Taryn Southern, Alex G’s ‘I Love It’ Music Video is Hotter Than McDonald’s Coffee [VIDEO]

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Taryn Southern and Alex G have teamed up to cover an infectious song by Swedish duo Icona Pop called “I Love It.” When one of the documented hottest girls on the internet (so what if I’m the one doing the documenting?) and her hot fellow YouTuber friend make a music video, you know I’m going [...]

Redditor Offers Alleged Leak of Daft Punk’s Latest Album for Download

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If you want dibs on Daft Punk’s first original album in eight years, “Random Access Memories,” you don’t have to wait for May 21. Reddit user Username12368 went on the Daft Punk subreddit claiming he had the actual album available and told other users, “PM me for a link. THIS IS NOT A JOKE.” More [...]

Joss Whedon Joins Twitter To Make Microblogging More Fun

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  Finally, someone interesting on Twitter — things have gotten a little stale since the pope retired. Joss Whedon, super director and generally well-regarded wit, has decided to shake up the world 140 characters at a time. Granted, he started out on Twitter in much the same fashion as most of us — kind of [...]

[UPDATED] Fake Pumpcast News? Gas Station Karaoke Explodes With Viral 7.7 Million Views Over Weekend [VIDEO]

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 UPDATE [5/13/13 11:37AM]: Well, you’ve got to hand it to TheSmokingGun — they get their stories. Shortly after revealing that Charles Ramsey had a nasty criminal past, they’ve dropped the bombshell again with the potential evidence that this video of a cute couple doing karaoke at a gas station might be fake as well. It [...]

BangWithFriends Glitch Shows Who Of Your Facebook Friends Are Banging

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I was wondering why I wasn’t getting any hits … A Facebook glitch, found here, currently allows you to see all of your friends that are signed up for BangWithFriends, the sexy app that makes hooking up a breeze. Unfortunately, exactly zero of my FB friends are signed up for the free service. So either [...]

Social Star Awards Trailer Puts Harley Morenstein in the Obi Wan Role For An Epic YouTube Event [VIDEO]

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Before I answer the question of “Why another social media awards show?” I first want to say, watch this trailer for the Social Star Awards and answer this: “Are you not excited?!” The why of the Social Star Awards, presented by Starcount and sponsored by YouTube, is simple: social media is a global medium and [...]

Karmawhoring? Nudity Can Be Good Business on Reddit — But is It Healthy?

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Reddit’s been showing her tits a lot lately and it’s starting to get old. As the seeming go-to site for good, dishy stories on slow news days, the so-called “Front Page of the Internet” is a sort of catch-all for the newsworld to dip a ladle into, in search of muck. The Daily Dot just [...]

Sexy Snapchat Pics Can Be Permanently Removed From Blackmailer Phones — For $300

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It used to be that once you took a racy photo, it was out in the world forever. Your best bet was that a former flame didn’t leak it to the internet. Snapchat came along and attempted to cure that problem by creating non-savable images. That way, if you, or more likely your impetuous child, [...]

Who Is Telling The Truth? Charles Ramsey’s ‘Hero’ Status Challenged By ‘Fake Hero’

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Yesterday, I wrote a piece documenting the fallibility of our “heroes” and memes — people that we think are these great human interest spectacles often have real flaws that constrain them from becoming whatever it is we want them to be. Charles Ramsey is the latest of our “heroes” to walk the tricky path of [...]

Celebrities Read Mean Tweets in Latest Installment of Kimmel Skit [VIDEO]

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I’m not sure how mainstream celebrities are able to handle the extreme vitriol and hate they receive on social media sites like Twitter, so it’s a wonder that Jimmy Kimmel has found a great number of them willing to read the angriest Twitter rants from their biggest haters. In his latest viral installment of “Celebrities [...]

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