Topic: technology

A Shazam App For Clothing Is Coming

A Shazam App For Clothing Is Coming

A Shazam type app for clothing is coming and I am pretty psyched about it. Do you use Shazam? It’s the app that you click on your phone when a song is playing, and it tells you the name of that song and who is performing it. I know what music is playing approximately 0% of the time, so I use it constantly.

I wouldn’t say that it’s allowed me to know really cool bands, but it’s allowed me to win a lot of games of of “Name That Tune” when I use it really stealthily.

I place pretty large money bets on “Name That Tune” now. More »

Donald Trump Twitter Gets Outraged Response From Deadspin

Donald Trump Twitter Gets Outraged Response From Deadspin

Look, I’m not a fan of Donald Trump, or much of anything on the Donald Trump Twitter account. At all, really. He seems like he fixates on bizarre causes. Basically, everything he says about Obama is absurd at this point. Remember when he offered $5 million dollars to try to blackmail Obama into handing over his college records? That was weird.

But was this Twitter response from Deadspin really fair? Donald Trump wrote to congratulate the Deadspin team on their coverage of the Manti Te’o story (his girlfriend Catfished him? He was exceptionally stupid, maybe? Or a weird con man? It was decided that his defense would be “I am exceptionally stupid, not a con man?”) More »