Linkulous: Groupon, JJ Abrams, Accidental Chinese Hipsters, and more

Above: It was all just a big misunderstanding

Groupon has been the single worst decision I have ever made as a business owner thus far… 

Accidental Chinese Hipsters

/Film Interview: JJ Abrams Talks ‘Super 8′, Bad Robot, Lens Flares, LOST, Spielberg and the Mystery Box

Bad news for Nielsen: TV ads to be bought more like online ads

Also, The Book of Mormon Broadway Soundtrack is on sale today! But it here:


Don't see the image? Click here: The Book Of Mormon [Explicit] [+Digital Booklet]

Linkulous: Interactive Make-Up, Urban Outfitters Scandal, HuffPo Hatred, and more

Online Advertising Racks Up Record $7.3B First Quarter

Which would you prefer: $1 million or a hot body? - I'm thinking you should take the money, use some of it for a trainer and some cooking lessons, and then TRAVEL THE WORLD WITH ALL THAT MONEY!

Makeup Gets Interactive: Social Networks, Virtual Makeovers, and More - I wrote these words! Check out the virtual makeover and anti-aging tool.

Not cool Urban Outfitters, not cool. Terrible!

You Still Can't Sanction the Endzone - USC's appeal was denied. Well, fuck them; bowls are for salad.

HuffPo Employees Flee AOL After "Brutal" "Awful" "Worst Few Weeks"

I am your Grandma:

Linkulous: Fast Five, Gangster Movies, Mr. Rogers, Oreo Stuffed Cookies, and more

Why I Love Mr. Rogers

Gangster Movies I'll Always Drop Everything to Watch

This is perhaps the best farewell in the history of blogging. 

Fast forward: Why a movie about car thieves is the most progressive force in American cinema

Once More, With Feeling: Joss Whedon Revisits ‘Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog’

Sh*t My Students Write Tumblr Is Hilarious, Sad

More than 1/3rd of adults ages 19 to 29 live with their parents due to economy/few job prospects

Project Bake | Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies

Above: The baby photobombed himself!

Linkulous: Groupon Deals, Joss Whedon's CABIN IN THE WOODS, Studio Logos and more

AMAZON Drops MP3 Prices to $.69

HBO Goes On Demand

Groupon for Concerts Will Help Bands Get Gigs

Lionsgate to help release Joss Whedon's CABIN IN THE WOODS

Americans are More Addicted to LinkedIn than Twitter (STUDY)

14 Variant Logos That Prove Even Studios Enjoy Having a Little Fun

A GOOD OLD FASHIONED ORGY gets a new minimalist poster

Fox's BREAKING IN is a must watch for Geek's everywhere!

New red band trailer and character posters for BRIDESMAIDS

Above: 15 Creative and Nerdy Wedding Invitations. Also, be sure to check out my geeky wedding blog!

Linkulous: Rebecca Black, Paul Feig, Adulthood, New Words, and more

It's time for your weekly roundup of interest articles! Happy Friday everyone!

Not *That* Fun: Rebecca Black Gets Played Just 12 Times on Radio - Well, at least there's that.

THE MOST DEPRESSING ARTICLE EVER - Yup, adulthood can be pretty terrible sometimes.

Paul Feig-directed Ford viral ads hit - this is the freelance project I've been working on this week. I'm promoting this video online, have you seen it yet?

LivingSocial Says It Will Overtake Groupon in January 2012 - I like LivingSocial more already, so I'm hoping this will play out.

OMG, Oxford English Dictionary Added New Words - OMG, I <3 this, LOL. Also noteworthy, "Banh Mi" is now in the dictionary too. Mmm Vietnamese food.

Your Twitter Connections Say More Than You Think [Study]

USC's Neon Tommy draws a larger audience than any other Web-only college news site - Damn, it's good to be a Trojan. :)

89% of People Who Bought Groupon Movie Deal Would Not Have Seen THE LINCOLN LAWYER Otherwise  - Given its success, you can expect more initiatives like this will spring up for flicks.

Did you read any interesting articles this week? Feel free to share them in the comments!

Linkulous: JJ Abrams, Starbucks Trenta Cup, Verizon iPhone, Dark Shadows and more

The Brutal Truth From Two Years In The Twitterverse

Could J.J. Abrams’ new show be more bizarre than Lost? Here’s everything we know so far

NFL has made Super Bowl Sunday into a holiday, is a three-day weekend the next step?

