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Why Do People Really Hate These New Apple Ads? (VIDEO)
During the Olympics, Apple launched its newest round of commercials, and all at once, an entire audience of Mac enthusiasts and digital devotees groaned. Basically, the Apple brand has come to be associated with [...]
Betty White Asks Internet To Get Larry King on SNL with #LarryKingSNL (VIDEO)
On Larry King Now, America’s sweetheart Betty White summoned her friends on the Internet to help comrade Larry King secure a gig to host Saturday Night Live. Since the announcement, fans created a Facebook [...]
Meet the Man Who Began #NBCFail For 2012 Olympics (INTERVIEW)
Yesterday, Mashable posted an article that cited Twitter user Steven Marx as the first person to use the #NBCFail hashtag, which has since emerged as a digital destination for mocking NBC’s shoddy stateside coverage [...]
Photoshoppers Band Together to Fill Empty Olympics Seats With Iconic Characters (PHOTO)
On Monday, Redditor smok_e_wan_kenobe started a thread called, “Something’s up there,” linking to a picture of a bunch of empty seats in an Olympics stadium. Some jokesters started to comment and post their own revised [...]
‘Boys’ Trailer Provides Witty Parody of HBO’s ‘Girls’ (VIDEO)
YouTube channel PeterMikeFrank has created a pretty spot-on parody of Lena Dunham’s HBO drama, Girls, riffing off its greatest quirks and talking points. While Dunham’s television show profiles a group of 20-something girls trying to make [...]
Military Dad Returns Home As Jedi Knight to Surprise His Son (VIDEO)
Star Wars Episode VII: A BIG SURPRISE has just launched on YouTube: A long time ago a dad left for a place far, far away… Col. Rob Kiebler has been training and on a tour [...]
Hans Zimmer Releases Benefit Song To Honor Aurora Theater Shooting Victims
Hans Zimmer, composer of the “The Dark Knight Rises” soundtrack, has recorded a song commemorating the victims of the deadly theater shooting in Aurora, Colo. Titling the recording simply “Aurora,” Zimmer is selling the [...]


