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Big changes could be coming to Tumblr now that Yahoo! has acquired the social blogging platform for a cool $1.1 billion. At TIME, we’re pretty big fans of Tumblr, so we’ve rounded up a look back at some of the [...]
Portland Police Traffic Officer Mark James was on the prowl when he happened to spot a speeding offender going 52 mph in a 35 mph zone. The video, which shows James’ view from his “dash cam,” shows his car taking [...]
Technology of Yore: Longing for the simpler times, when we used simpler forms of communication? Indulge your nostalgia and listen to these songs about obsolete forms of technology. (mental_floss) Bayside, Behind the Scenes: There’s a special kind of nostalgia reserved for ’90s [...]
Fashion, sex, beauty … and socialism? All of that and more in Cosmarxpolitan, the new (faux) magazine hot off the Tumblr presses. The new blog riffs on the notoriously over-the-top cover lines and headlines found in Cosmo, translating them into a handy [...]
Speaking of trouble in paradise: a troop of baboons recently climbed through an open window sill in Betty’s Bay, South Africa, and began ransacking a vacation home while the owners were away. Howard Fyvie and Kyle Peters happened to be [...]
Get ready to watch the most romantic move ever. Photographer Chris Geiger was asked to record one couple’s marriage proposal in San Francisco’s Alamo Square park on April 7, and a video of it has started to go viral. Jason [...]
The South Korean pop star Psy—also better known as Park Jae-sang— and his newest single has snagged a Guinness World Record for the most viewed video online in 24 hours— and it only needed to hit 38 million views to [...]
Comedy fans rejoice. YouTube is hosting its first-ever comedy week in May, and you can expect some big names to take part in the largest open mic on the planet. Google’s video-sharing website announced on Thursday that the seven-day cyber [...]
“How many indie rock fans does it take to screw in a light bulb? It’s a really obscure number that you’ve probably never heard of.” That old hipster-skewering joke is funny because it’s true: for some indie rock fans, no [...]
An e-mail from a Delta Gamma sorority member to her chapter sisters encouraging them to be more sociable — in terms that would make Andrew Dice Clay blush — has… READ ON
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