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This sharp-dressed monkey at IKEA rules the Internet
A monkey in a winter coat got loose in an IKEA Sunday and scampered straight into the hearts of animal lovers around the Web. The monkey was spotted outside a Toronto IKEA after it let itself out of...
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5 ways the Internet will help you survive the NHL lockout
It’s rare that sports fandom meets Internet-based fandom. But right now, when the National Hockey League lockout is closing on 90 days after talks between players and owners broke down completely...
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"Mannying": Pacquiao's KO gets a meme tribute
Want to look like your favorite boxer and take part in the latest Internet craze at the same time? That's now possible, thanks to Manny Pacquiao and Saturday night's crushing blow that sent the...
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Reddit's greatest mystery returns
Prepare your hexadecimal decoder rings. The greatest mystery Reddit has ever seen has returned. No one knows who redditor A858DE45F56D9BC9 is. But about a year ago (he or she or it) began dropping...
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Students create inspiring Facebook pages to share compliments
While cyberbullying continues to be a serious issues facing students nationwide, a network of Facebook profiles are take a unique approach to countering the issue on Facebook. Roughly 100 Facebook...
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"Snapchat Sluts" shows why Snapchat isn’t the consequence-free sexting app...
It's surprising that it's taken this long for "Snapchat Sluts" (totally NSFW) to exist. But we all knew it was coming — the minute you introduce a new way for teens to send each other nudes, the...
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The top 10 people who changed fandom in 2012
It’s impossible to overstate what an important year 2012 has been to fandom. We’ve seen the previously unheard-of phenomenon of published fanfics climbing up the bestseller lists. We’ve cheered on...
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Visualize your last year on Twitter with nifty infographics
Some tweets are like tornados, devastating the landscape. But most are like breezes, quickly forgotten. A new tool from Twitter and Vizify helps tweeters reflect on their last year in the community,...
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BPI to sue U.K. Pirate Party over Pirate Bay access
The British music industry’s official lobbying group is set to sue the U.K. Pirate Party. Though pro-copyright industry groups—in this case the British Phonographic Industry (BPI)—have long clashed...
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Troll steals woman's Facebook photos to harass U.K. footballers
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but not when it draws the ire of police. Lily Thomas, a 20-year-old bartender from Wales, discovered that her Facebook photos were stolen by an unknown...
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13 great guys you can meet through Russian Cupid
Hayyyy layyydeeeees! Raise 'em up if you're a single lady out there looking for a man to keep you warm in the wintertime. Fret not, dear dames. Thanks to the Internet, there's a hot new destination...
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Facebook's Just Drop It demands an end to NHL lockout
A Facebook campaign is looking to drop the gloves and end the NHL lockout. Avid hockey fans created Just Drop It, an assertively titled Facebook group that is frustrated with the NHL’s labor...
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7 funny things Reykjavik's anarchist mayor told Reddit today
Jón Gnarr, the mayor of Reykjavík, Iceland, is not a normal politician. Most mayors of capital cities, for instance, don’t identify as anarchists, haven’t spent years acting on television comedies,...
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Fantasy authors re-create sexy cover photo poses for charity
Imagine you’re a reasonably intelligent space alien studying humanity from a distance, and your only information about the female of our species comes from the cover art of sci-fi, fantasy, and comic...
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The greatest blessing: R&B legend gets a second chance
They say a picture's worth a thousand words. In some cases, a picture can be worth another shot. In March, the great soul singer Lester Chambers posted a photo to Facebook that showed him holding up a...
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Facebook helps feds nab hackers behind $850 million theft
Facebook has worked with the FBI to take down 10 hackers responsible for stealing $850 million over the last two years. The hackers from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, New Zealand, Peru,...
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What we searched for in 2012
Google has finally told us what was truly important in 2012. The search giant’s annual Zeitgeist list shows the things what we searched for the most for over the past year. It’s accompanied by a quite...
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YouTube's One Day on Earth project returns for 12/12/12
If you're just waking up from a 30 year nap, The Daily Dot would like to inform you that today's date is Dec. 12, 2012—12/12/12—and it's a big day for people who like making something out of nothing...
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Online bullying claims another teenager's life
On Thanksgiving Day, an anonymous user on Q&A site Ask.fm anonymously asked 16-year-old Jessica Laney what she thought about suicide.“If you ever feel this low i just wanna [say it’s] not your...
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Vengeful ex outs UMich employee's false résumé on Reddit
It’s hardly The War of the Roses, but to a Michigan woman named Jordan Miller, her ex-husband’s revenge is just as bitter: He just cost her a career and outed her for lying on her resume—to the tune...
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