• the internet sucks

    Democrats Ruin YouTube With Awkward, Unfunny Videos

    The Telegraph, a conservative British paper with marginally more class than The Sun, is very worried about American congresspeople "spamming" the YouTubes and gumming up the pipes. More »
    03/18/09
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    By Pareene

    Comment by octopusink: I'm going to stop mixing weed and commenting. Sorry about that. It's this economy. 1 Responses | Other threads

  • the internet sucks

    Ex-HuffPoor Explains Why No One Will Pay You

    Former Huffington Post 'blog editor' Francis Wilkinson wrote a column about how no one pays people to write, anymore, so writing is once again just a hobby of the comfortable, but then he basically admitted that it's all his fault: More »
    03/04/09
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    By Pareene

    Comment by Mo MoDo: It's just like the sexual revolution killing the call-girl business. Nobody will pay when everyone is giving it away for... 5 Responses | Other threads

  • barack obama

    Obama Site Censors Blago Talk

    The same Obamatards who voted up total blowjob questions on the Digg-like question section of Change.gov have, all too predictably, almost completely obliterated any question mentioning ROD BLAGOJEVICH. More »
    12/10/08
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    Comment by The Doctor: Now I understand why my request to bla that goye vich's rod didn't make the cut. 3 Responses | Other threads

  • change you can digg

    Top Ten Best Online Questions for Barack Obama Of All Time

    Do you have a question for Barack Obama? Sure you do! Barack Obama has a thing on his website where you can ask questions of him and the transition and, eventually, his administration. Of course, many politicians have these easily ignored comments sections for questions, on their sites, but this one is different: it's got Digg-style voting! So far there are 78,934 votes on 1,192 questions, and the winner is a lame softball along the lines of "what will you do to establish transparency and eliminate waste and how warm and nice, exactly, will the hug you give all of America be, once you're in office?" Surely the internet can "crowdsource" some better questions than that. More »
    12/10/08
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    By Pareene

    Comment by allyzay: does the president-elect know what the hell plaxico burress's major malfunction is? 3 Responses | Other threads

  • the internet sucks

    The Internet Kills Beloved Cartoon Penguin

    Opus, Berkeley Breathed's troubled, herring-loving penguin, has managed to eek out an existence since he first hit the strip "Bloom County" in 1980. But now he's gonna die, because Breathed is gonna kill him, and it's all your fault, snarky snarking internet users! Asked why Breathed is ending Opus's self-named strip next week after a five year run, Breathed tells Salon, "We're not a movie. In most aspects, there's no arc to the human story. Only a line heading upward. For nearly everything. In this case, the coarsening of the National Discourse. We aren't returning someday to any sort of golden era of political civility. The line heads heavenward and has been since the Republic started. And with the intersection of two rather dramatic dynamics — the cable and Web technology allowing All Snark All the Time ... and the political realities of No More Free Lunch in America, it will spike in the coming years like Don Draper's sex life, and I hereby pledge that that's the last pop reference I use." But isn't it during dark times that we most need funny satire? Screw you, noob! More »
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    Comment by Islandkiwi: I think Mr. Breathed made a mistake when he felt Opus was the Heart of Bloom County. In my... 3 Responses | Other threads

  • the internet sucks

    'Times' Social Networking Popup Campaign: Get Excited!

    Oh god that New York Times social networking thing is live, for everyone(?), and it's popping up on top of everything we're trying to read. Go away! We don't want to join TimesPeople, a network of Times readers. Honestly the last thing the internet needs is another method of forwarding Krugman columns to people who already fucking read them. [PaidContent]
    09/23/08
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    By Pareene

    Comment by Aaron Altman: I'm so there! - MARK KLEIN, M.D. 6 Responses | Other threads

