Computer programmer Richard Stallman invented a famous “hack” around copyright law when he created the General Public License, which enables a community of hackers to create their own commons of software code.
Archives for February 2011
Your Inspirational Videos of the Day
In honor of Hawaii legalizing same-sex civil unions, watch an Iowa grandma and a Mormon mother defend gay marriage.
Grandma and Grandpa Meet Photobooth [Video]
This is funny. Just watch it.
Drunk Tweeting—Twunking?
Whether you call it “twunking,” “dreeting,” or even “shitfaced tweeting,” drunk tweeting isn’t too difficult to spot. Luckily for twunkers, there’s hope.
A World of Coffee
Scandinavia is putting the rest of the world to shame with their yearly coffee consumption.
The 10 at 10
Human castles, student-hating teachers, and Colbert ripping off the Huffington Post (hilariously). The 10 at 10.
Dance With Your Daughter, but Not for Purity
Ten things I've learned from fighting in elementary school
The Karate Kid move, where you stand on one leg, and the other guy looks at the bent leg in the air, and then you kick with the leg you were standing on…that move sort of works. A grade 6 fighting a grade 4 is lame. A grade 6 fighting 3 grade 4’s is bad-ass!…
I Need a New Sport
Tom Matlack is sick of the big four sports. Help him choose a new athletic endeavor.
High-School Wrestlers Bash Roadside Raccoon
More stupid criminals—and the merely criminally stupid—in this week’s Dudes in the News.
Yoga hurts
Finally, I need to make sure when I talk to the instructor, I don’t call it “doggy style”. I’m a mess. I’m out of shape and I could lose 20 25 pounds. I wasn’t always this way. A few years ago I was playing hockey one or two nights a week and could skate pretty…
84-Year-Old Man Survives in Desert by Drinking Windshield Fluid
“The [car] battery went dead. My phone went dead. And I went dead.”
Meet Your Next Child Prodigy
Do you even know 10 composers? An 8-year-old sends in his top 10 list to The New York Times.
Marital Rating Scale, Circa 1930
Is your wife late in coming to bed? Does she fail to darn your socks regularly? Does she warm her cold feet on you at night? Demerit, demerit, demerit.
The 10 at 10
Lara Logan is in good spirits, Bernie Madoff speaks, and Watson loses to a human. Don’t eat the 10 at 10.
The Cure for Baldness Is Almost Here
Unfortunately, it’s coming too late to benefit Jonathan Lesser, who is one of what might be the last generation of bald men.