He was America's most beloved deejay, the unmistakable voice who created 'American top 40' and rose to fame on the schmaltzy but irresistible charm of his "long-distance dedications." all of which makes the tabloid circumstances of his demise — an epic family feud waged in streets, courtrooms, and funeral homes from L.A. to Oslo — even more surreal.
Every day it seems like there’s some crazy new kind of coffee we’re supposed to be drinking that comes out of a monkey’s anus or an elephant’s snout or a kangaroo’s pouch or something. Honestly, keeping up with coffee trends is exhausting. That’s why we just have Moustache Coffee Club send us the best stuff out there, no hassle, no animal orifices. If you like coffee, you should try them for free.
By the time we thought about leaving Afghanistan, we’d been tossing gear into the country for more than a decade. This is the story of how we moved out.
For most of the last two seasons, the Seattle Seahawks have been the most physically prepared team in the NFL, a collection of perfectly honed athletes that can outrun and outmuscle opponents at will. The Seahawks’ secret weapon, though, just might be the team’s willingness to give a sports psychologist the freedom to roam the training facility, locker room and even the sidelines every game, to make sure their heads are as sound as their bodies.
When huge swaths of your state are apparently, 1600 degrees or more, this man maintains his professionalism and composure.
A history of credit cards, late payments, defaults, and living beyond my means. How I got there — and how I’m getting out.
Swift has trademarked everything from "public appearances" and "clothing" to "ornaments" under the phrase "This Sick Beat" which comes from the first single to her album 1989 "Shake it Off."
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, whose anti-austerity Syriza party won last weekend’s Greek election, named his cabinet on Tuesday and Valve Corporation’s in-house economist Yanis Varoufakis is its finance minister. Gone are the days of Valve’s anarcho-syndicalism: he now answers to the Greek government and, to a degree, the European Union.
How did an ex-feminist once hailed by Gloria Steinem become a hero of the haters?
Art, commerce, and the battle for the soul of "My Little Pony."
Call us bitter, but we're not too keen on the workplace/school choreographed lip-synch of whatever the most popular song of the hour is. Admittedly, teacher Scot Pankey has some moves.
Wonder who it's from? Us! And it's an email filled with the best of Digg.
Mariani is the only human cannonball in the country, and has been performing the trick since 2010. He’s flown through the air some 1,200 times since then. Though he makes it seem routine, the dangers are endless.
What would "A Good Manchego Is Hard To Find" or a "Kales From The Crypt" burger taste like? Cole Bowden, an engineer for Honda, couldn't help wondering. So like any good engineer, he started tinkering — in the kitchen, turning the show writers' culinary jokes into real recipes.
In North America, the Canadians have long had to play country mouse to the flashier city mouse of the U.S. It’s the latter that gets all the attention, while the former sits quietly in a corner .But recent stories have shown just how big a player the Canadians are becoming — at least in the surveillance realm.
We know nothing of the circumstances that led up to the fight, but we do know that it concluded with Francesco Griffo apparently beating Aldus Manutius to death with a metal bar.
Moments before Oculus Story Studio's new virtual reality short "Lost" reached its satisfying climax, I found myself in a compromised position. Sequestered in a private demo booth, I was involuntarily crouched down, covering my head in a defensive position and, I should add, squealing with delight.
This is the first ad addressing domestic violence and sexual assault during the Super Bowl. And since most people watch for the commercials anyway, let's hope this gets the message across.
A glimpse inside a shady world that offers $250 college diplomas, fake transcripts, and the subtle promise of a brighter future.
Time is running out for Jay Leno to reunite with David Letterman in late night — and right now the ball is in Leno's court. According to sources inside "Late Show with David Letterman," the program has reached out to Leno about coming on as a guest before Letterman departs CBS on May 20.
Marshawn Lynch might get fined by NFL for wearing "BeastMode" hat at Super Bowl media day, sources say.
"Grim Fandango" survived for 15 years on a mess of ancient storage devices that are about as easy to access today as eight-track tapes.
Guns and psychosis don’t cause mass shootings. Instead, pop culture acts on our instincts to drive us to extremes.
I’ve seen a lot of bizarre things in Karachi, but on a Sunday morning, as I watch a cockfight on the front lawn of a friend’s house, I’m convinced that this may be my most surreal experience yet.
Sure, why not.
On a recent Wednesday, my friend Annie went on her first date with a man she met through SeekingArrangement.com, the self-proclaimed “leading Sugar Daddy dating site.”
Moscow’s alleged spy ring in New York City sometimes took orders from a Kremlin-run news outfit. Talk about media bias.
Obama's nominee to succeed Eric Holder as attorney general testifies before a Republican-stacked Senate committee.
It's time for 21st-century campaign finance reform: No limits, instant disclosure.