  • the internet sucks

    FBI Nabs Man Who Guessed Sarah Palin's Password

    So the vile HACKER who HACKED poor Sarah Palin and her precious emails? Some kid from Tennessee. His dad is a Democratic state representative, which means of course that he was paid by Barack Obama personally to HACK the shit out of that poor woman. The kid (the ALLEGED HACKER) is obviously a brilliant computer genius. Didn't you hear how he hacked all that hacking he hacked? He went to the "I forgot my password" screen and correctly guessed the answers to the "security questions." HACK HACK HACK. Now the FBI is going to throw him in jail for a zillion years, even though they should be arresting Yahoo, it seems like. The dumb kid brought it on himself by revealing the proxy server he used to hack hack hack, and his Anonymous buddies at 4Chan (NSFW) are either disavowing that he was truly anonymous or saying he's a SMOKESCREEN, or something. Internet, lol. [CNET]
    09/22/08
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    By Pareene

    Comment by Aaron Altman: This should raise hackles. 12 Responses | Other threads

  • the internet sucks

    Tweeting Towards Bethlehem

    Did you see the cute Times Thursgay Styles story on the 7-month-old with the extensive online presence thanks to his terrible parents? You know, on some sort of "Facebook for children," full of idiot parents attributing adult characteristics to their babies, who are still dumber than chimps? We found a story that is the opposite of that trend piece, except in that it exceeds it in awfulness: The Rocky Mountain News in lovely Denver live-blogged the funeral of a 3-year-old murder victim, on Twitter. Top entry: "family members shovel earth into grave—about 21 hours ago from txt." Some things, guys, were not meant for microblogging. Can you imagine if there'd been Twitter on this day in 2001? Ha, you probably don't even have to imagine, there is surely some funny internet comedy site creating that little parody right now. [Colorado Independent]
    09/11/08
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    By Pareene

    Comment by SuchAwfulPoetry: I'm going to twitter my own death. 3 Responses | Other threads

  • just asking

    Do al-Qaeda Message Boards Have Trolls?

    Today's Times opinion section features an op-ed by Ronen Bergman, an Israeli newspaper correspondent who tracks the mood of jihadists by monitoring their internet message boards. This is important intelligence work! Apparently they're all having debates about suicide bombing and should they maybe not be martyring themselves quite so often, because suicide itself is not considered a good thing. All interesting stuff! But reading excerpts from discussions on Ekhlaas and Firdaws, "two main Web platforms for discussing the technical aspects of jihad," just got us thinking: who moderates these forums? More »
    09/10/08
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    By Pareene

    Comment by bernann m.: I've tried trolling those al-qaeda sites but didn't get much traction. Strangely there was a big overlap with people posting... 2 Responses | Other threads

  • the internet sucks

    Racist, Sexist Obama Spam Will Get You Out of Debt, Make Your Dick Bigger

    Sign of the times: spammers are now enticing clicks on virus-laden emails with promises of Barack Obama sex videos. Barack Obama sex videos with Ukrainian white slaves! "Download and view not. Please sent this news to your friends. Obama it.s not right choice..." the spammers warn. A lot of fucked-up readings of the typical American male's psyche in there, right? Spammers ought to be thrilled at the selection of Sarah Palin, as it's been proven by researchers that there's actually no way to convince anyone to click on the name "Joe Lieberman." [Wired]
    09/09/08
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    By Pareene

    Comment by g0_0n: A friend of mine got a spam with the subject: "Make Obama proud" - body had penis enlargement ads "Obama 08!... 2 Responses | Other threads

  • the internet sucks

    HuffPo Not For Sale! (Hint Hint)

    The Huffington Post is decidedly not for sale, site founder Arianna Huffington announced yesterday in Denver. That means, most likely, that they still can't find any buyer willing to pony up anything close to that $200 million figure that got leaked to the Times. This year, the hard-working HuffPoors broke a couple political stories that decidedly altered the campaign, expanded into another city, and launched lifestyle sections with great fanfare, but let's be honest with ourselves: despite their fantastic skill with PR (thanks to Arianna's charm and moneyman Ken Lerer's experience working the press), the HuffPo is still not worth the paper it's not printed on. More »
    08/27/08
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    By Pareene

