Greetings Webtaculators! February is just about the worst month ever. I’m glad it’s also the shortest. On to the news.

STORY OF THE WEEK (2 min. read)
What: Apparently People Care What Color A Dress Is
Why: Because this doesn’t really count as news, but 35 million page views are numbers that any business that’s in the business of selling advertising based on views (including any online news outlet) would kill for. News is dead. Also, the dress is white and gold, if anyone was wondering.

ECONOMIC THING OF THE WEEK (4 min. read)
What: Keep It (Boxer) Brief
Why: Because boxer briefs are the best type of underwear a man could ask for.

LAW THING OF THE WEEK (3 min. read)
What: Hooray For Net Neutrality
Why: Because this is wonderful news for anyone that isn’t a cable company.

COMEDY THING OF THE WEEK (10 min. read)
What: Everyone Hates Carrot Top
Why: Because even prop comics deserve some respect.

SPORTS THING OF THE WEEK ()
What: How Can They Play Hockey In 70 Degree Weather?
Why: Because watching hockey from the upper deck of the new 49ers Stadium was one of the strangest sporting events I have ever been to.

MOVIE THING OF THE WEEK (6 min. read)
What: Live Long And Prosper \V/,
Why: Because Leonard Nimoy inspired millions through his portrayal of Spock.

MUSIC THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: An Interview With Sufjan
Why: Because Illinois is still one of my favorite albums of all time.

ART THING OF THE WEEK (2 min. watch)
What: Banksy Strikes Again
Why: Because Banksy is still creating powerful, thought provoking art.

LITERATURE THING OF THE WEEK (3 min. read)
What: New Dr. Seuss!
Why: Because I have no idea what kind of pet I should get, so I hope this will help me decide.

VIDEO GAME THING OF THE WEEK (15 min. read)
What: All About Madden (Pt. 2)
Why: Because Madden remains one of the biggest video game franchises, so it’s probably a good thing to understand how the player ratings work.

INTERNET THINGS OF THE WEEK (∞)
What: The Other Big Story; A Song About A Hobbit; SNL Gets Edgy
Why: Because Internet.

THING YOU SHOULD GET BRIAN OF THE WEEK
What: Another Weekend Here
Why: Because Brian deserves it.

Webtacularly yours,
Brian
Managing Editor, Webtacular World
The Internet You Didn’t Know You Needed™

Greetings Webtaculators! It’s the Oscars tonight! Time to fret about all the movies you never had time to see, and might not deserve the accolades in the first place. On to the news.

STORY OF THE WEEK (4 min. vote)
What: The Oscars
Why: Because I doubt you could break into them anymore, but it sure would be great to see you try.

SCIENCE THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: The First Martians
Why: Because we’re going to Mars.

LAW THING OF THE WEEK (7 min. read)
What: More Doom for Law Schools
Why: Because out of six law school classmates of mine who went to brunch this morning, only one is currently still practicing. Make of that what you will.

COMEDY THING OF THE WEEK (3 hr. watch)
What: SNL Turns 40
Why: Because somehow the show keeps going, and Norm Macdonald remains one of the more under-appreciated featured players.

SPORTS THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: Fight Of The Century
Why: Because Floyd and Manny can finally settle the discussion of who is the best.

MUSIC THING OF THE WEEK (8 min. read)
What: Forgot About Dre
Why: Because Dr. Dre continues to have an impact on hip-hop fashion years after the days of NWA.

PHOTOGRAPHY THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. look)
What: Photoshop Turns 25
Why: Because Adobe has probably done as much to change professional photography as the introduction of color print.

LITERATURE THING OF THE WEEK (15 min. read)
What: Cheaters In Love
Why: Because Junot Díaz remains one of the most interesting writers of his generation.

VIDEO GAME THING OF THE WEEK (3 min. read)
What: Reviewers Are Behaving Like Critics
Why: Because games are finally being rated as whole experiences, instead of being lauded as technological marvels devoid of substance. In other news, Kanye West is making a video game about his mom.

INTERNET THINGS OF THE WEEK (∞)
What: Big Birdman; Uncomfortably Biden; Tomatan; 10 Years Of Youtube
Why: Because Internet.

