by Josh Kurp
by Adrian Chen
by Joshua Heller
Try to attach a file that’s 25 megabytes or bigger to an outgoing Gmail message and what do you get? I have no idea…
“Bill Drummond had been creating pop events for more than a decade — it was his signature tactic as a manager, it had carried successfully over into the early, sample-driven KLF days and it had taken him to the top of the charts already. He’d been a student during glam rock, managed…
“The whole print model allows me to have 30 women who trawl the market who find the best espadrilles for spring.” — That’s Lucky editor Brandon Holley. Girlfriend? Don’t do that!
by Abe Sauer
For those who’ve been following along: Danny Pye has been released suddenly from prison in Haiti, after five-plus months. He is en route to Florida, where his wife is going into labor.
After a thoroughly hyperbolic summer, where experts’ predictions had the Miami Heat winning no fewer than 70 games, it’s shocking…
You don’t need to know who any of these people are to read this story, told over night, entirely in Tweets.
Can someone please find @BrianVan and tell him Nick is locked outside the house and needs…
This graph about the work life of a “social media manager” is horse pucky. “Social media managers” don’t go out to lunch — they con an acquaintance at another business into bringing over their own lunch, then they tell all their friends and…
On a day where the phrase “the continuing crisis” could plausibly refer to six different disasters, it seems almost beside the point to bitch about the weather. But what else can you do? The weather sucks. It is NOT HELPING. I don’t know what to tell you except that…
“The US drank more wine than any other country in 2010! That includes France, which previously held the record. A record-breaking 330 million cases of wine were shipped within or to America last year; that’s $30 billion worth of wine!”
by Dan Shanoff
“Troopers have forcibly carried out seven union supporters from the Tennessee Capitol after their protest disrupted a Senate committee hearing.” — Yes, Tennessee too. The Senate Speaker would like to make it clear that Tennessee is not…
If you want to see U.S. military intervention on behalf of the rebels in Libya, you should probably pick a more sympathetic group of advocates than the geniuses who thought our invasion of Iraq was such a good idea.
The next time someone asks you why newspapers are dying, point them here.
Is this Tibetan Mastiff the world’s most expensive dog? Well, someone paid about $1.5 million for him, so, yeah, probably.
Here is a rather incredible follow-up story, from AOL’s Moviefone, about their request of Techcrunch to make a story more friendly. It’s bizarre! (The request from Moviefone went like this: “Let me know if you’re able to take another look at it and make any edits.”)