The Starbucks Trenta Cup Holds An Entire Bottle Of Wine

Verizon May Slow Down Those Hogging Unlimited 3G Data Plans

Wonder Woman: A Sneak Peek at David E. Kelley's Script

Google Offers $20,000 and a Laptop for a Chrome Hack

Jackie Earle Haley and Bella Heathcote joining DARK SHADOWS?

Hell Hath No Fury Like an Internet-Savvy Women Scorned

Linkulous: Super Bowl Microsite, Zombies on CW, Black Swan theories and more

Reports say Egypt Web shutdown is coordinated, extensive

Twitter Launches Visa-Sponsored Super Bowl Microsite

Disney Insider Trader Gets Two Years in Prison

Zombie show coming to The CW

Tihomir Petrov, Cal State Northridge Math Professor, Charged for Allegedly Peeing On Rival Academic's Door

Interesting Movie Theory: What Is Going On Between Nina and Her Mom in ‘Black Swan’?

7 Joss Whedon projects we'll never see (and 1 we eventually will)

50 Best iPhone Apps 2011

Linkulous: Celebrity Scandals, Delicious Shuts Down, and more

California unemployment rate stays at 12.4% -- with only 1,600 jobs added in November

40-Year-Old Virgin actor sentenced to life in prison

Smallville Shocker! Star Guilty in Hillbilly Heroin-Trafficking Ring

USA Pilot 'Eden' Finds Its Leads - Glad to see a Dollhouse alum getting more work! He was often times the best part of the show.

Gwyneth Paltrow to rock out in ROCK OF AGES?

Delicious is getting shut down. Here's how to get all those bookmarks into your browser before it kicks the bucket. - Makes me glad I picked StumbleUpon back when I was debating between the two.

SXSW 2011 announces Opening Night Film - the world premiere of Duncan Jones' SOURCE CODE

81% of Gen Yers Use Facebook Daily [STUDY] - I'm surprised it's not more! 

Five Lessons of the Fall TV Season

Stephen Colbert Wins First Golden Tweet Award for Most Retweeted 

Linkulous: Best Films of the Decade, Harry Potter, Bill Nye, and More

30 Best Films of the Decade

Did Harry Potter Really Steal All These Story Ideas? 

Why Men Fake Orgasms from a Man Who Has Faked an Orgasm

Bill Nye of 'The Science Guy' fame collapses during speech at USC

Matt Barkley for Heisman

Top 10 New Cult Movies

Top 10 Movie Plot Holes You Probably Never Noticed Before 

Linkulous: Glee, BSB, Ugly Wedding, McDonald's and more

The Burger Lab: Revisiting the Myth of The 12-Year Old McDonald's Burger That Just Won't Rot (Testing Results!)
10 Reasons Every TV Exec Needs to Start Tweeting

Check out the ridiculously accurate (spoiler-filled)The Walking Dead Google map

Steven Spielberg's 'Terra Nova' to Air Two-Hour Sneak Peek in May

How To See Movies For Free: A Guide to AFI Fest Ticketing

Nielsen Admits Undercounting Web Traffic

'Daily Show' Beats Leno, Letterman for First Time

Dating Site For Ugly People Results in Hottie-Prince Wedding of the Year

Backstreet Boys Announce Tour With New Kids On The Block

‘TRON: Legacy’ Store To Open in Los Angeles For Six Weeks

The end of the 'do-something' Congress

My Problem with Glee: Will Schuester

Linkulous: Betty Draper Francis, Hoverboards, The LXD, and more

No One's Ever on Your Side: Betty Draper Francis Still Needs Your Love

Most Dangerous Colleges 2010

Bruce Campbell is Still Unbelievably Awesome

Kanye West and Jay-Z making a full album together

Girls on Film: How Women Shaped Horror

5 TV Shows That Are Doing Better Than You Think

Madd Chadd on Becoming The LXD

They Promised Us Hoverboards: A Future Unrealized

Stuff from my new writing gig: 

Expect "What to Expect When You're Expecting" from "Whip It" Writer Shauna Cross

Life of Pi takes shape with Ang Lee and Suraj Sharma

First Look at The Lorax, starring Betty White, Danny Devito, and Zac Efron

Linkulous: Blockbuster, Film Nudity, Facebook Secrets, and more

How Blockbuster Failed at Failing


The Top 10 Biggest Secrets of The Facebook News Feed


Jennifer Alba's Nudity in "Machete" was Computer Generated. Is Film Nudity Dead? 


