The Internet

We All Wish We Attended the Internet Cat Video Festival in Minnesota

By John Surico Sat., Sep. 1 2012 at 2:24 PM
Categories: Cats, John Surico, The Internet

If you have scoured the Internet over the past five years or so, there is a 85% chance (yeah, I did the math) that you've come across this video. You are looking at Keyboard Cat - a video that defines the Internet cat phenomenon, with over 27 million views worldwide. And it's just a cat playing a keyboard.

However, you are also looking at the winner of the lifetime achievement award given at the Internet Cat Video Festival that went down this weekend at the neo-modern Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And, from what we've read, it's a damn shame it was seven or so states away.
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The Internet

Try Googling 'Gay Pride Parade' Right Now

By Steven Thrasher Thu., Jun. 21 2012 at 12:08 PM
Categories: Google, LGBTQ, Steven Thrasher, The Internet

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Do it now. Go to Google.com, and type in "gay pride parade," before the parade passes by. As Voice web editor Nick Greene just pointed out to us, something fun and unexpected will happen when you do.

Happy Pride Week!

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Orthodox Jews Rent Citi Field For (Women-Less) Meeting About How Scary The Internet Is

By James King Fri., May 18 2012 at 1:16 PM
Categories: Judaism, Porn, Religulous, The Internet
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Thousands of male Orthodox Jews will make Citi Field seem like a 10-year-old's tree house this weekend, when they hold a women-less meeting about the risks of the Internet.

Orthodox Jews, as you may know, have a practice of strict gender separation, so woman will be able to watch the conference, but they have to do so on televisions at schools and event centers in Borough Park and other Orthodox neighborhoods, according to Hamodia, an Orthodox newspaper.

More than 40,000 Orthodox Jewish men are expected to pack the stadium -- and nearby Arthur Ashe Stadium -- to discuss the "dangers" of the Internet, and how to use it in a religiously responsible way.



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How To Pretend You're At SXSW: A Brief Field Guide

By Esther Zuckerman Sat., Mar. 10 2012 at 1:11 PM
Categories: Don't Mess With Texas, Esther Zuckerman, The Internet, Trends

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Is your Twitter feed feeling a little extra insufferable today? Do you hear the sort of "I'm at a really cool event and you're not" echo running through the Internet? Are you suddenly craving Tex Mex and you're not sure why? That's because the South by Southwest Conference has begun! And you're not there! (We're certainly not.) So, we've come up with a couple of ways to pretend you're at the annual pilgrimage of media, tech, music and entertainment types to Texas, or at least some ways to mitigate the pain of not being there.

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New Yorkers Love, Hate Everything

By Keyana Stevens Tue., Feb. 14 2012 at 4:00 PM
Categories: Happy Fucking Valentine's Day, I Really Do Heart NY, Keyana Stevens, The Internet

So, maybe Valentine's Day has you a little bit down about relationships. (Or not! We won't judge.) But either way, there should still be a little room left to celebrate what you love (and hate) about that city. To that end, the interactive mapping website MyBlockNYC compiled two separate videos, made up of crowdsourced video clips, doing just that.

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Who Does Michael Bloomberg Love On Twitter? We Find Out With Twit Amore

By Esther Zuckerman Sat., Feb. 11 2012 at 10:50 AM
Categories: Esther Zuckerman, Happy Fucking Valentine's Day, Love, The Internet

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Because love is at least nominally in the air (Valentine's Day is Tuesday), the Internet has brought you a new tool to discover your digital crushes. Twit Amore is an app that allows you find out who you or someone you like to stalk loves on Twitter by simply entering a user's handle. According to the site's "about" page it can reveal these "romantic" (note my use of scare quotes) interests by "using the Twitter API, it looks up who you follow, your timeline and your favourite tweets." We decided look up the loves of a few notable New Yorkers, and didn't find anything too incriminating. [h/t]

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MyBlockNYC Wants New Yorkers' Loves And Hates For Valentine's

By Esther Zuckerman Sat., Feb. 4 2012 at 10:47 AM
Categories: Esther Zuckerman, Happy Fucking Valentine's Day, I Really Do Heart NY, The Internet

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Valentine's Day can elicit strong emotions. For a holiday purporting to celebrate the sweetest of emotions, vitriol seems just as common as saccharine. MyBlockNYC, an interactive mapping website" that encourages users to post videos corresponding to certain NYC blocks, is hosting a Valentine's Day contest that hopes New Yorkers share both their objects of adoration and revulsion with a camera. To enter the contest, competitors are supposed to ask New Yorkers what they love and hate and record and upload videos of the answers.

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Two British Tourists Denied Entry Into U.S. for Twitter Jokes

By Keyana Stevens Mon., Jan. 30 2012 at 5:25 PM
Categories: Keyana Stevens, National Security, The Internet, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, Twitter

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Someone needs to give the U.S. Customs Department a lesson in Humour 101.

Last Monday, two British tourists were denied entry into Los Angeles after one of them said on Twitter that he was going to "dig up Marilyn Monroe" and "destroy America" in two separate tweets. (The latter tweet was apparently British slang for partying.)

The pair, Leigh Van Bryan and his friend Emily Bunting, told the Daily Mail that agents from the Department of Homeland Security searched their luggage for spades and shovels on the assumption that Bryan was serious about digging up the body of our famed, white-clad starlet. Customs then held them in a detention facility overnight before sending them back to the U.K.

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Studies Look At What The Internet Can Do To And For Kids

By Esther Zuckerman Sun., Jan. 29 2012 at 4:50 PM
Categories: Esther Zuckerman, Kids Today, Teenagers! , The Internet, This Modern World

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There was a period in history when we assume being a teenage girl or a girl on the verge of teenagedom must have meant listening to a Joni Mitchell record while writing in a diary. Now, there's Taylor Swift, blogs, Facebook, texting and the like. It's all so confusing. So two recent studies have tackled how the Internet affects young people. Let's take a look.

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Rupert Murdoch Answers Twitter Question About Getting A 'Younger Woman'

By Esther Zuckerman Sun., Jan. 29 2012 at 11:49 AM
Categories: Esther Zuckerman, Rupert Murdoch, The Internet, Twitter

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More on the bizarre saga of Rupert Murdoch on Twitter. He has gone on the offensive for SOPA, he has, for a period of time, followed this blogger for some still unknown reason, and now he's answering questions about snagging younger women. Screenshot after the jump.

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