Greetings to the new format Webtaculators! Hope you enjoy.

STORY OF THE WEEK (3 min. read)
What: WEBTACULAR WORLD 2.0 Released!
Why: Because you deserve it.

ECONOMIC THING OF THE WEEK (4 min. read)
What: Oh Boy! $28,800 Per Year!
Why: Because that’s how much a person now working for the new Seattle minimum wage of $15 per hour will make by working full time in a year.

LAW THING OF THE WEEK (3 min. read)
What: I Am The Law!
Why: Because most public defenders don’t need to defend themselves.

SCIENCE THING OF THE WEEK (10 min. watch)
What: Houston, Gravity Has Problems
Why: Because one of my favorite movies gets a lot of the science wrong.

TECHNOLOGY THING OF THE WEEK (13 min. watch)
What: Net Neutrality In A Nutshell
Why: Because Webtacular World depends on an open framework to continue to be the worldwide leader in news. (Ed. note: not even close).

SPORTS THING OF THE WEEK (15 min. read)
What: GOL! GOL! GOL!
Why: Because you’re going to be hearing a lot of that in the upcoming weeks, and you’d better schedule your time accordingly.

NEWS THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: The Colbert Bump Beats The Real Thing
Why: Because this either means Colbert is doing a phenomenal job, or the real news is doing a terrible one.

MOVIE THING OF THE WEEK (45 min.watch)
What: Alphabetized Gets It, Should So Star You Wars Watch
Why: Because someone had way too much time on their hands, and you should appreciate the effort.

MUSIC THING OF THE WEEK (10 min. read)
What: Sex, Top Hats, and Horseless Carriages
Why: Because music was raunchy way before Madonna.

ART THING OF THE WEEK (11 min. watch)
What: Obey Andre
Why: Because Shepard Fairey was one of the first artists to legitimize graffiti.

LITERATURE THING OF THE WEEK (20 min. reads)
What: Killing An Elephant, Then And Now
Why: Because sometimes you need to read something heartbreaking.

VIDEO GAME THING OF THE WEEK (3 min. read)
What: Tetris Turns 30
Why: Because it remains one of the purest puzzle games to this day.

INTERNET THINGS OF THE WEEK ()
What: (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻; Give It All You Goat; One Take Is All The Action You Need; The Best Burrito
Why: Because Internet.

THING YOU SHOULD GET BRIAN OF THE WEEK
What: New Suit
Why: Because Brian finally got a real job.

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

We here at Webtacular World are very excited to announce Webtacular World 2.0 with the launch webtacularworld.com. After many months of labor and millions of dollars spent on analytics, focus groups, and R&D, the web as you know it just changed forever.*  Webtacular World 2.0 now inlcudes searches, a working archive, and most importantly, differently colored hyperlinks!!!!

With our recent update, we here at Webtacular World realize The Internet You Didn’t Know You Needed™ just became even more unknownier than it previously was; for example, we are certain you did not know that webtacularworld.com even existed before right this moment. At the same time, by letting you know that webtacularworld.com exists, we solved the very same problem of unknownness we created. Just by having read this, you are now at the very forefront of web development – in fact, you are so ahead of the curve that the developers at Apple’s current WWDC 2014 don’t even know about this, which is probably the only time in your life that you can say you are cooler than an Apple developer. In fact, our analysts just relayed that this notice just increased your water cooler cache (WCC) by 143%, which puts you way ahead of anyone.** We here at Webtacular World suggest you relish in your superiority.

Regardless of our (non)analysis, we here at Webtacular World are so certain that you will enjoy the new format, we have a 100% satisfaction guarantee.*** So kick back, relax, and enjoy Webtacular World 2.0 and webtacularworld.com in all of its HTML5 glory. You deserve it.

*Ok. Fine. More like a few hours and $18.00. You get the idea.

** Damn it, stop being so literal. You’re right. WCC is not an actual data point that anyone measures, nor one which our analysts spent any time analyzing.