Bruce Willis Wants To Make Two More ‘Die Hard’ Films, Then Step Away


5 Questions with No Ordinary Family's Michael Chiklis


Paramount To End Relationship With Marvel In 2012: Disney Will Distribute 'Iron Man 3' and 'The Avengers'


The Theory of 3 Glees


Glee's Gayest Moments

Linkulous: M. Night Shymalan, Fat Fat Foods, and 500 Days of Summer

Danny Elfman and "Nighmare" in 4D come to El Capitan - the box sets they mention are definitely getting added to my Christmas wish list!

8 Facts You Didn't Know about M. Night Shymalan - while he gets a lot of hate now, I actually really liked Unbreakable. At least, I remember liking it. I wonder if my opinion would be different if I saw it again today. 

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Studies: The Boys of Summer - a great look at the inherent sexism in (500) Days of Summer.


50 Fattiest Foods in the States  - I am SHOCKED to see the In-N-Out Double Double on this list!

Why There Aren't More Interracial Couples

Linkulous: Lots of TV Articles, The Social Network, Arrested Development, and more

No Fat Chicks: Navigating the Dating World as a Fat Girl

New TV Shows' Tough Time


The Woman on the Cover of Twilight: Sorta Nuts

Why It's Good that Networks are Quick to Cancel Low-Rated New Shows

Female programmers on "The Social Network" - How accurate is the Facebook movie's depiction of women as trophies in the world of Web 2.0?

The Vulture Transcript: Arrested Development Creator Mitch Hurwitz on His Struggles With Running Wilde

The Most Unnecessarily Dramatic Quote in New York Times History

Single, Middle Class, and Getting By


The Curse of the Ghost TV Fan - I still miss WonderFalls and Firefly.

Linkulous: Eliza Dushku, Glee, Cougar Town

Eliza Dushku discusses the Faith Spin-Off that never happened

Why I Loathe Glee - great look at why Glee is falling short, despite it's rising ratings. By using the music to distract, rather than add to, the thin plot could lead to a fast burn out of the show.

Cougar Town: The Most Pro-Alcohol Show on TV

Lone Star was REJECTED

Linkulous: Catfish, Wonders of the World, and USC

Catfish Directors Explain Catfish (Without Spoiling Catfish)

7 Lesser Known Wonders of the World 

The Fall of Troy 

The Best Subtle Things about New Twitter

Linkulous: Vampires, Rom-Coms, and Feminism for Bitches

Buffy is so Whiny....NOT


Those Who Can't Do, Hate

Dracula Degree: School Offers Master's of Vampire Studies - if I had a few tens of thousands to burn, I'd so be there!

Label Lamentation: The Growing Misuse of “Recap” in Television Criticism Semantics

Hack attack hits home for AP writer

Why Tumblr Sucks - While I agree with a lot of what he says, I'm still on it. It does have a great community and the easy reblog feature makes it very easy to share anything I come across. You can check out my Tumblr at http://toointerestingfortwitter.tumblr.com

Feminism for Bitches - In defense of Olivia Munn

Television Without Pity: Fall 2010 Television Watch, DVR, Skip 

Judd Apatow Switches Gears; Now Working on Female-Centric Projects

'Caprica' to Return in October

Above photo from: Post-Apocalyptic Pick-Up Lines

Linkulous: RETURNS! Glee, Twilight Zone, and more!

Now that I'm back online on a consistent basis, I can start up my weekly list of interesting links again! Below are a few of the more interesting articles I read this week.

Critic's notebook: One man's trash is another man's 'Glee'

Rod Serling on the Twilight Zone: We failed frequently, but we created more than we imitated

Twitter Breaks Story on Discovery Channel Gunman

25 Great Moments in Text Message History

Linkulous: Creative Loafing, Sexism in Hollywood, and a Cute Wedding Ring

One Woman's Child Pornography Is Her Father's Idea Of Art

Doing More With Less In: defense of creative loafing

TV's Crowning Moment of Awesome

Women, sexism and Hollywood: A look at the numbers

Woman Gives USB Wedding Ring to Her Geeky Fiancé [PIC]

How Much Network Programming Was Actually “On Online” This Season?

12 Lessons Learned from Year One of Jobless Freedom

The Trouble at Twitter Inc.

Are Kids Getting High Off of 'Digital Drugs'?

Linkulous: Twit Lit, Modern Action Hero, and Television Addiction

Twitter Lit: A New Creative Outlet

Twit Lit 101: How Twitter Is Redefining Writing

The Modern Action Hero -- Why It's No Longer Arnold or Bruce

FacePainting

Is Rupert Grint the Next Leo DiCaprio?  

Television Addiction: The Effects Of Watching Too Much TV