Driving down the highway the other day, I saw an American staple, one that’s been part of my framework for understanding the U.S. for as long as I can remember – the Chik-Fil-A cows. These poorly educated and perpetually inept endorsers of every Chik-Fil-A sandwich ever invented have encouraged the American populace to “Eat Mor […]
Steam is having a massive indie game spring blowout until March 29. Don’t worry about having missed out on any special deals though, because it’s a digital delivery service. There’s no shortage of inventory. Some of the gems we’ve picked up for under $10 include the funnily sarcastic DLC Quest, the visually delightful Incredipede, and […]
This past Wednesday, Google announced Google Keep, poised to take on Evernote as an unstructured collection of digital things. Google’s announcement states that: With Keep you can quickly jot ideas down when you think of them and even include checklists and photos to keep track of what’s important to you. Your notes are safely stored […]
To help capture and build on the excitement generated by the upcoming release of Star Trek Into Darkness (May 17, 2013), Hulu is offering every single episode of every live-action Star Trek series to date for free. Whether your favorite captian is Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway, or even Archer, you can revisit every incarnation of […]
The show may have lasted only four seasons, but DuckTales firmly entrenched itself into the American subconscious during its short run from 1987 to 1990. Disney’s after school show featured the globe-trotting adventures of Uncle Scrooge, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Scrooge’s pilot Launchpad McQuack (who later starred in the other Disney favorite Darkwing Duck), the […]
Last week, Amazon’s Publishing Group announced the launch of a seventh imprint, this one specifically for literary fiction including novels, short story collections, and memoirs. The imprint will go by the name Little A, as well as a digital-only version called Day One for individual stories from debut writers. Amazon’s new imprint follows in the […]
Today marks the seventh anniversary of the first tweet, when Jack Dorsey, creator of Twitter, launched the social network that was first referred to as Twttr. Dorsey, also the founder and CEO of Square, quickly realized vowels were necessary and Twitter was born. The 140-character based platform took off in 2007 though when Twitter appeared […]
Have you visited Facebook in the last minute? So have 276,000 other people. How about watched a YouTube video? You joined an audience of 1.3 million. Tweeted about how much you have to get done today in so little time? So have 100,000 other people using Twitter. These numbers and more come form Intel, who […]
It appears that the social network LinkedIn is down at the moment. According to CNET, this is happening in spurts. In fact, in the middle of writing this article, the site came back up, but now looks to be down again. LinkedIn actually predates the term social network. Largely dismissed in the era of Facebook and Twitter, the site […]
From the random teen uploading six seconds of video to show what he’s LOLling about to Joss Whedon capturing a staccato video of his Much Ado About Nothing cast heading to SXSW, Vine has surprisingly and quickly captured people’s attention. The app, which allows you to instantly share six-second videos to Twitter and Facebook, only […]
