​Art: ​Daniel Purvis. UPDATE. I am living a nightmare before lunchtime. First, the sofa delivery people gave me a window of 7 AM to 7 PM, so I’m a prisoner in my own apartment. Second, worse, I am out of cat food, and in consequence my beloved companion Squee has, under the duress of feline…

Helt nære sig kan han selvfølgelig ikke. Så ædru bliver Lars von Trier nok aldrig. Og da vi efter interviewet sidder ved spisebordet i stuen hjemme hos instruktøren og prøver at få en idé til et videoklip til Politikens hjemmeside, sker det. »Eller skulle jeg tage et stykke tape af munden?«,…

Tyler, the Creator is tearing down Route 118 in an all-white BMW, blasting Death Grips. "I really wanna fucking drift," he says, shifting gears like he's in an arcade racing chair. He palms the wheel with one hand and thrashes to the music with the other, changing songs every 40 seconds. Suddenly,…

Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine THE LAST LINK: I am honored to offer a few words of commentary on previous "Last Link" columns by David Porush and Stephen Doheny-Farina . First let me explain a little bit about Ubiquitous Computing , or Ubicomp, a technology I helped develop and one they…

John Graham, who has died aged 92, was better known to Guardian crossword solvers as Araucaria. In the summer of 1958, on the strength of his success in winning the Observer’s crossword setting competition two years running, he was taken on by the then Manchester Guardian as one of its small band of…

In recent posts, I have written about my attempts to get better at pitching for investment capital in general and closing deals in particular. A related issue that I’d like to address is my body language and what it says about me. I have long been plagued by self-doubt. I have found myself…

In Boston last week to deliver the commencement address at the Berklee College of Music, Jimmy Page, the founder of Led Zeppelin, learned to his surprise that the school had a course in which his guitar licks were minutely analyzed. “They go into all these things and deconstruct them,” he said,…

Who is Alex Trebek?

When big oil companies like Exxon-Mobil and Chevron set their sights on a prime new oil reserve in Africa, Asia, or the Middle East, the first phone call they make usually isn’t to the government office putting it up for sale. Instead, they ring up one of their contacts in a small, elite group of…

Skip to content, or skip to search. I have 700 friends on Facebook, 36 of whom I consider exes. Not all are ex-boyfriends—in the eleven years that “boyfriend” has been a name for men in my life, I have referred to nine as “boyfriends.” The rest are men I dated casually, guys I dated disastrously,…

The infamous couch jump It was Jason Tugman’s first day of work. Almost a decade later, he still remembers the screams. A former circus fire-eater, he’d taken a job as a lighting technician for The Oprah Winfrey Show after burning off a chunk of his tongue. The pay was $32 an hour and he didn’t want…

There was a problem with the cookies. When Jordan Metzner and Juan Dulanto launched Washio, it had already distinguished itself from other laundry and dry-cleaning services. There was no storefront, no rotating rack, no little pieces of paper to keep track of. Customers ordered their clothing picked…

There’s a lot Jessi Smiles can do in a six­-second video. Pound Pringles. Pretend she peed her pants. Twerk on a geek at a video-game store. She can also put every guy on the Internet in his place. “For all those boys saying that I’m hot,” she coos in one clip, “just wait until you see my dick.” See…

This is a story about me and a video game. Although I have always been and expect I always will be a nerd, the events of this story take place when I was approximately 8-10 years old, meaning I had not yet worn away the extra layer of turbo-nerd that little boys of that inclination tend to have at…

This is the text version of a talk I gave on May 20, 2014, at Beyond Tellerrand in Düsseldorf, Germany. To fix it, I’ve gone through the slides and put in a number of animal pictures. If at any point in the talk you find yourself getting blue, just tune out what I’m saying and wait for one of the…

50 Cent says: Make a vision board. Do it tonight, when you get home. Open your laptop. Create a new folder. Think about the things you want for your future. “I want you to Google pictures and put everything you want in this folder,” 50 Cent says. “Everything. All right?” He’s wearing a Yankees cap…

13 When Caroline Eisenmann , a young assistant at a New York literary agency, decided to rename her OkCupid profile, she wanted something that would make her stand out—a name that wouldn’t get lost amongst the omnipresent references to indie bands and cute animals, something that was “flippant” but…

View this image › What was Angelina Jolie best known for in 2004? a.) Wearing a vial of Billy Bob Thornton’s blood around her neck. b.) Making out with her brother on the red carpet. c.) Being the offspring of ‘70s star Jon Voight. d.) All of the above. The answer, of course, is d. There was talent…

Wine is an elixir, a miracle-worker and shapeshifter – no wonder even the most secular of us hold it sacred still

A few years ago, Beyoncé Knowles was like any other record-breaking pop star in an already crowded field. Then something changed. miumiu.com. Chanel sneakers, $1,395, (800) 550-0005." class="diffbot_image" height="714" id="100000002915041"…

Jonathan Hoefler is standing in his office on the seventh floor of the Cable Building in Noho, sipping a mug of ginger tea and telling stories about an obscure 16th-century Flemish punch cutter. His people are getting bored and wandering away to check their phones, the people he has brought here…