THING YOU SHOULD GET BRIAN OF THE WEEK
What: An Oscar
Why: Because Brian deserves it.

Webtacularly yours,
Brian
Managing Editor, Webtacular World
The Internet You Didn’t Know You Needed™

Give your President a Valentine! Or something. All the cross advertising is confusing me. Also, congrats to webtaculators Brandon and Jenn on their “Definitely Not A Wedding” Wedding today!!!! Anyway, on to the news.

STORY OF THE WEEK (4 min. read)
What: A Bad Week For News
Why: Because Brian Williams is on a six month leave for “misremembering,” Jon Stewart is leaving the Daily Show, and two prominent reporters, Bob Simon of 60 Minutes and David Carr of the New York Times, passed away.

ECONOMIC THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: Tax Cheats
Why: Because this is banks at their worst.

LAW THING OF THE WEEK (8 min. read)
What: The Downfall Of Crime
Why: Because my theory is that people are too busy looking at cat videos on their cell phones to cause trouble. Also, RBG got drunk and fell asleep at the SOTU.

HEALTH THING OF THE WEEK (10 min. read)
What: Beep Boop Beep <Here Are Your Drugs>
Why: Because pretty soon, your doctors will be robots, too. I bet they wont even have the courtesy to lie about how much the shot they’re going to give you will hurt.

SPORTS THING OF THE WEEK (4 min. read)
What: Apparently The NBA All Stars Competitions Were Exciting
Why: Because I stopped following these after the competition “jumped the shark (car).”

MOVIE THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: 50 Shades Of Successful Terribleness
Why: Because an objectively bad movie based off of an objectively bad book based off of objectively bad fanfic of another objectively bad book has managed to break the record for movies over this weekend. I have no words, but Dave Barry does.

MUSIC THING OF THE WEEK (6 min. read)
What: Aural Perfection (And By Perfection I Mean Bullshit) 
Why: Because high end audio equipment has its place, and that place is not a Toblerone.

PHOTOGRAPHY THING OF THE WEEK (10 min. look)
What: More Best Photos of 2014
Why: Because photos can tell amazing stories

LITERATURE THING OF THE WEEK ()
What:
Why:

*Ed. Note – There will be no LITERATURE THING OF THE WEEK because Fifty Shades Of Grey killed literature, and I’m still angry about it.

VIDEO GAME THING OF THE WEEK (3 min. read)
What: The 90’s Are Dead
Why: Because Sonic was awesome to 8 year old me, but I guess I didn’t know much.

INTERNET THINGS OF THE WEEK (∞)
What: POTUS Selfie; NY Times In Action; Repost^N
Why: Because Internet.

THING YOU SHOULD GET BRIAN OF THE WEEK
What: Star Wars Blade Builder And A Swiss Bank Account With Millions Of Dollars
Why: Because Brian deserves it.

Webtacularly yours,
Brian
Managing Editor, Webtacular World
The Internet You Didn’t Know You Needed™

Greetings Webtaculators! Now that football is over, enjoy having your Sundays to do whatever you want. In my case, I went go-karting. On to the news.

STORY OF THE WEEK (4 min. read)
What: The Net Will Stay Neutral
Why: Because this is one of the most unexpected political moves in recent memory.

MEDICAL THING OF THE WEEK (4 min. read)
What: R.I.P To The Father Of “The Pill”
Why: Because The Pill was one of the biggest gender equalizers in modern history.

LAW THING OF THE WEEK (3 min. read)
What: Serial Continues
Why: Because Adnan Syed was granted an extremely rare right to file for appeal.

SPORTS THING OF THE WEEK (2 min. read)
What: Left Shark (AKA Stage Right Shark)
Why: Because Left Shark was the best thing about the Super Bowl.

MOVIE THING OF THE WEEK (3 min. read)
What: Original Movie Plots Just Died
Why: Because the live-action Sponge Bob movie made over $50 million this weekend.

MUSIC THING OF THE WEEK (3 min. read)
What: The Grammys Are A Joke
Why: Because any time a joke band (given, I love Tenacious D [SPOILERS? (WHO CARES)], but they are in no way representative of actual metal) wins an actual award, the award no longer deserves your attention. Also, a white person won best rap album again.

