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Remember that viral video from 2011 where a honey badger trots around, aggressively not caring about things? Well, the guy who made it—Christopher Gordon, who goes by the pseudonym “Randall”—is suing Papyrus and design company Drape Creative over some greeting cards that use the phrase HONEY BADGER DON’T GIVE A SHIT. Just a quick…
The award-winning actress discusses the return of Dana Scully in Fox’s beloved supernatural series and her epic battle to be treated equally on the show. “People have said to me, ‘I can’t believe that happened, how did you feel about it, that is insane.’ And my response always was, ‘That was then, this is now.’…
Microsoft has been experimenting with guessing people’s ages and emotions recently, and now the software maker has created an Android app to show off its machine learning skills. Mimicker Alarm for Android isn’t your regular alarm. While most of us wake up at an intolerable hour to the sounds of wind chimes, some European techno, or…
Ev Williams made it easy for people to say what they want online. But the man who created Blogger, then Twitter and now Medium says the Web is on its way out, at least as a place to publish your thoughts. In an interview with Peter Kafka on the latest episode of “Re/code Decode,” Medium…
The National Weather Service has issued another one of their classic caps-lock WEATHER WARNINGS, this time hectoring all humans in the northeast, mid-Atlantic and beyond to brace for a blizzard of wicked blizzarded proportions. A Blizzard Watch will officially be in effect in NYC starting Saturday morning at 6 a.m., and is expected to remain…
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser delivered an apology to the residents of the District after the city failed to adequately prepare for an inch of snowfall Wednesday, which caused significant delays during rush hour. (WUSA9) As we’ve proved before, we’re not good at snow. And on Wednesday night, we proved it again in utterly humiliating fashion,…
Back in November, Grimes released her technicolor new record, Art Angels. During The FADER’s cover story reporting back in the summer, we sat down with Canadian producer and singer Claire Boucher in her Los Angeles home to find out how she’s evolved the Grimes project, the misconceptions she has to deal with as a DIY…
Prospect Lefferts Gardens. Photo by Barbara Eldredge Yes, it’s true, the mind-boggling Brooklyn real estate boom of the last three years slowed in the fourth quarter, just as real estate agents predicted. No, not everyone will agree, but the numbers have spoken. It’s great news for buyers, who could use a break, and not bad for…
Would your son want to play with an action figure of Rey, the central figure in the latest Star Wars film? Would your daughter? It’s too bad they don’t have the choice; Hasbro, among other toymakers, left out the one key female figure in their The Force Awakens game sets. Hasbro says it was to…
VICE started in 1994 as a newsprint monthly in Montreal, and is now a global youth media company that includes print, event, music, online, television, and feature film divisions that operates in over 30 countries. VICE is the industry leader in original video for the web. With dozens of original series franchises across all content…