Articles by Sean Yeaton

All the cool cats in the 90s had one of these things.

Here's the thing with regard to relative coolness: it's good to be cool and it's hip to be square; no one likes to party with losers and if you'd like to have a say, it's important to stay on top of trends. Being cool is different than being "popular…

It's been exactly a year since California Governor Jerry Brown declared "October 16 to be Steve Jobs Day":http://mashable.com/2011/10/15/steve-jobs-day-california-october-16-stanford/. It apparently was a one year-only holiday, but it still stands as…

Hackers, the phantoms of the opera of the Internet, have had an enormous impact on the rich narrative of our online reality. The video below, the first episode of "Net Cafe" from 1996, begins by describing "the first time the CIA website got hacked":…

Wow, you guys. Great news. You no longer have to go to the beach this holiday weekend. That's right, you can save people the trouble of commenting on your horrible posture and translucent skin; instead, take that satchel of grillables and drag it int…

This delicious salad could be your only hope for survival after the collapse of civilization

A while back I wrote about "famous album covers as seen on Google Maps":http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/11/18/eleven-seminal-album-covers-as-seen-with-google-street-view; it gave the Internet something it craved: something nostalgic packaged in some…

Just another example of MIT students having a chuckle

The first time I saw lesser-known presidential candidate "Vermin Supreme":http://www.verminsupreme.com/ on the Internet, I thought he was dead serious and I was terrified by him. "This weird guy," I thought. "He will enslave us all." Supreme, recogni…

I know what you're thinking and yes, every week _is_ Internet Week at Motherboard, but that doesn't mean we can hang our hats and stare down the business end of a glass of scotch when the actual Internet Week happens. Quite the contrary. In fact, thi…