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  1. the internet
    Student Can’t Use Cat Photo As Senior PortraitBummer.
    By Jessica Roy
  2. nice things
    Here Is a September 11 Story With a Nice EndingA woman spent 13 years trying to find the owner of a photo found at Ground Zero.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  3. Reddit Made a Ton of Money Off of Those Nude Celebrity Photos“Instead, they chose to milk a week of publicity and a month of server time in Reddit gold before they stepped in.” 
    By Jessica Roy
  4. the internet
    Your Gmail Password Might Be on a Russian Bitcoin Forum Right NowIt’s worth checking to see. 
    By Caroline Bankoff
  5. the internet
    Should We Ban That Subreddit? A Flowchart Look Inside the Mind of Reddit AdminsTo help explain Reddit admins; thought process behind banning subreddits.
    By Jessica Roy
  6. the internet
    Reddit Got Rid of the Page That Hosted the Celebrity Nude Photos The site’s administrators claim that they “deplore the theft” of the images.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  7. the internet
    Charity Rejects Reddit Donations Over Celeb PicsHey, they tried.
    By Jessica Roy
  8. The Celebrity Nude Photo Hack May Have Contained Child PornographyA Reddit forum is now working to scrub the underage images.
    By Jessica Roy
  9. the internet
    Apple Denies iCloud Breach in Celeb Nude-Photo HackThe company chalked the leak up to user error.
    By Jessica Roy
  10. messing with texas
    Rick Perry Attacks Enemy With Beer Ad Parody Someone’s still stewing over his felony indictment.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  11. the internet
    Amazon Reportedly Acquiring Twitch.tv for $1BAccording to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
    By Jessica Roy
  12. ferguson
    Darren Wilson Charity Page: A Racist CesspoolGoFundMe has shut down the comments, but the $228,000 remain.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  13. you’re welcome
    Paul Ryan Gets Mitt Romney All Wet Just Like in Your Favorite Fan Fiction“I’m Mitt Romney,” he says. “And I’m about to get soaking, soaking wet.”
    By Jessica Roy
  14. the internet
    U.S. Diplomats Banned From Ice Bucket ChallengeState Department lawyers have barred U.S. ambassadors from participating in the charity meme
    By Jessica Roy
  15. the internet
    Hipster Uses Gonorrhea-Laced Gowanus Water for Ice-Bucket ChallengeAlso, he added dry ice and raw fish.
    By Jessica Roy
  16. the internet
    Only Obama Can End This Ice Bucket Challenge MadnessIt’s up to you, prez.
    By Jessica Roy
  17. George W. Bush Does the Ice Bucket Challenge Without Any IceHe challenged President Bill Clinton.
    By Jessica Roy
  18. ferguson
    Darren Wilson Supporters, Online and in FergusonThe other, smaller side of the protests.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  19. misandry
    Fark.com Bans Misogyny, But What About the Men?Fark just became one of the first original link aggregators to ban misogyny from its community.
    By Jessica Roy
  20. the internet
    BuzzFeed Has a New Excuse for Why It Deleted Old PostsNow it’s because the jokes “didn’t age well.”
    By Jessica Roy
  21. mea culpas
    Nate Silver Apologizes for Ferguson Arrest Story“My anecdote was so minor as compared to Ferguson that last night wasn’t the right time for me to share.”
    By Joe Coscarelli
  22. BuzzFeed Explains Why It’s Been Deleting PostsYou guys just don’t understand.
    By Jessica Roy
  23. ferguson
    Nate Silver’s Tone-Deaf Burrito Arrest StoryHow not to tweet during a national tragedy.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  24. the internet
    Mark Zuckerberg Narrowly Escapes Having to Donate $100 to CharityThat was close.
  25. zing!
    The Only Way the Jets Can ScoreJets players use Tinder, too.
    By Jessica Roy
  26. wet tshirt contest
    Chris Christie Dumps Ice on His Head for CharityAs part of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.
    By Jessica Roy
  27. the internet
    Why Celebs Are Dumping Ice Water on ThemselvesDon’t call it a desperate plea for internet attention — it’s the nouveau version of Icing, and it’s for charity.
    By Jessica Roy
  28. the internet
    Russian Hacker Group Steals More Than a Billion Passwords It’s the largest known collection of stolen user data.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  29. the internet
    Facebook Went Down at the Worst Possible TimeA Friday morning in August.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  30. crazy lawsuits
    Sleepy, Litigious Yankee Fan Doesn’t Quite Understand the Internet Andrew Robert Rector is still trying to sue ESPN, MLB, and the Yankees over a YouTube video.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  31. oh congress!
    Congressional IP Address Banned From WikipediaA House IP address has earned a ten-day editing ban.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  32. blog-stained wretches
    BuzzFeed Has Itself a Serial Plagiarist Viral politics editor Benny Johnson, from sources like Yahoo! Answers, Wikipedia, and About.com.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  33. How Anonymous Cops Online Are Reacting to the Death of Eric GarnerThe ugly, racist, frustrated, and defensive comments.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  34. the internet
    ‘Michael Jeter’ Makes Final All-Star Game Appearance, According to CBS NewsNaturally, Twitter went nuts.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  35. war in the middle east
    Hot New Celebrity Trend: Tweeting #FreePalestine (and Then Deleting It)First Dwight Howard, then Rihanna, which can only mean more to come.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  36. new york’s finest
    NYPD Still Getting the Hang of This Twitter ThingA cop provoked a transportation safety advocate over the weekend.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  37. selfies
    Booker Trying to Take a Selfie With Each SenatorCory Booker’s at it again.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  38. the internet
    All the Nazi Jokes During Germany vs. BrazilA brutal first half leads to some brutal one-liners.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  39. new york’s finest
    NYPD Going to Try This Twitter Thing AgainRemember #myNYPD?
    By Joe Coscarelli
  40. media
    Bill Keller Interview: After the New York TimesThe Paper of Record’s former executive editor discusses his new start-up and the big ship he left behind.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  41. the internet
    SCOTUSblog Trolls Angry Supreme Court TweetersSCOTUSblog is not run by Scalia, believe it or not.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  42. early and awkward
    GOP Congressional Aide Becomes Jobless Revenge-Porn VictimRepresentative Steve Stivers’s chief of staff resigns after a porn star tweets his dirty pic.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  43. the internet
    31 Insanely Irrelevant Acronyms on the FBI’s Epic List of Internet SlangWTF?
    By Joe Coscarelli
  44. the internet
    Delta Airlines Learns Giraffes Don’t Live in GhanaA celebratory World Cup tweet went very wrong.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  45. weinergate forever
    Weiner ‘Liked’ Sexting Story ‘Accidentally’Still at it.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  46. crimes and misdemeanors
    Guccifer Gets 4 Years in Prison for HackingBut no talk of extradition to the United States.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  47. photo op
    South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley: ‘We Will No Longer Educate Children … ’When 140 characters are just not enough.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  48. scary things
    Ohio Mom Says Daughter Stabbed Her Because of Slender Man MemeHere comes the nationwide panic.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  49. spy games
    Now Everyone Can Follow the CIA for a ChangeOn Twitter, obviously.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  50. very sad and scary things
    Terrifying Details From the Slender Man StabbingCatching up on the most disturbing crime story in the country at the moment.
    By Joe Coscarelli
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