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She’s Chew-back-a! The Chewbacca Mom‘s infectious laughter led a video of herself to rack up more than 140 million views in three days. Now Candace Payne is joining the carpool lane. On Monday’s episode of “The Late Late Show,” James Corden recruited Payne to drive him to work. Normally, Corden would break out some karaoke…
One of the joys of modern technology is how easy it is to immerse yourself in the past. Every day, more libraries and archives are pushing pieces of their collections online in easily browsable interfaces. The New York Public Library, for instance, has historic menus and interactive floor plans. Chronicling America is a searchable repository…
/end .figure THE ANIMATOR: …So we were thinking, why not center it on the Warner brothers and their sister, Dot? EXEC #1: Who’s we? EXEC #2: The Warner Brothers had a sister? THE ANIMATOR: My fellow toonsmiths and I. And not like, the historical Warner Brothers. We’re talking about cartoon characters created by the…
Recently, housing resource site Abodo released a study showing the most hate-filled places in America according to their tweets. Now, CollegeStats.org, a group that compiles data on America’s colleges and universities, has prepared a similar report for schools in America. They looked at tweets originating from within one mile of a college campus center with…
Over the past decade, the Tweet has evolved from a simple 140-character text message to a rich canvas for creative expression featuring photos, videos, hashtags, Vines, and more. In just the past few months we added the ability to poll your community, react quickly and cleverly with GIFs, and share and enjoy Periscope broadcasts in…
French police raided Google’s offices in Paris Tuesday, looking for evidence of money laundering and tax evasion. The state prosecutor said specialist anti-corruption officers and 25 tech experts took part in the search. They were trying to establish the scale of Google’s business in France and to determine whether it has paid enough taxes. French…
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Say hello to Ramzan Kadyrov. He’s currently notable for two things: 1) He’s what some describe as the despotic leader of Chechnya, a region in Russia, and 2) He has lost his cat. Instagram: @kadyrov_95 Here’s a translated version of Kadyrov’s lamentation posted last week, minus the emojis, provided by The Guardian. We have completely lost…
Late Friday afternoon, a press statement appeared on the website of the think tank Demos that set significant segments of policy Twitter and left-wing political Twitter ablaze. They said they had, in essence, fired Matt Bruenig from a part-time job blogging on their website over his refusal to apologize for a couple of mean tweets…
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