I’d Rather Have a Pizza Than a Boyfriend

Snackwave, re-inventing the phone call, JR on Ellis Island and more in our weekly look at the web

From Moschino’s McDonalds-themed F/W 2014-15 collection (where a fountain drink purse currently costs $895) to Cara Delevigne and Beyoncé wearing head-to-toe pizza outfits to the head-scratching tweets from Taco Bell wanting to be your friend, snackwave has hit the mainstream. The Hairpin gives an extensive lowdown about the lowbrow origins of snackwave (a snarky, slightly doom-and-gloom attitude about eating cheeseburgers and junk food and loving …

Pro Bono

Snackwave, re-inventing the phone call, JR on Ellis Island and more in our weekly look at the web

Don’t you hate it when house guests request listening to something other than everyone’s favorite band, U2? Fret no further, new smart speaker Pro-Bono exclusively plays the band’s new album Songs of Innocence—you know, the one Apple recently attempted to force on all iPhone users? Through Pro-Bono, even if someone selects a song from a different band, the speaker overrides it and only plays U2. …

A Mysterious WTC Photographer

James Turrell's light prints, a $1 microscope, contamination-detecting chopsticks and more in our weekly look at the web

In his research for the National Geographic Channel documentary “9/10: The Final Hours,” filmmaker Erik Nelson was missing one vital piece. While he had more than enough exterior footage of the two towers, he had very little of what the buildings looked like inside. Thanks to an internet miracle, one of his film researchers discovered a wealth of images on the Estonian photo site Fotki. …