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Today in Instagram: Errol Morris and Werner Herzog Hug Under a Rainbow
Tom Quinn is a film distributor at RADiUS, one of the divisions of The Weinstein Company. In that capacity, Quinn found himself, earlier this week, at the Telluride Film Festival -- an event attended...
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The Mathematical Formula That Proves Cow-Tipping Is a Myth
Shutterstock/Andreas GradinCow-tipping: the ultimate urban rural legend. In an article for Modern Farmer, Jake Swearingen explains why the activity -- a pastime that has inspired so many drunken...
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A Forgettable Passage to Flight
Christopher SchabergThe romance of flight is often associated with the dramatic landscape of tarmac and runways, where planes prepare for take-off. Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman say their last...
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Australia Just Had a Train Accident That's Being Blamed on ... Millipedes
A millipede, curled in a defensive position (Wikimedia Commons)In 1953, Australia got some accidental tourists from Portugal: millipedes. Black Portuguese millipedes, to be specific, which are known...
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Assad's Bizarre Instagram Account: Propaganda With a Comments Section
"I belong to the Syrian people," Syrian president Bashar al-Assad told the French journalist George Malbrunot, of the newspaper Le Figaro, earlier this week. "I defend their interests and independence...
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The Real Problem With a Service Called 'Ghetto Tracker'
A screenshot of the Ghetto Tracker homepage (GhettoTracker.com via Gawker)A service called "Ghetto Tracker" appeared online at the beginning of this week and quickly drew criticism for its racist and...
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One Map, A World of Temperatures
QuicksilverUpdated, 12:45pm. When people talk about Big Data, they often talk in terms of Messianic solutions for economy-size systems. Roads and highways. Diagnoses and treatments. Buyers and sellers....
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The First Google Doodle Was a Burning Man Stick Figure
The first Google Doodle was an out-of-office message. The day was August 30, 1998 -- nearly two years after Larry Page and Sergey Brin had built a search engine in a Stanford dorm room, and less than...
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The Way We Wed Now
Shutterstock/A.KaZakSo, the wedding announcements of The New York Times. Call them what you will -- a "mergers and acquisitions" report for the society set, reading fodder for Sunday brunches, a...
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On Becoming a Father
At 11:02pm, on Thursday, August 29, my son entered the world, taking his first breaths calmly in my wife's arms. Since then, I've avoided writing about him. For one, I have not wanted to process this...
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NASA Now Has An Instagram Account
Apollo 11’s camera can be seen in the reflection on Buzz Aldrin’s visor (NASA)NASA has an Instagram account. Oh, yes: Now, between pictures of cats, lunches, friends, and your friend’s cat’s lunch, you...
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Found Poetry From Years of Tech Conference Sexism
The first presentation at TechCrunch Disrupt's startup conference yesterday (Instagram/K Jordan)At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference yesterday, the first presentation came from a pair of Australian...
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The Complete Works of Chopin, for Everybody, for Free
Frédéric Chopin (Wikimedia Commons)Frédéric Chopin passed away more than 160 years ago -- sufficiently long ago that today all of his compositions belong to the public domain. Yet, despite this, if you...
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Mapping the 'Geography' of the Internet
If a conversation happens on the Internet, does it make a sound? (David McNew/Reuters) In case you didn’t know, muscle-car lovers have a thriving Internet community. Twitter users like @HookupMyRide...
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Meet the Family That Shuns Technologies Introduced After 1986
Meet the McMillans. They're like a lot of families -- young, unmarried, with two kids, a boy and a girl -- with one notable exception: They live every day like it's 1986. Not in some vague,...
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The Original iPhone Keynote Is Still Amazing to Watch
ReutersA series of tweets from the parody account @nottechmeme tells you everything you need to know about the mood surrounding today's Apple event: The feed pulses with a familiar blend of snark and...
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'Apple Has Quietly Become a Leading Camera Company'
Phil Schiller presents the iPhone 5S's camera. (Wired)As Becca noted earlier today, we've long passed the point at which new iPhone hardware can fairly be called -- in the phrase Steve Jobs so enjoyed...
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Locker, Library, Stream: The 5 Big Digital Music Models of 2013
Tim Cook announces a suite of new products, including iTunes Radio, at Apple’s press event Monday. (Reuters)Apple’s long-awaited streaming music service was announced today. Called iTunes Radio, it’s a...
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There Is a Man Wandering Around California With 3 Mules
There is a man wandering around California with three mules. He has a name, but he prefers to go by Mule. Police departments throughout the state know his name. They inevitably get calls from residents...
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How Not to Commemorate 9/11: Use 9/11 to Advertise Your Product
Earlier today, AT&T posted this image across its social media platforms: AT&T Facebook screenshot via BuzzfeedYep: the lights of the 9/11 memorial, as seen through the screen of a smartphone....
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