By Dan Freeman
I do not “do” the Twitter. I don’t lead, or follow, or Twit, or Twat in 140 characters or less. In fact, I generally think of the service as nothing more than yet ANOTHER venue (first came “pop culture” blogging) for jobless vainglorious idiots to express their pathetic existences (with some notable exceptions).
Today, Read More
By Peter Brauer
It is really hard to remember what life was like when 1999 turned into 2000. When I try to think back I realize that nearly everything thing in my life has changed. While I would like to take credit for all the changes, I cannot. Advances in technology allow me to do things today that I would have… Read More
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
Just recently Motorola released the full specifications to the brand new Droid phone, and I must say it looks like we may have something to rival an iPhone. I feel like we’ve said it before though, and only time will tell if a Google phone finally ousts Apple from its throne.
The ad goes a little like… Read More
Getting the world to cycle together with good deeds- another step towards internet-fueled utopia. I have to admit- I got chills when a colleague showed me this. I feel like this might be a small step towards something much more important- or maybe this very product will evolve into something more substantive. For now the good deeds… Read More
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
HBO just put out a brand new sort of video experience. It’s pretty amazing to say the least if not just a touch confusing. Essentially, you find yourself in a big 3d web of thin lines, and attaching all of them together are some boxes and cubes. Each cube has a short snippet of a movie from… Read More
No. Maybe infuriated is a more appropriate term.
For all you avid Popten readers, you may remember a much earlier post of mine describing my top ten inventions of the future. Wireless energy my friends; number ten on the list and I thought I would be the first one to conceive of it (haha). This is a… Read More
I know we at Popten have a rep for hating on science. But this little theory, perched firmly on the the border between sci and sci-fi, is too awesome to pass up.
If you are a meganerd like me, and the term Large Hadron Collider means something to you, head straight to this article on
We live in interesting times.
Maybe we’re trying to show India who’s boss. Maybe we’re just angry.
Either way,
tonight at, 10/9/09 at 4:30 AM pacific, we are going to bomb the moon to see if there’s water in the fallout. Why weren’t we told earlier? Why isn’t this a national holiday?
South Africans decided to pit a carrier pigeon against their broadband service. Guess who won?
Full story here.
Thanks to Belinda, our international correspondent, for the scoop.
The moon landing. The assassination of JFK. The Challenger. The Berlin Wall. 9/11.
Big. Fucking. Deal.
I was on Facebook, updating my status. I heard about it via Twitter, and quickly started looking for #gmailfail. At first I couldn’t believe it, but a quick google search confirmed my suspicions. Gmail was down. And according… 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