Don't have Internet connected to your console? Adam Orth, a creative director at Microsoft, suggests that you just deal with it.

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is a lot more lively now that we know it's basically 'Hackers.'

Google People hates the holidays. Come to think of it, it can be hard to blame it.

Whoever was in charge of the 5-second delay is surely getting flogged with wet bamboo by Shep Smith at this very moment.

San Diego puts on one of the biggest fireworks shows each 4th of July. Last night the entire collection of pyrotechnics detonated at once.

Get ready for your big payout, Randall Munroe.

In case you missed the 247th Republican presidential debate last night, Rick Perry placed his campaign on a Viking funeral pyre, lit the tinder, and then flung the whole thing over the horizon with a trebuchet the size of the Chrysler Building.

As a general rule, if you're launching an online service, especially one that you expect many of your customers to pay $50 a year on top of paying for Internet access on their console, especially one tied to the sequel to one of the highest-selling video games in the entire history of the medium, especially one that, in the near future, you're hoping to turn into a freaking televised sport, you should make sure your customers can actually log into the service.

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