Some have long argued that Google is in the midst of taking over the world, but has the giant media company actually tapped into the otherworld?

An image from Google Maps' Street View has people wondering just what is going on on 9th Street in Carroll Gardens.

UPDATE, 9:30pm EST: #Thatsafrican is no longer a trend. Was it taken down by Twitter?

Oh man, this won't end well at all. Just as Twitter began to show the world how important the new medium can be, beating back claims that the tiny technology had already jumped...

College baseball managed to not be boring for about twelve minutes on Thursday when players from UConn and USF held an impromptu dance-off during a rain delay. The guys brought out all the freshly old standards such as Soulja Boy and the Macarena to keep themselves from going stir crazy...

I'm about to sound like a member of my parents' generation, but here it goes: I'm constantly amazed by the blogosphere. I work at a blog (the one you're currently reading), so I really shouldn't feel this way. After all, I see the inner-workings, the behind-the-scenes maneuvering and the unpolished...

UPDATE, 4pm EST, 2/25:

A Huffington Post commenter has received the following email from McDonald's:

Thank you for taking the time to contact McDonald's to let us know your thoughts on this unfortunate incident.

This restaurant is an independently owned McDonald's and an insurance claim is still pending....

The mistreatment of locals in oil rich countries by rich oil companies is nothing new. We all know about the collusion that goes on between oil companies and despotic and corrupt governments all over the world, especially in Africa. It's been covered for years. But most of us...

Well, it had to happen at some point. The Daily Mail is reporting that the first ever "Facebook divorce" has occurred in Lancashire, England. How is that legally binding, you ask? Well, it's not. But telling someone you want a divorce via Facebook pretty much guarantees your spouse isn't...

As Hollywood has co-opted (and arguably corrupted) so much of the geek canon in recent years, the line between true-nerd and faux-nerd has become blurred to the point of illegibility. Throw in the rise of Hipsters -- many of whom were geeks or "misunderstood" in high school -- as the...

There's something to be said for giving the bin Laden family a break. After all, Osama is just one leaf on a giant sequoia of a family tree. Who's to say the other members of the family aren't allowed to go about their lives as regular people? We all have...

At the age of 87, the Kebab King Mahmut Aygün has died.

To be honest, up until about ten minutes ago, I had no idea who Mahmut Aygün was or that there even was a "Kebab King," yet now I mourn his death tremendously. After all, this is the...

If, as planned, I had written this post yesterday, it would have gone much differently. I was prepared to denounce the oversaturation of Obama/Lincoln and Obama/Roosevelt comparisons in the lead up to Barack Obama's inauguration. Instead, I would argue, we should be noting the similarities between the time in which...

To the victor go the spoils, and to the loser, well, what does go to the loser? In recent presidential elections it seems that there are two paths the loser can take -- one of public redemption and refusal to be cast as irrelevant (see: Gore, Al), and one of...

"How do we get back?"

That is the question of the hour. How, after last week's pitiful and painful collapse of our financial system, can we set the clock back and either right the wrongs, or simply rise above them?

Perhaps, for the first time in our nation's history, there...

I'm constantly amazed by people's foresight. Henry Ford bet against all odds that the car would become a ubiquitous part of American life. Steve Jobs correctly predicted the movement of computers from the laboratory to the home. And now comes a comparable act of sheer genius: www.VPILF.com.

When news...

It was just a few months ago that orange-clad monks in Tibet and activists across the world took to the streets in protest of China's crackdown in the Tibetan region, and consequently, the Olympic Games being held in Beijing this summer. In the days that followed, the Olympic torch came...

Here we go again. Just two months after we broke Recipegate comes news that Cindy McCain is up to her old tricks. The July 2008 issue of Family Circle featured an article in which each (it went to press before Hillary conceded) of the presidential candidates' significant