Tag Archives: twitter celeb

Twitter Gets Greedy With Your Tweets [Advertising]

They might be your tweets, but the money is all Twitter’s: The microblogging service must now get a cut of any advertising sold against Twitter content, even your own content. Nice racket. More

Facebook CEO Is Sorry You’re So Dumb [Social Networks]

Amid mounting criticism over Facebook’s privacy practices, CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued a Washington Post op-ed to apologize for his simpleton users’ inability to understand Facebook. God, how hard can this be, people? More

The (Potential) Intern From Hell Returns [Crazies]

Last month we introduced you to The (Potential) Intern From Hell, a young gent with some very tough words for a company at which he applied to intern. Well, he saw the piece on Gawker. And was not amused. More

Lost Finale Theories from Someone Who Has Never Seen Lost [Listicle]

So, it seems like we are the only website on the Internet today not covering the highly anticipated series finale of Lost . This is because your two weekend editors have never seen the show. But we still have some theories! More

Was Lindsay Lohan Partying with Cocaine When She Was Supposed to be in Court? [Uh Oh]

Here’s a lesson in what not to do when you’re skipping the court date that will decide whether you go to jail for violating probation: Pose beside a tray of cocaine, at a no-pants party in Cannes. LiLo did it. More

Lindsay Lohan Was Partying with Cocaine When She Was Supposed to be in Court [Uh Oh]

Here’s a lesson in what not to do when you’re skipping the court date that will decide whether you go to jail for violating probation: Pose beside a tray of cocaine, at a no-pants party in Cannes. LiLo did it. More

Who Is Rand Paul, And Why Is He In Our Politics? [Field Guide]

Kentucky Republican Rand Paul is in the news! The newly-anointed Republican candidate for U.S. Senate told Rachel Maddow last night that he supported a business’ right to exclude blacks. Everyone got very excited by this. Who is this man? More

The Stuff They’re Using to Clean Up the Oil Spill Is Poisonous, Too [Disasters]

BP’s oil isn’t leaking ” four or fives times ” faster than everyone thought—at a rate of 4 million gallons per day —it’s twenty times worse than BP thought. And the chemical they’re using to “disperse” it is toxic, too. More

Facebook Knows Who You’ll Hook Up With [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]

Facebook’s CEO came up with a way of predicting who a given user would be dating one week in the future, according to a new book about the social network. And he did it for fun. More

Wikileaks Founder Thinks Everyone’s Out to Get Him: Don’t Buy It [Conspiracies]

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange claims that Australian officials confiscated his passport. He added, ominously, that Australian police questioned him about his past. Was it payback for the time Wikileaks published a secret government document? We call bullshit. More