Not just anyone can be a convincing and successful pitchman. (Look no further than Luke Wilson’s AT&T commercials for proof.) The best pitchmen fall under three main categories: the average joe, the celebrity endorser, and the professional. Here are the decade’s top ten:
10. Bob – Bob’s Furniture
“My Bob’s,” “The Bob-O-Pedic,” and “I… Read More
From fastcompany.com
December 31, 1999, 11:59 p.m.
Hello, people of 2010, and congratulations on finding this time capsule! I’m writing this chronicle of my era to the sweet clackety-clack of the keyboard on my state-of-the-art Apple iBook. Can you imagine? 366 MHz? This thing’s faster than a jackrabbit on a date! And unlike the iMac, it’s not like… Read More
Reduce this decade to a word, and you might come up with YouTube. (That or another webbed-out compound word like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn or Craigslist.) Little changed our day-to-day more than the massive online experience-catalogue. YouTube not only democratized video, but gave us a kind of global omniscience, a remote control for what we see outside the confines… Read More
Come with me, friends, to another time. Let’s say 1998ish. Ross and Rachel rule the airwaves, ER is hailed as the Best Drama Evar. As the sun sets on Seinfeld, critics mourn its passing, proclaiming that we’re not likely to see a show of its brilliance ever again.
I watched an episode of Seinfeld yesterday. It’s still… Read More
Brobible scoured the nets for every publication that quantified the 00′s and laid them all out for our enjoyment. Amidst the Entertainment Weeklys and GQs, our very own Popten has a list that made the cut!
By Jiun Kwon
I sincerely hope I made every attempt to be fair and honest and if I left off a film you love, please know that it was not with malice and there are only ten spots. I even split them into two genres because taking any of these off the list kind of made my heart hurt. Also, feel… Read More
By Peter Brauer
There is open revolt in Iran right now. I have seen it. For the last two days videos of the people asserting their freedom in the face of tyranny have appeared on youtube. The online video sharing site is a bastion for freedom. Iranians may not have the freedom of speech, but they speak. The government is… Read More
By Jeremy Kotin
In order of release date, not necessarily influence…
1. Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Considering I wrote my college thesis partially on this film, it’s impossible not to include it when looking back at the decade as a whole. Lars von Trier created a haunting and horrifying story anchored on the use of the movie musical as… Read More
So we here at popten got together and assembled a gigantic list of our favorite albums of the past decade. Then we voted on each others choices. It is amazing how wide a variety of listening styles your trusty pop culture gurus have. I’ve assembled the top vote-getters into a trusty A to Z list. Albums are in… Read More
It’s been predicted by everyone from John the Revelator to Roland Emmerich, and the evidence is stronger than ever that The End is Nigh. Here are the top ten signs from the last decade that the world isn’t long for this world.
10. The Y2K Bug
It could… Read More
Tomorrow marks 100 days since the BP oil spill in the gulf. I know they “successfully” capped it, but as long as that sucker is still leaking, I’m saying there is still an oil spill. But this disaster got me thinking a lot about the good old days of folk – when popular music regularly included anthems… Read More
When I was in my formative high school days, going to the Warped Tour was a highlight of the summer. Just old enough to drive, we’d pile about 9 bros and skateboards into mom-duke’s Ford Exploder and drive at high speed to Fitchburg or some other pseudo-municipality in middle Massachusetts, blasting Rage Against The Machine and… Read More