Tasha: When Scott and I threw down on the most recent episode of The Dissolve Podcast over Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf Of Wall Street , one of the many topics we glanced across was our different opinions about how messy a film it is—whether all the scenes are really narratively necessary, or some are…

How do you like your eggs, Bob Dylan, How do you like your eggs? You're walking on broken legs, Bob Dylan, But you still make us beg, Bob Dylan. So how do you like your eggs?* You can't look at him. If you work at one of the arenas where he plays, you're not allowed to look at him when he makes his…

Larry Laffer, the concupiscent software salesman , is thinner than I remembered. He's still goofy, though, dressed in his trademark permanent-press white leisure suit, black shirt and gold chains. He's still terrible around women, always saying the wrong thing, always in pressing need of Binaca. And…

"I would like to send you a memory." Buried deep within the internet's most notorious comment section lies a treasure trove of personal stories that prove the power of pop music better than any video ever could. Illustration by Adam Setala for BuzzFeed YouTube comment left below " Telstar " by The…

Mathematician Chris McKinlay hacked OKCupid to find the girl of his dreams. Emily Shur Chris McKinlay was folded into a cramped fifth-floor cubicle in UCLA's math sciences building, lit by a single bulb and the glow from his monitor. It was 3 in the morn­ing, the optimal time to squeeze cycles out…

In early 2005, Josh Demmitt arrived at a federal prison camp, in Sheridan, Oregon, to serve a thirty-month sentence for starting a fire outside an animal-testing facility at Brigham Young University. The nineteen-year-old received a warm welcome from his fellow inmates, who greeted him with coffee…

Grantland33: What Hollywood doesn't understand about Tom Clancy, and how it's killing the Jack Ryan franchise http://t.co/9c4A7lMyGZ

Above: The writer's bread, baked at home. Image Credit: Jolie O'Dell I have a great business idea: luxury sanitation. White-glove garbage collectors and high-end toilet systems. San Francisco has overpriced every other basic commodity of human existence. Why not take that trend to its illogical…

Giulietta Carrelli outside the Trouble Coffee & Coconut Club. (Photo: Jeff Singer) All the guy was doing was slicing inch-thick pieces of bread, putting them in a toaster, and spreading stuff on them. But what made me stare—blinking to attention in the middle of a workday morning as I waited in line…

Calgary is now a city of million-dollar condos. Where the prairie once spread out, it is now gnarled with traffic. The Rubik’s Cube of traffic, a Calgarian’s favourite topic. Nowadays, Calgary is a place where oilmen fight nightly for tables in wine bars. Thirty years ago there were no wine…

Using Bitcoin has never been more convenient. Via Beyond the hype and wild speculation, Bitcoin is beginning to look like conventional money—that is, people are spending it for the exchange of common goods and services. Observers have long been critical about the cryptocurrency because it hasn’t…

Drawing of a Rikers Island detainee by Ricardo Cortés, who runs art workshops at the New York City detention complex. On Rikers Island it is not fruitful to be angry. For the past year I’ve run art workshops for men and women who live here, in New York City’s largest detention complex. I’ve seen…

Zach Gage says his riff on Space Invaders isn't maliciously designed software made to destroy your computer files — though it might do that. It's a more thoughtful project than that. Lose/Lose is about values and value. It's about what happens if a "Game Over" screen destroys your copy of the game,…

On a warm evening earlier this month outside a cafe in Buenos Aires, Colin Northway took a sip of his drink and told me about the rarest video game in the world. He was making the game, he told me, and he was excited about it. He didn’t call it the rarest game on the planet. That’s just how I would…

Words: David Scott / Shots: Bilal Chawala As rap resumes go sharing a stage with KRS-One at the age of thirteen, tour buddy with Rakim and being close friends with Chuck D is impressive; but if you’re after a character reference then you could do worse than ask US National Security – they’d know…

Much to the chagrin of a certain old-timey subset, traditional American masculinity is on its way out. Gone are days of the breadwinning hard hat wearers earning enough to support a wife that stays at home with 2.5 children; in 2014, the Haves wear bowties with short sleeved button down shirts and…

source: angelonfire The Key to Higher Quality is Higher Quantity When Kobe was developing his jumper he’d spend his offseason making 2,000 shots a day. Not taking. Making. — Chad Ridgeway, Bleacher Report I was recently reminded of a simple general principle to operate by, especially for those of us…

AR-15s were produced and engraved for Redditors by an Arizona gun manufacturer. via Reddit Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since 2011, part of the popular online forum Reddit has grown into an active marketplace for assault rifles, high-capacity magazines, and…

As winter storms were buffeting parts of the country last week, our collective attention was drawn halfway around the world to Egypt. Images of the pyramids and the Sphinx covered in snow had emerged, and were being shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook and Twitter. It wasn't hard to see…

