Yesterday, Lady Gaga (our society’s new queen of pop) reached 25 million followers on the well-known microblogging website of Twitter. This really is no surprise, because Gaga is already a pop icon and every hit song of hers has ended …

According to a story published in the Sporting News yesterday, Rebecca Adlington, the two-time Olympic gold medalist from Britain, said she was giving up Twitter during the Olympics because people were making fun of the way she looks. Adlington said …

On Thursday night, Facebook experienced a major worldwide outage that lasted, in some cases, for a couple of hours. Things have been less-than-perfect for users since then, even after Facebook released a statement saying that everything should be a-ok. Users …

Every year The Salvation Army declares June 1 National Donut Day in honor of the Salvation Army “donut girls” who served donuts to soldiers in Europe during World War I. The organization has a short, wholesome video on the subject …

Skyrim players for XBox 360 can now sign up to play the beta version of Dawnguard, the first expansion to Skyrim. All you have to do is go to the Dawngaurd website and register. Bethesda wll pick players for the …

Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140 characters to make an impression. And what better way to wind-down the work …

Google announced the launch of Content Experiments in Google Analytics, as a way for webmasters to test different versions of pages to see which ones convert the best. It is replacing Google Website Optimizer, as it carries out much of …

Orlando Woolridge, former NBA star and considered by many to be one of the most gifted dunkers to grace the court, passed away at his parents’ house in Mansfield, Louisiana. According to the Shreveport Times, Woolridge had been suffering from …

For all the film buffs out there that love to talk about rare and unreleased movies comes a new collection from Amazon that showcases rarely seen “classics” (with quotations) and classics that never made it to DVD. All of the …

Green Lantern gay? Apparently that’s the case, according to the Associated Press. When the second issue of “Earth 2″ hits newsstands and comic book shops next week, readers will be treated a completely revamped version of DC’s long-standing superhero. However, …

Cheyenne Woods, niece of troubled golf great Tiger Woods, is on her way to the U.S. Women’s Open. Woods, who played golf at Wake Forest University for four years, qualified to participate in the golf tournament at Carolina Trace Country …

Yesterday we reported that Sony was going to acquire high profile cloud gaming service Gaikai. What wasn’t exactly sure is what they would use this service for exactly. Would it be to stream PC games to the PS3, or to …

As you may have read, Google is now showing messages to users in China, when they try to perform certain queries that it will not work. Users have been getting errors, as illustrated in this video: Google says the problems …

Seth MacFarlane tried to run this ad in the entertainment-trade papers in L.A. a couple of days ago. They rejected it. Instead he sent out mailers with the above on the front and this image on the inside: This follows …

It’s the first day of June today, summer is officially huffing above us, and there’s no going back to that brief flowering moment of May. Another thing you can’t go back to: the old, non-social Bing. Prior to today, Bingers …

It appears that Facebook is having some problems this morning, only a few hours after straightening everything out following an outage that lasted for more than two hours on Thursday night. That outage affected a good number of users across …

As usual, webmasters are speculating that there may have been a Panda update refresh. Once again, Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable is pointing to a WebmasterWorld thread where such discussion is taking place. Various people are reporting that they’re …

Twitter is a wonderful place for one-liners. To be funny on the site, you’ve got to be sharp and practice economy of language. You’ve only got 140 characters to make an impression. And what better way to wind-down the work …

The name T. Boone Pickens may not mean much to a lot of poor people out there, so let’s start things off by properly setting up the story. Pickens is the chairman of BP Capital Management, and he’s made quite …

In a bizarre story today out of Ohio, a family says a woman broke into their house, did some cleaning–washed dishes and took out the trash, among other things–and then left a bill on the kitchen table. The problem is, …

Kordell Stewart, who left the NFL seven years ago, has finally decided to retire on an official level. The decision to put some much-needed finality to his days as a professional football player came after his father passed away in …

Jack Twyman, basketball Hall of Fame inductee and one of the top scorers during the 1950′s, passed away on Wednesday at a Cincinnati hospice due to complications from blood cancer. He was 78 years-old. “He was a great man, a …

Actor/director Clint Eastwood turns 82 today, and in true gravel-voiced badass form, he won’t even acknowledge it. Eastwood’s wife, Dina–who has a new reality show on E! called “Mrs. Eastwood & Company”–says her husband doesn’t “do” holidays or birthdays and …

Hatfields & McCoys, the History Channel’s miniseries about the long-standing feud between the two families, has turned out to be a pretty big hit, with kudos coming in from all angles. Bill Paxton, Tom Berenger, and Kevin Costner star in …