Craigslist sperm donor told to pay child support

Naked man walks into a bar with a bag of sex toys and asks, “What’s the problem?”

Gmail Glitch Is Causing Thousands Of Emails To Be Sent To One Man’s Hotmail Account

The Communicative Functions of Emoticons in Workplace E-Mails

What percent of your work day do you spend on email? 28%. Use email auto-analytics to tame your inbox.

Thirty-five of the YouTube accounts they took over were generating more than 6 million page views each month.

Efforts are underway to make your smart toilet—and other connected devices—less vulnerable to hackers.

How Silicon Valley’s most celebrated CEOs conspired to drive down 100,000 tech engineers’ wages

The “sharing economy” invokes vague leftist sentiments while moving towards more precarious employment.

American Botanical Council Publishes Revolutionary Analysis Unlocking Mysteries of Voynich Manuscript

This paper will explore how the Nazis tried to quell the demand for jazz music by creating a new, ideologically acceptable music. [PDF]

He identifies seven main factors of a state’s relative strength, the combination of which determines the chances of war

“Mr. Faulkner, you were saying a while ago that you don’t like interviews.”

The American Dialect Society’s recognition of because as Word of the Year has sparked a number of intriguing linguistic arguments.

An example of a snowclone is the phrase “grey is the new black,” which gave rise to the template “X is the new Y.”

How the U.S. Maps the World’s Most Disputed Territories

When Mary Ellis died in 1828, her family buried her in a peaceful patch of woods near a bend in the Raritan River. She’s still there, but the trees are long gone—her body now rests in the middle of a movieplex parking lot.

Photos of every New York City subway stop

Jean-Michel Basquiat, naked

North Korea confirms it has landed a man on the Sun

Patent Rat Exterminator, 1882

every day the same again | January 25th, 2014