I don't know about you but I love watching these sparkly visualisations that show what the entire world is doing. This one, made by Triposo, uses timestamps and GPS location of photographs and plots them out to show you where and when people were snapping snappys. Watch the world light up on January 1st. Read More >>
If you have a crappy memory like me, watch this video of 2011 as told with Twitter. It's a summary of the past year's events as documented through people's tweets. Natural disasters, death, Charlie Sheen, Rebecca Black and more. 2011, you were an interesting one. Read More >>
If you need more ways to listen to BLOODY Adele and BLOODY Rihanna and BLOODY Jessie J songs, head off over to Spotify. It's put together playlists of the year's 100 most popular tracks from the UK and other countries it operates in, giving us a free, streaming Now That's What We Called Music In 2011 compilation. [Spotify] Read More >>
Featured comment by eadingas:
"Every year since 1998 (release of Morning Musume's first album) had been the 'year of j-pop and k-pop' for me :) Western pop still has nothing better ..." More »
The list of the most pirated movies on BitTorrent reveals that as a society, we've got incredibly bad taste. Fast Five is the winner. It was downloaded more than 9 million times this year. The list gets worse. Read More >>
Just kidding, of course you will, because it's Rebecca Black, and Rebecca Black is 2011's most important entity across culture, politics, and the whole of the space-time continuum. But what else mattered in our cosmos, YouTube-wise? Let's explore! Read More >>
Was 2011 a memorable year for the movies? I didn't think so until I watched this 5 minute video of 230 films that released this year. So exciting! So fun! The full list of movies used in the clip in the order they appear can be found here. Read More >>
Facebook's big report on what we humans blabbed about online is here! The good news: three of the top ten topics of the year were important. The bad news: the rest is inane, sad, incoherent shit. We suck. Read More >>
Featured comment by Bleary:
""Rihanna takes a deserved #1 music spot..."
That must take the no.1 embarrassing statement on Gizmodo. Congratulations." More »
An enormous list of possible HTC mobile phone names has appeared online, which contains some believable and some not quite so believable future HTC model names. Read More >>
The World Solar Challenge for 2011 concluded over the weekend, with only seven of the 37 competitors completing the 3000km journey from Darwin to Adelaide. Bad weather was the big cause for the drop-outs -- a bit of an issue for solar power. Read More >>
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