So you pulled out the big guns and you got your son (age 27 or otherwise) a console. You’re justifiably excited about the Christmas morning surprise, but there’s one thing you must absolutely remember to take care of before you wrap that gadget gift: Update the firmware. Trust us. Here’s the deal. If you don’t…
Christmas is three days from now and you could either listen to boring classics or you know, fun classics. Peace to Jim Jones for gifting us this album many Christmases ago. Yes, and hallelujah, holy shit, where’s the Tylenol?! You have two (ish) more shopping days til the big day. How is it already Christmas…
If you’re still in the market for a Christmas gift, you’re in luck. Amazon has the Kindle Fire HDXon sale for $300. Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals. [Amazon]
“Sony exposed its nuts to the world this week, and it’s been confirmed, they’re real small.” Your friendly neighborhood Taiwanese Animators have the best, most insane Hot Take on the Sony hack and the ensuing parade of idiocy. It’s been a while since we’ve posted something from these guys. Their gimmick got a little played…
Amazon just released its list of top-selling MP3 songs and albums of the year, and surprisingly Taylor Swift was not at the top slot of either. Shake it off, girl. In the album category, Tswift lost to Pentatonix, whom I had honestly never heard of, but apparently is some sort of a cappella funtime gang?…
Remember MoviePass? It’s an app through which you can play a flat fee to see up to a movie a day for an entire month. It’s taken a while for the service to find a partner, and now it’s found one in AMC Theaters, where it’ll offer an all you can movie plan for $35-$45…
In an undisclosed location in New Jersey, there’s a tiny little town that’s used as a training grounds to prepare the military for cyber warfare. No, tinier than that. Think more like model train sized. It’s called CyberCity, and WNYC’s New Tech City recently paid a visit. The little 1:87 scale town is run by…
Move over, Valencia, you smug sepia-tinted ass clown. Instagram is releasing five new filters today—Slumber, Crema, Ludwig, Perpetua, and Aden—its first round of new vintagey camera effects since 2012.
Not home in time for SNL? Doesn’t mean you can’t still watch it live. NBC is going to start streaming its broadcast network shows online, live and in real-time, as long as you have a cable subscription. You won’t have to pay extra for online access, like that dumb CBS streaming plan. It’s free (ish)—you…
Friendly reminder: if you’re ordering gifts from Amazon and you want to get them with free shipping by Christmas, you have to order them by Friday, December 19. Make your list, check it twice, etc. But that’s not the last day you can order, period. Prime members can still get free two-day shipping up until…
There’s nothing more satisfying than watching someone take a snowball right square in the jaw. Unless of course, it’s a whole crew of folks getting smacked with snow right in the face, like in this seasonal supercut. ‘Tis the season! The video comes to us by way of a reader whose digital advertising company, Exit10,…
D’Angelo’s long-rumored, hotly-anticipated album Black Messiah was confirmed last week, and surprise! The album was finally, at long last, released last night. Merry Christmas indeed. There’s not much to say except I’ve spent the last nearly 24 hours listening to this thing. It is excellent. But I have no other take. What could I say…
SoundCloud has always been great for finding new music, but its manner of organization and discovery has kind of sucked. Until now! Today the site is introducing a new page called collection, where you can find all the stuff you’ve liked and reposted, as well as the stuff the other people you’re following are posting,…
The only good and pure site on the internet, Clickhole, recently reminded us of every blogger’s worst nightmare: A post published with placeholder text. It’s happened many times before, and we can only hope it will happen again. Because who doesn’t love laughing at mistakes, as long as they’re not your own? The Chicago Tribune…
1995 had Hackers, and 2015 will have Blackhat: An upcoming cyber thriller in which actor Chris Hemsworth trades brawn for brains to save the world.In the latest trailer, we learn a little bit more about his character (which thankfully hasn’t actually fully shed the brawn of the hammer of Thor). In the Michael Mann-directed film…
Here’s the first full trailer for Pixar’s 2015 monster movie, Inside Out. We’ve seen bits and piecesof it teased out, but this is the first real preview. It looks good! In the movie, monsters control the minds of different humans. In the movie, each monster represents a different feeling, and you see how those feelings…
The hopes and dreams of your childhood are getting reignited when The Little Prince comes to theaters next year. Here’s the first trailer, which is in French, but still somehow as universal as ever. It’s totally natural to feel your nostalgia bone aching a bit; even though it’s CGI, the same artistic style from the…
Here’s the first trailer for The Walk, the 2015 film about Philippe Petit, the man who tight rope walked between the two World Trade Center towers in 1974. My stomach just dropped a little bit. The film is directed by Robert Zemeckis and stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the daring wire walker. The story may sound…
You’re bound to have someone on your Christmas list who wants to learn how to cook or cook better in the New Year. The thing is, it’s not all that hard. You don’t need fancy tools or crazy gadget—you just need the essentials. Trust me, I know! I spent five years of Christmases working at…
Sometimes it really feels like the title of this song is true. It sure felt true this week, as we struggled to stay afloat in a seemingly endless deluge of bad news. Thank god it’s the weekend. I posted another Spoon song last week—Inside Out, a track off the band’s 2014 album They Want My…
