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If you’ve bitten into any of the scary texts about the fast food industry (Fast Food Nation, The Future of Food, Food Inc., Poultrygeist, etc.), you’ll know that their operations often approach organized-crime levels of corruption and manipulation. To make that parallel nice and clear, artist Andrew Shirey made this awesome drawing depicting 5 Members [...]

Who cares what Obama’s presidential portrait will look like? Illustrator Alexander Barrett has beaten the Warhol-hugging prez to the punch with his spectacularly Warholian series of images portraying All 44 U.S. Presidents’ Portraits as Pandas. Our favorite has got to be Pandaham Lincoln:

(via The Daily What)

If there is one thing that can be said with certainty about the Internet it’s that anything that gets posted to the web will likely outlive the insects who have survived the Nuclear Apocalypse. That’s why, starting today, The Daily What will begin forcibly retiring viral sensations whose time has come – for the good [...]

Between the Mother of all Meltdowns and Kids Dropping Nitrous The Darndest Things, last week was a veritable bacchanalia of bitchin’ virals. The parodies flowed like wine-in-a-box, and the mashups were awkwardly slapped together like male reproductive organs involuntarily crossing paths during a drunken tag team.
In all the light-smashing fun, many viral trends naturally fell [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The internet is massive. How massive exactly? Well, a recent Columbia Journalism Review article on information overload put it this way:

“In 2006 alone, the world produced 161 exabytes of digital data, the equivalent of three million times the information contained in all the books ever written.”

Um, so yeah. MASSIVE.
Problem is, you still need to know [...]

Post your own shoe photos at Thank You For Throwing Your Shoe (via BuzzFeed)
2008 Mug Shots of the Year (via Urlesque)
It snowed in Malibu!
And Vegas!
The cast of How I Met Your Mother re-enact 2008’s best moments for Entertainment Weekly
Scarlett Johansson’s used tissue up for auction (via The Daily What)
A Belgian agency lets you do the [...]