The silky sounds of Sinatra and weighty wordlessness of male bonding echo among three generations of my Italian-American family.
Do you feel those natural vitamins coursing through your veins? Do you feel that good clean natural energy flowing through you? That's the 25 grams of sugar.
New data from Norway reveals that music piracy has completely collapsed in the country. Music Business Worldwide is reporting that the country has hit upon a way to rely on streaming to encourage residents to enjoy music legally.
Here on Earth, it’s easy to take things for granted. Drinking a cup of coffee, for example, is a shockingly simple act when you’re affected by gravity, yet it’s infinitely more difficult once you leave Earth’s atmosphere.
Over the past 7 years, Netflix streaming has expanded from thousands of members watching occasionally to millions of members watching over two billion hours every month. Each time a member starts to watch a movie or TV episode, a “view” is created in our data systems and a collection of events describing that view is gathered.
Over the years, I’ve started to wonder whether Netflix’s big decisions are truly as data driven as they are purported to be. In short, I do think that there is a sophisticated algorithm at work here — but I think his name is Ted Sarandos.
It was a 124-year-old Welsh family business which took five generations to build up, yet a blunder over a single letter was all that was needed to cause its collapse, leaving the Government with a £9 million legal bill.
Recollections from the intersection of snowboarding, fear and waffles.
All we know is that the song is called "Newborns" and it features two men: Dave Davidson and Nicky Shin. The rest, we have no idea, but we like it.
When Google reports its fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday, one subject that is almost guaranteed to come up is the prospect that Apple could replace Google as the default search engine on Safari, the basic browser on all of its devices. The search contract between the companies is believed to be up for renewal this year.
A Revolutionary War replica tall ship has been toppled by strong wind gusts during the snowstorm that's pounding Rhode Island.
The Israeli military says two soldiers were killed in a Hezbollah strike on an army convoy near the Lebanese border.
"SnapperHero” will center on a superhero premise and will feature influential social-media personae in its cast.
We are past the time when thought experiments are enough. We need to start thinking in practical terms about how to get the technologies we need ready.
There's a scientific term for this totally common phenomenon, which we like to call a "brain fart." You're experiencing tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) syndrome, from the phrase "it's on the tip of my tongue." And while there's no universally accepted cause, scientific theories abound.
No American ATM has ever been robbed with explosive gas. The same was true in Britain — until 2013. Now there have been more than 90. Inside the birth of a bomb spree.
"Exploding Kittens," a card game illustrated by famed web cartoonist Matthew Inman aka The Oatmeal, has become the most backed Kickstarter project of all time.
Jordan said Wednesday it is willing to swap an Iraqi woman held on death row in Jordan for a Jordanian pilot captured in December by extremists from the Islamic State group.
Albuquerque has one of the highest rates in the country of fatal shootings by police, but no officer has been indicted.
According to a new paper, compensatory consumption is the wrong way to go about making yourself feel better, because it may end up prompting you to dwell on the very thing you were trying to get over.
Why do car companies go racing? First and foremost, they do it for marketing. Whether that still holds true 50 years later in an age of far greater competition for our interest isn't clear, but today salesmanship certainly isn't the only reason to race.
Envy is unattractive. As are displays of wealth and dissatisfaction. As is a preoccupation with electronics. But one day, very secretly, I posted to Craigslist that I have the 6 but would like the 6 Plus.
"Parks and Recreation," now entering its final season on NBC, has always represented a very particular, very liberal fantasy about how government should work.
And how to survive to tell the tale.
I’ve taken the liberty of collecting a week’s worth of hateful messages sent to me on Twitter. The following tweets were directed at my @femfreq account between 1/20/15 and 1/26/15.
Four crewmembers simulating a mission on Mars dealt with a real-life emergency late last month — a greenhouse fire so strong that flames reached at least 10 feet high.
A Harvard scientist wanted to see exactly how easy it is to get medical research published. In some cases, $500 is pretty much all it takes.
Can asking each other 36 questions and staring into each other’s eyes for four minutes make two people fall in love?
After a record 26 million iPads sold at the beginning of 2014, the next three quarters saw sales drop. To be sure, Apple is still selling a ton of iPads—about 68 million in its last fiscal year. The issue isn’t people don’t want iPads. It’s just that people don’t want them in increasing numbers anymore.
Somewhere out there in a cosy nook of the World Wide Web huddles a tiny community of like-minded individuals who took the idea of Adams' "Starship Titanic" and ran with it as far as their digital legs could carry them. They don't just play "Starship Titanic," they create it.
"Because what am I supposed to do? Not build a roster of 45 superhuman Goliaths and sick 'em on a roster of 45 five-foot-tall baby-people?"
Hold onto your butts.