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'GIF specialist' is now a real job
Heads up, Tumblr fans, Imgur hounds, and other GIF-lovers: your passion for painstakingly editing video footage into short looping image segments is now your best career asset. Giphy, the popular...
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A perfect score on Metacritic might not mean what you think it does
As it enters into wide release and racks up increasingly glowing reviews, Boyhood joins an elite list of films with a perfect score of 100 on Metacritic. But does that actually mean Richard...
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Why we love 'Cooking With Dog'
There was once a hard-hitting journalism piece here about the mysterious chef-and-canine pair behind Cooking With Dog, the Japanese cooking show that's been going strong for seven years on YouTube....
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Time Warner CEO discusses future HBO streaming options
It looks like Time Warner is finally hearing the cries of consumers desperate for an independent streaming option for their favorite HBO shows. Yesterday, at the company's quarterly earnings call, CEO...
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J.K. Rowling sent a letter to teen who lost her family in tragic shooting
It's not like we needed further proof that Harry Potter makes you a better human being, but J.K. Rowling has just outdone herself in the running for world's best person. Rowling sent a special letter,...
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The literary allusions of 'True Detective' are not plagiarism
Earlier this week, fansite editors Jon Padgett and Mike Davis got together to present a case that Nic Pizzolatto, the creator and Emmy-nominated writer of True Detective, is a plagiarist.Citing a...
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Can Twitter help get 'Deadpool' out of preproduction purgatory?
It should come as no surprise to anyone, but almost 30,000 tweets in 21 hours has made it clear: The only thing the people want more than a Black Widow movie is a Deadpool movie. Stories of that...
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This parliamentary fist fight is actually mathematic perfection
It's been such a tense year for Ukrainian/Russian relations that recently tensions in the Ukrainian Parliament erupted into an all-out brawl between proponents of the Communist and nationalist sides...
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Benedict Cumberbatch is now an actual otter
It's been two and a half years since Tumblr user redschorlach first enlightened the world about the striking resemblance between Benedict Cumberbatch and otters. Now, a Chattanooga aquarium has made...
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Somebody wrote a steamy fanfic told from the perspective of Groot
In case you haven't yet seen Guardians of the Galaxy, there's only one thing about it you need to know to understand the new fanfiction going viral on AO3 and Tumblr, and that's "I am Groot"—the only...
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Ditch your white-noise machine for the dulcet tones of Hogwarts
"You're sitting in a comfortable chair in front of the fireplace in the Gryffindor common room as the evening wind swirls against the windows. You've got a book to read and a cup of tea that you've...
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Life-long 'Star Wars' fan learns he's going to be in 'Episode VII'
Star Wars fan D.C. Barns was just 5 years old when he saw Episode IV in theaters in 1977. "At Cinema 70 in Colorado Springs... I just couldn't get it out of my head for 35 years," he told videographers...
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'Sherlock' is more like 'The Princess Bride' than you think
Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while–especially if you faked your death to track down heinous criminals away from your mourning princ– er, roommate.Tumblr user...
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Missing Justin Bieber cutout inspires a desperate Craigslist plea
Somewhere in the Centennial State, a rogue cardboard cutout of Justin Bieber is on the move. He could be anywhere, watching you as he makes his way through the rolling Colorado foothills. Perhaps he's...
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GoPro sent a team of divers underwater to pet a tiger shark
Let's face it: this week just sucks. Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall are no longer with us, Ferguson, Mo. currently resembles a surreal dystopia, and we still don't have a Black Widow movie. On the...
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Tomb Raider fans are furious over the new game's exclusive release
To look at the level of outrage from gamers on the Internet today, you'd think that no war had ever counted as many casualties as the console war between the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4. But then,...
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Why do we love Deadpool so much?
At conventions, he's the crown jewel of superhero cosplay, the trickster just waiting to surprise you in the middle of a photo op. In Marvel fandom, he's beloved, a tour de force of rogue anti-hero,...
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Marvel's 'Inhumans' may have a completed script—and Vin Diesel
Fresh from his Guardians of the Galaxy turn as everyone's new favorite talking tree, Vin Diesel turned heads earlier this week when he hinted at a role in another ensemble film, Marvel's The Inhumans....
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Missouri Governor criticized for tweets during Ferguson protest
The Missouri governor's office has finally issued a brief statement tonight about the Ferguson protests that have shut down the city and captured the attention of the world."The worsening situation in...
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The YouTube version of Shark Week is so much better than the original
It's no secret that every time a shark dies, a GoPro employee begins weeping. But the staggeringly high number of sharks that humans kill—100 million each year, or three sharks per second—should have...
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