Every celebrity gets made fun of, yelled at, threatened, prodded, dragged in mud and pretty much virtually smacked in the face by people on Twitter. The tweets can be brutal! So Jimmy Kimmel got a bunch of celebrities to read some of the hate tweets they get from random people. More »
Hacked pictures. FBI inbox sweeps. Cameras pointed at mirrors. This year was full of horny, naked Internet. More »
We had a bit of a laugh with Google’s Kevin Bacon calculator. Not everyone needs to tie their searches to the star of Footloose, though, which is partly why Google is pushing out an update to its Knowledge Graph that explains how searches turn up related items. The effort is starting with actors, celebrities and their links to any movies and TV shows they’ve starred in. Looking for Orson Welles and mousing over Rita Hayworth’s portrait reminds us that the two luminaries were married for years, for example. We won’t know when the more intelligent searches will expand, but at least we won’t be quite so confused if the animated Transformers movie appears next to Citizen Kane.
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We see overly specific, overwrought stock photography all the time. Like who ever decides that a picture of ‘hot girl in business suit crying because she’s trapped under cables’ or ‘guy in forest eating an ice cream cone while a bear lurks in the background’ is necessary? Those pictures (or things like it) totally exist! Hell, this parody video making fun of stock photography is only funny because it could be totally real. More »
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For famous people, Twitter is a medium where they can pretend like they’re ‘connecting’ with their fans while actually shilling products for cash monies, retweeting how great they are and… receiving hate tweets from anonymous Twitter snipers. So here’s a bunch of celebrities reading the hate tweets they receive on Jimmy Kimmel. More »
Rick and Erica Jones have been trying to adopt a baby for the past three years. Unfortunately for the Michigan couple, their adoption agency (Morningstar Adoption Center) doesn’t have the means to market their clients—nor do the Jones’s have the enough money to pay for the services of a larger, more successful adoption agency. More »
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