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Hunter Moore is both hated and revered, possibly in equal measure. He created Is Anyone Up?, a website that invited scorned individuals to post nude pictures...
In this extended edition of our interview, Hunter Moore tells Brent how he feels about shutting his site down. *For the original broadcast version, click...
Hunter Moore's website, Is Anyone Up? made him one of the most hated men on the Internet.The site showed nude images of people without their...
April Fools' pranks are a growing trend in the advertising world. Google, ThinkGeek, and BMW are among the companies that like to pull a prank or two...
Iran has announced a new Supreme Council of Cyberspace - and they've got big, big ideas for the future of the internet. Saman Arbabi is...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 | Categories: Online |
This Thursday, Google's new privacy policy comes into effect. If you agree to it (and you don't have much of a choice), any data you've given to...
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was granted bail in Aukland, New Zealand today, after a judge determined that the funds he could use to flee the...
Thinking about buying some Facebook stock when shares start trading? Sure, it sounds like a good bet, given the growth and world-wide popularity of Facebook...but is...
It was announced this week that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will be hosting his own TV talkshow. But don't expect to see it on...
Last week, file-sharing site Megaupload.com was shut down and its founder Kim Dotcom was arrested in a dramatic raid at his New Zealand mansion....
While discussing the "uncanny valley" with Brent, journalist Lawrence Weschler mentioned Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. If you haven't yet seen the animated...
A new movement is picking up steam, and it isn't Occupy Wall Street. It was sparked by a woman in Los Angeles who is urging...
Deep Sixed is our six-part series examining things that may or may not be facing obsolesence. Can the Euro survive? What about RIM, Rock N...
As promised, part two of The New Yorker at Luminato discussion about "sacred texts" is now available. Subscribe to our podcast to hear the...
We hope you're having a terrific summer so far. It's time to feast your ears on another installment of The New Yorker at Luminato...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 | Categories: Arts, Books, Day 6 Blog, Excerpt, Foreign, Interview, Movies, Online, Satire |
Smurf villages may be popping up in Spain and Abu Dhabi, but it's the publication of "The Little Blue Book" that's really dominated international Smurf news. In his...
A veteran user of the digital currency called BitCoin claims he was robbed of 25,000 units (valued at about $20 each). Because of the way BitCoin works, you can see...
We've got this series going about the ways that money is changing and this week we're looking at a new digital currency called Bitcoin. Compared...
Here's a list of companies that were hacked in the past month: Honda, Lockheed Martin, Sony, Google's Gmail and PBS. There's also new information about...
Filmed last week, this haunting video captures a kindergarten teacher leading her young charges in song to distract them from the sounds of automatic gunfire outside...
It's the latest internet meme to capture the imagination of young folks -- well, in Australia, anyway -- and now someone's died from lying down...
Ali Aghamohammadi, head of Iran's economic affairs, has announced plans to launch a "halal" edition of the Internet. According to reports, the network would run parallel...
So do you subscribe to our podcast yet? You should. Why, you ask? Well, right now for instance, you could light up your day with the Day 6...
Parenthood is not the trove of unending joy we like to say it is - that, according to a Canadian study published this week...
This week Watson, a pretty incredible piece of artificial intelligence squared off against two of the best players Jeopardy has ever seen. And Watson cleaned...
Think Facebook's appeal is global? Think again. The social networking site recently valued at $50-billion doesn't have much hold in one of the most tech-friendly...
Friday, February 4, 2011 | Categories: Arts, Books, Comment, Contest, Episodes, Foreign, Interview, Movies, Music, Online, Politics, Promote, Satire, Sports |
Egypt's Soccer Fans Drive Protests, Yann Martel Stops Sending Books to the PM, Pulling the Plug on the Net, An App for Protests, Ron Paul...
<<<CLICK HEADLINE FOR YOUTUBE VIDEO>>> The Juno nominations were out this week and Justin Bieber was nominated in four categories including album of the year. ...
American President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Stephen Harper met in Washington today. At the start of a joint press conference, Obama took a moment...
Last week the online dating site Plenty of Fish got hacked. Plenty of Fish is pretty big. About 28-million people have logged onto the Vancouver...
Mark Wilson is just your average good citizen. Tries to do some good. Tries to give to charity. Often worries if the money's being properly...
