How to kill and cook a squirrel, according to Reddit (NSFL)
Although it was almost overshadowed by the hullabaloo of some president swearing an oath, Monday, Jan. 21 is Squirrel Appreciation Day. Reportedly created in 2001 by conservationist Christy Hargrove,...
View ArticleWho is Chelsea Hoffman and why is everyone mad at her?
When I found Chelsea Hoffman on Twitter, she was in the middle of a fight. In no uncertain terms, Chelsea was tearing some poor girl apart, telling her to “check out the tapeworm diet” and making...
View ArticleDog meat restaurant owner's graphic photos rile up Sina Weibo
An owner of a Beijing restaurant that specializes in serving dog meat has been banned from the country's largest social network after he trolled animal rights activists with gruesome images of his...
View ArticlePolice inspector removed from post over sexist tweets
A police inspector was removed from his post in Brazil after he sent belittling tweets about female officers. Rio de Janeiro police Inspector Pedro Paulo Pontes Pinho wrote that he has “14 women under...
View ArticleKobe Bryant: 81 points, 9 tweets
Seven years ago today, a self-indulgent shooting guard named Kobe Bean Bryant hiked up his shorts and laced up his Nikes and walked out onto the Los Angeles Lakers' Staples Center hard court and...
View ArticleSite helps you kick your Facebook habit for $5
It's been established that much like cigarettes, coffee, drugs, alcohol, and anything fun, Facebook can be addictive. Now there's a new site that could help with your social network dependence.FAddict...
View ArticleThis "1 million likes" Facebook trend is getting ridiculous
In the past week, two Facebook pages belonging to the genre “Give me a million likes and I’ll [fill in the blank]” made headlines after actually collecting 1 million likes on Facebook: a page called...
View ArticleBeyond reblogging: The future of Tumblr
There are two secrets to Tumblr's runaway success: design and community engagement. In 2012, the microblogging network became one of the top 10 most visited sites in the world, with an audience of...
View ArticleYouTube time lapse captures 3-year male to female transition
Is there anybody going to listen to my story all about the girl who came to stay the kind of girl you want so much it makes you sorry still you don't regret a single day This Beatles song, "Girl,"...
View ArticleAnother shooting, another journalist scolded for doing his job
It's become predictable: If you witness a tragedy and tweet about it, a reporter will contact you. And then the rest of Twitter will respond to the eager journalist with some variety of "you are a...
View ArticleChinese workers demand back pay in "Gangnam Style" protest
When Chinese workers decided to protest for unpaid wages, they didn't use a blowhorn or handmade signs. They just danced Gangnam Style. This is exactly what 40 workers did outside a nightclub they had...
View ArticleMeet Twitter's most boring brand account, @JackHoney
Jack Daniel's, you taste so good. Why must you tweet so bad? The whiskey's social media presence is so boring and obtuse, it's almost criminal. It's probably good for Jack's sake that the tweets...
View Article"Star Trek" fan trolls everyone with geeky Craigslist ad
One man's parody of every negative, obsessive joke you've ever heard about Trekkies went right over everyone's heads this week, with hilarious results all the way down."Nothing weird is going to...
View ArticleColts owner sends a lucky Twitter follower $8,500 in cash
Jim Irsay is a man of his word. The Indianapolis Colts owner told his Twitter followers that he'd pay out $8,500 to the first person to correctly predict the score—with a one-point cushion—of the AFC...
View ArticleDid Pompeii create the first social network?
One of the most difficult decisions in talking about the history of any aspect of computing, or even of technology as a whole, is to decide when it started. When, for instance, did social networking...
View ArticleThe women of Wikipedia: Closing the site's giant gender gap
.teaser img { display: none; }Sarah Stierch. Photo via fabola/Flickr When Wikipedia launched in 2001, it was a first-of-its-kind experiment in collaboration. Rather than relying on a narrow group of...
View ArticleTeen with Down syndrome makes SportsCenter after Twitter campaign
Thanks to Twitter and some fine basketball skills, Wednesday was likely the best day of 13-year-old Owen Groesser's life. It all started during the final basketball game of the season, when the junior...
View ArticleTwitter's Real Man keeps it real, man (for real)
He's like the world's most boring superhero, existing solely to tell anyone who will listen that he exists. He's Twitter's Real Man (@Real_Man_REAL), and he does one thing, and one thing only: He...
View ArticleOf course there's a subreddit for people obsessed with triangles
Move over, Reddit circles. Make room for the jerks who love triangles. For eons, fans of the three-sided shape have had nowhere to profess their love. In February 2010, that all changed when...
View ArticleThere's already porn on Vine
Well, that didn’t take long. Just a few hours after Vine, Twitter's fledgling video app, hit the App Store, people are already using it to post porn. A user by the name of Ass1892 has so far shared...
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