YouTube Celebrates 100th Anniversary

It’s hard to believe that it’s already been a century since the video sharing website, Youtube, debuted. To celebrate they’ve uploaded the Top 5 Viral Pictures of 1911, which proves the more things change the more they stay the same. Apparently even back then people were getting RickRolled, poorly animating fruit, dressing their cats up as musicians, and just generally making fools of themselves for the amusement of others. YouTube

Execution of Ronald McDonald in Poor Taste

Finnish food activists calling themselves the Food Liberation Army (FLA) kidnapped a Ronald McDonald statue earlier this month, threatening to execute the mascot if McDonald’s did not meet their demand for more transparency about the manufacturing processes, raw materials, and additives used in the fast food chain’s products. “We love burgers, fries and McDonald’s, but we can no longer watch silent when the food we love is being destroyed and

Certified Hosting - Cyber Monday
Certified Hosting – Cyber Monday

No doubt about it, Hostgator’s Black Friday 80% off sale was a great deal… if you could get in on it. It was for new customers only, and sold out in literally minutes. I didn’t qualify either since L7 World is hosted by Hostgator so I spent all weekend searching for other deals, which wasn’t easy because many shared host don’t allow adult content (a must for my new site).

Hostgator Black Friday 2010
Hostgator Black Friday 2010 (update 3)

If you’ve ever thought about hosting a website or are considering switching hosts, now’s the time! HostGator is doing their biggest Black Friday sale ever: 80% off all plans!!!!!!!! (8 exclamation marks, one for every year they’ve been in service) If you haven’t heard of Hostgator yet, you will. Next year they’re will become an official domain registrar and start taking a bite out of Godaddy with their own commercials.

$99 Console

Who says you need a big expensive gaming rig to play the latest video games? Onlive.com is taking pre-orders (Dec 2) for a virtual console that will allow gamers to play remotely on their internet-based (cloud) game servers. There will be 35 titles available at launch including: Borderlands Game of the Year Edition, Just Cause 2, Mafia ll, NBA 2K11, Shaun White Skateboarding. Game are a la carte with a

Anti-Smoking Anime

The National Institute for Preventive and Health Education (INPES) has hired Koji Morimoto of Studio 4°C to produce an anti-smoking PSA. “Attraction” is an interactive story about three friends who find a diamond shaped light that is the key to an underground rave just for smokers. Players use their mouse or webcam to navigate the world, including a comical scene where you must literally shake some sense into your friend

Comics Go Pink

As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month the Sunday funny pages went pink to raise awareness… but little money. Donations have been underwhelming ($6,870.24), perhaps because no one reads newspapers any more. But you can read all the participating comics online @ comicsgopink.com and don’t forget to donate! You can even bid on the original promotional piece seen left, by Bizarro Cartoonist Dan Piraro

Dating Website for Ugly Schmucks

UglySchmucks.com doesn’t use any fancy algorithms to match singles, the only requirement is that you have low expectations. In fact, members are encouraged to vote out those who are “overtly attractive” so that they can focus on inner beauty. “This is a central community for them to get together and meet others like themselves,” says founder Joe Deluca. “I’m capitalizing on people being ugly. I’m giving these people a tool

Gambling 101

Judah Guber & Steven Wolf are betting on, and in some cases against, your future. Recent grads themselves, Gruber & Wolf created the website Ultrinsic.com, which allows college students to gamble on grades. The website uses an algorithm that analyzes the student’s transcript, course difficulty, and the wager amount to determine the odds. The best payouts will go to long-shots like graduating with a 4.0 GPA, which returns $2,000 on

Google’s Gross Indifference to Net Neutrality

The F.C.C. is supposed to ensure that all internet traffic is treated equally, net neutrality, but ever since a court decision in April put its power to do so in doubt, companies have been moving full speed ahead with bandwidth throttling. Google and Verizon are in private talks to redefine what net neutrality means. Google CEO Eric Schmidt maintains “People get confused about net neutrality. I want to make sure

Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter Account Bust

Ashton Kutcher no longer has the most followers on Twitter. Britney Spears overtook him this week with just under 5 million followers. But don’t worry, Kutcher is doing fine. In fact, his twitter account (aplusk) is so popular that it’s literally busting at the seams. A new web app for Twitter called eBoobs measures your popularity using breast size (just like real life). And Kutcher’s 38DD’s don’t lie, he’s still

Google Sponsors Child Pornography (final update)

According to Google Adsense Terms of Service (TOS) simply linking to pornography (legal or not) is a violation, that is unless a website has enough traffic to make it worthwhile. Manga & anime (Japanese comics and cartoons) frequently involve characters of questionable age in sexual situations but there’s nothing ambiguous about the genres known as Lolicon and Shotacon, in which  clearly prepubescent girls and boys are blatantly sexualized. While no

Firefox 3.6 VS Martyr Bear 2.0 (Updated)

Despite being downloaded by over 100 million people since its release  in January, there are still some people who didn’t know about the Firefox update (like this –>guy<–) so Mozilla started actively inviting users to upgrade this week. Mike Beltzner, Director of Firefox, assures users that “The offer screen will only appear after 60 seconds of keyboard inactivity to ensure we don’t get in the way of anyone’s activities.” In

Conan Runs from NBC

Conan O’Brien has decided to take the money and run rather than be bumped to 12:05 AM. NBC will pay out a reported $40 million, $10 million of which will be give to Coco’s crew. According to O’Brien’s publicist “That has been the first point in his discussions and would be a dealbreaker if his staff isn’t taken care of.” Conan couldn’t save everyone on the show though. NBC will

Firefox is a System Resources Whore

So I was trying to watch some adult videos (and I don’t mean sophisticated) but they kept freezing. Now I have a lot of fetishes but stuttering women isn’t one of them. Problem: Windows Task Manager showed CPU usage spiking 100%. However, the memory usage for each program was unchanged. At first I thought it was some sort of virus, so I ran a bunch of different anti-virus software but

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