Shift Buzz At 8:50 this morning, Alexa tweeted the following about Chanel's famous white-haired designer, only to delete it moments thereafter.
Design Buzz Absurd Overheard takes some of the ridiculous (or genius?) things said on Twitter and turns them into simple, hilarious illustrations. I mean come on, dog chew toys really should come in the shape of dapper pipes!
The dream of the '90s was alive at Radio City Music Hall Wednesday night, guys.
Celebrity Buzz Wait, so does this mean Alec Baldwin really is leaving “30 Rock” at the end of the season?
#BestWaysToGetRidOfAGirl is trending on Twitter. These are some of the worst suggestions.
Say what you will about “Titanic 3D,” at least it's educating the children of the world. (via https:)
Yes, people still watch soaps. I was just as surprised as you.
Celebrity Buzz The snarkiest tweets from Oscar Sunday? Check. Drunk twit-pics of famous people from the Oscar after-parties? Check. Sad Matthew Lillard tweeting about his Oscar loss? Check, check, and check! Your complete roundup of Oscar tweets, inside.
Comedy meets controversy. After a recent report about the NYPD monitoring Muslim students, a flood of tweets have begun poking fun at the issue. These are some of the best so far.
Tech Buzz Ooh, that's gotta hurt. Sean Hopkins 1, Blockbuster 0.
Celebrity Buzz Rumor has it Chris Brown is going to be featured on a track with her. Thoughts? (via blog.martianleaks.com)
Twitter has been famous or infamous (depending on your point of view) for getting people in hot water. Tweet at your own risk!
TV Buzz Roland S. Martin is about to have even more time to tweet. That's because CNN announced this afternoon that Martin, a contributor to the network, has been suspended indefinitely following a pair of homophobic tweets he wrote during last Sunday's Super Bowl (which, as BuzzFeed pointed out, were representative of a larger anti-gay pattern of his).
Politics Buzz “The Romney bandwagon just went in a ditch.”
Culture Buzz CNN commentator Roland S. Martin raised eyebrows on Sunday when he seemingly advocated violence against gay men in a series of tweets. Martin has since denied that the tweets were homophobic, but a quick look back on his Twitter timeline reveals a history of questionable statements.
Celebrity Buzz Soooo, Mario Lopez runs a Twitter account for his dog. It’s kind of gross. (h/t to drinkyourjuice for making me aware of this.)
Culture Buzz We all know a horse can't be happy all the time, but Horse_ebooks has really been on edge lately. It's probably best to not go near him until he calms down and maybe re-evaluates his life.
Culture Buzz Merry Christmas! Or…not. Here are some tweets to give you more perspective on the holiday. Or…not. (Made with inspiration from favorite tweeters @fart, @movingsideways, @katienotopoulos!)
Culture Buzz Rapper Freddie Gibbs found this note in his luggage after he “smuggled” marijuana onto a plane. TSA, you're not so bad sometimes. (via nedhepburn.tumblr.com)
Culture Buzz George Takei wins. Hopefully Kanye makes a comeback next year.
Culture Buzz Oh God. Another advertiser has caved to bigotry and pulled their advertising from “All-American Muslim.”
Culture Buzz What a year in the Twittersphere! Around the world, people sent more than 60 billion Tweets in 2011. Here's a collection of 40 of the most important of those.
Culture Buzz Winter is coming. The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Chorus asked fellow Canadians to tweet in there tips on how to keep warm, and then (appropriately) used the tweets as vocal warm-ups.
Culture Buzz @Horse_ebooks is a Twitter bot run by some Russian dude trying to sell you terrible ebooks about horses. To avoid being detected as a scam, he has devised the brilliant idea to post snippets from said ebooks randomly, resulting in these amazing tweets. They're quite poetic, and a lot more interesting than horses.
Culture Buzz Christoph Niemann, a cartoonist from the New York Times (remember this), live-drew and tweeted his entire NYC marathon run. This is honestly one of the coolest/most impressive things I've ever seen. What did you do today?