    Comment by Scout 3.0: I can meet the $200 million price, but all I have are pennies. Will that be a problem? 2 Responses | Other threads

  • webtards

    "McCain Girls" A Prank, Mercifully

    The three women who dubbed themselves the "McCain Girls" and made a series of YouTube videos on behalf of the Republican presidential candidate were working for 23/6, the "humor" site from IAC/Huffington Post, and their entire campaign was a joke. To hear 23/6 President Sarah Bernard tell it, the first video was supposed to be an obvious parody of the Obama Girl videos, but no one understood that. Then 23/6 decided to keep the "prank" going as long as possible, which turned out to be one month. McCain watched the video repeatedly, he told Fox News in the clip after the jump, but his description of it as "very entertaining" hints that he knew something was fishy. More »
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    Comment by thecomicscomic: + Watch videoI know one of the guys who created the McCain Girls, and I have interviewed him at length... more » | Other threads

  • megan meier

    Yesterday's article about Megan Meier, the Missourian 13-year-old who was cyberbullied by a crazed neighborhood mom until she hanged herself with a belt last year, made us think twice, again, about this whole 'internet' thing. 12-year-olds are saying things like, "Once you're on MySpace, you're trapped. You spend all your time online just trying to keep the negative stuff about you from spreading." And: "It's like I can't even do anything because everybody is sitting there with a cellphone just waiting for me to mess up." Seriously, guys, it is nice being able to look up movie times and look at LOLcats, but in general the whole thing should be shut down. [NYT]
    12/17/07
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    Comment by Trackback: Friday Links & Mink Coats by Alex Carnevale Before we get into the links, please do us a favor and... more » | Other threads

  • in flagrante delicious

    Hey, did you know celebrities also eat food by putting food into their mouth, just like us? Some, like Hayden Panettiere even use forks and other utensils to transport the food from their plates to their stomachs! [Celebrities-Eating] More »
    12/11/07
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    Comment by hhpeterson13: That website is seriously whacked-out. more » | Other threads

  • citizen journalism

    TMZ OUT OF NEW YORK

    TMZ's been operating a live feed from the corner of Mercer and Prince, an intersection that they describe as "right in the heart of SoHo, the once-artsy, now-ritzy downtown district absolutely teeming with celebrities, both resident and guest." Josh just went by to say hi! More »
    12/10/07
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    Comment by LVP: Bravo. more » | Other threads

  • the internet sucks

    Why Is There No Good Gossip Anymore?

    "Now that J&J.com is over, did we learn anything from the experiment?" asks College Humor founder and deep thinker Ricky Van Veen, referring to the recent demise of Ricky's buddy Jakob Lodwick and Star Editor at Large Julia Allison's website and relationship. "Yes — that the gossip industry works on a model that can be disrupted. The gossip industry is built on second hand information, information embargoes, secret sources, tips, etc. But what if the people who are being gossiped about bypass that inaccurate mechanism and just make the information public in real time? ... That kind of universal transparency would put Page Six out of business." Right, if Lindsay Lohan was like "It's 10 on Sunday, I got a manicure today, I just relapsed and snorted a fistful of coke" at lindsaylohan.blogspot.com, Page Six would have nothing to write about. Ricky is so incredibly off-base. Except maybe, in a twisted way, he's also partly right? More »
    12/10/07
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    Comment by vulturesquadron: @traydon_barter: Mirrors. more » | Other threads

  • i hate my generation

    Selling Ourselves Is The Only Job Any Of Us Will Ever Have

    There's this kid named Sean Aiken who is doing a different job every week for a year, Times workplace ponderer Lisa Belkin writes. "In the spirit of his generation — the one that brought us extreme sports, and made a mini celebrity out of a blogger who traded a paper clip for a house, and a mega celebrity out of a socialite who went on reality TV to move from job to job in 'The Simple Life' — Mr. Aiken has begun a most unusual search." Digest that for a moment, millennials: you are responsible for not only Paris Hilton and One Red Paperclip, but also extreme sports. Also, when it comes to the future of your employment, you are as fucked as a base-jumper without a chute. More »
    11/29/07
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    Comment by pufflehuff: @Furious_George: Right, got it now. more » | Other threads

