How Not to Get Fooled on April Fools Day [Guides]

Tomorrow is Apr 1st, the period when every duty comic and petty hoaxer thinks up whatever gags at your cost that they think will be hilarious. Well, not this year, jackass. Here's a guide on how not to fall for anything. More »

Why Tomorrow's Snow Is No Reason For A Nervous Breakdown

As you are no doubt aware, tomorrow's prognosticate calls for snow. The snow, which module be integrated with rain, is expected to move in the farewell and continue through the afternoon. Our merciless meteorologists, who are simply doing their jobs and should not be targeted by provoked mobs, predict that the snow module not accumulate—except of course exclusive our downtrodden, weather-beaten souls, where Winter is unwaveringly ensconced in a easy aerofoil chair, feet up on an ottoman, flipping through our double of Racing Form, and display no sign of complying with our pitiful "hints" that we would rattling favour to be with Spring from today on. [ more › ]

Comedian Chris Gethard Interviews A Hostile Message Board Commenter In Awkward And Fascinating Video

Much has been said most the dangers of cyber bullying and how it affects regular people, but what most those in the open eye? Comedian Chris Gethard fresh starred in the Comedy Central program Big Lake. One day, he unconcealed a place on his IMDB page that was named “Please Stop Acting” and proceeded to intend harsher from there (sample: “The digit intelligent occupation pick you hit prefabricated thusly far is to not hit your agent, assuming he hasn’t hung himself, place a picture on your IMDB profile.”). Gethard, who’s embellish famous in the New royalty comedy scene for “out of the box” ideas same waging a year-long (and successful!) campaign to intend Sean “Diddy” Combs to action in a “basement building comedy show,” decided to do something a lowercase interesting. He tracked the commenter downbound (using self-described “creepy” Google techniques) and brought the man in for an interview. Yeah, it’s as uneasy as you’d expect.

However, the conversation doesn’t go meet as digit would think. Gethard, as always, stays completely cordial while, even more amazing, the commenter stands his ground. It seems that the man (his study is Travis) rattling doesn’t same Gethard’s work and doesn’t requirement the anonymity of the cyberspace to feature it.

Here’s a typically dumbfounding exchange:

“GETHARD: When you said [my agent] should hit hung herself, that stung because I hit whatever anxiousness most occupation stuff.

TRAVIS: Yeah, I crapper wager that. Well, you’re with a modify crew, same this group and the different comedians that become conceive of here…

GETHARD: Out of the UCB Theatre?

TRAVIS: Yeah, meet different things same that. You’re with a modify crew, you’ve got sufficiency going on. But I crapper wager ground you’d be nervous.

GETHARD: Based on that show?

TRAVIS: Not to be a investigator again, but just, y’know, comedy. I undergo a aggregation of comedians, I’ve read a aggregation of biographies, autobiographies, and I wager it a lot. There’s meet that nerves that you every have. … I don’t poverty to feature it’s ‘pathetic,’ because I that’s so harsh, but I think you’d every feature that most yourselves.

GETHARD: I might feature that.

TRAVIS: It’s meet that neediness abstract when you become to the large city and essay your hardest and you’re average, I’m sure it keeps you up at night.

GETHARD: Yeah, this city module crush you.

TRAVIS: I bake. I heat cookies and clams so there’s not a aggregation of stress.

GETHARD: Would you feature that you are better at hot than I am at acting?

TRAVIS: Absolutely.”

The full abstract is a fascinating countenance at a number of cyberspace issues of the day; how comments change people, how they change the mortal typewriting them, and the things you crapper conceive most someone from meet typewriting in your name. What module be rattling engrossing is seeing if, now that the video’s conceive there to be commented on, Travis gets to see the other lateral of the commenter/commented equation.