“There wasn’t anything special about it.” That’s producer Mark Johnson on Rain Man , his sixth collaboration with writer-director Barry Levinson. But Johnson wasn’t quite right. Twenty-five years ago, Rain Man — a talky drama about two very different brothers on a road trip — won the Academy Award…

Recent Sundance Standouts Daniel McFadden/Relativity Media On Jan. 16, some 7,000 entertainment industry professionals and journalists will converge on Park City, Utah, hoping for a miracle. Distributors will push past exhibitors who will hustle past programmers, agents and critics, all of whom will…

Words by Daniel Isenberg ( @StanIpcus ) Across the Tappan Zee Bridge and into the suburbs of Rockland County, just minutes from the Palisades Mall and about a half hour or so from his hometown of Mount Vernon, you can still find legendary producer Pete Rock cooking up beats in his basement. His…

Words by Daniel Isenberg ( @StanIpcus ) When the topic of the industry’s best producers on the mic comes up, one name that is often championed by underground heads is Detroit’s Black Milk. And rightfully so. His discography includes stellar production for some of his hometown’s best and brightest,…

Mike Piazza has admitted to the use of androstenedione, a supplement now banned by MLB. (Photo: Paul Chiasson, AP) Story Highlights Some believe the Hall of Fame process in flawed and archaic The results of the 2013 balloting will be announced Wednesday Maddux, Glavine and Thomas elected It has…

Grantland33: We know what MLB players were doing during the steroid era. Here's what baseball writers did, by @curtisbeast http://t.co/0D1NM4ZWRE

(Photo: Pacific Standard) I was 12 hours into a summer vacation in Palm Springs when my phone hummed to life, buzzing twice next to me in the dark of my hotel room. I squinted at the screen. It was 5:30 a.m., and a friend was texting me from the opposite coast. “Amanda, this twitter account.…

Just when you think you've gotten to the end of the bizarre by-products of World War II, you learn about talking Nazi dogs. The question is: How official were they? We'll look into the school — or possibly the con game — of talking dogs. Here's what we know. In 1930, Margarethe Schmidt lived with…

Grantland33: A word about 'NBA 2K14': How realistic do we want our video games to be? by @netw3rk http://t.co/8HK3NHbQH2

Published By: Bandini Long before Hip-Hop was ever reported dead, I was once of the belief that Master P was trying to kill it. No Limit Records sprouted into mainstream success in the closing credits of the Death Row dynasty, and anyone who loved the chicken seemingly scoffed at the egg.…

If you use Netflix, you've probably wondered about the specific genres that it suggests to you. Some of them just seem so specific that it's absurd. Emotional Fight-the-System Documentaries? Period Pieces About Royalty Based on Real Life? Foreign Satanic Stories from the 1980s? If Netflix can show…

Illustration by Christoph Niemann Con artists are greedy hucksters who sell us dreams that never come true. But Americans have a soft spot for them. Witness the current success of “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “American Hustle,” films that celebrate (sort of) the art of the grift. Somehow, living…

Kevin Kelly is not a dumb guy — far from it actually. As the founding executive editor of Wired and one of the people who helped build The Well , among the earliest online communities, he has done a good job of seeing what is coming next for decades. But last year, he had what sounded to me like a…

Google Glass makes us uncomfortable. Via Flickr/ Lingeswaran Marimuthukumar Now that the Google Glass guinea pigs have had eight months to try out the biggest thing in wearable tech, the product’s short term prospects aren’t looking good and part of the reason is the NSA. Beyond costing tech…

League of Legends was one of the games brought down by a DDoS attack this week. Image via Flickr/Vincent Samaco Earlier this week, pro gamer James “PhantomL0rd” Varga claimed that the worst thing ever had happened to him: His gaming servers were being targeted with false traffic (a DDoS attack) from…

Alexis Madrigal has a rollicking investigation into Netflix’s movie genres — all 76,897 of them, from category #1 (African-American Crime Documentaries) to category #91,307 (Visually Striking Latin American Comedies). His story is titled “How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood”, and as such, it’s…

Valve co-founder and CEO Gabe Newell (Andrea Peterson/Washington Post) Valve is one of the most successful video game companies in the world. The firm's online game distribution and multi-player platform Steam has 65 million users. At next week's CES conference, the company will announce hardware…

Uber cofounder and CEO Travis Kalanick. Cody Pickens When Uber cofounder and CEO Travis Kalanick was in sixth grade, he learned to code on a Commodore 64. His favorite things to program were videogames. But in the mid-’80s, getting the machine to do what he wanted still felt a lot like manual labor.…

Leor Galil The unlicensed Acid Rap CD Last month local hip-hop phenom Chance the Rapper landed on the Billboard charts with his Acid Rap mixtape, which he released for free in April; a "label" called MTC sold 1,000 units, and it landed on Heatseekers at 26 and the R&B/hip-hop chart at 63 . MTC's…