February 8, 2012 – The tech world has been consumed today with news the app Path quietly uploaded users' iPhone address books without permission. Path, in an increasingly common Silicon Valley ritual, apologized and promised it wouldn't happen again. More »
How Mark Zuckerberg Accidentally Endorsed Mitt Romney on Facebook
February 8, 2012 – Sometimes you do something on Facebook — comment, post a link, "like" a status message — and it gets totally misinterpreted. And amid the backlash from family, friends, and strangers, you just have to be, like, "Facebook is fucked up, not my problem." Mark Zuckerberg doesn't have that... More »
Privacy Death Stars Approved By Congress
February 7, 2012 – Today, it is tricky for governments and corporations to constantly spy on people using drones. By 2015, it wil be much much easier, thanks to a Monday Congressional vote authorizing drones above 400 feet, in the same airspace as commercial airliners. More »
Why Moms Are Breastfeeding In Facebook’s Face
February 7, 2012 – Angry lactivists - that's the term, stop snickering - showed up in front of Facebook's offices in Austin to breasfeed their babies. They were part of a wave of such "nurse-ins," all designed to protest the social network's staggeringly dumb policies on breastfeeding photos. Technically, Facebook... More »
Tech Dorks Are Secretly Wearing Amazing Socks
February 6, 2012 – Silicon Valley geeks are wearing garish fun socks under their very blah super-casual uniforms, according to the always unreliable New York Times Style section. More »
Amazon Stores Might Invade Your Neighborhood
February 6, 2012 – If you think Apple is a vertical corporate monolith, wait until you get a load of Amazon's reported plans: The e-tailer turned tablet maker turned publisher is said to be planning a physical store in Seattle with an eye toward building a national chain. More »
Jimmy Kimmel’s Mom Was ‘Very Sadistic’ And Kind of Messed Up
February 2, 2012 – Jimmy Kimmel went on fellow comic Marc Maron's podcast-slash-psychotherapy-couch WTF to talk about his unusual career path. But he couldn't resist taking his famously neurotic host on a detour into some of his family issues, including the "very sadistic" mom who used to make him pay her begging... More »
Groundhog Day, I Fucking Hate You
February 2, 2012 – So, the little marmot on, uh, Gobbler's Knob in central Pennsylvania saw his shadow, now it's six more interminable weeks of this Winter In Name Only. More »
The Most Awesome Homoerotic Mark Zuckerberg Fanfic
February 2, 2012 – Eduardo Saverin isn't just a Facebook co-founder made famous by The Social Network and set to get very rich off the Facebook IPO. He is also, judging from the burgeoning genre of Mark Zuckerberg fanfic, the college hottie online romance authors most want to see hook up with Facebook's young... More »
Groundhog Day, I Hate You!!!
February 2, 2012 – So, the little marmot on, uh, Gobbler's Knob in central Pennsylvania saw his shadow, now it's six more interminable weeks of this Winter In Name Only. More »
I Can’t Stop Looking At This Weird Scottish Internet Nightmare Video
February 2, 2012 – Scottish post-electo crew Errors threw together this very normal and comforting video about, like, how we're all being subsumed into a hypermedia e-dystopia that is once absurd and soul crushing, or something.
Did Cocktail Snobs Help Destroy an Antarctic Glacier?
February 2, 2012 – The Antarctic region is losing its glaciers to global warming, but now comes evidence humans are helping erode the ice masses in a more direct way: Chilean authorities arrested an entrepreneur for making off with five and a half tons of the Jorge Montt glacier in Patagonia. More »
Groundhog Day, I Hate You?
February 2, 2012 – So, the little marmot on, uh, Gobbler's Knob in central Pennsylvania saw his shadow, now it's six more interminable weeks of this Winter In Name Only. More »
Why Two Airplanes Are Fucking on the Cover of BusinessWeek
February 2, 2012 – Maybe you haven't seen Bloomberg BusinessWeek's very edgy and risque new cover? With two airplanes having sex to symbolize airline mergers (-"cockpit" joke here-) ? More »
Groundhog Day, I Hate You
February 2, 2012 – So, the little marmot on, uh, Gobbler's Knob in central Pennsylvania saw his shadow, now it's six more interminable weeks of this Winter In Name Only. More »
Steve Jobs Playwright Lacerates Stephen Fry Over Brutal Apple Factories
February 2, 2012 – Stephen Fry, the British actor and vocal Apple admirer, defended the company on Twitter against accounts of brutal working conditions in its contract factories. More »
World’s Most Evil Marriage To Join Cannibal, Vampire
February 2, 2012 – Isakin Jonsson and Michelle Gustafsson announced they will marry in a small ceremony in the high security wing of the Karsuddens psychiatric facility in Sweden. More »
Glitter Attack Provokes Bizarre Mitt Romney ‘Joke’
February 2, 2012 – Mitt Romney, No Marriage For Any Gays Ever, was hit twice with a pro-gay-rights glitter attack in Eagan, Minnesota. Naturally, he promptly used the incident to say something lighthearted and uncomfortable. After getting glittered and told "feel the rainbow" on the way to the podium (vid above),... More »
Straphanger Claims These Are Pictures of the ‘Perv in the Corner Looking at Me and Jerking Off’
February 2, 2012 – A reader snapped the attached pictures of a man she says exposed himself to her this morning at the Whitehall Street subway station. Unahppy with his behavior, she decided to expose him even further. From an email we received from a woman named Shannon: I was on the uptown R Platform this morning,... More »
FBI Chainsaws Wrong Door, Holds Wrong Woman At Gunpoint
February 2, 2012 – FBI agents swarmed a Fitchburg, Massachusetts woman's apartment, chainsawed a hole in her door — apparently that's how cops bust their way into homes now? More »
