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Since Diddy’s “Vote or Die” campaign never had a music video component (South Park parody notwithstanding), #TURNOUTFORWHAT wins the award for “most insane video about voting” without much competition. Part of the long-running Rock the Vote campaign, the video itself is a pep rally for getting people to register and turn out for the November 4th midterm elections. And because Lil Jon is only known for two things — the song “Get Low” and yelling “What” or “Yeah-uh” (as popularized by Dave Chappelle), that’s all here in abundance.

We’ve also got: “Auntie” Whoopi Goldberg, “Lil Lena” Dunham sharing a polling booth with Tracy Anderson (and Lil Jon having very specific questions about Girls season four), Fred Armisen in a dance battle…

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Twitter has filed a lawsuit against the US government, alleging that its First Amendment rights to free speech are being violated by rules that prevent it from disclosing the quantity of national security requests it receives. Twitter is currently able to publish the number of national security letters and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act orders it receives in extremely broad ranges — such as between “0 and 999” — and it argues that this is not narrow enough. It also argues that it should be able to inform the public of what orders it has not received, whereas currently zero falls within that enormous range.

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Last month, we attended XOXO Festival in Portland, where cultural critic Anita Sarkeesian addressed the harassment she has faced in the wake of her series of videos about women’s depiction in video games. Today, XOXO posted the video of her talk in its entirety. Sarkeesian ends her talk with a message about the best way to support women online: “One of the most radical things you can do is to actually believe women when they talk about their experiences.”

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Facebook is reportedly building a standalone app that will let its users interact and communicate under the cloak of anonymity. If true, it would mark a huge departure from the company’s traditional approach to connecting people; real names and identity have long been central to Facebook’s model. The New York Times says this app, which has been developed under the eye of acquihire Josh Miller, would allow Facebook users to ditch their real names in favor of pseudonyms that would theoretically make them feel more comfortable discussing a range of topics with other people.

Little else about the software is known at this stage. We don’t know what it will be called, or whether it’s indeed meant to be a direct competitor to apps like Secret…

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I’m not afraid to admit here that I got into Star Wars later than most. I was 11, maybe 12 by the time it was even on my radar. But one of my first memories from before fandom took me in its loving arms was seeing that classic poster — lightsaber blazing over Luke Skywalker’s head, standing in the shadow of Darth Vader — at a Burger King of all places. It was incredible and otherworldly, even as I couldn’t fully process what I was looking at. It gave me chills.

That poster was and is…

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At its simplest, Endgame: The Calling is a novel about 12 teenagers scattered around the globe, participating in a high-stakes competition with the threat of the apocalypse and near-certain death looming. But the Endgame universe sprawls much further than a single book.

Endgame will eventually combine three novels with a host of other material, including shorter novellas, movies, and alternate-reality games (some of which lead to massive cash prizes of real gold) put together by Google’s…

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Myst, one of the most popular PC games ever, is about to make a comeback on television and computer screens. Legendary TV & Digital Media — the smaller-screen arm of Legendary Pictures, which has co-produced big-screen trilogies like The Hangover and Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies — has signed a deal to make a dramatic series with Cyan Worlds, the company behind the beloved point-and-click adventure game from the 1990s.

The deal also includes plans to create a new video game that will accompany the story told in the show, and considering that Myst was followed by multiple successful sequels and novels, there should be plenty of material to pull from. Cyan told Deadline that the company sees this as an opportunity to use the…

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I commute to work every day using a skateboard. I skate from my apartment to the subway, and then from the subway to work, and vice versa. It’s fast and it works, but I’m still on the hunt for the best personal EV. Hell, it’s almost 2015 — where’s my hoverboard?

For the last week I’ve been living with Focus Designs’ self balancing unicycle (SBU). I’ve been commuting to and from work with it (getting through subway turnstiles with the SBU is akin to having a small suitcase). I’ve taken it along the East River, to Brooklyn, over the Williamsburg Bridge, and through Central Park.

I’ve used other futuristic rideables, like the Zboard and E-Go Cruiser, but this was my first interaction with a unicycle — motorized or not. Riding the SBU…

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