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Backlash over accidentally racist tweet urges #CancelColbert
A tweet from The Colbert Report account earlier today has people on Twitter embroiled in an argument over satire and racism. The Twitter account for the satirically conservative Comedy Central show...
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Sharknados and Starships: For RiffTrax's Mike Nelson, the post-MST3K world is...
A movie worse than Transformers 2? Say it ain't so! But for Mike Nelson, co-creator of RiffTrax and former head writer and actor of the beloved cult classic Mystery Science Theatre 3000, finding the...
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Pirate Bay's oldest torrent turns 10 years old (and no, it isn't porn)
The Pirate Bay may be in a constant fight for survival, but "Top Secret Recipes" will apparently never die. That's the name of the oldest surviving torrent file on the site. TorrentFreak noted that...
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Kill La Kill: How the year's most polarizing anime became a smash hit
If you're an anime fan, chances are you've gotten into a Kill La Kill-related argument recently. The wild ride of the first season just ended, leaving fans and critics totally polarized about whether...
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This 'Let It Go' cover has what all the others lack—ice water
It's "Let It Go" like you've never heard it bef—no, wait, stop, where are you going? All right, we know you're a little sick of the Internet dishing up amazingrenditions of the hit theme song from...
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Mom outs her transgender son on Facebook—and it's amazing
Jodi Gholson Oliver loves Peanuts (the comic), Starbucks, and her family. Her Facebook is full of all three. So when her 19-year-old son, Jes, came to her and told her that he was going to be living...
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Fellow white people, it's time to pass the microphone
OK, white people, it's time for us to shut the fuck up and pass the microphone to someone else. You've heard a lot about Suey Park this week. She had the audacity to argue that we should...
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Designer sobers up Comic Sans font with streamlined Comic Neue
Craig Rozynski wants to make our lives better. For too long we've been mired in a world full of annoyingly quirky typefaces. Their bubbly, bold glyphs and ligatures mock us from the pages of...
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Hear the smooth jazz version of the 'Game of Thrones' theme song
The houses of Westeros resumed their struggle to sit on the Iron Throne during last night's season premiere, but on YouTube, one jazz band kicked back with their new version of the Game of Thrones...
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Here's what 'Game of Thrones' would look like in Silicon Valley
Who do you support in the battle to sit on the Internet throne? The folks over at social media client Hootsuite evidently think they're the perfect candidates to unite the divided kingdoms of social...
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Internet Hall of Fame welcomes pioneers behind Netscape, .mp3 file
A Netscape co-founder, an East African software developer, and the guy who brought you the .mp3 are all among the 2014 entrants to the Internet Hall of Fame. This year's 24 inductees hail from 13...
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Here's why it's time to take Wattpad seriously
You might want to start paying closer attention to all those One Direction fics. They could be the new YouTube of the Internet.Wattpad is the sleeping giant nestled at the back doors of both digital...
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Parents are in full meltdown mode over sold-out 'Frozen' merchandise
Disney's Frozen recently became the highest-grossing animated film of all time, and although it's barely left theatres, parents are going into hard-core Easter shopping mode when it comes to finding...
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Are we ready for the 'real' Stephen Colbert?
But will he be Stephen or "Stephen?" The Internet is having a collective braingasm over the news that Stephen Colbert is going to be replacing the legendary David Letterman as the new host of The Late...
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DOJ charges 9 ringleaders for 'Zeus' malware heist
Nine alleged cybercriminals have been charged in the U.S. for stealing millions of dollars from businesses, according to an indictment unsealed Friday in Nebraska. Two people have been indicted for...
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Twitter engineer and GLBTQ activist Dana McCallum charged with rape
Dana McCallum is a Twitter engineer, a gay and trans rights advocate, and proponent of women in tech. Now, she's also an alleged rapist. The San Francisco Examinerhas reported that McCallum was...
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Robert Downey Jr. joins Twitter like a boss: 'You know who I am'
Alert, alert, this is not a drill: Robert Downey Jr. has landed. Repeat: Robert Downey Jr. has landed. Clearly not about to be upstaged by all the attention his Avengers co-star Chris Evans has gotten...
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Of course the 'Divergent' finale film will be split into 2 movies
They said it couldn't be done, but after hitting the magical $100 million mark at the box office, Divergent, the film adaptation of Veronica Roth's bestselling Young Adult dystopic series, is getting...
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Did you miss Sigur Rós on 'Game of Thrones' last night?
Last night's spoiler-laden episode of Game of Thrones held plenty of surprises for fans, but one of the most unexpected had nothing to do with the plot. Popular Icelandic band Sigur Rós turned up...
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School admins suspend L.A. science teacher for doing his job
The Los Angeles Unified School District has suspended a science teacher after two of his students made science projects that school officials thought looked like weapons. The L.A. Timesis reporting...
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