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Google Street View takes you into the Grand Canyon
Google’s Street View program, mapping our shared space with extensive photographic layering, is nothing if not ambitious. When the company hasn’t gone off the rails scraping router addresses and...
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Internet rallies to support Carly "Crunk Bear" McKinney
Warning: This post contains some NSFW images. Hell hath no fury like a student body scorned by the loss of their stoned and sexy teacher. Tuesday's news that Aurora, Colo., math teacher Carly McKinney...
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After "Crunk Bear" scandal, educators mull social media boundaries
Thanks to Carly McKinney, better known on Twitter @crunk_bear, we know that posing topless, upside-down in your underwear is a sure fire way to get in trouble at a teaching job. McKinny, a Denver-area...
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This elderly gay marriage is the sweetest thing on the Internet today
Here's one thing you likely won't see live-broadcast across state television in China: Two old men—one a retired school teacher and the other a water-delivery man—getting happily married. But thanks...
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Guess where Google Street View caught this couple
Google Street View is Internet porn for people who are more obsessed with the Internet than they are with porn. It's fascinating when you scroll through it—you have absolutely no idea what you're...
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Jonathan Coulton fans bombard "Glee" with 1-star iTunes reviews
After Fox’s hit show Glee apparently used musician Jonathan Coulton’s arrangement of a song without his permission, JoCo fans are uniting against Glee and hitting the show right where it hurts: the...
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Reddit raises $10,000 for Atlanta mall manager after taser video goes viral
Users of the social news site Reddit have helped raise more than $10,000 in less than 24 hours for an Atlanta shopping mall manager turned Internet hero. Property manager Darien Long became an...
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Donald Trump threatens to sue rapper Mac Miller for some reason
Starved for attention, Donald Trump slithered back into our consciousness by threatening to sue rapper Mac Miller for … something. On Thursday, Trump sent a series of tweets toward the up-and-coming...
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The weirdest Craigslist ads for Super Bowl tickets
A Rolex, a snow-blower, and a round-trip vacation to Jamaica are just three of the things crazed football fans are willing to trade on Craigslist for tickets to Super Bowl XLVII. With the Baltimore...
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Meet Corbin Corona, the Web's most hated wannabe pop star
When 24-year-old Corbin Corona posted his saccharine-drenched music video "SuperStar" to YouTube Jan. 21, he wasn't intending to punt the hornet's nest known as Reddit. But that's exactly what...
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24,000 people fooled on Facebook by missing teen hoax
It was one of those moments that seemed to show the real power of social networking. Swedish 17-year-old Simon Berneblad had left his home to go shopping and then just disappeared. A whole day passed...
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Twitter knows who's going to win Super Bowl XLVII
Super Bowl weekend is upon us, and as the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens prepare to take the field Sunday, Twitter is already buzzing about the big game. There's a lot on the line in New...
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2nd graders edit NFL players' typo-ridden tweets
A second grade class from Elmwood Franklin School in Buffalo, New York, has made Twitter its personal grammar playground after a teacher asked his or her students to correct sentence structure, noun...
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The San Francisco 49ers' homophobia problem just gets worse
It's getting progressively worse for the San Francisco 49ers. On Wednesday, cornerback Chris Culliver became embroiled in controversy thanks to anti-gay comments. During an interview with Artie Lange,...
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University of Michigan hires woman to dupe football players online
It might not be "catfishing" in the strictest sense, but the University of Michigan apparently taught its football players the dangers of social networking the hard way. Michigan reportedly hired...
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Internet-assisted suicide: The story of Sharon Lopatka
On Oct. 13, 1996, 35-year-old Sharon Lopatka left her Hampstead, Maryland, home to travel to North Carolina. Sharon had told her husband, Victor, that she was traveling to Georgia to visit friends....
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The 9 dumbest Facebook arrests
.teaser img { display: none; } Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been accused of a lot of criminal activity: cheating an early investor out of his share of the company's profits; cheating a fellow...
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The biggest Twitter moments of Super Bowl XLVII
It took until only the start of the second half of the Super Bowl for the number of game-related tweets to surpass last year's total. During the National Football League championship game between the...
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Punsmiths tweet enough groaners to kill Richard III again
It took several months for scientists and researchers at the University of Leicester to confirm that the remains they found under a parking lot were once the most famous king in English history—and it...
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The 9 biggest events in Facebook history
Nine years ago, a couple of college kids from Harvard changed the world with the launch of a social network. At the time, TheFacebook.com catered exclusively to students at prestigious American...
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