer Fakes His Own Joke Swatting, Gets Banned
This past Saturday, the popular League of Legends-focused Twitch streamer Trick2g was putting on an elaborate 24-hour live event to commemorate the fact that he’d amassed 800,000 followers. He decided to end the stream with a bang: staging his own mock swatting. Come Monday morning, his account was banned.
Tinder In The 80s Would Have Sucked
A whole bunch of vintage technology shows up in SuperMonkey’s video to make the 80s version of the popular dating app work on a home computer.
Leaked Twitter Memo: 'We Suck At Dealing With Abuse And Trolls'
Harassment and abuse have been constant problems for people who use Twitter, but the company itself has remained largely silent on the matter. A new leaked internal memo indicates that may be about to change, and Twitter might finally do something to combat trolls.
A Short Film About RPG Characters Who Actually Tell The Truth
Saving Throw's short shows an adventuring party of four, trying get by in real life while following RPG rules.
Scientifically Accurate Barney Hates Children
No educational messages this time from the purple T-Rex.
18 Pop Culture Billionaires And How Evil They Are
Only one guy is a better person than Bruce Wayne, and even he's a bit of an outsider.
The Harsh Reality of Questing In RPGs
Accepting and completing a quest doesn't always go as smoothly as planned.
Eight Crazy Hacking Scenes That Shouldn't Exist
Hack the planet! And I thought Hugh Jackman's dancing scene with the 3D cubes from the 2001 movie Swordfish was weird, this recent video from Dorkly proves some movies and TV shows had much crazier scenes with hackers doing the impossible.
Richard Scarry's Busy World Transformed Into A Silicon Valley Town
Richard Scarry's lovely children's series Busytown becomes a deeply disruptive, data-driven, gluten-free Silicon Valley town in Tony "Lunchbreath" Ruth's project, with the appropriate jobs and descriptions.
Cool Site Lets You Draw Pictures Using Emoji
Emoji Ink is a new site designed for one purpose only: drawing stuff using nothing else but emoji. It might sound ridiculous but some people, like Daniel Angione above with Smaug from The Hobbit, have already made amazing pics.
A Scary Choose Your Own Adventure, Now Playable On...Twitter
"They're here. Oh God! They've found you!" And so it begins. You have two choices: run, or hide.
Guy Saves His Drone From Drowning At The Last Second
Nice catch! Zweier Spanjer's first day testing out his DJI Phantom II drone took an unexpected turn when its batteries started to deplete and the $700 gadget started plummeting towards the nearest pond.
