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Wikipedia for the Weird: Secret_Service_codename
Sometimes what’s been deemed “verified” on Wikipedia seems too strange to be true. In Wikipedia for the Weird, the Daily Dot tracks down the most bizarre and entertaining entries on the Web’s...
View ArticleArtist's confession of faked depression draws mixed reactions on Kickstarter
The creator of popular webcomic Pictures for Sad Children has posted a Kickstarter update in which he claims to have faked depression, drawing mixed reactions from his backers. On Wednesday, John...
View Article"Fake It!": How to protect your privacy online
It should surprise no one that companies relentlessly compile details of your personal life to make you a better target to advertisers. One in three Facebook apps knows your birthday. Almost two...
View ArticleItalian cops use Facebook to snoop on mafia
If Tony Soprano is looking for some anonymity, he might want to logout of Facebook. Police in Italy are using Facebook to track and identify mobster’s criminal activity who are using the social...
View Article7 tips for networking back into the dating game
Beth Cook is a dating coach and wing-woman who throws private dating events for San Francisco’s most awesome and unattached. She also writes and draws about her own dating experiences and would love...
View ArticleAustin Police Department posts touching "It Gets Better" video
The Austin Police Department has a simple, but weighty, message: It gets better. In the seven-minute clip, gay employees from the police department share their personal stories of coming out and...
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Tumblr turns Mitt Romney into Lucille Bluth
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Arrested Development’s Lucille Bluth have a lot in common. They both have a somewhat forgotten “Ann” in their lives, frequent country clubs, are...
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How to hide "private messages" on your Facebook timeline
Facebook might have had some users believing their pre-2009 private messages popped up on their public timeline, but the perceived privacy flaw is not as clear as it seems. The company claims that...
View ArticleEveryone Is Gay—helping LGBTQ youth feel at ease
In the eyes of coeditors Kristin Russo and Dannielle Owens-Reid, everyone is gay. The duo’s video blog of the same name answers questions from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning...
View ArticleHow one man looked an abusive troll in the eye and shook hands
“It was like a game thing." That’s how a troll justified several years of abusive messages sent to a man that caused genuine fear for the safety of himself and his family. Leo Traynor’s astonishing...
View ArticleBullied girl picked for homecoming court as a joke gets support from...
"I thought I wasn't worthy. I was this big old joke," 16-year-old Whitney Kropp told The Detroit News about her selection to homecoming court. And she was right though not for long. What started out...
View ArticleWoman with beard teaches Reddit a lesson about acceptance
Facial hair: Some girls got it. It derives from a condition called hirsutism, and if you're a practicing Sikh, you wear it proudly. That's the lesson we've learned from Balpreet Kaur, the eloquent...
View ArticleDot Dot Dot: Scoring points on the Internet
All the Internet’s a game, and all the men and women merely players. If that’s largely true, it raises the question: What do you get points for? The metaphor of the Internet as a game ran rather...
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Dad wears skirt to support his son, becomes Internet sensation
A father who wore a skirt in public to support his dress-wearing son is speaking out about the Internet’s reaction to his clothes. Over the summer, writer Nils Pickert wrote an article for Emma, a...
View ArticleThe Hater: Myspace wants to bring sexy back
We love the Internet. Except when we hate it. Every week, Jordan Valinsky bottles the angst of his Millennial generation and finds something to despise about the Web. Like a gassy, sour burp, Myspace...
View ArticleThe king of porn gossip: Meet Mike South, the man who got to the bottom of...
If you're a porn star and you learn that a bunch of other porn stars have a bad STD, what you want to know right away is if you've fucked any of those people. This August, a syphilis outbreak plunged...
View ArticleThe Tweekender: “Downton Abbey” star Hugh Bonneville delights a superfan
With hundreds of millions of tweets per day, it’s impossible to follow everything happening on Twitter. Every Friday, the Daily Dot rounds up notable Twitter news and stories from the past week—in 140...
View Article3 common Facebook rumors debunked
Through the course of its existence, Facebook has had to deal with issues concerning the privacy of its users. In a page entitled “Facebook Myths” the company makes a concerted effort to dispel any...
View ArticlePolice demand Facebook ban pages attacking lead suspect in Australian murder...
In the court of Facebook, Adrian Ernest Bayley is already guilty of murder. More than 44,000 people have liked a page called Publicly hang Adrian Ernest Bayley. Another 400, meanwhile, are fans of...
View ArticleJapanese study claims viewing photos of cute animals at work may boost...
Spending time at work looking at photos of cute animals might actually be good for business if a new Japanese study holds up to scrutiny. Researches at Hiroshima University recently conducted a series...
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