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Why did the Carolina Panthers just retweet a bag of weed?
Word to the wise: If you're a sports team's "social media expert" retweeting photos of merchandise that fans got for Christmas, you might want to make sure there aren't any drugs in the image. The...
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Reddit Secret Santa delivers top-notch Christmas trolling
Subscribers to Reddit’s r/secretsanta subreddit are used to receiving many things in time for Christmas: gag gifts, well-wishes, a Macbook Air, etc. Redditor brocklese, on the other hand, received...
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The Morning GIF: Holiday hangover
Here at the Daily Dot, we swap GIF images with each other every morning. Now we’re looping you in. In the Morning GIF, we feature a popular—or just plain cool—GIF we found on Reddit, Canvas, or...
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The top 10 most important fandoms of 2012
It’s allledtothis. There are an endless number of contenders for the top spots of this year’s top 10 fandoms list. Throughout the last 12 months, a number of fandoms have been vocal, passionate, and...
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Movie studios are illegally pirating rival studios' films
Major Hollywood studios who campaign relentlessly against Internet piracy are often guilty of pirating movies themselves, according to a TorrentFreak study. And while the methodology used in the study...
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Teen behind fake Hailie Mathers account posts her confession
The impostor behind a Twitter account posing as Hailie Mathers has finally stood up and revealed herself to be a "fat, ugly, loser." In a rambling note posted Sunday to Tumblr, a 15-year-old girl...
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Even the Zuckerbergs find Facebook privacy confusing
Even the Zuckerbergs don’t quite understand Facebook’s ever-changing privacy settings. Mark Zuckerberg’s sister Randi found that out the hard way after one of her private Facebook pictures ended up on...
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Redditor turns son's bed into the coolest spaceship ever
Watching a Space Shuttle launch on YouTube, playing with a Lego space set, or visiting the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum is as close as most children get to becoming a real-life astronaut....
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Reddit's best, worst, and weirdest Christmas presents
Picture the scene: It’s Christmas morning. Rubbing sleep from your eyes, you join the rest of your family around the tree; its drugstore-brand lights and a crackling fire are the only illumination in...
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Horny NYU students make Facebook a hookup hub
Sexually frustrated students at New York University are finding their release on a new Facebook page. Called NYU Hook Ups, the service is like Craigslist's Casual Encounters section—just with a higher...
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The top 10 most influential Twitter users of 2012
Before we even knew who the Republican candidate would be, the 2012 presidential race was dubbed the “Twitter election.” Candidates batted online and off, hurling criticisms on Twitter just as they...
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Twitter and Facebook crime surges in the U.K.
In Britain, crime reports involving Twitter and Facebook aspects have shot up 780 percent in the past four years, according to police figures released Thursday. Between 2008 and 2012, nearly 5,000...
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NHL star organizes pickup hockey game on Twitter
Canadians who found themselves with nothing to do on Boxing Day had the chance of a lifetime as an NHL star sought out a pickup game on Twitter. With the NHL lockout rumbling on, Montreal Canadiens...
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Online criminals selling ecommerce passwords for $2 each
The ecosystem for online fraud is growing more complex by the season. A proponent might call it a jungle, but the rest of us would probably think of it as a cancer. And this cancer is more penetrative...
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Author banned from Wikipedia for editing his own page
Yesterday Amazon banned author R.J. Ellory and other writers from being able to review books in their own genre, in order to prevent authors from leaving negative reviews of others in their field....
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One man's plan to bring a $25 million "Portal" show to Vegas
One blogger needs your help to make his dream of bringing a real-life stage show of Portal to life—and it'll only cost a cool $25 million, The Mary Sue reported. Gordon Knott pictured the spectacular...
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The top 10 most influential Internet rights activists in 2012
How crazy was the year in the Internet rights movement? Thousands of websites went dark to protest Stop Online Piracy Act, a controversial bill that critics charged would threatened the Web as we know...
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CryptoParty founder driven out by tech community's sexism
Misogyny and surveillance: Has sexism driven out the founder of the CryptoParty movement? According to tweets sent late Thursday night, Asher Wolf has quit the movement known for enabling citizens to...
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Site lists women as prostitutes until they fork over $100
Pop quiz: How many times have you been called a ho? How many times has someone claimed, so colloquially, that you accept money for sex—that you're a call girl, a bawd, a hooker, a prostitute? Now, how...
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The stars we lost in 2012: A GIF tribute
As 2012 progressed, well-known names from all walks of life unfortunately took their last breaths. Entertainers, politicians, cultural figures, athletes, and even Internet memes waved goodbye to some...
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