Your handy daily round-up of delightful links from around the Web.
Celebs photobombing other celebs: Daniel Craig photobombs Taylor Swift, Dave Grohl photobombs Jessica Simpson and more awesome shots.
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Needless to say the internet is an endless source of weirdness, and thank God for that. How else would we be able to keep up with this kind of news?
Last week we reported that a horrible mom was letting the internet vote to decide the name of her child for a measly $5,000. We can now thankfully say that the whole thing was a big, stinking hoax, perpetrated by none other than the company holding the contest.
We're probably at the point where just about every parent with a school-age child has a certain level of Internet sophistication. This means that it is fairly easy for most parents to check up on what their kids are getting into online. But are they?
And because we can't do cat videos all day every day,* here are ten amazing facts about the internet. From how many likes there are on Facebook daily to the actual weight of the internet, this video just might blow your mind. (Hence the title.) Learn something new today, so you can watch a cat stuck in a jar over and over guilt-free!
Okay, I'm usually not the paranoid sort, but in this age of technology you have to wonder. We've all heard about how websites like Facebook gathers information based on our preferences, presumably so that they can sell that information to marketers. Here's an interesting video that maps out how information about us is gathered.
The scope of the internet is mind-boggling. These days, there is more information available to you on your Smartphone than there is the world’s largest libraries.
But is this information you can so easily access from the web reliable?
Ah, Prince. Whether he’s changing his name to a symbol, scrawling slogans on his face, threatening to sue his fans, or publicly daydreaming about a world in which no one is allowed to cover his songs, he’s always good for a provocative quote or two.
His latest interview, with the UK’s Guardian, didn’t disappoint.
The ongoing debate over free speech just got a whole lot weirder.
According to the NY Post, library officials in New York claim that adults who want to browse Internet porn at their local branches are actually free to do so. In fact, it's protected under a person's First Amendment rights -- assuming, of course, that the adult content is legal.
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