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The gut-wrenching story of Shoenice, the YouTube star who will eat anything
.teaser img { display: none; } Bottles of cleaning fluid and painter's caulk usually have their own fair share of fatal warning stickers, which is why I've never been to the ER for an eating-related...
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Confessions of a Tumblr URL hoarder
It was the summer of 2009, and Jess had developed an addiction. Slowly but surely, she amassed a stockpile of Tumblr URLs, registering new blog names and domains she had no intention of...
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Why God rules on Facebook
Doctor Aaron Tabor spends his days selling nutritional and anti-aging products with names like Slim & Beautiful Diet Vanilla In Vogue shake and the Dramatic Rescue Anti-Aging Wrinkle Serum. On...
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Bahrain bans Guy Fawkes masks for some reason
In the eternal quest of the authoritarian dummy to miss the point at every pass, the government of Bahrain has banned the Guy Fawkes mask, which protesters in the Gulf nation often wear to disguise...
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Raunchy rapper Lil Poopy is too young to watch his own videos
A nine-year-old rapper's salacious YouTube videos led to a child welfare probe in Massachusetts. Police in Brockton, Mass., alerted the Department of Children and Families after receiving a call from...
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Bringing orchestra to the social masses
.teaser img { display: none; }This story was produced by Tumblr Storyboard, Tumblr's in-house editorial arm. Kristi Seehafer, first violinist with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, started playing the...
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Fraternity launches online campaign to fund trans brother's surgery
For once, a college fraternity is receiving media attention for doing something non-terrible. The frat in question is the Emerson College chapter of Phi Alpha Tau, where sophomore Donnie Collins...
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How to get and spend Bitcoin, the booming digital currency
It’s untraceable, unregulated, and can now be used to order a Domino’s Pizza. Once only whispered about and exchanged in the dark corners of the Internet, Bitcoin has been touted as a boon to Internet...
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Digital autopsy reveals what really killed Friendster
Friendster was on the brink of leading a social media revolution in 2002. Three months after launching, the grandaddy of social networks had 3 million users. Myspace and Facebook didn't even exist...
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This sex-ed speech was banned because it might teach hackers to rape
.teaser img { display: none; } To understand what just happened to noted sex educator Violet Blue at Security BSides San Francisco, you have to pose this question: Are hackers well-meaning partiers or...
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Teachers are hypocrites when it comes to Wikipedia
When it comes to Wikipedia, educators are mighty hypocrites, according to a new Pew research study The researchers surveyed 2,462 middle and high school teachers to learn how they're using new...
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"On the Rebound" uses Facebook science to find you a date
Suffering from a traumatic breakup and need a rebound to console yourself? There's an app for that.On The Rebound, a newly released Web app that syncs with your Facebook account, scours your friends...
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What your email address says about your bachelor party
Your phone and email address just gave away your bachelor party plans. If you have an iPhone, you're including a lot of friends. If you set up travel reservations with a work email, you're going far....
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Girl Scouts crack down on Honey Boo Boo's cookie racket
The street swindler Honey Boo Boo can do anything she wants in this world, except use the Internet to sell people boxes of Thin Mints. The 6-year-old sensation (real name Alana Thompson) saw her Girl...
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Geek & Sundry announces International TableTop Day
TableTop, Geek & Sundry's popular board game instructional review series starring Wil Wheaton, is taking its act on the road. Felicia Day has announced that in order to thank fans for their...
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National Day of Unplugging starts at sundown
At sundown today, the fourth annual National Day of Unplugging begins. Started in 2010, the holiday encourages people to take a break from technology by turning off all of their devices for a period...
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Goldman Sachs' swank gala leaks on Instagram
.teaser img { display: none; } For the first time since the recession, Goldman Sach's gaudy and self-congratulatory partner dinner has returned—fresh off reporting $2.9 billion in quarterly profits....
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This man asked his wife to slap him awake, then filmed it
Getting out of bed can be a Herculean task for a lot of people. Some folks, i.e. us, set up multiple alarm clocks just to tear themselves out of bed. Zach Curd, a musician living in Livonia, Mich.,...
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Meet Tommy Pom, Tumblr's top dog
When Tumblr staffer Mackenzie Kosut saw a Facebook post a week ago about an old blind Pomeranian slated for euthanization, he got sad and inspired. The engineer hopped on the Tumblr blog for his pet...
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The Road to Austin with Mr. GIF: Day 2
There's only one way to see Tumblr's top dog Tommy Pom lick peanut butter off its owner face and watch blogger extraordinaire Shane "LaughingAtMyNightmare" Burcaw make his first professional GIF....
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