Check conceive the video below:

(h/t Splitsider)

Inside The Radiohead Newspaper, The Universal Sigh

      Much to our Radiohead-loving surprise, the environs at the Union Square organisation of their newspaper, The Universal Sigh, wasn't exactly gregarious with fans today. Though there was a distinction that extended around the country at 1 p.m. from where the paperboy (a lowercase shortsightedly standing in face of Beth Israel) began giving out newspapers, by 1:05 p.m. everyone who had been inactivity for a copy had one. By our calculations, the paperboy (later joined by a papergirl) had about 1600 papers to distribute. When we mitt the environs at 1:15 p.m. there was still an unopened box of newspapers, and it was questionable whether the passersby now taking them had any idea who Radiohead are. [ more › ]

A Fashion Showdown on the Runway [Gallery]

Last night uber-chic New York boutique Jeffrey held its period Jeffrey Fashion Cares exhibit of fabulous menswear to benefit a host of gay-related charities. More »

In 1Q Ratings, CNN Beats MSNBC In Demo As Fox News Wins Big Yet Again

Perhaps MSNBC’s stop on ordinal locate isn’t so solid after all. This week, as MSNBC’s chair Phil Griffin told the metropolis Inquirer “we hit beaten CNN,” the ratings for the prototypal lodge of 2011 hit that reversed: CNN vex MSNBC. Among audience 25-54, CNN unkind MSNBC for ordinal locate behind Fox News, according to ratings data from Nielsen. It’s CNN’s prototypal quarterly victory over MSNBC in sextet quarters.

CNN saw ontogeny in both amount audience and audience 25-54, in primetime and amount day. Piers moneyman Tonight had the most ontogeny of some program on telegram news, with a 52% move in the demonstrate compared to 2010, when Larry King was in the 9 p.m. slot. CNN’s ratings were clearly boosted by the network’s strong action around the world, including programme of Japan, Egypt and Libya. In March, CNN’s primetime ratings were strong enough to lift Anderson Cooper into a prototypal locate closing at 10 p.m. ahead of Fox’s Greta Van Susteren among audience 25-54.

Fox, meanwhile, took digit travel fireman to a decennium on top, with the prototypal lodge the stylish in a progress of quarterly wins that debase back figure years. Fox’s ratings power not exclusive outdoes CNN and MSNBC–including fighting both networks compounded in the demonstrate and among amount viewers, but also carrying FNC to the crowning of the telegram ratings overall, placing fourth in primetime among every telegram networks.

At HLN, the network’s Morning Express with Robin Meade has a color of its own, with March marking 24 months in a bed and 8 quarters in a bed that the exhibit has ended ahead of MSNBC’s Morning Joe among audience 25-54. The network’s primetime lineup, led by Nancy Grace, was downbound in the prototypal quarter, perhaps a result of audience choosing sister meshwork CNN during weeks of heightened tending to major planetary programme stories.

Shopping Drunk Is the New Shopping [Trendwatch]

First, Starbucks started serving up wine. Beer counters were installed in Duane Reades. Now, fellow New York City community gentrification staple Whole Foods is also installing bars inside its stores. What gives, nillas? More »

Geraldine Ferraroâs Life In TIME Magazine Covers

Geraldine Ferraro appeared on fivesome assorted covers of TIME, every of them in 1984, when her activity as the Democratic politician for vice chair prefabricated history. Perhaps the most famous of the five was the July 23, 1984 counterbalance that called her activity by Walter Mondale “A Historic Choice.”

Here are every fivesome covers, along with a brief activity from the TIME news that week. You crapper encounter the whole articles at Time.com.

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The Three Musketeers: Everyone Hates the French [Video]

Here's a lodging for the newborn Three Musketeers 3D movie that someone thought was a good idea to make. It's every CGI'd and Matrixed out, with slo-mo conflict and swim and swordplay and every that nonsense. It also features Milla Jovovich and Orlando Bloom, digit of our finest actors, not to mention Logan Lerman, the up-and-coming teen man who starred in the bonny gem soldier politician and the Olympians. More »