So this guy here in the photo, this Craig Rowin guy, pulled one of those "Why Didn't I Think of That First [headslap]?" moves on...
While Hollywood stars, Hugh Hefner and the president of the HFPA continue to recover from Ricky Gervais' edgy rants on Sunday night, the host of the...
Who could resist ringing in a new year indulging in the literal rags to riches story of Ted Williams last week? He's the broadcast trained "golden"...
Want to have a really weird web experience? Go look at your MySpace page. It's mindblowing. The last comment on mine was made 5 years...
The new program is called simply "Niqab" (or "the Mask"), and it provides Afghan women with a forum to speak about the abuse, rape and other issues they're facing -- without...
So it's a new year and already the gyms and health clubs across the country are full of January recruits, newbies who made a deal with...
Hey everyone, thanks for your help over the last month or so as we ploughed through the Big 6 contest. We quite literally couldn't have...
At first it was mocked as nothing more than a giant iPhone. But in 2010 the iPad cornered the tablet market and became the must...
How do you sum up a year? A year of remarkable change, disaster, progress, hope, beauty and destruction? Well, we figured if anyone can do it, it's...
CHRIS TROWBRIDGE As Day 6's resident cranky sourpuss (a.k.a. the voice of reason, if you ask me - which you really should have), it falls...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010 | Categories: Arts, Audio, Celebrity, Comment, Day 6 Blog, Movies, Music, Online, Promote |
Dominic Girard VIRAL Big thanks to Gawker for assembling this absolute must: The Top 100 Videos of 2010 in 170 seconds. Without this, we'd all...
We're down to the final hours of 2010. And all of us at Day 6 have been keeping an eye on the lists that...
You've probably heard by now that The Bed Intruder Song was the most-watched non-commercial video on YouTube this year, with over 52 million hits and...
Anonymous made a name for itself this week when they continued to attack a number of organisations and individuals perceived to be hostile to Julian...
Ireland Gets Bailed, Salman Rushdie, The Big 6, Don Cherry Robocalls, Intangible Heritage Protection, Stuff White People Like, Portia De Rossi....
Friday, November 19, 2010 | Categories: Arts, Audio, Books, Celebrity, Day 6 Blog, Foreign, Movies, Music, Online, Politics, Promote, Science, Sports |
The Big 6 is your seat at the Day 6 editorial table. Click right here to vote for some of the biggest stories of the...
We talked about pro poker on this week's Day 6 and we even gave out a few tips to help you play a better game....
The "band" OK GO (we say it in quotes, because it's apparent the word "band" isn't enough a descriptor for the creativity they keep unleashing with...
Whether this is a viral publicity stunt or evidence of a genuinely quick thinking band, this video has gone from 302 views to well over...
On the lastest episode of Day 6, Brent spoke with Carol-Lynn Parente -- the Executive Producer of Sesame Street -- about the show's recent spate of parodies...
It was as though Chile won 33 gold medals at the Olympics, one after another, an improbable series of successes, a run of extrordinary luck....
Elisee Anidawe (photo: David Axe) David Axe is a freelance journalist who tends to travel to some dark and foreboding places. His most recent...
Friday, October 8, 2010 | Categories: Arts, Books, Celebrity, Comment, Episodes, Foreign, Interview, Online, Politics, Promote, Sports |
And it's Thanksgiving and everyone's candying yams. Why do we do that to vegetables? Why not just save the candying for candy? There are many...
They call him Smiling Cigar Guy. He's been all around the internet in the past five days. I saw him with the Beatles crossing Abbey Road,...
The Washington Post is reporting that Canadian-Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan has been sentenced to serve 19-years in an Iranian prison. There was a chance that...
Antoine Dodson is the first fairy tale the internet has produced. A poor black man living in an Alabama housing project becomes the butt of an...
A Pakistani man carries a crate of mangos across a flooded area in Khan Garh, Muzzafargarh district, Punjab province, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) There are...
Earlier in August, the well-known brainiac - sorry, physicist - Stephen Hawking made a prediction: we're killing the planet, and if we want to survive...
Simon Winchester has written two books about the Oxford English Dictionary: The Professor and the Madman and The Meaning of Everything. So, when we heard that the venerable...
It was early dawn and the lady at the drive-thru window just couldn't quite understand - or accept - why McDonald's couldn't serve her an...
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