***We would feel obligated to say “or your money back” at this point, but considering no one paid us in the first place, it’s a moot point.

STORY OF THE WEEK (3 min. read)
What: Snowden Speaks
Why: Because even though the jury is still out on whether Snowden is a traitor or a hero, he has undeniably changed the conversation on privacy and the war on terrorism.

ECONOMIC THING OF THE WEEK (4 min. read)
What: Racism Pays
Why: Because even though the Sterlings were forced to sell, this still seems like a poor incentive to change people’s behaviors.

POLITICAL THING OF THE WEEK (4 min. read)
What: Cutting Carbon
Why: Because even though this is only a small step to curtailing the dangers of climate change, it is a step in the right direction.

Greetings Webtaculators! Hope you’re having a most excellent three day weekend. On to the news.

Greeting Webtaculators! Hope all you Bay Area folk had a great Bay To Breakers Sunday! (And for all you non CA peeps, definitely get out this way next year; it’s a blast). On to the news.

STORY OF THE WEEK (90 min. read)
What: South Sudan
Why: Because this is the first time a magazine publication has focused on one single issue – I don’t think it will be the last.

EDUCATION THING OF THE WEEK (10 min. read)
What: Brown v. Board Redux
Why: Because separate but equal is apparently a harder policy to defeat than was presumed.

ECONOMIC THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: More Money, Less Problems?
Why: Because it looks like people do actually like money for its own sake more than wealth. Sorry Margaret.

LAW THING OF THE WEEK (4 min. read)
What: Oops
Why: Because this is why I have been working for free for the last 6 months.

TECHNOLOGY THING OF THE WEEK ( 10 min. read)
What: Pass Go, Win Computing
Why: Because this is one game humans are still better at than computers (for the time being).

SCIENCE THING OF THE WEEK (4 min. watch)
What: How To Debate Climate Change Correctly
Why: Because scientific debates demand proportionally representative sides.

SPORTS THING OF THE WEEK (4 min. read)
What: A Horse Is A Horse, Of Course, Of Course, Unless It’s California Chrome
Why: Because this horse has a chance to do something that a horse has not done in over 30 years.

MOVIE THING OF THE WEEK (3 min. read)
What: Movie Monsters Are Back
Why: Because there was no reason for this movie to be as good as it is.

MUSIC THING OF THE WEEK (4 min. watch)
What: Music Tours Demand Movie Trailers
Why: Because Beyoncé (Fine. Jay-Z too, I guess).

LITERATURE THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: How To Write
Why: Because your writing is shit.

VIDEO GAME THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: Largest Arcade Ever
Why: Because even though Video Bob’s Starbase is gone, it is good to know that there is somewhere people can go to kick each others’ digital asses.

INTERNET THINGS OF THE WEEK
What: The Accidentally Racist Ice Cream Truck; EDM (Electronic Death Music?); Or Tyrion Lannister.
Why: Because Internet.

THING YOU SHOULD GET BRIAN OF THE WEEK
What: I Promise I Won’t Cut Myself. Snikt.
Why: Because Brian deserves it.

Hope all of your mothers had a very webtacular Mother’s Day! On to the news.

May the 4th be with you. On to the news.

STORY OF THE WEEK (11 min. listen)
What: A Poorly Executed Execution
Why: Because the death penalty in the United States has more problems than just being a mockery of the term “cruel and unusual.”

ECONOMIC THING OF THE WEEK (1 click purchase)
What: “… With $10,000, We’d Be Millionaires!” And Other Economic Advice
Why: Because Homer is smart. S-M-R-T. Doh!

LAW THING OF THE WEEK (7 min. watch)
What: Paper Replicator Machine? Word Duplication Device?
Why: Because even though the newest class of lawyers needs to now also swear to behave with “dignity, honor, and integrity,” (which, incidentally, is almost flagrant plagiarism of my slogan for my venture into law school politics) this type of situation makes such behavior almost impossible.

