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The Morning GIF: Brooklyn's most beautiful watertower
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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Agoraphobic cat is not looking forward to trick-or-treaters
Doctors diagnosed area cat Henry with agoraphobia last winter, but thanks to regular treatment, he’s been coping well. But with Halloween just around the corner, he’s not looking forward to...
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Transgender teens find hope in Tumblr's 30-day challenge
Most people don’t think twice about when they’ll get to use the bathroom next. But “Xander,” a 16-year-old transgender student in Canada, likens his fear of using the restroom in a public place to...
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Veteran and quadruple amputee Taylor Morris is unstoppable
In YouTube Right Now, the Daily Dot looks at videos that catch our eyes, push our buttons, and move our dials—and that you’ve just got to watch. Right now! The inspiring story of injured veteran...
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Redditgraphs visualizes your Reddit addiction over time
If you’re part of the growing legion of Internet users hooked on Reddit—more than 20 million visitors a month, at last count—you might be interested in a new website that helps visualize your Reddit...
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Play computer games, help improve cancer treatments
Can playing computer games improve cancer treatments? The British charity Cancer Research UK has paired up with citizen-science portal Zooniverse for a new crowdsourced initiative that hopes to...
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Addressing the question of race online
In the last several years, there have been indications that blacks and Latinos in the United States have taken significant steps in crossing the digital divide. Expectations at the Daily Dot were...
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The Morning GIF: Eye of the Frankenstorm
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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Seeking Arrangement: 50 shades of the oldest profession
“You know you deserve to date someone who will pamper you, empower you, and help you mentally, emotionally and financially.” Is this the latest installment of Fifty Shades of Grey? Nope, but it could...
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Pinterest's absurdly posh interior decorating fantasies
Pinterest statistics tracker Repinly keeps tabs on which pins prove to be the most repinnable. Each week, we comb its popular pins from the past seven days to find the quotes, photos, and DIY projects...
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Buzzed: Hurricane Sandy edition
In Buzzed, we take a look at four things that trended over the weekend while you were away from your keyboard getting buzzed. On Twitter Known Twitter-ruiner Lindsay Lohan has a piece of advice to...
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Behind Reddit's weird obsession with horse masks
There are more than 5,000 people on social news site Reddit just horsing around. Subscribers to the surprisingly popular subreddit r/HorseMask send in pictures of themselves, friends, or complete...
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Meet Scopolamina, Reddit’s new porn king
Warning: This story contains links to content that is not appropriate for work. Reddit has a new master purveyor of porn. In the wake of Gawker’s exposé on notorious troll violentacrez (VA)—a power...
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How Gov. Chris Christie saved Halloween (and New Jersey)
The rains have washed down and the winds have mostly subsided, and after 24 hours of #hurricanesandy chaos, the Internet has found itself one clear winner: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and his...
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Like a hurricane: The best of Craigslist's casual encounter posts
Just because Hurricane Sandy effectively shut down New York City, that hasn’t stopped its citizens from trying to find someone to be shut in with. In fact, several New Yorkers are so bored with...
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#ThanksDonald prankster just wants to help
Taking on Donald Trump is no easy feat, but Jason Roeder is attempting to do it with a single hashtag. Roeder is the creator of #ThanksDonald, the hashtag that sparked a wave of trolling against...
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One Tumblr's quest against "mansplaining"
Are you a competent professional who doesn’t need to be told how to do your job? Are you also a woman? If so, you’ve probably experienced the phenomenon known as mansplaining, in which a member of the...
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The weirdest spam email ever wants love and commitment, not boners
If there’s one thing we all know about spam emails, it’s this: Spam robots want to talk about your wiener. They want to sell pills for your wiener, or they want to touch your wiener and you should...
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The wild tweets of a hobo taxi driver
Wherever he goes and whatever he does, hobo Nick Kleckner is committed to delivering his Twitter followers the truth. He did it Internet-famously from his @hobo_nick account this summer as he...
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The Markovian Parallax Denigrate: Unraveling the Internet’s oldest and...
Spam. It's the Internet’s most resilient parasite. Millions of messages pollute the Web's pipes every day. Grow a monster penis. Lose 20 pounds. Help out an African prince. You know the drill. A lot...
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