Not All Online Editors Are Made Equal

Not All Online Editors Are Made Equal

What you see is possibly perhaps maybe slightly tangentially almost related to what you may or may not get. Or, WYSIPPMSTARTWYMOMNG as I like to call it. [XKCD]

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This Week's Top Comedy Video: NSA on TV

This Week's Top Comedy Video: NSA on TV

What goes on in the shrouded, secret meetings at NSA headquarters? How does the agency monitoring every electronic communication you ever sent or received figure out who to spy on every day? Turns out, it’s a lot like the meetings at that other shadowy three-letter spy agency, TMZ.

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This Week's Top Comedy Video: Idiotsitter

Look, it’s a rough economy. Harvard-educated Billie is left seeking babysitting jobs. And accepting them, even when the job isn’t exactly as straightforward as advertised.

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Watch the First Trailer for HBO's New Silicon Valley Comedy

The first trailer for HBO’s forthcoming Silicon Valley comedy series called, err, Silicon Valley has just appeared online for you to watch.

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If You're Browsing the Second Page of Google Results, You're Despetate

If You're Browsing the Second Page of Google Results, You're Despetate

It’s cold, dead wasteland that second page. Reach the third, and you’re in real trouble. [XKCD]

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This Week's Top Comedy Video: Putin's Local Olympics Commercial

The Sochi Winter Olympics were Russia’s chance to cultivate a powerful image on the world stage. Whether they achieved that is still up for debate. But did you ever wonder how Russia promoted the Olympics to its home audience? Turns out, they went for a slightly different aesthetic.

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The Onion's Exclusive Look at Netflix's Genius "Browse Endlessly" Plan

Netflix is great for discovering new movies and TV shows. You just keep scrolling and scrolling, browsing away but never watching anything. Good news! Now you can do as much aimless browsing as you want, and save money, with Netflix’s $5 a month "browse endlessly" plan, as The Onion reports.

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This Week's Top Comedy Video: Reggie Watts Teaches Science

Man, imagine if you could go back in time and replace your dull, boring high school science teacher with someone cool. Someone who’d help make you smart, and listen to your feelings too. Someone like Reggie Watts. You literally wouldn’t believe all the stuff he’d teach you.

Find more hilarity, including Paul F. Tompkins’ interview with Eric Andre, over at Splitsider.

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Instagram Would Have Been Even Awesomer In the 80s

We assume that all of the media we consume, and all of the social networks we obsess over, are only made possible by modern technology. But as this video demonstrates, even Instagram could have existed back in the 1980s—with only minor changes to how the service works today.

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Pranking people into thinking you’re an Apple Store employee is funny

When you walk inside an Apple store and start swiping one of their iPads, a clingy, colorful shirt wearing person usually attaches themselves to you and gives you the verbal rubdown of the features. It’s part of the Apple Store experience! But what if that Apple Store employee was a fake? What if they scared you away with rumors of diseased products, advice to buy Android phones and unbelievable steals? Well, it’d be pretty damn funny.

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