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After comparing herself to Madonna and Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus’ first statement after her performance at the MTV Video Music Awards says that she and Robin Thicke have made history. She added: “now we’re three days later they’re still talking about it.” Read and cringe.
The world may still be in crisis, but not Kazakhstan—a big exporter of oil and uranium. “President” since 1990 Nursultan Nazarbayev keeps wasting the country’s money in ridiculous megalomaniac projects like their 2017 Expo. Naturally, there’s plenty of shameless Western architects eager to sell out their principles to become his very own Albert Speer+Partners. Look…
“I’m writing this for everyone who struggles with addiction, but I really want men with eating disorders (diagnosed and undiagnosed) to read this,” writes comedian Jamie Kilstein in Jezebel. Actually, everyone should read this heartbreaking tale.
The construction boom in China may have stopped, but it has left zillions of square miles of empty cities, apartment blocks and amusement parks like the one above. Eerie places full of ghosts standing in the middle of nowhere flatlands.
He’s a very annoying songwriter who used to sing at Apple keynotes. She’s a very annoying singer who, at age 28, “was spotlighted in her own 3D autobiographical film.” He asked her to marry him, she said no thanks.
Someone sent a murder confession to the anonymous secret disclosure site PostSecret. The card pointed to the area where the body was “dumped” but, according to the Chicago Tribune, the police haven’t been able to find the body yet. Hopefully it’s all a macabre prank, but given how people are using the internet to confess…
This video—captured today by a car dashboard cam in Taiwan—is insane. Watch as the car ahead almost gets crushed by a landslide and then by the insanely gigantic boulder that always smashes Wyle E. Coyote. Check out the other side: So damn lucky. https://jalopnik.com/this-is-what-it-looks-like-when-your-car-gets-wrecked-b-1232802446
President Obama has taken the decision to strike Syria because the use of chemical weapons can’t stand unanswered. The war machine is ready to strike at any time, he said, but first he “will seek authorization of the use of force from the American people’s representatives in Congress.” He added that he will not wait…
What would you do if your friend asks you to return something of hers that you have had by mistake for many years? Invoke the statue of limitations, kick her out of your house, and never talk to her again? That seems reasonable, but this may be a better solution. http://gawker.com/thatz-not-okay-the-gold-medal-in-silver-theft-ugly-bu-1221991835
Some people are real imbeciles. They go to stand up comedy shows and would not stop talking and shouting idiotic phrases, thinking they’re funny. Like the frustrated assclowns who kept interrupting Dave Chappelle last night in Hatford, Connecticut. Of course, he had to take a stand and hell ensued. http://defamer.gawker.com/dave-chappelle-had-a-meltdown-onstage-in-connecticut-la-1228278710
Back in 2006, Ralph Peters came up with this fascinating map of the Middle East. It reorganized countries and territories attending to “organic” criteria rather than the leftover arbitrary frontiers of 19th century imperialism. He thought that this may solve many of the conflicts that constantly torment the region. It makes sense, as Jolly Bengali‘s…
I’ve been reading comicbooks since I was a little kid and, while I sill have fun doing it, I’ve to admit that superheroes are objectively quite silly. Among them, however, there some who are also offensively pointless, like these 12 X-Men that should have never existed. https://gizmodo.com/the-12-most-pointless-x-men-1227876867
Some people buy classic cars as an investment, some for the pleasure of looking at them. Others to drive them—but all of them will sink a lot of money in them. If you want a classic car, you must see this chart first. And if not, follow it anyway—it’s fun. https://jalopnik.com/this-flowchart-will-tell-you-exactly-which-classic-car-1226229515
This American filmmaker and actress created a famous HBO show that narrates the inconsequential problems of a group of twenty-something friends living in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. https://jezebel.com/lena-dunham-used-to-look-in-the-mirror-and-say-im-jus-1226434042
Yesterday night, Vanderbilt receiver Jordan Matthews was hit so hard in the game against Ole Miss that he started to vomit, which may indicate serious damage. Medical practice and common sense says players should get out of the game and get thoroughly examined, but he kept playing because “[his] team needed [him].” https://deadspin.com/jordan-matthews-hit-his-head-vomited-and-stayed-in-th-1226545337
There are always two sides to a divorce story, but sometimes the evidence is so damning that it’s impossible not to root for one of the parents. That’s the case of game developer Kris Morness, who created a detailed site showing how his son was abducted to Japan by his ex-wife, Chie Kawabata. https://kotaku.com/game-developer-says-his-son-has-been-kidnapped-1205765948
Mysterious structures in the Chinese desert, abandoned subway stations that look like doorways to a steampunk future that never was, top secret nuclear submarine bases built by Stalin in the heart of mountains, hidden bunkers all over the world, forbidden headquarters for spy and military organizations… take a look at some of the places forbidden…
You don’t have to wait for the next version of Google’s Android to make your phone better. This is how you can add future phone features yourself, right now. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-future-android-features-you-can-get-right-now-1183469083
50 years after the March on Washington, America is still brimming with disgraceful white people who have ruined Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream and the legacy of that movement, Tom Scocca explains on Gawker: Here is where white Americans failed themselves and their country. That image of the promissory note was too much for white…
Science is awesome—until it crushes our dreams of planets full of incredible civilizations and turns fantastic inventions into impossible dreams. Here are nine examples on how nine scientific breakthroughs destroyed nine classic sci-fi themes. https://gizmodo.com/9-scientific-breakthroughs-that-killed-science-fiction-1222342077