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Like the cheating husband recently busted by his wife’s astute Google Street View investigation, it’s increasingly looking like all the scary 1984-style scenarios we imagined Homeland Security and the NYPD would bring about first will actually arrive by way of the overlords of all things online. With moral policing covered, it appears that actual criminal [...]

While we have nothing against lavish ads per se (truth be told, we enjoy pretty commercials as much as a terrific short film), it’s frustrating seeing millions of dollars worth of production values thrown behind a terrible (or absent) idea. Cracked has a rather terrific roundup of such ill-advised advertisements (though we disagree with the [...]

As we overdose on inauguration coverage today and tomorrow, we’ll be seeing so many American flags that by Wednesday we’ll think every blank surface is covered in stars and stripes. To complement the plethora of flags in today’s news coverage, we’ve been seeing a lot of a fictional flag being waved lately. All the commercials [...]