Ever since his not-so-amicable split with NBC in January, Conan O’Brien took to the internet, not only to passive-aggressively rage against the machine, but to tout his next venture, Conan on TBS, which debuts on November 8, 2010. His newest venture is slightly more ambitious than a series of tweets. Starting at 1 pm ET, Conan takes to the web ...
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Facebook Has 11,701 Compromised Pages
Feeling secure today? A new report from AVG warns users against social networking sites and the potential for pages that compromise security. Through their research of social networking sites, AVG found 20,000 compromised pages in all, 11,701 of which are on Facebook. YouTube tallied 7,163 compromised pages. “The fact that we found almost 20,000 compromised web pages should make social ...
Read More »Video Captures Fan Reaction in Real-Time To Jim Joyce’s Blown Call During Galarraga Perfect Game
This is why I love YouTube. All hand-farting videos aside. As far as I know this is the only video documenting a fan’s reaction as it happened. If you didn’t already know, Armando Galarraga of the Detriot Tigers was screwed out of a perfect game thanks to a shoddy call by umpire Jim Joyce with two outs in the ninth ...
Read More »All Three Original Star Wars Movies Retold in Two Minutes… with LEGOs
I’m not sure George Lucas understood the cultural significance Star Wars would have on the geek community. From rabid action figure collectors to entire religions, the world of Star Wars is nothing short of a phenomenon. Name any other film that has generated such a cultural furor. Nothing even comes close. So you can only imagine the geek boner I ...
Read More »Star Wars Vs. Star Trek: Picard Takes on Darth in a Battle of Wits (and Lasers)
Star Wars and Star Trek have been locked in an intrinsically geeky battle since the beginning of modern geeky times. I’ve always been way more of a Star Wars guy, as I’m sure you can clearly tell from just taking a fleeting glace at this very blog, but as a master of the science fiction arts, I have to admire ...
Read More »YouTube’s First Video Turns Five Years Old Today: My Little Internet is Growing Up!
You might not be able to imagine what the internet was like before the debut of YouTube, but there was a time, not too long ago, where internet video went hand in hand with awkward scripting and buggy plug-ins. YouTube changed all that. Five years ago today, the world was forever changed when the first video was uploaded to YouTube ...
Read More »David After Dentist 2: This IS Real Life!
In January 2009, a phenomenon began with the posting of David After Dentist onto YouTube by the DeVore family. Since then the original has gathered over 57 million views, making it one of the most popular videos ever published on the internet. Not until today did we get to see a little bit more of what was going on behind ...
Read More »When Memes Collide!: Trololobot
For those of you who prefer their memes kitteh-free, here’s that robotic mouth we posted about last week singing Trololo. Eduard Khil has got to be so jealous of this bot’s lip-syncing skills. Seriously, this robotic mouth and I need to get together and party. Link
Read More »First Video of iPhone OS 4 Shows Multitasking In Action
Here’s the first video we’re aware of showing iPhone OS 4 in the flesh. And what better way to showcase the OS then by playing around with its most anticipated feature – multitasking. The multitasking dock is accessed by tapping the home button twice, which reveals a multitasking pop-up dock which reveals all of your current background running apps. Apple ...
Read More »iPhone Musician AppleGirl Takes on Lady Gaga
Last week we posted about YouTube user applegirl002, a cute Asian girl taking on American pop-music with the help of a trio of iPhones. This time around she’s added another phone to her�arsenal, taking on Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face.” Listening to her commenters requests, applegirl002 introduces the video with a rundown of the apps she uses. The fourth iPhone is ...
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