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Tumblr You Should Be Reading Right Now: "Texts From Bennett"

This is Bennett. Bennett is a seventeen-year-old white bro who "thinks he's a Crip" and has trouble spelling. Also, he is hilarious. Inexplicably, Bennett has a really bright, well-spoken (well-texted) cousin who he texts regularly about things like "lasanya" and whether it's...

Posted to Phlog (Weblog) by Alexandra Cavallo on 12-01-2011
PODCAST: William Gibson on celebrity, technology and top-secret jeans [MP3]

Author William Gibson has been called the father of cyberpunk and coined the term "cyberspace" back when Internet was little more than a twinkle in DARPA's eye. That's enough to mean that he's probably developed a fan base devout enough to build shrines in his honor, or at least...

Posted to Phlog (Weblog) by Katie Lannan on 08-04-2011
Hulu for film geeks? Criterion Collection launches new streaming-video "online cinemateque"!

Spoiler alert: if you're a film geek, the rest of your work day is about to go up in flames. Criterion launched a long-awaited new web site this morning , taking the first step towards digital distribution for the most coveted catalogue in film. Warning: It's still in wicked beta. But the plan...

Posted to Phlog (Weblog) by Carly Carioli on 11-25-2008
FairPoint rolls out old technology

Tens of thousands of FairPoint customers in Maine now have the option to become official second-class citizens on the Internet, and the company is very proud, touting the accomplishment in a press release ( in PDF form here ) and following it up with a cheery call from a marketing person who couldn't...

Posted to About Town (Weblog) by Jeff Inglis on 07-11-2008
Garfield Minus Garfield

And speaking of not detoxing, here's more shizzle from the Interwebs. Garfield Minus Garfield is exactly how it sounds: the lonely, depressing tale of John Arbuckle or, as the GMG mastermind puts it: "Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result...

Posted to Phlog (Weblog) by Will Spitz on 04-24-2008
Grand Theft Auto IV hits the internet, Microsoft investigating

So a pirated copy of the PAL (Australia, New Zealand, and the EU) version of Grand Theft Auto IV - in part, the subject of the cover story of this week's Phoenix - hit the internet last night . Presumably, someone leaked an advance review copy (don't look at us, we haven't even gotten it...

Posted to Phlog (Weblog) by Ryan Stewart on 04-24-2008
The Stupidest Bike Lane

Last week, Slate's video editor Andy Bowers posted a video of his self-nominated "Stupidest Bike Lane in America," a lane in Western Los Angeles that runs a mere 275 feet before disappearing suddenly and completely amidst busy LA traffic - sort of a "Fuck off" to bikers from LA...

Posted to Phlog (Weblog) by Will Spitz on 03-31-2008
099 Jerry Yang

[99] JERRY YANG YAHOO COLLABORATOR Yahoo’s Chinese-American founder allowed his company to give up the IP address of a Chinese Yahoo subscriber who’d criticized the Chinese government, resulting in that guy’s arrest, torture, and imprisonment. May your wang get run over by a Communist tank.

Posted to Unsexiest 2008 (Forum) by webteam on 03-27-2008
068/069 Sergei Brin and Larry Page

[68 + 69] SERGEI BRIN AND LARRY PAGE GOOGLE’S DUD DUO Big Brother, thy name is Google. The company’s billionaire co-founders have become the public faces (and not particularly pleasant to look at faces, mind you) of webternet over-reach, turning a pretty good search engine into an enormous consumer love...

Posted to Unsexiest 2008 (Forum) by webteam on 03-27-2008
058 Craig Newmark

[58] CRAIG NEWMARK LOATHSOME LISTER Craigslist > Boston/Camb/Brook > Missed Connections. You: all over the Internet, offending every sensibility of graphic design, beginning every blog post with the word “Hey.” Us: still smarting about our classifieds business going up in smoke, marveling at how...

Posted to Unsexiest 2008 (Forum) by webteam on 03-27-2008

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