VP: Mubarak stands down, military to take over in Egypt
Governments of the world, take heed if you ever consider depriving the people of Facebook and Twitter. After weeks of protests in Egypt calling for resignation of president Hosni Mubarak, protesters...
View Article1.7m video baby monitors recalled after two infant deaths
Nearly two million video infant monitors are being recalled across the United States after two incidents in which infants became entangled in power cords and died. A six-month-old boy from Conway,...
View ArticleCBS releases brief statement on ‘brutal’ sexual assault of Lara Loganl
CBS has made a concise statement regarding the events surrounding the assault of correspondent Lara Logan in Cairo late last week. Logan, 39, pictured above just before the incident, reportedly became...
View ArticleBorders files for Chapter 11, 30% of stores to close
Borders bookstores will be cutting staff and closing nearly 200 stores after filing for bankruptcy. In a statement, the company cited the economic downturn, among other factors leading up to the...
View ArticleJust realized it’s Presidents’ Day? So what all is closed now?
So, today is Presidents’ Day- your kids are at home making noise if you’ve got them, and it’s one of those holidays where no one seems to know what the hell is open. Presidents’ Day generally affects...
View ArticleComic and TV writer Dwayne McDuffie dies after surgery
Dwayne McDuffie, a writer for DC and Marvel who worked on animated TV in later years, died at an unspecified age due to unspecified circumstances following an unspecified surgery, DC Comics has...
View ArticleWis. Governor Walker Breitbarted by fake Koch brother on recorded call
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker won’t talk to Democratic senators in his state about the ongoing battle over union rights in Wisconsin. So who is he taking phone calls from? I hesitated to post this...
View ArticleThe ‘iPad Only’ Paper ‘The Daily’ Could Come To Android Tablets This Spring
Remember when Rupert Murdoch first announced The Daily and he talked about how it would be an iPad only daily, it turns out he may have only meant an ‘iPad Only’ device until something better comes...
View ArticleDemand Media Addresses Google Content Farm Algorithm, Doesn’t Seemed Worried
Yesterday I wrote a post in which I defended the practices of Demand Media and their child company Demand Studios when put up against the new Google Content Farm algorithm. In that post I stated that...
View ArticleDenton addresses controversial Gawker makeover, details ‘bug fixes’
Nick Denton has finally acknowledged the backlash from Gawker’s controversial site redesign, in a lengthy post that rubbed a few commenters the wrong way and didn’t seem to deliver much word of actual...
View ArticleJohn Galliano out at Dior after video of second anti-Semitic tirade surfaces
Designer John Galliano was suspended from Dior last week after he made some anti-Semitic remarks in a Paris bar, but the fashion maven has now been officially axed after a video has surfaced of a...
View ArticleSupremes rule in favor of Westboro Baptist Church in military funeral case
Damn you, Westboro Baptist Church, for making it necessary for signs like “Thank God for dead soldiers” and “AIDS cures fags” to be protected speech. The highest court in the land has ruled in favor of...
View ArticleHuffPo writers strike- why Arianna Huffington’s wildly successful media...
Off the bat, I will admit to having an intense girl-crush on Arianna Huffington. I’ve been an ardent fan of both Politically Incorrect and Real Time with Bill Maher for a decade and a half, and I find...
View ArticleSalmonella fears prompt Skippy Peanut Butter recall in 16 states
For the second time in as many years, a massive recall of a popular brand of peanut butter is underway due to fears of salmonella contamination. The recall only affects two reduced-fat varieties of the...
View ArticlePolitical prankster James O’Keefe at it again, targets NPR
James O’Keefe is a bit like Ashton Kutcher on Punk’d, if the goal of the show was to use scarelore and deceptively edited video to do damage to people who disagree with you politically rather than...
View ArticleNPR CEO out after video controversy
Despite the fact no information reflecting too poorly on the public broadcasting network was revealed in James O’Keefe’s recent bit of ambush “journalism” snaring NPR fundraising exec Ron Schiller,...
View ArticleTarget edges in cheaper than Walmart, group says
If you feel like Target has a better array of mass-market options but shuffle into Walmart for presumed lower prices, you can rest easy on your next Target trip. A recent comparison of the two...
View Article7 tons of ground beef recalled across several states on E. coli fears
Seven tons of ground beef have been recalled by a Kansas packing plant after the dangerous bacteria E. coli was found during third party (neither by the company nor the USDA) laboratory testing....
View ArticleMassive 8.9 Earthquake Hits Japan
A massive 8.9 earthquake hit Japan Friday afternoon (local time) causing widespread flooding and damage across the Japanese islands, including Tokyo. The quake hit at 2:46pm local time (5:46 UTC) and...
View ArticleJapan Tsunami Kills Possibly Hundreds
A Tsunami that followed the 8.9 earthquake in Japan earlier today has killed possibly hundreds of people. Footage of the tsunami shows water flooding across massive areas of rural Japan, as well as...
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