comScore
  1. Mediaite
  2. Gossip Cop
  3. Geekosystem
  4. Styleite
  5. SportsGrid
  6. The Mary Sue
  7. The Jane Dough
  8. The Braiser

LGBTQ

Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Shia LaBeouf Is Really Excited to Meet Bill Nye, Guys

I’m no huge fan of Mr. LaBeouf, but I can’t say that I’d react with any more poise than he does in this video. (BuzzFeed)

READ MORE

And Now For Something Completely Different

Election Recap: U.S. Senate Will Reconvene With Record Setting Percentage of Women

Right, right, victories for women and minorities in the polls last night, but we all know that the victories of the internet come first. Ladies and gentlemen, you are looking at the majority content of the world’s newest most tweeted and most Facebook-Liked post in history. This picture, with the text “Four more years.” was tweeted by and posted on the Facebook wall of President Barack Obama last night. Within the first hour of the tweet’s existence it generated almost 370k retweets, sitting at 661,267 retweets as of this post, while the Facebook post has a whopping 3,270,011 likes.

You did it, America. You made internet history.

All joking aside, let’s talk about how there are going to be more female senators than ever before in history starting next term.

READ MORE

Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: A Binder Full of Magic Card Women

What’s better than binders full of women? Binders full of magic cards. But what if the magic cards were women? (Geekosystem)

READ MORE

Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: A Hello Kitty TIE Fighter

This adorable killing machine was sculpted for a Star Wars toy art show. (Neatorama)

READ MORE

Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: The Makeup Mouse

BitRebels introduced us to this concept design for a makeup compact/computer mouse hybrid. I’m not convinced.

READ MORE

Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: A Vintage Breast Washing Machine

Offered without comment. (Boing Boing)

READ MORE

Cautiously Optimistic

Google Uncensors “Bisexual” From Instant Search?

It’s been two years now since Google unveiled Instant Search, so long, in fact, that I couldn’t remember what it was called anymore. Lets have a refresher: two years ago Google changed the way they display search results from waiting for you to press enter before showing a static page, to displaying a constantly refreshing page of guesses based on the characters you’d typed in so far. The problem with this that many people immediately raised was that nobody was going to want to search for words like “sextillion,” “pork,” or “book,” seeing as how those words share initial letters with “sex,” “porn,” and “boobs.”

No worries, Google had a plan for that: certain words would not call in the instant search function, and instead would require folks to press enter to see anything other than a blank page. These words would offer no autocorrects, no suggested searches, and feature no results. Which seemed reasonable until Instant Search was rolled out, revealing that included on that list of words was “lesbian,” and “bisexual,” but not, for example, “ex-gay.”

It’s taken two years, but BiNet says they’ve managed to get Google to rescind its policy on “bisexual” as a term that does not work with Instant Search.

READ MORE

Consider the Following

Jim Henson Co. Severs Ties With Chick-Fil-A

The Jim Henson Company, currently headed by Lisa Henson, daughter of the late Jim, has formally announced that they will be severing all financial relationships they have with Chick-Fil-A, which is presumably a relief to the hundreds of chickens under the employ of the Henson Co.

Ok, jokes aside, this is actually a firm and explicit stance against Chick-Fil-A’s anti-marriage equality stance, with Henson likely brought to the tipping point by the confident admission of Chick-Fil-A president Dan Cathy, that as far as funding organizations that have lobbied not just against marriage rights for gay and bisexual people but also against legislation that would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity goes, his company is guilty as charged.

READ MORE

Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: The Flowchart That Explains How The Mary Sue Continues Our Existence

Doghouse Diaries presents a major facet of our business model. Thank you all for choosing us on your journey round the endless procrastination wheel.

READ MORE

For great justice

Google Launches International “Legalize Love” Campaign

And you thought Oreos had influence. Google has launched a campaign they’ve called “Legalize Love,” in support of Google employees who identify as a part of the LGBTQ community. Considering that Google is a behemoth of companies that owns everything, and knows everything about everyone (that’s why its hair is so big, it’s full of secrets), the fact that they’ve stepped forward in such a way to champion LGBTQ issues could have shouldn’t be underestimated.

READ MORE
X