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Teen Posts Joke on Twitter, Internet Orders Her to Kill Herself
Neetzan Zimmerman · 01/02/14 12:11PMTwitter Quickly Reverses a Very Stupid Policy Change
Jordan Sargent · 12/12/13 11:21PMThat Viral "Poor" Writer Isn't a Hoaxer, But I Wouldn't Give Her Money
Adam Weinstein · 12/05/13 04:41PM#StarbucksDrakeHands Guy Speaks Out, Tells a Totally Different Story
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/11/13 09:08AMBarista-slash-singer-slash-songwriter-slash-designer-slash-photographer-slash-producer-slash-what-else-you've-got Brody "Odag" Ryan Curtis — better known as the original #StarbucksDrakeHands guy — officially broke his silence yesterday on Inside Edition, where he told a decidedly different meet-cute story than the one being spread around by Studio City model Piper Kennedy.
Guy Sends Girl Unsolicited Selfie, Spawns Cringiest Instagram Trend Yet
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/08/13 02:10PMThe Internet Didn't Care for Heath Ledger as the Joker Either
Neetzan Zimmerman · 08/23/13 04:11PM(UPDATE) NY Times Employee: Times Is Not Under "Cyber Attack"
Cord Jefferson · 08/14/13 11:05AMThe New York Times Website Has Been Misplaced
Tom Scocca · 08/14/13 10:31AM"Cat Bearding" Finally Combines Cats, Cameras and the Internet
Ken Layne · 05/23/13 01:04PMThe sudden new craze called "cat bearding" has made us realize that it's always futile to claim the Internet has hit a new low, because as soon as you make such a pronouncement, something like "cat bearding" comes along to remind you the Internet will always be more pointless and absurd and .... oh but that one cat is kind of cute, and so are some of these people, maybe, although who knows what kind of horror the cat beard is hiding.
Mark Zuckerberg "Likes" Something That's Awesome: Baby Foxes
Ken Layne · 05/17/13 03:19PMFrance Will Tax Smartphones to Fund Exceptional French Culture
Maggie Lange · 05/14/13 08:42AMBitcoin "Mining" Somehow Found a Way to Be Environmentally Destructive
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 04/14/13 04:10PM'Little Twerp ... Get a Life': The New Yorker's Jon Lee Anderson Thinks He's Somebody on Twitter
Tom Scocca · 03/11/13 02:43PMJon Lee Anderson, a writer for a weekly magazine called the New Yorker, got angry on Twitter today. A reader with the Twitter name of Mitch Lake (@mlake9) had tweeted at Anderson (@jonleeanderson) to dispute a claim of fact in Anderson's online story about the death of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez. Anderson had written that Chavez had left his country as "one of the world's most oil-rich but socially unequal countries," and Lake countered that in fact Venezuela was the second-least unequal country in the Americas.
Scientists Have Built an Internet for Robots
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 03/10/13 03:47PMScientists in Europe have put together a "standardised knowledge base for robots," through which robots can exchange information with other robots using cloud computing. Called Rapyuta, the World Wide Web for the electronic persuasion will allow robots "to become more cognitive, and interact with humans in more subtle ‘human' ways."
Adalia Rose and Her Family Will Make their National TV Debut with Anderson Cooper
Camille Dodero · 03/05/13 02:35PMHow Nasty Comments Can Change the Way We Think
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 03/03/13 01:10PMLet Me Introduce Myself: Farewell to Mobutu Sese Seko
Jeb Lund · 02/28/13 03:10PMThe Princess and the Trolls: The Heartrending Legend of Adalia Rose, the Most Reviled Six-Year-Old Girl on the Internet
Camille Dodero · 02/22/13 11:48AMLike many things of great consequence, it all started with "Ice Ice Baby." Adalia Rose Williams, at the age of five years, made a video of herself dancing to the Vanilla Ice hit, and the dancing videos were ultimately responsible for what followed: the hundreds of letters, the thousands of emails, the 5.8 million Facebook fans. The unauthorized redneck-rap tribute song selling on iTunes. The obscene put-downs. The death threats.
'Things as Bad as Hitler' and More of the Most Cringe-Worthy Posts from National Novel Writing Month
Max Read · 11/12/12 05:31PMWe're now 12 days into "National Novel Writing Month," the annual event in which thousands of people, encouraging and guiding each other online, pledge to write entire novels over the course of November. The official "NaNoWriMo" forums are abuzz with encouragement and advice, testifying to the power of group support in achieving your goals. They are also filled with some of the worst ideas you will read in your entire life.