Tag: Internetland (21-30 of 103)

Mar 18 2013 02:14 PM ET

Reddit launches original web series, 'Explain Like I'm Five' -- VIDEO

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The Internet’s front page is expanding. Today, social news site Reddit officially launched Explain Like I’m Five — a new web series inspired by the site’s popular, eponymous subreddit.

Reddit’s “Explain Like I’m Five” section asks posters to untangle thorny issues in the simplest way possible. The videos take that idea a step further by having a pair of very patient grown-ups (Michael Kayne and Langan Kingsley, two veterans of New York City’s improv comedy scene) explain similarly complicated concepts to actual five-year-olds. The series is sponsored by DonorsChoose.org, an online charity aimed at helping public schools.

So far, Reddit has posted three Explain videos, each of which concentrates on a single topic: the crisis in Syria, existentialism (a.k.a. “eggsalentlalism”), or how the stock market works. Here’s the latter, which would have really come in handy in 2008:

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Mar 18 2013 12:02 PM ET

'A Very Potter Senior Year': Darren Criss & Team StarKid's last Potter parody hits YouTube

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In the beginning, God and Darren Criss created Harry Potter: The Musical, a madcap Harry Potter parody originally performed at the University of Michigan in 2009. The musical, cowritten by Matt Lang, Nick Lang, and Brian Holden and produced by StarKid Productions, arrived on YouTube that summer and quickly went viral, inspiring a 2010 sequel that helped to launch Criss into mainstream stardom. (Its popularity also inspired a name change meant to stave off the litigious Warner Bros; that’s why you now know the show as A Very Potter Musical.)

Potter‘s Harry soon joined the cast of Glee, and StarKid’s other members moved on to other projects as well. Still, though, the story didn’t seem quite finished — which is why a whole passel of StarKids (including Criss) reunited for a one-night-only performance of a second Potter sequel at Chicago’s LeakyCon convention last summer. Though the gang released the show’s cast recording in December, the full musical itself remained absent from YouTube… until this past Friday.

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Mar 18 2013 11:00 AM ET

This is not a joke: Funny or Die made its own Steve Jobs biopic

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Watch out, Ashton Kutcher and Aaron Sorkin — the Steve Jobs biopic field is even more crowded than you thought.

Funny or Die revealed yesterday that it, too, has crafted a close-to-full-length film about Apple’s visionary, starring Justin Long. The actor is an appropriate lead for two reasons. First of all, he played the Mac in the computer company’s classic “I’m a Mac/I’m a PC” commercials. Secondly, the film’s run time is somewhere between 60 and 75 minutes, making it by far Funny or Die’s most lengthy project to date. You know… its Longest.

Just don’t expect something as scrupulously crafted as either Kutcher’s Jobs or Sorkin’s yet-unnamed Jobs movie.  READ FULL STORY »

Mar 13 2013 06:04 PM ET

Another day, another 'Game of Thrones' parody: Westeros parties like it's 1995 -- VIDEO

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Was School of Thrones just a tad too modern for your delicate sensibilities? If so, a new Game of Thrones homage might be more your speed. The latest viral riff on Westeros imagines how the HBO series would look if it had been produced in 1995. Check out the Xena-esque production values, ’80s-inflected theme song, and close-ups of fond smiles below.

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Mar 13 2013 05:11 PM ET

'Veronica Mars' movie: Meet the guy who just pledged $10k for a speaking role

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There are fans, and then there are stans — the rabid zealots who spend 12 months creating detailed replicas of a fantasy world out of Legos, or those who make it their mission to cook every single food mentioned in their favorite series, or who camp outside for hours in a blizzard in hopes of maybe getting a ticket to see the object of their devotion perform.

Steven Dengler, the man who pledged $10,000 to Rob Thomas’s Veronica Mars movie on Kickstater today, is… not one of those people, at least where Veronica is concerned. “I’m not a superfan in the sense of knowing every line from every episode or anything like that,” he told EW during a phone interview this afternoon. “In fact,” he continued, “if you put me in with your average group of superfans, I’d probably get bounced pretty quickly… I would call myself a small-f ‘fan’ of the series.” READ FULL STORY »

Mar 7 2013 04:12 PM ET

Redesigned News Feed will change everything about the way we Facebook now

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This afternoon, Facebook made an announcement so bold, so incredible, so — dare I say? — groundbreaking that the very foundations of the way we stalk our exes and look to see which of our enemies have gained weight may be forever altered.

The basic gist: Pictures on News Feed — wait for it, wait for it — are about to get bigger.

Not just a little bigger — a lot bigger. Like, super big, as you can see from the photo above. Additionally, Facebook will be reducing News Feed’s clutter by allowing users to sort which information appears — it’ll soon be possible to view just updates from all of your friends, just photos posted by your friends, just posts from the properties you “like,” and so on — adding little maps to the posts that appear when a user checks into a location, and changing the site’s interface so that it better resembles Facebook’s mobile interface. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 4 2013 11:45 AM ET

Google Doodle celebrates singer/activist Miriam Makeba

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google-doodle-miriam-makebaToday’s Google Doodle wants to get you ready to dance while celebrating what would have been the 81st birthday of singer and activist Miriam Makeba.

Known as “Mama Africa,” the South African popularized African music in the West over the course of her decades-long career. The Grammy winner also regularly spoke out against apartheid, leading South Africa to revoke her citizenship in 1960 for the next 30 years. In 1966 she became the first African to win a Grammy Award for her album with Harry Belafonte, An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba. She also notably – and controversially —  joined Paul Simon on his Graceland Tour in 1985. She passed away in 2008 while on her own farewell tour.

Sadly, Google missed an opportunity to add some sound to today’s drawing (when you click anywhere on the screen, Google takes you to the search results for “Miriam Makeba”). Listen to “Pata Pata,” which hit No. 12 on the U.S. Billboard charts in 1967, below: READ FULL STORY »

Mar 4 2013 10:42 AM ET

Further proof that everyone needs to stop making Harlem Shake videos

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Harlem Shake videos aren’t just played out — they’re also potential career-killers.

Up to 15 gold miners in Australia were sacked recently when their mine’s owner saw their take on the YouTube sensation. Apparently, dancing shirtless in an underground mine shaft is a safety violation — even if you’re wearing a helmet. Suddenly, “Gangnam Style” parodies are starting to look almost tolerable by comparison.

Worse still, some of the folks who were canned didn’t even appear on camera; they were punished simply for watching their coworkers dance. Australian gold mines officially equal the puritan town from Footloose. Here’s the video that caused all this trouble in the first place:

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Feb 28 2013 01:51 PM ET

Damon Lindelof goes on hours-long Twitter spree about Justin Bieber's hat

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Justin Bieber wore a yellow hat with spikes out in public this week. That is the only background you need to enjoy Damon Lindelof’s hours-long Twitter one-liner spree. (Warning: NSFW language to follow):

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Feb 27 2013 04:46 PM ET

'Parks and Rec' characters Ben and Leslie have a wedding album on Pinterest

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BEN-LESLIE-PINBOARD_510x317Important “Stuff on the Internet” update: Parks and Recreation characters Leslie and Ben have a wedding pinboard on Pinterest, and it’s as absolutely adorable as you’d hope it would be.

In a bunch of photos courtesy of NBC, you can see formal-ish black-and-white pictures of the just-married Mr. and Mrs. Ben Wyatt, or rather, Mr. Ben Wyatt and Ms. Leslie Knope, alongside “behind-the-scenes” photos from the wedding day featuring Ron, April, Tom and yes, even Jerry. READ FULL STORY »

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