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 […]
South by Southwest lasts 10 days during the month of March. The festival takes place in Austin, TX. SXSW is broken up into three sections: Interactive, Film, and Music. Throughout the festival, many innovations come to light and old ideas are reinvented. Most days’ events begin with panels at 9:30 or 11 AM and end […]
Almost everyone has gotten used to seeing that little hashtag (#) in posts. Used on Twitter to denote a topic, the hashtag manages to show up elsewhere too. Maybe your friends cross post or maybe they’ve simply gotten used to using it. Facebook is betting on the latter. The Wall Street Journal alleges that the […]
“What we’re going to discuss here is of an adult nature. If you are offended by such topics or images, you should leave now. No? Okay, let’s begin then.” This is how Jay Kopita (Vice President of adult industry news site YNOT) introduced himself and other speakers yesterday at the “Adult Industry Trends & Their […]
It’s fair to say that America has, at best, a mixed record responding to natural disasters. The high profile failures of Hurricane Katrina still loom large, and while the response to Hurricane Sandy wasn’t the same unmitigated fiasco, such a statement is damning with faint praise. The government – some of it anyway – knows […]
I like the word cunt. Along with fuck, cunt is one of my favorite words. In my native South London, I use it as punctuation. A noun, a verb, and an adjective. Savoring the hard C, the drawn out U, ending in the satisfying NT. A word that is like the sex it describes, just […]
“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.” — Anais Nin There’s been a little disturbance in the force of the coffee world lately, with the […]
Butler’s Wharf lies on the south bank of the Thames, just to the East of Tower Bridge. One hundred years ago, tea clippers unloaded crates of tea from China and India, a commodity that made many investors rich and cemented the reputation of the Brits as a nation of tea drinkers, exchanging gossip over the […]
Never has liking a post on Tumblr or retweeting someone felt so profound. Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield, presently floating through space on the ISS as the flight engineer, has taken it upon himself to take jaw-dropping pictures of the Earth from space and then post those pictures on Tumblr. There is an astronaut currently in […]
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 […]
