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Worldwide secret agents aren't so secret on LinkedIn
One of the fundamental aspects of working for a spy agency is making sure to keep a low profile. Anyone who’s seen the Bourne films or read an Ian Fleming novel can attest to that. That idea was...
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Chinese model jailed for posting police-fantasy pics to Weibo
Chinese authorities are very busy with state security these days. Just a few weeks after jailing a Twitter user for telling a joke, they’ve busted a model for posting pictures online. By most...
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Free condoms: The way to keep Twitter from mocking your campaign
The message “Free stuff to anybody who forwards this” is almost always a hoax. Remember in 2004, when every American with a gullible relative (in other words, every American) received an email falsely...
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Dot Dot Dot: The Internet's sexual revolution
Is Hunter Moore this generation’s Larry Flynt? Moore came to prominence as the creator of IsAnyoneUp.com. The site titillated visitors with “revenge porn.” Anyone could go to IsAnyoneUp.com and post...
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#HireKevin: Man tries to become Applebee’s spokesman over Facebook and Twitter
Facebook is topping all our news feeds with obnoxious brand posts, while hiding updates from pages we actually liked. Clicking to hide the post leaves me feeling impotent. My colleague Henry likes to...
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A day in the office with Know Your Meme—the Web's "Britannica"
In 1768, all it cost to change history was £200. That’s what two Scottish publishers paid William Smellie—son of a stonemason and master printer—to squeeze the sum-total of human knowledge into a...
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Movember 2012: The fullest 'stache wrap-up you'll ever read
It is time for Movember 2012 to come to a close. Since its debut in Adelaide, South Australia, in 2004, men around the world have grown mustaches each November to raise money for charities funding...
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Know Your Meme's favorite memes
There’s so much Internet out there that it can all be pretty overwhelming sometimes, like jumping into an ocean of cats without a paddle. Thankfully, the three researchers of Know Your Meme are there...
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Facebook told to remove pedophile-monitoring page
A court ordered Facebook to take down a page that monitored Northern Ireland pedophiles after a High Court judge ruled that some of its content constituted prima facie harassment against a convicted...
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Student hit by bus fights to save campus foam-sword street battles
Last May, Nick Engmann, then a freshman at the University of Texas at Austin, became an overnight Internet celebrity when he was hit by a bus during a campus tradition called “Foam Sword Friday.” At...
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100,000 Swedes can be wrong: "Horses are a fruit"
Hey everyone—especially horse lovers and Swedes—don’t worry. Horses really do exist. And they’re definitely not a fruit. We’ve got confirmation on that one from the Swedish government. There’s been...
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Haitian couple calls 2-year-old daily, baffles mother
How would you respond if your 2-year-old daughter regularly received calls from Haiti? In redditor Hotdogdance’s case, she expressed thankfulness for the distraction that such calls provided and the...
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Defriendtion: Put your Facebook friends in detention
If you’re one of the billion people on Facebook, chances are that your news feed is littered with asinine and boring posts from your hundreds of friends. Whether it be an old college acquaintance...
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4chan helps Kim Jong-un top Time's Person of the Year poll
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has shot to the top of Time Magazine’s Person of the Year poll—thanks to some funny business by 4chan users. In the last two days, Kim, 29, has overtaken President of...
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Man who murdered online date had 900 Facebook friends
When 45-year-old Leigh Swanson of Saginaw, Michigan, went missing on Nov. 17, her family knew where to look. But when they called Steve Fabi, the man Swanson had gone on a date with after meeting him...
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Police use Twitter to reunite lost iPad with owner 6,000 miles away
Just think of Twitter’s bird icon as a carrier pigeon. When a tourist lost her iPad in the U.K., a police officer was able to return it to her after tracking her down with the help of the Twitter...
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What will the Pope's first tweet be?
Pope Benedict XVI is not following @God. At least, not on Twitter, where the pontiff has opened a personal account. The @Pontifex username was registered back in February, but the Vatican did not...
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Student artist to marry cutout of "Twilight" character
Las Vegas art student and Twilight fan Lauren Adkins, is all set to tie the knot with a cardboard cutout of Edward Cullen.“I didn't ask him to marry me out loud, I didn't have to,” Adkins told Metro...
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19-year-old admits to robbing bank, stealing car on YouTube
A Green Day fan in Nebraska was arrested last week after she stole a car, robbed a bank, and then bragged about both of the heists on YouTube. Hannah Sabata, 19, was taken into custody after police...
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Noah Kravitz hints he got off scot-free in @PhoneDog case
The case of Noah Kravitz vs. PhoneDog, believed to be the first to actually put a price tag on a Twitter follower, has finally ended in a settlement. And while you have to read between the lines a...
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