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The Huffington Post

  • !Gay Mormon Characters In The Arts Step Out Of The Shadows
    By Kellie Kotraba Religion News Service(RNS) Twenty years ago, a gay Mormon character stepped onstage for the first time. His name was Joe Pitt, and he was in Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches.”Read More...…
    - 4 hours ago, 24 May 13, 3:20pm -
  • !Russia Earthquake: Powerful Temblor Hits Off East Coast In Sea Of Okhotsk
    MOSCOW -- A powerful earthquake on Friday hit Russia's Far East with tremors felt as far away as Moscow, about 7,000 kilometers (4,400 miles) west of the epicenter.Marina Kolomiyets, spokeswoman for Obninsk's seismic station of the Russian Academy of…
    - 4 hours ago, 24 May 13, 3:19pm -

Tech Crunch

  • !Flickr Suffers Outage Four Days After Major Revamp

    Flickr Suffers Outage Four Days After Major Revamp

    Just four days after Yahoo-owned Flickr unveiled a brand-new upgrade, the site is experiencing major downtime for some—but not all—users. Flickr tweeted its acknowledgement of the site going down, about two hours ago. Experiencing slowness or h…
    - 3 hours ago, 24 May 13, 4:38pm -
  • !Cubic Telecom Secures $5.2M To Create Devices That Roam Mobile Networks Cheaply

    Cubic Telecom Secures $5.2M To Create Devices That Roam Mobile Networks Cheaply

    We're all familiar with the bill shock associated with roaming abroad with our cellphones. There are plenty of players that allow you to swap out your SIM card and use cheaper traffic, including Cubic Telecom. However, that process is tedious. So Cub…
    - 5 hours ago, 24 May 13, 2:00pm -

Gizmodo

  • What Life on Earth Would Look Like If Earth Had Rings Like Saturn

    What Life on Earth Would Look Like If Earth Had Rings Like Saturn

    Every so often when the Moon is especially ginormous or we can see Venus or Mars from Earth, humans collectively freaks out. So cool three exclamation points, we scream. Look how big with thirty i's, we yell. And it's warranted! Seeing things that d…
    - 6 hours ago, 24 May 13, 1:00pm -
  • The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Planet Online

    The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Planet Online

    Between ads for action figures, micromachines, and sugar-laden cereals, there used to be a time when Saturday morning commercials were just as riveting as the cartoons they interrupted—especially for gullible 8-year-olds. And though the ads themse…
    - 7 hours ago, 24 May 13, 12:00pm -

Mashable

  • !With Lumia 928, Verizon Finally Gets Its Flagship Windows Phone
    The Nokia Lumia 928 is essentially the Verizon iteration of the landmark Lumia 920. That's the short version of this review. If you liked the Lumia 920 but wanted it on Verizon, this is the phone for you. Yes, there are a few differences — the Lum…
    - 11 mins ago, 24 May 13, 6:57pm -

Gawker

Lifehacker

  • Google, Google, and More Google!

    Google, Google, and More Google!

    This week on the podcast we're talking about Google, Google, and more Google. Also, your questions about keeping to a budget, cold-emailing your dream job's company, and freeing up space on your iPhone.Read more...    
    - 11 hours ago, 24 May 13, 8:00am -

Engadget

  • !Samsung GT-i8800 smartphone makes an appearance running Tizen 2.1

    Samsung GT-i8800 smartphone makes an appearance running Tizen 2.1

    Samsung's relationship with Google seems solid enough for now, but the company is still hedging its bets with Tizen should things turn sour. Several devices running the alternative Linux-based OS are due to launch this year, and the GT-i8800 looks…
    - 31 mins ago, 24 May 13, 6:37pm -

Boing Boing

  • How Edmund Wilson said NO

    How Edmund Wilson said NO

    Here's literary critic Edmund Wilson's form-letter for turning down requests from strangers. As Tim Ferriss notes, Wilson wasn't a hermit or antisocial, but he maximized the time he spent socializing with the people he liked by not letting strangers…
    - 8 hours ago, 24 May 13, 10:42am -

Mediate

ReadWriteWeb

Jezebel

  • Amanda Bynes Has Reportedly Been Arrested at Her Midtown Apartment

    Amanda Bynes Has Reportedly Been Arrested at Her Midtown Apartment

    The Amanda Bynes entropy cycle has reached an unfortunate (and probably inevitable) new stage: the actress is rumored to have been arrested in her Midtown apartment late Thursday night after a bong-tossing confrontation with NYPD officers.Read more..…
    - 8 hours ago, 24 May 13, 11:35am -

Think Progress

  • Kolbert: Keystone XL is ‘Just Another Step On The March To Disaster’

    Kolbert: Keystone XL is ‘Just Another Step On The March To Disaster’

    Elizabeth Kolbert is one of the most thoughtful climate journalists. Her terrific 2006 book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, famously ends, “It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to des…
    - 13 hours ago, 24 May 13, 6:22am -

The Daily Dish

  • An End In Sight
    [Re-posted from earlier today. Blogosphere response to the pivotal speech here.] The challenges that Barack Obama faced upon taking office were, even his critics would admit, daunting: an economy tail-spinning toward a second Great Depression, two co…
    - 9 hours ago, 24 May 13, 9:39am -

Popeater