Waiting in line just got a whole lot more fun! The good folks at Cheezburger Network have released a new Android app to view I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL Blog, The Daily What, and 44 more of the humor juggernaut’s meme sites. While Cheezburger previously had dedicated apps for a couple of its biggest sites, […]
There’s a story spreading on Facebook and other social media about a mother who tweeted: Hashtag Jameson was born at 10oclock last night. She weys* 8pounds and I luv her so much!!!! No, I am not including a direct link or screenshot, as I do not think we should be hunting down and mocking this […]
What do you do when you have to email a billion people something they’re not going to like, but you don’t really want to hear all the bellyaching that’s bound to come your way? If you’re Facebook, you bury the bad news in the middle of the longest paragraph on the page, directly under (not […]
Hi, Yahoo! I still use you for my email because you’re a comfortable old friend. But there’s not much else I want from you. I don’t want Yahoo! search, Yahoo! news, or Yahoo! chat. So, how do you become relevant again? People have moved on from your email service. Gmail is all set with Google, and […]
Hi all! I am just brimming over with ideas for everyone. So, in this new column, I’m going to share them. Let’s start with Google. Google gets slammed a lot by people who don’t trust it. Interestingly, I’ve seen friends post to Facebook about not trusting Google, seemingly unaware that Facebook actually has sold consumer […]
It was the middle of my family’s big October cookout/pumpkin-carving extravaganza. Some time after dark, between half-burnt hot dogs and whole-burnt marshmallows, my seven-year-old nephew Owen lost something on the ground and shouted “DOES ANYBODY HAVE A FLASHLIGHT APP?” We laughed, and so did he after we explained it to him, but it got me […]
I drove from Boston to Queens, NY today so that my family and I could be part of my wife’s nephew’s bar mitzvah. The ceremony was originally supposed to take place in his own community of Long Branch, NJ, but the family was forced to move it to my wife’s parent’s synagogue in Queens because […]
Hurricane Sandy, the massive storm that battered the Northeast yesterday, is estimated to have an estimated cost of about $20 billion worth of damage. Power is out for millions, known deaths are in the double digits (and likely to rise sharply after things calm down), public transportation is disrupted on an unprecedented level, the U.S. […]
Jim Cantore, famed American meteorologist for The Weather Channel and pariah of bad weather events, has been spotted outside of Battery Park. Seek shelter, New Yorkers. And every other person living on the East Coast. Don’t let the kind name fool you. Hurricane Sandy is a hell of a storm, and it’s one that most […]
While it’s true that Open webOS has successfully been ported to several devices in Alpha form, that’s a long way from being useful. Yes, HP’s spun off gram division announced Open webOS Professional, a version of its open source OS that will incorporate HP’s cloud services such as Synergy (not included in the non-Professional flavor). […]
