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Art is well acquainted with filthy media. After all, Marcel Duchamp signed a urinal; Andy Warhol had his assistants pee on stuff; and then there's that gold poop pill thing, which, quite frankly, ugh. But now some students in Britain have gone ahead and made bioart out of the most covert, disgusting, disturbing thing out there: bacterial growth on cell phones.
JustDelete.me is a page full of links -- not ugly blue hyperlinks but links disguised as buttons. Each button represents an online service; anything from LinkedIn to Skype to Wikipedia.
We're lucky enough to live in a post-industrialized world, where we can pop down to the store to pick up a few groceries without thinking twice. But thanks in large part to the Internet, we can now marvel at all the intricate production processes that happen around the world every day.
It's not just you. Gmail went down, and everyone flipped out.
Netflix seems to be very aware that, sometimes, its movie categories are a bit too precise in pinpointing exactly what we want to watch. For April Fool's Day, Netflix added to each user's account a tongue-in-cheek movie or TV show category. What, you thought the company's algorithm looked at your viewing history and spit out "Movies Starring Estelle Getty and Some Other Guy"?
The Georgia residence of Kyle Myers, maker of the popular weapons and explosives YouTube series FPSRussia, was raided by 40 agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) on Tuesday, according to the Athens Banner-Herald.