BuzzFeed found this: A Republican Super PAC prominently features a game on their website that allows users to slap former secretary of state and possible 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton across the face. The game is being hosted on the website for The Hillary Project, an anti-Clinton Super PAC that lists its address in Nashua, […]
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Jeff Bezos to Buy the Washington Post
The Washington Post reports: The Washington Post Co. has agreed to sell its flagship newspaper to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, ending the Graham family’s stewardship of one of America’s leading news organizations after four generations. Bezos, whose entrepreneurship has made him one of the world’s richest men, will pay $250 million […]
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Smart Republicans Try to Convince Dumb Republicans to Lay Off Abortion for a While
The AP’s Thomas Beaumont says: Abortion is still legal but getting one in many states will be difficult if laws passed this year are upheld by the courts. In a march through conservative legislatures, anti-abortion Republicans passed a wave of new restrictions that would sharply limit when a woman could terminate a pregnancy and where […]
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Here Comes the Avatar Trilogy
Deadline broke the news that James Cameron has announced the next three Avatar movies: The three pictures will be filmed simultaneously with production beginning next year. The release of the first sequel will be in December 2016, with the second to follow in December 2017, and the third a year later. Everyone online is scoffing […]
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Too Much of a Good Thing
This supercut of trailers… ETERNA from Behind The Epic on Vimeo. …reminds me of the beginning of Steven Soderbergh’s excellent State of Cinema talk, about something that happened to him on a plane: So I’m getting comfortable in my seat. I spent the extra $60 to get the extra leg room so I’m trying to […]
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More and More, Governments Are Requesting Private Information from Twitter
Twitter, which has apparently been much better about saying no to the NSA than the other tech giants, says that more and more governments want to get a hold of your private information: The company’s latest transparency report, now a biannual affair, shows a steady increase in information requests from governments around the world, including […]
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Facebook Could Be Planning to Drop 15-Second Ads Into Your News Feed
Well! There goes Facebook. Bloomberg says: Facebook Inc. (FB), seeking to break the long-held dominance of television over advertising budgets, plans to sell TV-style commercials on its site for as much as $2.5 million a day, two people familiar with the matter said. The world’s largest social-networking site, which has 1.15 billion members, expects to […]
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Media Conglomerate Would Rather Throw Money Away Than Make a Movie Starring a Strong Female Lead
Looks like Time Warner is preparing their next big superhero for a TV series and an upcoming movie franchise. And it’s…The Flash? I really like The Flash. I think he’s a character whose powers are well-suited to the comics medium, and he’s had some great talent on his book over the last seven decades. But […]
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Naked Isn’t Natural Anymore
Hurray for consumer friendly, health-conscious progress! PepsiCo Inc. said it will no longer label its Naked juices as being “all natural,” after a lawsuit complained that the drinks contain ingredients that don’t fit that bill. The article explains that there seems to be no agreed-upon definition of the word “natural” when it comes to food. […]
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Pat Robertson Says “I Don’t Think There Is Any Sin Associated” with Sex Changes
On his television show, a viewer asked Pat Robertson how he should treat two men in his workplace who “have decided that they are females.” You’ll want to start this video at 2:28, or if you can’t handle Pat Robertson’s smug, quavering voice, I’ve transcribed his response: I think there are men who are in […]
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Are Commenters Still Commenters When They’re Writing Headlines?
Nieman Journalism Lab’s Adrienne LaFrance says that Gawker CEO Nick Denton is adjusting the commenter/reporter relationship: Tonight Gawker is rolling out a new kind of reblogging functionality to Kinja so that readers can top the articles they share with their own headlines and introductions. (It’ll first enable Gawker Media staffers to re-top stories; that power […]
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Juror Says Zimmerman “Got Away with Murder”
Good Morning America just posted this: The only minority on the all-female jury that voted to acquit George Zimmerman said today that Zimmerman “got away with murder” for killing Trayvon Martin and feels she owes an apology Martin’s parents. “You can’t put the man in jail even though in our hearts we felt he was […]