As you probably know, the new Apple iPod shuffle can speak up the name of your songs, artists, and playlists. I initially thought it was a new text-to-speech chip. It is not: As you can see in this flowchart, the trick happens in your computer. Apple patented the process a while back, and it's going...

I swear I am trying to ween myself off of the Chris Brown/Rihanna saga, but my best efforts are being thwarted by an endless parade of attention whores. Sean “It’s All About Me” Combs was on the Ellen Degeneres show yesterday and despite his best deflection techniques, Ellen pinned...

Got an image you'd like to see in here first thing in the morning? Send it to tips@deadspin.com. Subject: Morning crap Cleveland State upset 16th-ranked Butler 57-54 for the Horizon League title. Cleveland State hasn't appeared in the tournament since 1986, so they're just bursting with Viking pride...

We tellen af. Nog een weekje te gaan voor de Grote Momenten zullen aanbreken. De winnaars van de Gouden Giraffe awards plus de Event Personality Of The Year worden bekend gemaakt onder de spotlights van Schouwburg Almere. De genomineerden worden door de redactie van dit weblog bezocht en aan d...

Considering they, as an organization, aided, abetted, and otherwise supported, the sexual (and mental) abuse of minors, this, doesn't necessarily, come as a surprise; Vatican defends Brazil excommunication A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a nine-y...

This downtrodden-looking Eagles' fan is Dan Leone who, up until last week, was a game-day stadium employee at Lincoln Financial Field. Leone was fired after he Facebook-slammed the organization for trading Brian Dawkins. Irascible Philadelphia Inquirer columnist, John Gonzalez, relays Leone's sad-sa...

I was not born as a genius and not even an intelligent. It was only once in my whole life that I got 1st place in my class and it was in Standard 1. After that, I struggled a lot just to make sure I was in the top ten. Luckily, I got straight A in my UPSR. Everyone just worried with my result as I a...

So, let's start this off right by saying that I am so fucking smart! Seriously guys. I went to the best higschool in the county, got straight A's, was in the honor society and everything! And my teachers even said I was the smartest kid in the whole graduating class. So then I went to college and go...

I am starting to get more requests for “blog love” at a time when I have less and less desire to write. I am quickly coming to the realization that much of the stuff people are asking me to write about just isn’t that interesting. Quite honestly, I don’t want to simply echo w...

When I espied this post yesterday, I was hoping to find something else, that, perhaps an editor had made a clumsy attempt to create an alluring headline. But it wasn't. Instructed to curtail crushing red tape, guards watched girl die in her cell Court transcripts obtained by The Globe reveal staff i...