O Cranston, my Cranston: Poetry magazine sizes up Walter White with Walt Whitman in an essay perfectly titled "Leaves of Glass."

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Nick Offerman spoils eight summer reading classics, but we already knew that Animal Farm “is like Babe: Pig in the City.”

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Move over, .com: a new wave of domain names (.wed, .mom) will soon hit the Web.

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A thought scarier than most public restrooms—smart toilets that are susceptible to hackers.

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Apple nixed an iPhone game that involves throwing your iPhone as high as you possibly can.

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If you’re in the mood for hysteria, Popular Science charted all of the 1400 asteroids that would cause major devastation if they bumped into Earth.

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Meet the author behind the fan fiction story six times longer than Infinite Jest and 13 times bigger than Ulysses.

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Because there’s no one else on Mars to celebrate with, NASA’s Curiosity Rover sang “Happy Birthday” to itself.

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Cracked debunks some widely-believed myths about prehistoric times—at least the Geico cavemen will be happy the record’s straight.