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I would like to share something not news-related but instead very humorous with everyone. If you do not appreciate humor or refuse to read anything not news or tech-related on this site, then wait for the next tech piece. Otherwise, read on! All in all, it hadn't been a good day. Bad traffic,
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So I was sent a VMware disk image containing the recently-released alpha version of Google Chrome OS and asked to write a review. I can only imagine that I was asked to write this review because of my charm, lack of sarcasm, and tendency to write reviews that don't piss people
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When I was a kid, I would take foods that tasted really good by themselves and mix them all together - sometimes in a blender. And it was fucking nasty. I look at Google Wave as Google's technological way of repeating the same experiment: take Docs, Orkut, Gmail, Wikipedia, and IM, stick the
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I'm sorry, readers. This article is 100% off-topic and not technology-centric at all, but it is something I feel that I must put out there. You see, I was given a kitten about a week ago by a friend, and there are some things you learn with experience that you feel necessary to pass on to others.
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As I'm sure some readers noticed, we were temporarily offline for a few hours. Apparently, our recent article that spilled the beans on 4chan's Facebook account compromises pissed off the lovely folks at 4chan. The whole thing is actually kind of funny, and don't be surprised if it happens again
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[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="640" caption="Twitter's Population in pie chart form"][/caption] (now that we're right-side-up again...) I've complained about Twitter's spam-to-human ratio many times before but it seems that since those posts, Twitter spam has only continued to spiral
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Email addresses are a bit of an anomaly nowadays: they're used to identify you almost everywhere on the Internet, but they also trigger an almost immediate conclusion about your character when viewed by others. Here is a comparison of a few types of email, and what they say about you right off t
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Spam - something we can all identify with, right? Well lately, Gmail's spam filter let a few slip into the inbox of the email account for this site, and I decided to take the opportunity to get a few laughs out of it in the same manner as Mark's recent Wikipedia trolling. So it all starts with
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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" caption="The Typical Wikipedian"][/caption] So Wikipedia has always seemed like a goldmine for getting funny reactions from people via trolling, and they sure didn't let me down in my own attempt. This isn't a regular techie piece, but rather a humorous parody o
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I don't know about you, but I just love to mess people. Since our humor pieces tend to get more hits than our serious articles, I decided to put together a step-by-step guide for how to mess with people in general, as well as specific targets you'll get the most fun out of. We've tweeted most of the
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