The Minimalists Want You to Be Happy With Less And in a country where many struggle, they’ve found a huge audience.
year in culture 2015
Dec. 18, 2015
The 10 Best Art Books of 2015 Over the past few years, art books have seen a renaissance. These exemplify the form.
Audio Messages Are Disrupting Conversation Should we be trading voice memos instead of texts?
What Does the Internet Do to Our Memories? It’s easy to think the web’s destroying our memories, but the truth might be the opposite.
Help Twitch Kill This Poor Tamagotchi Twitch takes care of a digital pet, what can go wrong?
PSA: Instagram Husbands Need Your Help If you suffer from excessive Instagramming, you’re not alone.
This Weird Dog-Rating Twitter Account Gets 10/10 It’s tough out on the open internet for a viral dog rater.
Soggy Irish Reporter Gives Life/Weather Advice Teresa Mannion made the most of her performance during Storm Desmund.
Why Social Media Turns to Images to Help Us Cope With Tragedy What should we make of the viral image memes that pop up after tragedies?
hack the city
Dec. 3, 2015
You Might Be Able to 3-D Print Your Next House Welcome to a new era of building construction.
Pantone Picks the Colors of the Internet for 2016 The color company is apparently obsessed with the early web.
Watch a YouTuber Slyly Satirize Himself in ‘Vlogvember’ Adrian Bliss makes a 30-day video diary making fun of YouTuber culture.
U.K. Tabloids Publish Tumblr Lesbian Fan Fiction As a Real News Story What happens when a fictional text exchange between two CW characters goes viral?
LOL Is Literally Dead, Long Live LOL LOL’s meaning has shifted over the years, but these days it’s the internet’s shibboleth.
Goole, England, Is Tired of Being Mistaken for Google The tiny port town launched its own search engine to combat SEO woes.
The New York Times Publishes Its First-Ever Real LOL French novelist Michel Houellebecq sneaks an internet-ism into his op-ed.
Facebook Makes It Easier to Break Up The social network is becoming more human, allowing for social subtlety.
French Couple Sues Airbnb for Copying Their Apartment What do you do when a giant internet company steals your style?
Paris Terrorists Weren’t Using Encryption An unencrypted cell phone was recovered in a trashcan near the Bataclan.
This Kurdish Stalin Doppelgänger Is Blowing Up the Russian Internet The politician is eerily similar to the Soviet dictator — in looks only.
Heartwarming Viral Wedding Photos Cause Heartbreak Going viral isn’t all “you’ll cry when you see what happens next.”
Is Encryption Really Preventing Governments From Stopping ISIS? A Primer Terrorists aren’t necessarily using PS4s to plan attacks, but rumors are targeting encryption.
Wikipedia Shows the Internet Is Lists All the Way Down Listicles are the native format of the Internet, but it’s lists all the way down.
Viral Bullied Man Gets Justice Thanks to Reddit A white guy in Taiwan gets harassed for having a Taiwanese girlfriend — and Reddit comes to the rescue!
The Tricks, Cheats, and Pirates Behind Facebook’s Monster Video Numbers Facebook’s fluffed-up video system hurts independent creators and lets pirates thrive.
Essena O’Neill Takes Down Fake Web Relationships Even after passing on from social media, former Instagram star Essena O’Neill is taking aim at fake online relationships — even as her detractors take aim at her.
Why Instagram Captions Are the New Blogging As Facebook gets even more corporate, Instagram is growing as a space for authentic blogging.
Fans Make Fallout 4’s Avatars As Ugly As Possible Fallout 4 takes place in an irradiated hellscape, but these custom avatars are extra ugly.
Watch Shia LaBeouf Watching His Own Movies Live The actor is back with a narcissistic piece of performance art.
This Robot Cord Makes the Digital Real A line-shaped robot from MIT Media Lab is the best assistant the internet could ask for.
Secret Sexting Vaults: A Guide for Parents Parents: Is your teen constantly playing around on a smartphone calculator app? You may think he’s enthralled by the magic of addition and subtraction, but he’s almost certainly sexting with one of the many iPhone apps that disguise a camera or photo album as something more innocuous.
Your Father Dies in an Airbnb. What Happens Next? If you were waiting for something terrible to happen in the legally dubious world of Airbnb rentals, Zak Stone’s father’s death “is that terrible something.”
Today’s Soothing Dog Affirmation Is a Pup Dancing to Toto’s ‘Africa’ The wild dogs cry out in the night; it’s gonna take a lot to drag him away from you.
Activist Blows Up at Pundit on Local Fox Show The local-news racial-politics fight everyone can share!
The Social-Media Teen (and Up) Celebrity World Is at War Over Essena O’Neill Just when Essena O’Neill thought she was out … twin Australian musicians pull her back in.
on the waterfront
Oct. 2, 2015
SEEN’s Cost-Is-No-Object Art World Summer Itinerary Darling, you can afford to be everywhere, too, can’t you?
Richard Prince’s Instagram Thefts Ignite a Debate Over Social-Media Ownership Richard Prince appropriated some images from SuicideGirls; now they want a piece of the profits, too.
‘We Have Lost the Ability to Flush the Toilet’: Art-Festival Culture in Istanbul As the international art world touches down in Turkey against a backdrop of ISIS iconoclasm, it’s worth asking: Just where does festival culture leave us?
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