Photo by LDprod/Shutterstock When Santa Barbara police arrived at Elliot Rodger’s apartment last month—after Rodger’s mother alerted authorities to her son’s YouTube videos, where he expressed his resentment of women who don’t have sex with him, aired his jealousy of the men they do choose, and…

Damon Albarn. Photo: Linda Brownlee / Courtesy of Nasty Little Man Few musicians have stayed as interesting for as long as Damon Albarn. As the frontman of Blur, he helped define the sound of ‘90s Britpop. With Gorillaz, he achieved the impossible of mixing hip-hop and rock in a way that didn’t suck…

Far from Chelsea: diggers during the regeneration of Elephant & Castle in London. Photo: Getty Far from Chelsea: diggers during the regeneration of Elephant & Castle in London. Photo: Getty I’ve made a discovery about what is buried under the swimming pools and basement conversions of wealthy west…

Illustration by Mike Nudelman One day in July 2001, Larry Page decided to fire Google’s project managers. All of them. It was just five years since Page, then a 22-year-old graduate student at Stanford, was struck in the middle of the night with a vision. In it, he somehow managed to download the…

In October of last year, the union for the employees working at Resorts World Casino, one of the most successful casinos in the country [PDF], struck a deal that effectively doubled the salaries for 1,400 of the roughly 1,700 employees. The employees went from making $10-$12/hour to $20 or more,…

Hacking wunderkind George Hotz’s latest gig: An intern on Google’s elite hacking team. Tribune Review, Andrew Russell/AP When 17-year-old George Hotz became the world’s first hacker to crack AT&T’s lock on the iPhone in 2007, the companies officially ignored him while scrambling to fix the bugs his…

Update: A YouPorn.com spokesperson said that the website was “completely unaware that AddThis contained a tracking software that had the potential to jeopardize the privacy of our users.” After this article was published, YouPorn removed AddThis technology from its website. This story was…

Tammy Hackney Death in its prime: from left, the Hackney brothers, David, Bobby and Dannis. The band’s 1974 demo tape was released last month as “... For the Whole World to See.” Winooski, Vt. Peter Wolf The Hackney brothers as the 4th Movement, from left, Bobby, Dannis and David. ON an evening in…

BY CHARLES J. ORLANDO “Honey, I have to join Ashley Madison.” So began the pitch I gave my wife to let me join the marrieds-looking-for-affairs website, AshleyMadison.com. It would be part of my research into women who cheat, why infidelity is increasing, and what can be done to possibly…

By presidential fund-raising standards, the dinner at the St. Regis hotel in Washington in April 2011 was an intimate one. President Obama made the rounds, moving among the dozens of people in attendance, including Chad Griffin, a 37-year-old political operative known for his ability to raise money…

Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in the art world: 
How did Dutch master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years before the invention of photography? Here’s how he conducted his experiment. I was sitting in the bathtub in…

Cover of the New Yorker , Charles E. Martin, 1946 I got what I wanted for Christmas: The Complete New Yorker , which, as you probably know, is a digital archive of every issue of the weekly magazine since its first on February 21, 1925 on eight DVDs: every cover, every page, every story, every…

fireball bottle empty Yael Vengroff isn’t exactly sure how she became the cocktail community’s preeminent Fireball evangelist. But she suspects it has something to do with her American flag bikini. Last year, Vengroff, bar manager at Harvard & Stone in Los Angeles, attended Camp Runamok, an…

Kanye West has been married for ten days, and he has that new-husband way with the ring still, pulling it on and off like it’s something he might yet undo, or do again. The ring is gold, and understated in a way that not much else about Kanye West is. He sits in the lobby of New York’s Mercer…

When Kendrick Lamar delivered a classic with good kid, m.A.A.d city , nobody saw it coming. Now that the whole world is watching, Can he outdo himself? PHOTOGRAPHY BY COLEMAN AND B+ FOR MOCHILLA.COM This feature appears in the August/September 2014 issue of COMPLEX. On the dull gray door to Studio 2…

Så skal de andre folk rundt om jer forstå, at jeg er Herren. Jeg har genopbygget det, der var styrtet i grus, og tilplantet det øde land. Jeg er Herren. Jeg har talt, og jeg vil gøre det. (Ezekiels bog, kapitel 36, vers 36) »Se, det er jo en virkelig fremragende kvalitetsmaskine …«. Ricardo Mayorga,…

So here is the president of the United States, enjoying canapés and small talk at Daniel, chef Daniel Boulud’s gourmet restaurant just off Park Avenue, with the right touch of upscale-whorehouse decor and enough Alice Waters in the kitchen to make it the place where every Wall Street guy takes his…

the long form at @eater is so nice to look at! and this entry is on ramen, a subject near & dear to our hearts: http://t.co/mkX41yMCBd

There’s a moment in almost every hunt for an apartment – usually just after the agent assures you the shoebox you’re looking at is “massive space for the money!” – when you come to suspect the employee is reciting this from some sort of manual. Well, suspect no more: they definitely are. The…