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The ubiquitous audio clip of Christian Bale’s now-notorious freak-out over Terminator Salvation DP Shane Hurlbut’s “light tweaking” has been the talk of the tubes for the past few days. Considering the brevity of its existence, the amount of viral material Bale’s on-set meltdown has produced is staggering, even by Internet standards. We’ve seen everything from [...]

Bill Gates releases mosquitoes on TED audience to prove a point/take some coverage away from Jobs’s ill heath.
The AP sues Shepard Fairey over Obama image.
Hey, New York figured out where that weird maple syrup smell was coming from.
Titanoboa!
Paul Rudd and fellow comedic types explore “literally, hundreds of thousand of sections, all in one newspaper!”
Cookie Monster’s 99 [...]

 
The List-tatorship has been overthrown, and we’re ushering in a new era: The Listocracy.

You can now share listicles from around the web–the most popular links will be featured on our homepage every week and the staff’s favorites will be featured on the blog.
Wield this immense power wisely, citizens of the List-iverse.
-The Listicles Team

In the aftermath of Michael Phelps’s Olympian bong rip, Jezebel takes a look at stars who’ve copped to liking pot.
Go To List: http://jezebel.com/5144624/35-celebrities-who-smoke-pot?skyline=true&s=i

Yet another week of Internet has gone by, and it’s time once again to look back at the viral videos that gave us pause, made us laugh, cry, cringe, reintroduced us to our lunch, helped us get through walking in on our parents having sex, bought us an Xbox for our birthday when we wanted [...]

Slate has hate for Billy Joel.
Microsoft Songsmith: neutering your favorite songs so Michael Buble doesn’t have to.
School of Rock director Mike White is going to be on The Amazing Race.
The Chippendiddys: unfortunately, not a Sean Combs project.
Wrap yourself in another Snuggie parody.
Blago Wanted Oprah to be Illinois Senator. Can you imagine the infighting over State [...]

This week, Americans were united in change.
But on the Internet it was business as usual: New memes were born; old memes were put to rest. A cat video went viral; an anonymous camwhore became micro-famous. A news reporter’s odd behavior was put on the web for all to see; and a farting girl entertained [...]

Hollywood seems intent on gutting the TV Guide archives for script ideas. Sometimes these small-screen-to-big-screen endeavors work (The Fugitive), sometimes they don’t (A Night at the Roxbury), and sometimes they really, really don’t (Bewitched). Here are the upcoming and rumored adaptations that better not ruin my memories:

The A-Team Oh, A-Team movie, my requests are few: [...]

It’s time for us to honor the the medium more easily digestable than the listicle: the tumblelog! Follow us on Tumblr for the best of Listicles and bonus lists from around the web.

Yesterday’s inauguration had plenty of notable moments: John Roberts fumbling the Oath of Office, Ted Kennedy’s health scare at the luncheon, Aretha Franklin’s hat upstaging Aretha Franklin. Mostly, the coverage lent even more lucidity to my dreams of a White House slumber party with Sasha and Malia Obama (at which we’ll play dress-up and prank [...]