Aol and Yahoo Might Merge into One Giant Clusternut of Awful

In the best tie-up since that time I made myself a Vodka and skim milk out of sheer desperation, Aol and Yahoo may merge. It’d be just like Voltron, if Voltron were a rotten egg riding atop a ruptured spleen. More »

Everything You Need to Know About the Aol TechCrunch Clusterf*ck

Aol’s Techcrunch is in disarray. Last week Aol/Techcrunch announced a venture fund that would finance the kind of start-ups it covers. That made lots of people cry foul. Now Mike Arrington’s out of a job. What does it all mean? More »

Twitter Doesn’t Give a Damn Who You Are

Twitter had a meeting yesterday to talk about how big it was. But what really came across was that while Facebook and Google+ value your identity, Twitter doesn’t care who you are, as long as you’ve got something to say. More »

Ask a Pro: How to Shoot an Awesome Music Video on a Rollercoaster Without Permission

How do you shoot a music video on a legendary Coney Island roller coaster? If you’ve got the budget, you could rent the ride for $6000 per day—double director Jeremy Johnstone’s budget for the entire video shoot. More »

Amazon Should Buy WebOS

If there was one company that could rival Apple, Google and Microsoft, it’s Amazon. It has devices; it has a content marketplace. But what Amazon doesn’t have is its own platform. webOS could be the final piece in its puzzle. More »

The Nike Air Mag—AKA the Back to the Future Shoes—Are Real, and They’re Glorious

Ever since Back to the Future Part II came out and tickled my fanciful soul with the Nike Air Mag, I’ve been waiting to get my hands on a pair. They’re finally real and oh my god they’re so dreaaamy. More »

7 Tools to Build the World’s Greatest POLICE DOG

Contrary to popular belief, DOGS (of either the WAR or POLICE variety) are not impervious to bullets. And yet! Man’s best friend still throws caution to the wind in order to serve and protect. More »

Jell-O Brain Mold Is the Jiggly Deal of the Day

I don’t remember the last time I ate Jell-O, just to eat Jell-O. Who does that anymore? Wait. Why don’t I do that anymore? Jell-O was one of my favorite things as a kid and now that I’m a stuffy ah-dult, I don’t eat the colored clear crack because I’m too big time now? That’s stupid. I’m stupid. My younger self would hate me for not buying all the candy I pass by when I’m at the market and all the times I drive by Toys ‘R Us and never pull in and all the other things I promised I would do when I had money and freedom but don’t do anymore. More »

Cuba’s Lung Cancer Vaccine Could Save Your Life

Cuba, famed maker of delicious (and cancery) cigars, may just have an anti-lung cancer vaccine that’s worth getting excited about. CimaVax-EGF isn’t preventative, but it may make this horrible deadly disease just a plain old horrible disease. More »

How the Greenest Skyscraper Ever Is Rising Out of the Rubble of the World Trade Center

On September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center transformed from a pair of gleaming towers into a carcinogenic pile of smoldering rubble that’s still killing people. Currently rising out of that rubble, though, is a skyscraper with the most environmentally advanced technologies ever attempted at the scale. More »