No Cable, No Problem: Where to Watch the Presidential Debates For Free
(Photo: The Atlantic) If you're into bloodsports, there's another way to watch Obama v. Romney tonight. Aereo, the Barry Diller-backed startup that lets you live-stream network TV, just offered New...
View ArticleRap Genius Now Partially Owned By a Republican: Andreessen Horowitz Invests...
Rap Genius, the Brooklyn-based site that lets the hive mind take a stab at explaining hip hop lyrics, announced today that they have received $15 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz. The...
View ArticleBooting Up: Presidential Debate Post Mortem Edition
Debate club. (Photo: flickr.com/mountaineerpics) There were 10.3 million tweets sent last night regarding the presidential debates--a new record for the site. [TNW] However, between all the newly...
View ArticleKleiner Perkins Investor Responds to Romney Calling Tesla and Fisker ‘Losers’
Nobody puts Elon in a politically expedient corner! (Photo: Wikimedia) If your Twitter feed is anywhere near as tech heavy as ours, Elon Musk came in a close second to Big Bird as unfair targets during...
View ArticleRoboRomney Parody: Watch the Mitt Bot Agree With Anything You Like
If last week’s memeification of fired Big Bird is any indication of a trend, this is the world's first GIF elections and debate-watching now consists of sitting around waiting for your joke to go...
View ArticleWarning: ‘Mitt Romney Almost President’ Is a Malware Attack, Not a CNN Alert
Detail of image from SophosLabs SophosLabs reports that malware attacks tend to surge near major elections and the most recent is calculated to pull in anxious voters on either side of the political...
View ArticleWhy Google Customizes Results When You Search for ‘Obama,’ But Not for ‘Romney’
Is Google anti-Mittens? (Photo: Wikimedia) Just in time for Election Day, the Wall Street Journal decided to conduct a little experiment in personalized search on Google, inspired by Duck Duck Go...
View ArticleWe Are Already in Love with Beyoncé’s Instagram, Even Though She Deleted...
Last night, just as Twitter was celebrating Obama's victory, Beyoncé Knowles posted a photo to her Tumblr that perfectly summed up all of the excitement and inner feelings of booyah, GOP. (Photo: I am...
View ArticleEveryone Is Defriending Mitt Romney on Facebook
Mitt Romney's Facebook page. (Screengrab) Just when he thought his week couldn't get worse, losing GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney has begun losing Facebook friends by the score. The Washington...
View ArticleDude Indicted for Alleged Attempt to Extort $1M in Bitcoins From Mitt Romney
(Photo: Flickr/Zach Copley) What's the point of a digital crypto-currency if you can't use it to shake down a presidential candidate? Politico reports that Michael Mancil Brown, a 34-year-old Tennessee...
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