Hey Hunger Games creeps, now you can further disengage with the real world and emerge yourself in a fictitious world of Suzanne Collins' making. In anticipation of the upcoming film adaptation of the YA trilogy, visit the Capitol's website, or the "citizen information terminal." You can bone up on knowledge of the…
A study in speed meme-ing: In under 24 hours, Angelina Jolie's dramatic right leg has taken over the internet. As we speak, America's most powerful meme factories are pumping their pistons as fast as they can: What if Angelina's leg had a Twitter feed? What if it got peppersprayed? What if she showed both her legs?…
A handful of Mormons, the Mormon they call Romney specifically, have been in hot water for supposedly performing "proxy Baptisms" on Jews who died in the Holocaust. But with the advent of a new website, aptly named "All Dead Mormons Are Now Gay," you can perform your own proxy conversion and turn a deceased Mormon…
Pinterest—the social network for prudes and women who knit—got its first political satire account yesterday. Within 24 hours, Mitt Romney's president campaign torpedoed it.
"What If All the Cats in the World Suddenly Died?" Yahoo News asked today. Intrigued by this mysterious world without cats (What would we put bread on?) I clicked the link and found myself at Life's Little Mysteries, a LiveScience sister site dedicated to answering search-engine optimized questions of childlike…
Stories about hackers are notoriously difficult to illustrate. In fact, there is one hacker so elusive that only two images of him exist in all the internet, despite the fact that he is the most prolific internet hacker of all time. Now introducing: The Shadowy, One-Handed Hacker of Death.
Well isn't Mitt Romney just a lucky boy tonight: his campaign told ABC News that he will begin receiving Secret Service protection this week "because of the increase in crowd sizes" at his campaign events. Presumably this calculus was made before Mitt Romney decided he would start erupting into song during his stump…
The internet portal with the most embarrassing name, Yahoo!, has launched a web app for visualizing its most popular headlines for various reader demographics. A recent survey of Yahoo's most popular stories for various age groups turned into a chilling tableau of American anxieties at every juncture of life.
After the State of the Union address, White House officials will answer questions on Quora, a start-up website that relies on the wisdom of crowds to select the "best" answers to open-ended questions.
During President Obama's "Twitter Town Hall" at the White House today, we learned he has more in common with George W. Bush than just the desire to prolong various wars in the Middle East. Because like Bush—who once demanded that "there's Internets" in every classroom—Obama also has a propensity for unnecessary…
There are so many rules to follow when you're selling a house! Like, don't leave sex toys lying around the bathroom when you take photos for the online listing—the way this realtor did. (Photo is semi-NSFW!)
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer's website currently links to the Twitter account "@leaderhoyer." But this is not Rep. Hoyer's Twitter account. Not unless Hoyer is Tweeting things like "Look how Republicans fell for this bi-partisan seating crap." Or this:
Twenty-year-old Matthew Riskin Bean was sentenced to 45 days in prison after pleading guilty to a single count of stalking. Bean, a 4chan user, had posed as a "concerned mother" and emailed a Philadelphia school pictures of a student's penis.
Women laughing alone with salad. Any questions?
Jamie Laou is a 17 year-old high school senior from Sydney, Australia who bears an uncanny resemblance to pop sensation Justin Bieber. This has made him an Internet phenomenon, with an elaborate Bieberesque fan culture of his own.
Considering a website about Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan? You'll have to think of something more creative than "BianMoynihanSucks.com," since it and "BrianMoynihanBlows.com" were registered by Bank of America, possibly in advance of Wikileaks revelations. Don't worry, though!
Vitaly Borker, the eyeglass-selling prick profiled in the Times, was arrested by the feds for fraud and cyberstalking.
News and politics site Salon.com is "exploring opportunities to merge with or be acquired by another company." I've got eighteen dollars in my wallet. Anyone want to go in with me? Ten bucks'll get you the advice columnist position!
Reason you should delete your Facebook account, #4,679: It can get you hit in the head with a frying pan, and then stabbed. Just ask Aaron Calhoun of Toldeo, Ohio!
One in four web pages viewed by Americans last week was on Facebook, helping the social network steal the largest share of internet visits from archrival Google, according to stats firm Hitwise. Karl Lagerfeld's "white gold Facebook" remains exclusive, however.