  • office pirates 2.0

    23/6 Is On The Internet Now

    Guess what's live today? 23/6, the IAC-Huffpo comedy site that is pretty much two years in the making! Back in August, we pretty thoroughly trashed the beta. And now... here we are. (Launching a website on a Friday!?!? Do not ever do this, by the way.) So, really, what's to say? Well: Is there anything less funny than comedy? And: It's like Newser, but with irony! But we hope it's a huge success. We wouldn't want Barry Diller and HuffPo's Ken Lerer to lose any of their magical internet credibility. Also we hope the 23/6 kids don't hate working for 23/6 as much as we hear pretty much everyone currently can't stand working at HuffPo.
    11/09/07
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    By Choire

    Comment by TedSez: Sorry, did you say "23-skidoo"? I'm not up on the latest hip youth slang the way Barry Diller is. more » | Other threads

  • love

    Prince Charming Searches For "NY Girl Of My Dreams," Or Just One Of The Million Other Sucker Girls Who Saw This And Were Like "Aww"

    Illustrator Patrick Moberg saw the "New York Girl" of his "Dreams" on the subway last night and promptly made this webpage featuring a whimsical little sketch of her. She had "fancy braided hair" and "blue gym shorts" and was "writing in a journal" on the 5 train from Union Square to Bowling Green. Patrick describes himself as "skinny" and "not insane," a few inches above the spot on the page where he lists his email and phone number on the internet. It's like a Miranda July story mixed with Craigslist Missed Connections mixed with stalking mixed with everything that's wrong (and right!) about Boys Today. I'm confused about my feelings!
    11/05/07
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    Comment by AlexandraDuPont: I hope they get together before the conjunction of the three suns, while there's still time to defeat the Skeksis... more » | Other threads

  • cautionary tales

    Michael Wolff And Newser: No Contract, No NDA

    Last night Graydon Carter's Waverly Inn was host to a party for Napeolonic media mufti Michael Wolff and former New York mag honcho Caroline Miller's new project Newser, the web 1.0 news aggregator. Ten years ago, Michael Wolff wrote Burn Rate; it chronicled the spectacular failure of his first web venture, NetGuide. Along the way, Wolff seriously burned his backer Alan Patricof and nearly everybody else he worked with. So when if Newser fails, will there be a Burn Rate II? More »
    10/31/07
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    Comment by RoryO: Lefty? Check your facts--I'm definitely right-handed! more » | Other threads

  • the internet sucks

    Magazine Reading For Lazy Idiots

    You know how all these magazines come to "your" house, but how "you" don't read them? That is the thesis of a Washington Post writer named Frank Ahrens and an entrepreneur named Jeremy Brosowsky. So now Jeremy has made "a Web site that creates 100-word abstracts of articles from dozens of magazines and rates them." Yes, Brijit review-summarizes articles from nearly 50 whole magazines and pays freelancers five dollars to write a summary. Well, we guess that's 20 cents a word. (In doing so, Jeremy employs hipster hottie and music-loving blogger Orr Shtuhl.) This all could be worse. Somehow. Or? You know what? I recant my previous opinions about the internet making people smarter and better readers. The internet is destroying everything. It is worse than T.V. and we should turn it off permanently. More »
    10/29/07
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    By Choire

    Comment by Jakob Lodwik: @JeremyB: You do realize that your comment is well over 100 words long? And that it's longer than any other comment... more » | Other threads

  • the internet sucks

    Finally someone takes on the great evil of our time: SHELFARI, the stupid book-centered stupidly-named social networking site that auto-sends an invite to everyone in your address book when you're dingbat enough to sign up. I hate them so much and I scream a little inside every time one of these damned "DO WE LIKE THE SAME BOOKS?" emails arrives. They are basically social networking rapists. [NYO]
    10/24/07
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    By Choire

