The unlikely photo that kickstarted the social internet
The unlikely photo that kickstarted the social internet
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The unlikely photo that kickstarted the social internet
The unlikely photo that kickstarted the social internet In 1989, Silvano de Gennaro, a computer scientist at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland, decided to start a music festival that still runs to this day. He called it the CERN Hardronic Festival and invited the CERN community to get up on stage and showcase their talents. Little did he know that his festival would lead to the creation of a girl group whose picture would be the first personal photograph to be uploaded to the web.
Just The Good Stuff From Tonight's GOP Debate
Just The Good Stuff From Tonight's GOP Debate The last Republican debate before Super Tuesday is tonight, in Houston! Whether you're looking for a Rubio-Cruz showdown or Trump's latest incendiary remark, Digg has you covered with all the highlights.
The Rise of Weird Facebook: How the World’s Biggest Social Network Became Cool Again (and Why It Matters)
The Rise of Weird Facebook: How the World’s Biggest Social Network Became Cool Again (and Why It Matters) Who would want to spend time on the Internet’s blandest platform? The answer, it turns out, is thousands of the web’s most innovative weirdos
The Rise of Weird Facebook: How the World’s Biggest Social Network Became Cool Again (and Why It Matters)
The Rise of Weird Facebook: How the World’s Biggest Social Network Became Cool Again (and Why It Matters)
piquant: Word of the day for February 26, 2016
piquant , adj : Engaging; charming. Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; stimulating. (archaic) Causing hurt feelings; scathing.
Exclusive: Apple CEO Tim Cook Says iPhone-Cracking Software ‘Equivalent of Cancer’
Exclusive: Apple CEO Tim Cook Says iPhone-Cracking Software ‘Equivalent of Cancer’ In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Apple CEO Tim Cook told "World News Tonight" anchor David Muir that what the US government was asking of the tech giant — to essentially create software enabling the FBI to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, California, shooters.
Lorde Delivered A Powerful David Bowie Tribute At The BRIT Awards
Lorde Delivered A Powerful David Bowie Tribute At The BRIT Awards
Lorde Delivered A Powerful David Bowie Tribute At The BRIT Awards
Lorde Delivered A Powerful David Bowie Tribute At The BRIT Awards The Grammys gave us Lady Gaga as the Thin White Duke. For the BRITs, it was Lorde who led a slightly more understated tribute to David Bowie, who received a posthumous Icon award. February 25, 2016 at 10:16PM
Exclusive: Apple CEO Tim Cook Says iPhone-Cracking Software ‘Equivalent of Cancer’
Exclusive: Apple CEO Tim Cook Says iPhone-Cracking Software ‘Equivalent of Cancer’
Picture of the day for February 26, 2016
Picture of the day on February 26, 2016: A reflection on sand and water.
piquant: Word of the day for February 26, 2016
Word of the day is piquant : Engaging; charming. Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; stimulating. (archaic) Causing hurt feelings; scathing.
Article of the day for February 26, 2016
The Article of the day for February 26, 2016 is Halo Wars . Halo Wars (released 2009) is a real-time strategy video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 video game console. The game is set in the science fiction universe of the Halo series in the year 2531, 21 years before the events of Halo: Combat Evolved. The player leads human soldiers aboard the warship Spirit of Fire in an effort to stop an ancient fleet of ships from falling into the hands of the genocidal alien Covenant. Halo Wars was unveiled at the 2006 X06 Xbox show. Ensemble was closed by Microsoft before the game's release, but Robot Entertainment was founded soon after by many of Ensemble's former employees; this new company continued to support Halo Wars with updates and downloadable content. The game received generally positive reviews. Reviewers lauded the game's pre-rendered cinematics, attention to detail in replicating the Halo universe, and intuiti...
Article of the day for February 26, 2016
Article of the day is Halo Wars. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W
The Guy Behind Pizza Rat*
The Guy Behind Pizza Rat* We’ll talk about rats in a second, but first we have to start with a human. A human named Eric Yearwood.
What The Hell Is ~A•E•S•T•H•E•T•I•C~ ?
What The Hell Is ~A•E•S•T•H•E•T•I•C~ ? "Aesthetics" is defined as a set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty, especially in art. However, A E S T H E T I C has recently taken on a meaning of its own within Internet culture.
Like This So I Know I'm Real
Like This So I Know I'm Real Despite the recent changes at Facebook, the “like” has very little to do with the actual emotional content of a response. It’s a simple nod in your direction. But it also serves as the ultimate validating gesture. If social media amounts to an existential assertion, it’s left incomplete until at least one “like” enters the picture.