Jack Kevorkian: Rickrollers experience no quality of life and want to give up some things more than others.
eSarcasm | Posted 10.15.2009 | Comedy
Feeling guilty for wasting hours away in front of the boob tube? Not the television, mind you, but the various x-rated "tube" sites scattered all over the Net? Well, you may not need to feel bad at all: It turns out Internet porn may have a positive effect on society.
Daniel Sinker | Posted 10.14.2009 | Technology
What the Republican National Committee debuted is slick, but it's years behind the times, hopelessly tone-deaf, and amazingly patronizing.
Zeeshan Aleem | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
Young progressives' public outrage has been supplanted by a clean virtual connectedness, and movement conservatives have succeeded in exploiting the space left behind.
Brian Alexander | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media
A good magazine is a combination of stories, photos, drawings, opinions, reporting, whimsy, humor. It is an art that is not reproducible nor replaceable by any other medium.
Jared Gardner | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York
Mainstream media sits off at the sideline, discussing the birther movement with its back-to-Africa chants as if there are legitimate concerns here that have nothing to do with racism.
Michael Shermer | Posted 10.06.2009 | World
Trade--the free exchange of products, services, and ideas between people--will not prevent war, but it attenuates its likelihood.
Josh Rosenblatt | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books
Young people are writing more than in any generation before. Like the fella said, you add 140 to 140 to 140 to 140 and pretty soon all those numbers start adding up to something.
wsj.com | GEOFFREY A. FOWLER and JOSEPH DE AVILA | Posted 10.05.2009 | Technology
The Web can be a mean-spirited place. But when it comes to online reviews, the Internet is a village where the books are strong, YouTube clips are goo...
David Weinberger | Posted 10.03.2009 | Technology
We download faster than we upload because of economics, not physics. The business models of telephone and cable companies got written into a physical infrastructure that favors downloads over uploads.
Halle Tecco | Posted 10.04.2009 | Living
Bigger may be better in Texas; but for the rest of us, small steps are all it takes to make a difference. I've searched the depths of the web for the smallest big ideas that help everyday citizens make an impact.
Larry Gellman | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
With investments, mob psychology takes over. People get greedy at the top and afraid at the bottom. At the end of the day, they almost always default in favor of sleeping at night.
nytimes.com | Posted 09.30.2009 | Technology
Privacy advocates are telling Congress and the Federal Trade Commission that tracking of online activities by Web sites and advertisers has gone too f...
Sheila Shayon | Posted 09.29.2009 | Technology
The digital world of communications is the nearest thing to heaven on earth. The smarter we get about the true nature of matter -- the smaller, faster, and more powerful it becomes in our hands.
Cracked.com | Posted 09.26.2009 | Comedy
In case you haven't seen the ads framing Cracked.com these past few day, Family Guy starts back up tomorrow. Which is kind of strange when you conside...
Tom McNichol | Posted 09.24.2009 | Technology
Day One: Let there B-lite. OMG! Or shld I say Oh Me! It's so much easier 2-C now. WTF was I thinking B4? Spent the rest of the day dividing lite from drkness. It is good. :-)
Ef Rodriguez | Posted 11.23.2009 | Denver
Though they may not get the whole fuel efficiency thing, Ford gets social media.
James M. Lynch | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
The level of compulsion for texting, instant messaging and emailing rests in the same pleasure centers of the brain as do other addictions like gambling, narcotics and alcohol.
Times Online | Adam Fresco, Crime Correspondent | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business
A global network of criminals duped eBay customers into buying millions of pounds worth of fake golf clubs in the largest fraud uncovered by the onlin...
Mr. Skin | Posted 11.22.2009 | Style
Explosions and mechanical mayhem have supplanted plot and character at the movies and thus, the simple art of storytelling has moved into living rooms. Where plots develop and characters grow, sex happens.
Jan Pedersen | Posted 11.22.2009 | Technology
We see Bing as the first step in this long process of transforming search from something which often points you somewhere else to try and find your answer.
Art Brodsky | Posted 11.21.2009 | Technology
Net Neutrality is a complicated-sounding term for something very simple. Companies that carry your Internet traffic shouldn't be allowed to play favorites.
Dan Frommer | Posted 11.21.2009 | Technology
Keeping an open Internet is important to consumers and businesses, and monopoly (or duopoly) Internet providers must never be given the role of taste-maker.
Julius Genachowski | Posted 11.21.2009 | Technology
The key to the Internet's success has been its openness...Notwithstanding its unparalleled record of success, today the free and open Internet faces emerging and substantial challenges.
Miles Klee | Posted 10.18.2009 | Comedy