rapture

Congressional Tweet-mageddon After Weiner Scandal

Kara Swisher in Social on June 9, 2011 at 1:58 pm PT

Were all the politicians in Congress taken up in some sort of rapture to a Twitter-free zone? Nope, just the effect of the unfortunate nether-region photo tweet by Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner, which has apparently caused others on Capitol Hill to stop posting as much to the microblogging service.

Viral Video: Forget 2012, Try 5/21/11

Kara Swisher in News on March 14, 2011 at 12:24 am PT

The Internet is host to a lot of things, including a persistent number of people using it to predict the end of the world. And so it is again, with a spate of videos popping up online of late, all focused around May 21, 2011 as the day of the “rapture” and the beginning of the end of the world on October 21, 2011.

Memo to All Crepe-Hangers: It Still Ain't Nobody's Business If Jobs Is or Isn’t

Kara Swisher in News on December 31, 2008 at 6:00 am PT

Now, it’s getting flat-out macabre. That would be the continuing swirl of attention the health of Apple icon Steve Jobs has been getting. Rumors of his impending demise have been popping up periodically since the too-thin crisis of the Worldwide Developers Conference in June and look like they won’t stop until it actually comes true. My grandmother used to have a perfect rejoinder for this kind of funeral-chasing behavior, which was prevalent among her gang of Italian sisters, who–whenever anyone caught a cold–predicted the worst outcome: “Don’t be a crepe-hanger.”