    Comment by BoHan: Oh man, I tried to enter some Gillette Fusion "Win A Date With Brady Quinn" contest a month ago, and... more » | Other threads

  • public ridicule

    Tone-Deaf Howard Kurtz Most Hated By His Own Blog Commenters

    Howard Kurtz is cracking up, people! That is to say, he used the word "D'oh!" in his Washington Post column today, in which he reckons that Comedy Central funnyman Stephen Colbert actually is running for the Office of President of These United States because: "Not only was the guy on 'Meet the Press' Sunday, but some pundits are openly debating how many votes he'll get in South Carolina." Poor Howie—his book on the network news wars is being touted as "the new cure for insomnia" by Harper's Washington editor, Ken Silverstein, who read Kurtz's blog last week and threw up in all our mouths a little. More »
    10/23/07
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    By Maggie

    Comment by theodicey: Although it's been a while since I stepped into a comics store, I was under the impression they had stopped... more » | Other threads

  • developing

    From the mailbag, regarding Ivy League alum and douchey online dater John Fitzgerald Page: "I talked to John Page for 3 hours last night. So I called him.....a couple of times (and yes that is all it took). I don't know where to go with the information I have now after talking to him for seriously 3 HOURS. I will send you a copy of my phone bill a) if ATT has put it up yet b) you tell me where to send it, to prove what I am saying.... What do I do with 3 hours of information from the most hated/loved/entertaining/douchey guy on the internet today?"
    10/12/07
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    Comment by Henifer Hropes: what happened to the other two articles about JFP? One lost 500+ comments and the other one... you can't see... more » | Other threads

  • the internet sucks

    We have high hopes for this brand new website! They're just at the manifesto stage now, but we suspect the fun will begin soon. [Your Blog Blows]
    10/09/07
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    By Choire

    Comment by Pop Socket: @CodePink: Yeah, when are us commenters getting our own Facebook page, Yahoo Group, and listserv? more » | Other threads

  • balls

    Fameball!

    "I believe I am an early-stage Fameball, and nothing I do or say will change my trajectory. I will attempt to use this to my advantage," Vimeo founder and Star Editor At Large Julia Allison doinker Jakob Lodwick has been quoted as saying. Upon hearing Jakob's self-analysis, our first response was: "we want to quit our jobs." After all, writing about how obnoxious it is that Jakob has declared the process of his fame-accumulation unavoidable is, inescapably, part of the problem. After all, Jakob defines the fameball phenomenon as "individuals whose fame snowballs because journalists cover what they think other people want them to cover." But all that doesn't necessarily mean that Jakob is right. More »
    10/03/07
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    Comment by Trackback: When the Moon Hits Your Eye Like A Big Pizza Pie That’s The Internets by Alex Carnevale We are late... more » | Other threads

  • the internet sucks

    Are You Less Successful Than A Block Of Cheese?

    Remember "Wedginald"? It's that stupid wheel of cheddar cheese that the whole stupid world is watching mature on the Internet. Well, yesterday was a very big day for Wedginald indeed! Creator Tom Calmer cut the cheese to assess its maturation. More »
    09/20/07
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    By abalk

    Comment by Pichincha: Here's the cheese's myspace: [profile.myspace.com] This Tom guy (see: View More Pics) looks like a corpse. more » | Other threads

  • breakups

    Jakulia Allodwick Split Sends Internets Reeling

    My friend Alice likes to say that we're living in the Too Much Information Age, and you don't have to look further than any breakup between any two people who both have blogs to understand what she means by that. And if those two people are both Internet-created pseudocelebrities, you have the voyeuristically fascinating, oddly revelatory theme park of narcissism that is the Julia Allison—Jakob Lodwick breakup. More »
    09/19/07
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    Comment by Citizen_Pinhead: Julia, if you're reading this: does this mean you're single?!? And does a 27-year-old consultant have a shot? more » | Other threads

