Reddit investigates a hotel’s super-creepy not-so-secret room
A Redditor discovered a room decorated with chains and skulls in a Houston, Texas hotel, and turned to Reddit to solve its mystery.
On Feb 19, 2013 by Fernando Alfonso III
Why Tumblr just celebrated Fluffy Chicken Day
A viral campaign helped user thatsmoderatelyraven receive more than 500,000 notes on his Tumblr post.
On Feb 18, 2013 by Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
Harry Styles educates Directioners about Socrates
Prompted by modern philosopher Alain de Botton, the One Direction singer started dropping some philosophy on his 10 million Twitter followers.
On Feb 13, 2013 by Aja Romano
Anita Sarkeesian is not stealing Kickstarter money to buy Gucci shoes
To prove Sarkeesian’s biblical level of unholy malevolence, gamers are Photoshopping images of fake shoe purchases. Because nothing says “mendacious evil feminist overlord” like Gucci.
On Feb 13, 2013 by Kevin Morris
Sweet Brown cashes in on Internet fame with new commercial
Sweet Brown, who became an Internet meme thanks to her catchphrase “ain’t nobody got time for that,” has found time to star in her fourth TV commercial.
On Feb 8, 2013 by Fernando Alfonso III
Why won’t Facebook stop Stop Bullying’s ‘CEO’
Stop Bullying is fighting Facebook to make Benjamin Byerline stop claiming he’s the group’s CEO.
On Feb 7, 2013 by Kevin Morris
Sci-fi author’s “racist dips**t problem” prompts charity pledge
Every time fantasy author Vox Day insults John Scalzi on his blog, hundreds of dollars are donated to human rights charities.
On Feb 5, 2013 by Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
The San Francisco 49ers’ homophobia problem just gets worse
Two 49ers players are now denying they ever took part in the anti-bullying It Gets Better series—despite some pretty clear video evidence to the contrary.
On Feb 1, 2013 by Jordan Valinsky
Code search reveals developer community’s hidden bigotry
GitHub’s code search feature makes it easy to see the prevalence of racist and sexist slurs among developers.
On Jan 30, 2013 by Aja Romano
Wikipedians wage war over a capital “I” in a “Star Trek” film
Should the “Into” in Star Trek Into Darkness be capitalized? Wikipedia editors have written 40,000 words on each side of the argument.
On Jan 30, 2013 by Kevin Morris
4chan hunts down gearheads over highway holdup
A couple of muscle-car maniacs are under investigation by California police—and 4chan’s auto community—after stopping traffic on a busy highway to do some donuts.
On Jan 28, 2013 by Fernando Alfonso III
Meet Facebook’s grossest “married” couple
A teen girl who became famous for eating a tampon in a grossout video has Facebook-married a boy who made a video where he eats feces.
On Jan 25, 2013 by Fidel Martinez
Did Pompeii create the first social network?
There’s some evididence that the walls of the houses and apartment insulae in the Italian city created the original form of social networkings—right down to the practice of bandwidth throttling.
On Jan 24, 2013 by Curt Hopkins
YouTube time lapse captures 3-year male to female transition
Throughout YouTube and Tumblr, transgender men and women are sharing their transitions, as well as their knowledge, hopes, and fears about their experiences.
On Jan 23, 2013 by Aja Romano
How vandals are destroying Wikipedia from the inside
When you open your door to the world, it’s no surprise someone graffitis the walls.
On Jan 18, 2013 by Kevin Morris
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