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The debate is over. The dress that had the Internet booking eye appointments is … *drumroll* … black and blue.We’re super sorry, Team White and Gold. Take one last moment to think the dress looks like something Donald Trump designed. On Thursday, a vicious debate over the color of a lace and synthetic, body-hugging dress…
The entirety of Twitter has officially gone insane in what is almost definitely a master act of trolling over the color of some dress posted on BuzzFeed today. You can see the dress below, but be warned, everyone who has seen it thus far has already gone completely bonkers: The question posed by BuzzFeed is…
—Ben Dreyfuss on Thu. February 26, 2015 9:17 PM PDT “What color is this dress?” What color is this dress? White and gold, or blue and black? Photo on Tumblr divides Internet: http://t.co/la2B6vGtOt pic.twitter.com/dpb8h1SjQ3 — KTLA (@KTLA) February 27, 2015 It’s the defining question of our generation. I felt very strongly that it was gold…
Since it hit Tumblr yesterday, the image below has started an internet schism that may never be healed. Some maniacs, it seems, see the dress as gold and white, while other completely reasonable people see it as blue and black. This is not a joke. This is not a prank. This dress is blue and…
Why that dress looks white and gold: It’s overexposed Left: The “original” photo. Right: The photo corrected for overexposure. By Jonathan Ellis & Dustin Drankoski2015-02-27 04:03:25 UTC Yes, the Internet went crazy Thursday night over a dress that looked white and gold to some people, and blue and black to others. We’re not here to…
Not since Monica Lewinsky was a White House intern has one blue dress been the source of so much consternation. (And yes, it’s blue.) The fact that a single image could polarize the entire Internet into two aggressive camps is, let’s face it, just another Thursday. But for the past half-day, people across social media…
Mark Oberholtzer wasn’t following the Syrian militant group Jabhat Ansar al-Din on Twitter. So when they tweeted a picture of a Ford pickup in December with an anti-aircraft gun blazing from the truck bed, he probably missed it. Until someone mentioned to him that it was his truck. Or rather, it was a truck previously…
John Podesta, former senior advisor to Barack Obama, former Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton, and future chair of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is offering some reflections on his most recent stint in the White House. Number one on the list — aliens: 1. Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the…
Waco Tribune did *not” pull its Bill Nye the Science Guy story A Washington Post journalist sends this email: I saw this posting today on Facebook — that the incident happened isn’t very surprising, but is it true that the Waco Tribune took down its story about it (mentioned at the bottom of this…
How much sympathy you have for this woman probably depends on whether you feel the universe is a just place. Photograph: Alamy If you’ve been following the news recently, you know that human beings are terrible and everything is appalling. Yet the sheer range of ways we find to sabotage our efforts to make the…