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4channers Are Vampires
3:05AM Adrian Chen | A study by grad students at MIT produced this chart describing activity on 4chan over a two-week span. Those familiar with the site will not be surprised that it really livens up in the off-hours. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
The One About The Vampire-Penis Ad Exec
6:36AM Hamilton Nolan | Hey, how about a totally unsubstantiated crazytown story, from the internet? It’s about an advertising executive’s penis! Oh, now you’re interested. Well then, fine. More »
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The One Place You Can Still Be Anyone On The Internet
8:49AM Adrian Chen | Anonymity is dying online, hemmed in by online ID schemes and Facebook’s colonisation of the net. But there’s one place you can still pretend to be basically anyone: the “Ask Me Anything” section of the popular message board Reddit. More »
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Why The Internet Thinks I Faked Having Cancer On A Message Board
7:48AM Adrian Chen | So let’s get this out of the way: I did not pretend to be dying of cancer on the popular link-sharing site Reddit. It wasn’t me! Call off the hordes! Sheath your pitchforks. Extinguish the torches. More »
Small Screen
How A Google Engineer (and Reddit) Bailed An 18-Year-Old Out Of Jail
4:15AM Max Read | Since May, Los Angeles high schooler Jeremy Marks has been in jail—essentially for filming a school police officer hit a 15-year-old. He’ll be home for Christmas, though, thanks to a Google engineer who heard about Marks on Reddit. More »
Online
What Happens When You Pretend To Have A Hot Girlfriend
1:45AM Adrian Chen | A user on crowdsourced link-dump site Reddit posted a picture of his shapely “girlfriend’s” new tattoo. Apparently she wasn’t his girlfriend. Nice try, nerd. More »
Online
This Is What Happens When You Translate ‘Lady Gaga’ With Google Translate
3:21AM Adrian Chen | Reddit users have discovered a funny easter egg in Google translate: If you translate “Lady Gaga” from Malay to any other language, it pops up as “Britney Spears”. Or, maybe it’s not an easter egg and just a bug. More »
Online
A Turning Point For Digg
9:22AM Ryan Tate | Enjoy the fine mess, Matt Williams. Digg’s newly announced CEO has the privilege of cleaning up after a redesign that has users up in arms, the social news site scrambling to add back old features and rival Reddit surging. More »
Online
How Digg Got Spanked By Its Own Users
4:54AM Ryan Tate | Unhappy with a deal that Digg.com’s management cut with major media companies, the social news site’s users turned Digg’s front page into a de facto advertisement for rival aggregator Reddit today, upvoting scores of Reddit links. More »
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