The AP says the sheriff's deputies who evaluated UCSB killer Elliott Rodger during an April wellness check were well aware of his threatening YouTube videos but never bothered to actually watch them.
When Elliot Rodger began randomly murdering UCSB students Friday night, his concerned parents were reportedly on their way to Isla Vista to try to stop him.
The video made by 22-year-old Elliot Rodger proclaiming his motives for allegedly killing six and leaving seven injured near UCSB's campus yesterday, has already been taken down, but the remainder of his bizarre and troubling confessional YouTube "vlogs" have been left up.
Ponder now the mysteries of the primordial kinship between father and his male offspring. Some fish; some have a catch. Some dads have heart attacks and shit their pants when their sons go on a sustained campaign to scare them. This is one of those father-son relationships.
And if not, well...maybe try this one of him playing 30 songs in a minute:
Canadian astronaut Cmdr. Chris Hadfield is best known as the first man to cover David Bowie's "Space Oddity" while actually in space. But the video of Hadfield's performance, seen 22 million times and counting, will vanish from YouTube today due to copyright complications.
This is Emily Letts, a patient advocate at a reproductive clinic in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, just outside Philadelphia. Letts got pregnant and was, in her words, "not ready" to have children. So she got an abortion, and filmed it, and is now a hot target for online critics.
Watch this before you watch Super Bowl XLVIII between the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos. Not sure what time the big game starts on Sunday? Find out the kickoff time for Super Bowl XLVIII on Fox here.
Just 20 years after this charming neighborhood video tour directed by Bram van Splunteren and led by Iggy Pop, this particular version of New York is all but gone. (Via Metafilter/Gothamist.)
Shezanne Cassim, an American citizen who had been imprisoned in Dubai since April for making a YouTube parody video, was just released and returned to the US. Although he was sentenced to a year in prison last month, the court apparently credited him time served and deported him.
Shezanne Cassim, an American citizen imprisoned in Dubai since April for making a not-very-funny and not-very-offensive YouTube parody video, was just sentenced to one year in prison — apparently for endangering national security and defaming the UAE's image abroad.
A 29-year-old University of Minnesota graduate has been locked up in a Dubai prison since April for making a parody YouTube video about teaching residents of a Satwa, wealthy neighborhood, how to fight. In the video, they learn to throw shoes and call for help over Twitter.
Three things that are amusing about the newly released trailer for shock-auteur Lars von Trier's forthcoming Nymphomaniac:
Today, we're going to talk about whether the internet is Good or Bad for society.
The YouTube Music Awards happened Sunday night and they’re already being called “The Weirdest Event Ever” even though nothing particularly interesting happened. Not many people watched live because they’ll just watch clips on YouTube later.
If you’ve spent enough time on the subway in New York, you’ve probably noticed the train-conductors pointing at a striped black-and-white sign each time they pull into a station. The conductors are required to do this to show they’ve fully arrived on the platform.
Today, Matthew Cordle, the drunk driver who released a YouTube video last month confessing that he'd killed 61-year-old Vincent Canzani, was delivered a sentence of six-and-a-half years by an Ohio judge. CNN has a video of the ruling.
There's a lot of phony ghost videos out there, but this footage from multiple security cameras is perhaps the most shockingly real ghost ever seen. While the entity is clearly visible moving through the aisles and examining the alcoholic beverages offered by the store, the ghost did not actually take any liquor,…
I think we can officially declare proposal videos over. We’ve seen dogs do it, pilots do it, even gay men in Home Depot do it. And now we’ve seen Justin Baldoni do it, which is a beautiful or awful thing, depending on your tolerance for self-promotion.
Four-year-old Adelaide Ames couldn’t sleep because she thought she kept hearing fireworks outside. So her dad, 32-year-old quantum physicist and maker-of-fun-science-videos-for-kids Benjamin Ames, decided they should sing to keep her mind “preoccupied.” And to videotape it and upload it to YouTube because that’s the…