SCIENCE THING OF THE WEEK (2 min. watch)
What: Soon, You Won’t Be Able To Blame The Little Old Lady Behind The Wheel For Driving Slow In The Fast Lane (But You Can Blame Gruver)
Why: Because Google is getting closer and closer to making sure humans are removed from the driving equation.

POLITICAL THING OF THE WEEK (7 min. watch)
What: 2014 White House Correspondents’ Dinner (Or The Roast Of Obama)
Why: Because Obama should maybe consider taking up comedy after his presidency ends.

SPORTS THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read
)What: One Of The Best Fights In Recent History (Although I Personally Like This One Better)
Why: Because anything is better than the recent performance of Bay Area teams in the playoffs…

DRUNK THING OF THE WEEK (2 min. watch)
What: Hungry Drunks, Everywhere
Why: Because this method for hangover prevention still isn’t proven, so until then, nachos please.

MUSIC THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: Tupac Or Not Tupac, That Is The Question
Why: Because you gots to have vocab, letters makes words and sentences makes paragraphs.

VIDEO GAME THING OF THE WEEK (7 min. read)
What: Why We Jump
Why: Because jumping that much would be ridiculously tiring in real live.

INTERNET THINGS OF THE WEEK
What: All For One And One Vs. Fifty!; Hamsters Have No Manners; Beer Me
Why: Because Internet.

THING YOU SHOULD GET BRIAN OF THE WEEK
What: Please Fulfill My Robot Dreams
Why: Because Brian deserves it.

STORY OF THE WEEK (5 min. look / read)
What: The Saints Come Marching In
Why: Because not sainthood in the modern world is a changing process, and having two of them canonized at the same time also is a strong political statement.

LAW THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: Affirmative Inaction
Why: Because it is interesting to see how different to see how even though the ruling is technically correct, the dictum and dissents state wildly differing ideas on the overarching concern.

SCIENCE THING OF THE WEEK (30 min. read)
What: For The Last Time, Global Warming Is Real
Why: Because mitigation needs to happen if humanity wants to keep the status quo.

SPORTS THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: How To Protest A Racist
Why: Because even with the Supreme Court turning the issue of race in America into an administrative one, it is obviously still a problem that isn’t going away any time soon.Or just do this.

TV THING OF THE WEEK (10 min. read)
What: No Science Or Mystery, But Still An Awesome Show
Why: Because it proves that even bad TV can be made into a work of art.

MUSIC THING OF THE WEEK (7 min. read)
What: Hip Hop Has Lost Its Struggle
Why: Because when a musical genre born in protest becomes the most economically viable genre around, where else can it go?

MAP THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: Baseball Borders
Why: Because I was born to hate the Dodgers.

LITERATURE THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: Shakespeare Turns 450
Why: Because the Bard influenced more writing than your blog ever will.

INTERNET THINGS OF THE WEEK
What: Emojis You Never Knew You Needed; Wheelchair Workout
Why: Because Internet.

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

Webtacularly yours,

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

Greetings Webtaculators! Lots to talk about today, mostly because it’s a double whammy of celebrations – one being theresurrection of mankind’s messiah, and the other being a day to get really really stoned for some reason, but also because of some other more somber happenings. So let’s get to it!

STORY OF THE WEEK (4 min. read)
What: One Year Of Boston Strong
Why: Because the Boston Marathon, which occurs tomorrow, will be a very different race than the ones before it.

ECONOMIC THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: Easter Has Economic Consequences; So Does 420
Why: Because although these two holidays are very different, money still ties them together.

LAW THING OF THE WEEK (15 min. view)
What: Law Revue
Why: Because this annual competition between law schools was way more entertaining when I was actually still in school.

SCIENCE THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: Weed Is Pretty Safe; Where Easter Eggs Come From
Why: Because both holidays cannot be looked at equally through a scientific lens.