  • there are jewels in the crown of england's glory

    "WWW.CHEDDARVISION.TV: It must rank as one of the weirdest spectator sports, having attracted a global audience of more than 1.5 million in less than a year, and it involves, literally, nothing happening. People across the globe have been logging on to a website in huge numbers to watch a 44lb handmade cheddar cheese from Shepton Mallet slowly mature. Addicted surfers have, over the last nine months, been able to admire the Somerset-based cheese, named Wedginald by its creators. So far, 1,525,548 are registered as having logged on. " [Times (U.K.)]
    09/17/07
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    Comment by MadameEducatrix: @mcginstein: Well, whatever gets you through your daily g-rind. more » | Other threads

  • boobs

    Maybe-Rapist Plastic Surgeon Defends Himself Blogstyle

    Utter nuttiness in the Voice today concerning Dr. Brad Jacobs, the Upper East Side plastic surgeon who's been accused of everything from purposely giving patients outsize boob jobs to smoking crystal meth with a patient, having sex with her while she was recovering from a nosejob and "deforming her face." Gross. So what's Dr. Brad got to say in his own defense? Well, it's 2007, so he's got an open letter up on a website. It's kind of a Crap Email From A Dude! More »
    08/29/07
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    Comment by Reggie Cameron: @FracturedAcetabulum: the guy has his own business and url. He would get email addresses with the domain. So as long... more » | Other threads

  • the internet sucks

    Mandy Stadtmiller Demonstrates Why Blogs Should All Die

    A while back, a friend of ours posted a list of "Blog Cheese" cliches like "Blogging drunk. Blogging drunk about how you shouldn't/never blog drunk. 'Cryptic' blogging to seem mysterious. 'Cryptic' blogging to send a secret message to someone. Introducing people at a party by their blog name." Today, Post dater Mandy Stadtmiller adds another item to that long and treasured list: After saying that you've taken a "hiatus" from posting on your blog, making an exception to "defend" yourself against someone who has "libeled" you on the Internet. More »
    08/28/07
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    Comment by Elaine Chow: Perhaps I just have no reading comprehension skills this late in the day, but why is Mandy's list missing the... more » | Other threads

  • the internet sucks

    Why We Hate That "One Red Paperclip" Guy So Much

    So you know Kyle MacDonald, the enterprising young Canadian who set up a blog with the goal of bartering his way from a red paper clip all the way to a house and, with the help of BoingBoing, actually managed it? This weekend, thanks to Auntie Joyce Wadler at the Times, we learned that the house that is the fruit of the former layabout and girlfriend moocher-offer's bloggy efforts is actually only worth about $8,000. HA! Well, "ha." Because, of course, the dude still got a book deal and a movie deal out of the whole shebang. The book (One Red Paperclip: Or How an Ordinary Man Achieved His Dream with the Help of a Simple Office Supply) comes out in paperback original this week. ("With plenty of irreverent and insightful anecdotes and practical tips on how you can find your own paperclip and realize your dreams, he proves it's possible to succeed in life and achieve your dreams on your own terms.") Uh, why is it that this benign Canadian's success fills us with actual bloodlust? Maybe it's that he's a living embodiment of the potential of the Internet. TO SUCK. More »
    08/27/07
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    Comment by Jeffrey Sharpe Jr.: "How one man collapsed American Economy" more » | Other threads

  • the internet sucks

    New Huffington Post Humor Site Not "Ha Ha," Any Other Kind Of, Funny

    For whatever reason, 23/6, the long-gestating humor blog collaboration between Barry Diller's IAC and The Huffington Post, has gone live on the HuffPo website. (The 23/6 domain itself remains password-protected.) The production has been described as "an online alternative to NBC's 'Saturday Night Live' or Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show'" but if what we're seeing here is any indication, we're pretty sure that Lorne Michaels isn't exactly crapping his pants in fear right now. Every joke feels strained, obvious, and rewritten to the point that all the humor has been drained from it (which is, we guess, the "Saturday Night Live" model): The whole thing makes VH1 webortion 24Sizzler read like a model of Lenny Bruceian comedic brilliance, and that site is such a disaster that the mentally retarded are suing to ensure that no one thinks they're its intended audience. More »
    08/23/07
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    By abalk

    Comment by Jim Treacher: "I cannot recall ever seeing the words 'Arianna Huffington' and 'funny' in the same context." Try adding the suffix "-looking." As... more » | Other threads

  • burn rates

    Michael Wolff: Brand, Paradigm, Web, Reinvent, Delivery!

