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Thursday, November 29, 2012

BuzzFeed FWD: Men's Magazine's "Demeaning" Facebook Image Banned And More!


Men's Magazine's "Demeaning" Facebook Image Banned

Zoo Weekly asked its readers to pick which half of this woman they preferred, and why.

Why President Obama Isn't Using His Most Powerful Weapon — Again

The stakes in "fiscal cliff" talks are high — so where's the e-mail list? So far, it's 2009 all over again.

What 24 Hours Of New York Transit Looks Like

It's like living in an ant farm, basically.

Atari Teenage Riot: The Inside Story Of Pong And The Video Game Industry's Big Bang

On Nov. 29, 1972, a crude table-tennis arcade game in a garish orange cabinet was delivered to bars and pizza parlors around California, and a multi-billion-dollar industry was born. Here's how that happened, direct from the freaks and geeks who invented a culture and paved the way for today's tech moguls.

What Does It Mean To Suck Less?

Internet Explorer wants you to know that it sucks less now. But sucking less is way different than being good.

One-A-Day Gift Guide: Smartphone Gloves

A gift you can't go wrong with because everybody needs to be able to read SnapChats, even when they're avoiding frostbite.

Syria's Total Internet Blackout In One Chart

Here's what Syria's Internet shutdown looks like to Akamai, one of the world's biggest content delivery networks.

The DOs And DON'Ts Of Electronics Gift Giving

You are going to see one million gadget gift guides on the Internet this holiday season. We've taken bits of the best (and worst) advice from some of them. This is how to give a gadget!

Microsoft's Surface Pro Is Pretty Expensive

That's a $900 starting price for the Intel-based, full-Windows-running version of Microsoft's tablet, but that only gets you 64GB of storage and doesn't include a keyboard case. By the time you spec this thing to your liking, it's going to cost more than a MacBook Air.

Videogames Are Officially Art Now

Or at least these 14 are, now that they've been added to the Museum of Modern Art's collection: Pac-Man, Tetris, Another World, Myst, SimCity 2000, vib-ribbon, The Sims, Katamari Damacy, EVE Online, Dwarf Fortress, Portal, flOw, Passage, Canabalt. And MoMA plans to add more over time, like Super Mario 64, Chrono Trigger and others.

Internet Trolls Can Go To Prison Too

Speeding through the Lincoln Tunnel at 90 miles per hour, Gawker's Adrian Chen rides with 27-year-old hacker and famed internet troll Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer to his pre-trial hearing for the federal case over the "Goatse Security" hack that gathered more than 100,000 email addresses AT&T accidentally released in 2010. But even off the Internet, riding with Chen, it's hard to tell what Weev is really like — a converted Mormon or disaster response aid or true ladies man.

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