SPORTS THING OF THE WEEK ()
What: The Sharks And The Warriors Are In The Playoffs, And The Giants Are Starting
Why: Because BEAT LA.

MOVIE THING OF THE WEEK (15 min. read)
What: 100 Best Animated Movies
Why: Because animated movies are often overlooked, but now you know which ones you should see.

LITERATURE THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: No Mas Años De Solidad
Why: Because Gabriel García Márquez was a literary genius, whether read in his native Spanish or any of the wonderful translations of his work.

VIDEO GAME THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. look)
What: Video Games As Fine Art
Why: Because sometimes lasers make mid- millennial paintings better.

EASTER THINGS OF THE WEEK
What: A Papal Message; A View Of Easter’s Importance; Hunky Jesus
Why: Because now you’re saved

WEED THINGS OF THE WEEK
What:Be Nice To Your Dealer; Another Weed Punned Article; Does It Even Matter Who Wins?
Why: I… uhh… forget.

PEEP THING OF THE WEEK
What: Peeps Are Delicious, So 100 Peeps Are 100x More Delicious; Shoot All The Peeps; Melt All The Peeps; Kill The Peeps
Why: Because Peeps.

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

BUT WHAT ABOUT PASSOVER THING OF THE WEEK?!?!?!?
What: Passover In 2 Minutes; No Gefilte Fish For You!; Quinoa Is Kosher; Easter Is Really Just Passover In Disguise
Why: Because I said so and I’m not going to answer any more questions; you had your opportunity to ask during Seder.

Webtacularly yours,

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

Greetings Webtaculators! Hope everyone is enjoying the nice spring weather. I know I am.

STORY OF THE WEEK (10 min. look)
What: The Power Of Reconciliation
Why: Because it has been 20 years since the Rwandan Genocide, and the healing continues.

LAW THING OF THE WEEK (2 min. watch)
What: Boss Wedding
Why: Because now you get to hate lawyers even more.

MATH THING OF THE WEEK (10 min. read)
What: Math Made Easy(ish)
Why: Because some of these concepts still make no sense, but at least now you can pretend to understand them.

SPORTS THING OF THE WEEK (7 min. read)
What: Secrets To Success / Not Secrets To Success
Why: Because two new media outlets (fivethirtyeight.com and vox.com) both have two similar titles to pieces regarding the same success of the UConn Basketball program in the March Madness tournament; however, the focus of each reflects more on the stylistic differences these new platforms than any real insight to the team itself.

TV THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read/ watch)
What: The Late Show Gets A New Host – Great News, Or Greatest News?
Why: Because at least one person probably hates this announcement.

MUSIC THING OF THE WEEK (4 hr. listen)
What: You Like New Music, Right?
Why: Or you can just re-listen to Webtacular‘s very own Outside Lands mix on Spotify.

PHOTOGRAPHY THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. look)
What: Behind The Basket
Why: Because its nice to know that basketball players travel just like the rest of us – in first class, catered breakfasts, projection game film, and chartered buses.

LANGUAGE THING OF THE WEEK (5 min. read)
What: Uhh… Writing And Talking Is, Like, Hard And Stuff
Why: Because maybe all these changes to English, whether it’s less formal sentence structure and run ons and abbrv. txting is an evolution of our language. Or maybe it’s not.

VIDEO GAME THING OF THE WEEK (3 min. read)
What: Wait, So Playing Video Games Is Actually Good For You?
Why: Because maybe spending all that time memorizing the maps in Goldeneye wasn’t such a waste after all.

INTERNET THINGS OF THE WEEK
What: Slap Joffrey; The Answer Is Yes; The Enormity Of Their Stupidity Is Just Overwhelming; Toddlers Are Awful; Mutha Fuckin’ Mayonnaise
Why: Because Internet.

THING YOU SHOULD GET BRIAN OF THE WEEK
What: Apparently I’ve Been Cooking Them Wrong?
Why: Because Brian deserves it.