LITERATURE THING OF THE WEEK (4 min. read)
What:2 Kill 2 Mockingbirds: Mocking With A Vengeance
Why: Because one of the most celebrated authors of the 20th century is finally, and controversially, releasing her follow up novel.

GRAMMAR THING OF THE WEEK (8 min. read)
What: This Article Is Definitely Not “Comprised Of” Anything
Why: Because it’s “comprises.” Now you know.

TV THING OF THE WEEK (1 min. read)
What: The Legend Of Zelda Might Be Returning To TV!?!?
Why: Because there was a show in the 80’s which was not too great. Also, Nintendo’s other forays into other types of media usually don’t work.

VIDEO GAME THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: So Long, Joystiq
Why: Because one of the premier gaming news websites is no more.

INTERNET THINGS OF THE WEEK (∞)
What: In Mother Russia, The Car Parks You; I Am The Sour Prince; BattleBots Is Back
Why: Because Internet.

THING YOU SHOULD GET BRIAN OF THE WEEK
What: Portable Pub
Why: Because Brian deserves it.

Webtacularly yours,
Brian
Managing Editor, Webtacular World
The Internet You Didn’t Know You Needed™

FOOTBALL!

FOOTBALL THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. watch)
What: Football
Why: Because football.

FOOTBALL ECONOMIC THING OF THE WEEK (4 min. read)
What: Football Economics
Why: Because football will cost a lot of people a lot of money.

LAW THING OF THE WEEK (multiple link read)
What: Bad Football
Why: Because football players are occasionally not very good people.

SCIENCE THING OF THE WEEK (8 min. read)
What: FOOTball
Why: Because football has the word foot in it for some reason still.

FOOTBALL SPORTS THING OF THE WEEK (12 min. read)
What: Brady Football
Why: Because Tom Brady plays football.

FOOTBALL MOVIE STAR THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. watch)
What: Wicked Deflated Football
Why: Because Bawstin.

FOOTBALL MUSIC THING OF THE WEEK (3 min. watch)
What: Football Halftime
Why: Because nothing will beat Nipplegate.

FOOTBALL SAFETY THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: Football Used To Be Deadly
Why: Because it still can be made safer.

FOOTBALL VIDEO GAME THING OF THE WEEK (9 min. read)
What: Football For Gamers
Why: Because football is basically a game for nerds.

FOOTBALL INTERNET THINGS OF THE WEEK (∞)
What: Marshawn Loves Skittles; Fuck The Seahawks; Fuck The Patriots; Women And Sports, AMIRITE?
Why: Because Internet.

THING YOU SHOULD GET BRIAN OF THE WEEK
What: Super Bowl Tickets
Why: Because Brian deserves it.

Webtacularly yours,
Brian
Managing Editor, Webtacular World
The Internet You Didn’t Know You Needed™

Greetings Webtaculators! The President made a decent joke, the future decided to show up finally, and the Warriors are playing some of the best team basketball ever. This week was not too bad. On  to the news.

STORY OF THE WEEK (1 hr. watch)
What: The State Of The Union Is Strong 
Why: Because Obama said so. Also, you can re-play Webtacular World’s First Annual SOTU Drinking Game.

ECONOMIC THING OF THE WEEK (1.25 hr. watch)
What: Davos Comes To A Close
Why: Because this gathering of high profile leaders in business and economics determines what the focus of the global economy will be for the year.

WEATHER THING OF THE WEEK (3 min. read)
What: Watch Out New York
Why: Because WINTER IS COMING.

TECHNOLOGY THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: Meet The Future
Why: Because I still think it’s weird that not only does real time holographic technology exist, but that the march of technological innovation is so expected at this point that something like this can still manage to feel underwhelming.

SPORTS THING OF THE WEEK (3 min. read)
What: DeflateGate, Or The NFL Has Nothing To Talk About Until Next Sunday
Why: Because the Warriors’ Klay Thompson had the most impressive quarter of basketball ever.

MOVIE THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. listen)
What: One Of The Biggest Movies Of The Year Is Divisive. Go Figure.
Why: Because Chris Kyle is either our country’s savior or everything that’s wrong with it.

MUSIC THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. watch)
What: Decembristify Youtube
Why: Because the Decembrists have a new album, and it’s pretty good.

