Anonymous is targeting every pedophile hub on the Web
In corners of the Internet that will make you ill, pedophiles wait to receive an onslaught of attacks. It's Alice Day, a public "pedophile pride" day inspired by the relationship between the author...
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Dear Hyundai: Don't use suicide to sell cars
Hyundai introduced a new ad to hype up its new car, the iX35, and its 100 percent water emissions. The clip is a weird one. Stretching just one minute, it starts with a shot of a house before a cut...
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Shocking new video game makes fun of Boston bombing
First 4chan made a Doom-inspired video game of LAPD officer turned murderer Chris Dorner's final moments. Now, for the second time in two months, another national tragedy has been mocked through a...
View ArticleWikipedia's list of American novelists leaves women out to dry
Novelist Amanda Fillpacchi recently discovered that Wikipedians were cutting women out of the site's list of American novelists, sequestering them into a separate category for "American women...
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Online bullies of Rehtaeh Parsons exposed
When gang-rape victim Rehtaeh Parsons hanged herself April 5, she saw nothing ahead for herself but a future of accumulating pain. She could never have imagined that her death would unite friends and...
View ArticleWhy Iranians might actually use the censored "halal Internet"
A lot of accounts have been written about Iran’s “halal Internet,” a closed national Web “purified” of pornography, blasphemy and political dissent, since before it launched late last year. But,...
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This is the average Facebook user's life, according to big data
What's the marital status of your average Facebook user? Mathematician Stephen Wolfram can tell you. On Wednesday, Wolfram released a massive report on his personal blog titled "Data Science of the...
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How to rescue your Posterous blog before it's too late
Posterous, the blogging platform that was once hyped as Tumblr’s biggest competitor, is shutting down on April 30, but it's not too late to save all your posts. Eleven months after Posterous was...
View ArticleThe Internet is throwing money at a WWII vet being evicted by his daughter
The Internet thinks it's a damn shame that a 91-year-old World War II veteran is being evicted by his own daughter. So, thanks to his granddaughter, a convoluted story, and and a lot of people who are...
View ArticleWhat senior citizens think about gay sex
Spoiler alert: Your grandparents are probably still having sex. Even if they're not, they still have an opinion about it. Davey Wavey, a gay YouTuber and fitness guru known for asking gay men and...
View ArticleStudent builds Kickstarter resume, with a life-changing deadline
Jannic Nielssen is looking to kickstart his career, so he borrowed a page from the most successful crowdfunding platform out there. Nielssen graduated from Millikin University—located in Decatur,...
View ArticleTriggering the Copyright Alert System is tough, even if you're trying
To the downloaders out there who got free copies of The Avengers, Game of Thrones, and Rihanna songs, you're welcome. It was supposed to be informative. It was supposed to show you how to defend...
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How did this teen girl's private photos get shared with a stranger?
A Norwegian tech journalist is claiming that a schoolgirl’s private photos are being uploaded, without her consent or knowledge, to his Google+ account. He has her passport information, geolocation,...
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Can these 2 apps really protect your reputation on Twitter?
Two new Twitter apps look to reshape Twitter as we know it. One offers a fleeting appearance of a tweet, while the other aims to help you retract an incorrect message. Though each has noble...
View ArticleHow to romance Martha Stewart online
Do you want to date a billionaire? Of course you do. How about one who runs her own lifestyle empire and who spent some time in a white-collar prison for insider trading? Even if there’ve been rumors...
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The TMZ sex question that caused Kevin Ware to quit Twitter
Kevin Ware, owner of one the most gruesome leg injuries in the history of college sports, has quit Twitter because of "losers like TMZ.""This is my last tweet," he posted. "All the support from fans...
View ArticleTwitter's anti-hack advice: Buy a second computer
Twitter has some solid, expensive advice to keep your account secure: Have a computer for tweeting and nothing else. Granted, that advice was primarily aimed at news organizations. But following that...
View ArticleFamily of young man with Down syndrome sues for $18M over cruel meme
Memes seem fairly innocuous. Some, like Scumbag Steve, embrace their Internet fame, and a few have even managed to eke out a living as minor celebrities. The consensus seems to be that this form of...
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Watch the first cartoon about men's rights activists
It's never easy, ever, to create a "quick editorial cartoon about the intersection of self-pity, entitlement, rape, territoriality, misogyny and fear of women." But when animator Scott Benson set out...
View ArticleYou're going to watch porn anyway—do it for a good cause
If there's anyone out there who still feels pangs of guilt watching porn online, there's finally a site that should completely ease your worried soul. Come4 promises to be the first amateur porn site...
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