    Would-be mogul and Vanity Fair media columnist Michael Wolff is finally going to get on this internet thing, but right-side up this time! Could it be? He thought blogs would be long gone by now. And his talks with "gay megagorilla" Barry Diller and Barry's guy Michael Jackson fell through. But he's forging ahead! Welcome to the beta of his website... Newser! It's Matt Drudge without the fun and the brilliant curation! It's Sploid without the monkeys and paranoia! It's TMZ but completely devoid of celebrities and urgency and puns. It's Yahoo! News without the exclamation point. It's the dullest thing I've seen all day, and I've been staring into a jar of pennies for the last half hour. More »
    08/02/07
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    By Choire

    Comment by raincoaster: I think it's just a site scraper with one daring innovation: it subscribes only to RSS feeds available in cursive. more » | Other threads

  • the internet sucks

    Fantasy Congress: The newest timewaster for chronic masturbators, the unfriendable. [LAT]

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  • identity crises

    The Lower East Side Loses Another Institution

    The LES has lost another vital neighborhood institution with the shuttering of Tattoo Heaven Smoke Shop, a fake ID front and tattoo parlor that was shut down by the cops. What! This will surely rock the worlds of the Virtual Lower East Side! More »
    06/26/07
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    Comment by riskybusiness: @ Bitchy and Clever - Quality fake ID's (passports especially) are expensive to make. There are lots of little... more » | Other threads

  • the internet sucks

    Page Sizzler!

    There's a new website on the internets, devoted to hot celebrity gossip. Yay all of us! It is brought to you by our friends at Best Week Ever, and was designed by a focus group of 5-year-old girls who are somehow also outrageously homosexual men from Topeka. Surely there were supposed to be unicorns in assless chaps somewhere on this website? Please note that the site's figurehead, David Caplan, is represented by a photo of himself hugging Paris Hilton. He is doing an admirable job of creating a product for hateful illiterate tween bulimics though! Anyway, better go beg for a job now. This website is the future of words. More »
    06/22/07
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    By Choire

    Comment by raincoaster: When did all the tweenage girls turn into gay men? That colour scheme is fagulous. more » | Other threads

  • the internet sucks

    Inside The Virtual Lower East Side

    When we last wrote about Vice's Virtual Lower East Side, we were merely IRL observers. Since then we've gone in, and developed our own avatar named Wayne. Wayne is a youngish graphic designer. He prefers camo hoodies and wears a scruffy beard. His skin tone is Hickory Twilight. Wayne will be sending us periodic updates from the virtual streets of the Lower East Side. Today, he hung out in front of the Hat, trying vainly to purchase a frozen margarita—and met a girl! More »
    06/18/07
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    Comment by ThomasinaGigante: Yesterday I found a *zine* called LowLife in a Jersey City coffeeshop. Something was immediately funny about it -- the... more » | Other threads

  • the internet sucks

    OMG!

    This week, Yahoo! launched OMG!, a website with all the staying power and design sense of Sploid and all the editorial intelligence and pop savvy of Perez Hilton. Guess what? Someday, you'll be working there, too—or a place just like it! Enjoy that.
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    Comment by TwiceShy: I couldn't get past the home page... I've got a headache now. more » | Other threads

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    Virtual Lower East Side Also Full Of Idiots

    Half MySpace and half Sims and all Second Life, Vice magazine's new vLES site handily exports the embarrassingly long death scene of the Lower East Side. Now you don't even have to venture out to Orchard to be surrounded by puking loud douchebags. The internet will bring you there! More »
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    Comment by GrumpyMcGillicutty: @Koala325: How dare they! Right below your window, in your neighborhood! more » | Other threads

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