ART THING OF THE WEEK (4 min. read)
What: How To Fix A Monet
Why: Because you shouldn’t punch paintings, even if you’re drunk.

VIDEO GAME THING OF THE WEEK (2 min. read)
What: Mythbusters Are Doomed
Why: Because BFG 9000 is probably too big to haul around.

INTERNET THINGS OF THE WEEK (∞)
What: REMIX!!!! <Insert Air Horn Sound>; Star Destroyer For Free; Fix Your Shirt
Why: Because Internet.

THING YOU SHOULD GET BRIAN OF THE WEEK
What: HoloLens
Why: Because Brian deserves it.

Webtacularly yours,
Brian
Managing Editor, Webtacular World
The Internet You Didn’t Know You Needed™

Greetings Webtaculators! Welcome to the first annual State Of The Union Drinking Game! Rules are stated below.

What: Take a sip of your preferred beverage each time any of the following words are said –
Strong
Future
Jobs
Income
Immigrant
Health
Environment
Energy
Terrorism
Race
Class

Why: Because normally, I play this on my own, but drinking together over the Internet means I’m not drinking by myself (right?)! Also, this is your last reminder to watch the State Of The Union.

Webtacularly yours,
Brian
Managing Editor, Webtacular World
The Internet You Didn’t Know You Needed™

Enjoy the long weekend everybody! On to the news.

STORY OF THE WEEK (6 min. read)
What: MLK Turns 86
Why: Because racial issues still plague the U.S. and the world at large, so there is still work to be done.

ECONOMIC THING OF THE WEEK (4 min. read)
What: The Flying Franc
Why: Because I’m pretty sure that people who believe in a strictly laissez faire market continue to have no idea how the world actually works. “Market corrections” are often not a good thing.

LAW THING OF THE WEEK (3 min. read)
What: Mawwige For All?
Why: Because the Supreme Court is playing with hot fire here, and we’ll see which side of history the Roberts court ends up on.

SCIENCE THING OF THE WEEK (3 min. read)
What: Close But No Cigar
Why: Because hitting a boat with a rocket from space is apparently really hard to do. Also, space Internet.

SPORTS THING OF THE WEEK (4 min. read)
What: An Unprecedented Comeback Vs. An Unprecedented Dismantling 
Why: Because these are the teams you will be watching run into each other between all the awesome commercials in February.

MOVIE THING OF THE WEEK (3 min. read)
What: Oscars Prediction Night
Why: Because although this happened last week, it still is new enough. OK??? Also, this is how you win one.

MUSIC THING OF THE WEEK (4 min. read)
What: Dead One Last Time
Why: Because the greatest jam band of all time is reuniting with the leader of the second greatest for one last go round. If you’re in Chicago and you can grab tickets, you should definitely take the opportunity.

PHOTOGRAPHY THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. look)
What: Grand Budapest Hotel, Realized
Why: Because sometimes it takes something to decay to show the beauty of what once was.

DRAWING THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. look)
What:  Boba Fett Is Born
Why: Because your favorite bounty hunter from a galaxy far, far away had a lot of design notes that were recently released.

VIDEO GAME THING OF THE WEEK (8 min. watch)
What: The Problem With 2014
Why: Because let’s hope 2015 fixes these problems.

INTERNET THINGS OF THE WEEK (∞)
What: I Totally Filmed This Myself; How To Play Drums, Or Not; Oh YEAH!!!
Why: Because Internet.

THING YOU SHOULD GET BRIAN OF THE WEEK
What: The Reverse Of This Trend. Seriously. WTF Humanity.
Why: Because Brian deserves it.

Webtacularly yours,
Brian
Managing Editor, Webtacular World
The Internet You Didn’t Know You Needed™

Well, so much for a peaceful start to the new year. On to the news.

STORY OF THE WEEK
What: Je Suis Charlie
Why: Because on January 7th, the satirical, newspaper Charlie Hebdo was attacked by masked gunmen. The manhunt over the following two days lead to two hostage situations, which ended with the deaths of the perpetrators. Today, millions of individuals gathered together in cities across Paris, including numerous European and Middle Eastern leaders marching arm in arm. I worry about what this means for the future for the freedom of speech, the future of religious freedom, and for the future for peace.

