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One of these days we plan to set our office coffee mugs up with Twitter accounts, so they can tells us when they are getting nearly empty, when they need cleaning, when they are being used for substances other than coffee, and the like. If nothing else, it’ll help maintain office sanity. Judging by the [...]

The Internet, digital and dematerialized though it may seem, is also a very real place in as much as it dictates how millions of people live their lives–not to mention its various physical and architectural manifestations in cables, processing centers, web infrastructure and so on. At any rate, like many real things that we don’t [...]

Today is National Cookie Day, which we imagine means every American citizen must take it upon him or herself to eat as many cookies as possible, which we’ve already been doing for over eleven hours now, so we win the National Cookie Day prize! What, there’s no prize? Oh well, there’s cookies, and those are [...]

Disney has made billions off anthropomorphizing animals, Transformers has done the same with vehicles, now it’s the Internet’s time. That is how we get this illustration imagining that If 7 Popular Websites Were People they would look something like the following assortment of vaguely anime-looking characters. Click image for larger version.

(via Urlesque)

Though LIsticles has yet to join the Twittering masses (lists are hard to pull off in 140 characters), we have a fairly substantial understanding of the new medium. Still, the options seem limitless, and so it’s nice every so often when someone we know and like narrows the focus somewhat and recommends some surefire twitterers [...]

Spring is here, and with all the strollers and toddlers on the sidewalks it’s starting to feel a lot like baby season. In fact, a couple of good friends recently had a baby, and in our typically unimaginative way we headed to the local toy store to get the kid a teddy bear as a [...]

24-hour news channels and countless Internet outlets allow every news topic its allotted 15 minutes of fame and then some. Certain subjects produce a bounty of newsworthy details, but in a world where blogs update us three times a day on already-exhausted subjects and readers have a fly’s attention span, overexposure and ubiquity are [...]

Facebook owns your soul, according to new terms of service.
Bristol Palin thinks, like, abstinence-only education isn’t, y’know, responsible, given how much teenagers like to do it or whatever.
Connecticut police officers shoot a precious, adorable, killer chimpanzee.
Nate Silver called Barack Obama’s win, why not Mickey Rourke’s?
Twitter users get behind Kiwis’ civil rights.
Is that you, Chunk? (via The Daily What)
Is [...]

Blink-182 announces reunion, pop punk crosses fingers for a revival.
My Little Pony dressed up for Comic-Con.
Twitter strives for genuine deal with His Holiness after his bogus feed attracted 16,000 followers over the weekend.
Usain Bolt gives competitor a face-full of celebration.
It’s so hard to live on $500k in New York City.
The Pepsi Rorschach test logo.
Career woman’s [...]

Those mainstream mediators at TIME have released their annual list of lists, and among the most fascinating is their hierarchy of time-capsule buzzwords. Their Top 10 Buzzwords listicle goes like so:

1. Change: The all-pervasive shorthand for Barack Obama’s campaign, uses of “change” in 2008 automatically assumed a time of hardship and a vague, knee-jerk optimism, [...]