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Jul 30, 2012 4:20 PM   The good news: Each of the following 64 countries has free, unlimited access (broadband notwithstanding) to the greatest celebration of mankind's athletic achievements the world has ever known, thanks to YouTube and the IOC. The bad news: Chances are, you don't live in one. Afghanistan Angola Bangladesh Benin Bhutan Botswana Brunei Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of Congo Republic of Congo Côte d'Ivoire East Timor Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau India Indonesia Iran Kenya Laos Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Mauritius Mongolia Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Niger Nigeria Nepal Pakistan Papua New Guinea Rwanda Singapore São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Sri Lanka Swaziland Tanzania Thailand Togo Uganda Vietnam Zambia Zimbabwe [The Atlantic] View the original article here This post was ma...

Jul 24, 2012 11:20 AM   YouTube is notorious for its godawful, subhuman commenters. Google's solution? Implementing a new regime in which people are prompted to switch their accounts to their real name. Fortunately, the majority comments continue to be just as horrendous and offensive as ever. Business as usual! Google started rolling out the change about three weeks ago, which should be a reasonable amount of time to see some tangible benefits. In fact, it's proven by our perusing of YouTube that 95 percent of comments still contain either a racial slur, a sexist tirade, is totally incomprehensible, or some combination of those. Here are some shining examples: Here's the platonic ideal of a Real Name YouTube Comment. Well said, John Azevedo! But assholes are still assholes, even when they're using their real names. And the majority of people are still anonymous (racist) assholes. Not to mention ignorant. And creepy. And underage. And psychotic. And incoherent...