Tag archives for 2011

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2011 as Told in Legos

What better way to understand the major news stories of 2011 than with a kid's toy. The Guardian this morning gathered together a series of Lego portraits of this past year's big happenings. Check out Obama's hair in the Lego take on the Situation Room photo of the Osama bin Laden raid! We're guessing there isn't a good Lego part to represent ...
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New Auto-correct and iPhone Fun

We at Capcy know how much people LOVE auto-correct errors and other ways that people make themselves look bad- so we scoured the internet (OK, 'scoured' is a strong term, but it took us at least a few minutes) and found some of our new favorites!                                                                
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The 50 Funniest Headlines Of 2011

  Buzzfeed.com top 50 headlines of 2011.  A truly classic compilation of the oddest, dumbest and stupidest headlines to grace the interweb. 1. Source: pressherald.com 2. Source: ksl.com 3. Source: news.cincinnati.com 4. Source: dailymail.co.uk 5. Source: variety.com  Share on Facebook 6. Source: thelocal.se 7. Source: ghanaweb.com 8. Source: thelocal.de 9. Source: philly.com 10. Source: tahoedailytribune.com  Share on Facebook 11. Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com 12. Source: wowt.com 13. Source: billingsgazette.com 14. Source: nzherald.co.nz 15. Source: today.msnbc.msn.com 16. Source: msnbc.msn.com 17. Source: kval.com 18. Source: clickorlando.com 19. Source: tmz.com 20. Source: wowt.com  Share on Facebook 21. 22. Source: livescience.com 23. Source: boingboing.net 24. Source: bloomberg.com 25. Source: cnn.com 26. Source: pitchfork.com 27. Source: wkrn.com 28. Source: shortlist.com 29. Source: onlineathens.com 30. Source: themercury.com.au  Share on Facebook 31. Source: azcentral.com 32. Source: heraldnews.suntimes.com 33. Source: metro.co.uk 34. Source: timesfreepress.com 35. Source: suntimes.com 36. Source: clarendon.patch.com 37. Source: freerepublic.com 38. Source: thesun.co.uk 39. Source: old.news.yahoo.com 40. Source: metro.co.uk  Share on Facebook 41. Source: blogs.discovermagazine.com 42. Source: blog.masslive.com 43. Source: ibtimes.com 44. Source: indystar.com 45. Source: journalstar.com 46. Source: foxnews.com 47. 48. 49. Source: articles.cnn.com 50.  
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The 9 Oddest Job Interview Questions Asked at Tech Companies in 2011

When sitting down for a job interview at a top U.S. tech company, you’d typically expect the interviewer to hammer you with questions testing your abilities, past history and knowledge of the company. You wouldn’t think it was the time or the place to start exploring solutions to world hunger, but that’s exactly what happened ...
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The Strangest Homes of 2011

'Mushroom House' in upstate N.Y. is different, but it's not the strangest home of 2011. Photo: Rich Testa of RE/MAX Advance   A compellingly eccentric home located in an exotic place. That was the starting point in our quest to find the world's strangest homes of 2011. The challenging part of this quest wasn't finding suitably weird homes, it ...
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Top Viral Photos of 2011

With millions of images being shared on the Internet every day, it takes a certain measure of magic to become a viral hit. We always keep one finger on the Web pulse (more than a quarter of Facebook's Most Shared Articles in 2011 came from Yahoo!), so now we bring you 10 photos that online ...
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The Dumbest Democratic Quotes Of 2011

  Hillary Clinton on the stability of Mubarak's Egypt 18 days before he stepped down. January 25, 2011 Jared Monti died in 2006 and was awarded the Medal of Honor in 2009, posthumously. June 23, 2011 Joe Biden on Tea Party Republicans. August 1, 2011 Nancy Pelosi getting hyperbolic about John Boehner's Debt Ceiling bill. July 28, 2011 Claire McCaskill ...
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