ECONOMIC THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: Where Do Kids Hang Out Now?
Why: Because Malls used to signify economic prosperity. Now, the empty monoliths mostly represent the world before the Internet.

LAW THING OF THE WEEK (15 min. read)
What: RBG And Fatherhood
Why: Because a Supreme Court Justice might know something about how difficult the law, both the practicianing of and the word of the law itself, makes raising a family.

TECH THING OF THE WEEK (6 min. read)
What: The Best Of CES
Why: Because these are the technologies you will be using soon.

SPORTS THING OF THE WEEK (7 min. read)
What: El Capitan Has Met Its Admirals
Why: Because their efforts, on balance, negate the fact that I spent the majority of the weekend sitting on a couch.

MOVIE THING OF THE WEEK (2 min. read)
What: Wetter Hotter Americaner Summerer
Why: Because WHAS is returning with basically the entire original cast, and I need something to make me laugh again after this week.

MUSIC THING OF THE WEEK (4 min. listen)
What: Country Music Is Exactly As Formulaic As You Thought
Why: Because I don’t even know if this still counts as song writing.

PHOTOGRAPHY THING OF THE WEEK (2 min. read)
What: Atlantic Photos
Why: Because the magazine finally is putting all of those photographs to good use.

LITERATURE THING OF THE WEEK (2 min. read)
What: Sherlock Abdul Jabbar
Why: Because Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (writer, actor, and apparently basketball player[?]) wrote a book about Sherlock Holmes’ brother, Mycroft.

VIDEO GAME THING OF THE WEEK (1 min. read)
What: Gaming For Good
Why: Because not all gaming is a waste of time. (Although, I’m sure plenty of time was wasted learning how to beat the first three dungeons of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time with a blindfold on…)

INTERNET THINGS OF THE WEEK (∞)
What: Back To The Future Is Real; Fire In Reverse; Those Yellow Pylons Sure Sucked At Stoping Cars From Crossing The Median
Why: Because Internet.

THING YOU SHOULD GET BRIAN OF THE WEEK
What: The Most Expensive Of CES
Why: Because Brian deserves it.

Webtacularly yours,
Brian
Managing Editor, Webtacular World
The Internet You Didn’t Know You Needed™

Welcome to the newest year of them all. On to the news.

STORY OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: Revolt In The Ranks
Why: Because the officers’ current actions seem to imply that they do not understand that their respect is earned. Political speech has its place; the memorial service of one of their own is not one of them.

POLITICAL THING OF THE WEEK (1 min. read)
What: At Least The Speaker Will Still Have A Silent “H”
Why: Because John Boehner is being challenged by Louis Gohmert for his position in the House.

TECHNOLOGY THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: CES 2015
Why: Because these are the technologies you will be able to afford in 3 years.

SPORTS THING OF THE WEEK (8 min. read)
What: Boo-Ya, In Requiem
Why: Because Stuart Scott broke through sports media in a way that made the reporters as big as the athletes themselves.

TV SHOW THING OF THE WEEK (3 min. read)
What: ABC Has Lost Its Mind
Why: Because musical fantasy TV shows only existed in my imagination, until tonight.

MUSIC THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. listen)
What: Yeezy And Macca
Why: Because I guess Kanye just became bigger than the Beatles? Or at least got Paul to play backup on his song.

PHOTOGRAPHY THING OF THE WEEK (20 min. look)
What: The Year In The White House
Why: Because the President sure shook a lot of hands this year.

LITERATURE THING OF THE WEEK (3 min. read)
What: Just Call Him Mark Zuckerbooks
Why: Because Mark Zuckerberg just created what might become the biggest book club in history.

VIDEO GAME THING OF THE WEEK (15 min. read)
What: The Hype Train Is Already Here
Why: Because here are the games you should play next year, even though no one knows how good they are going to be.

INTERNET THINGS OF THE WEEK (∞)
What: Slooooooow Mooooootion; MacGyver Without Music; Firework
Why: Because Internet.

THING YOU SHOULD GET BRIAN OF THE WEEK
What: A House
Why: Because Brian deserves it.

Webtacularly yours,
Brian
Managing Editor, Webtacular World
The Internet You Didn’t Know You Needed™