In the following video, the founder of 4chan, a controversial, uncensored online imageboard, describes its subculture, some of the Internet “memes” it has launched, and the incident in which its users managed a very public, precision hack of a mainstream media website. The talk raises questions about the power — and price — of anonymity.
After a Utah resident was struck by a car while crossing a highway, she filed a lawsuit against the driver of the car – but named Google as a defendant as well. Since, you know, they’re the ones that told her to cross the road. The lawsuit states that Google should have known that the […]
Rickrolling originally began as an Internet prank where one person would be provided a link to something allegedly awesome. When they clicked on the link, they would be taken to Rick Astley’s video “Never Gonna Give You Up”… something decidedly not that awesome. Hit the jump for other interesting facts about “Rickrolling.”
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If you haven’t had a chance yet, go play the video game mashup of Super Mario Bros. Crossover The game is playable for free online. The programmer went to great detail to bring Link from Legend of Zelda, Bill R. from Contra, Mega Man, Samus and Simon from Castlevania into the world of Super Mario. […]
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By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] As a graduate student, I’m certainly not a high-roller financially, but for the first time in my life I’m making more money than I spend. It’s certainly not much, but it’s gotten me thinking: should I be more proactive about my savings? Over the last few weeks I’ve looked […]
Remember that awesome Chrome speed tests commercial we posted a few weeks back? Well, after seeing this, the folks at Opera wanted to respond to the ad by running their own browser speed test and putting it on film. Here’s the result: [Via Gizmodo]
Facebook’s founder and chief has come as close as seems likely to happen to apologizing for inadequate privacy policies. Writing in the Washington Post, Mark Zuckerberg said that the company had thought it best to offer users detailed controls over every aspect of user settings relating to data use and privacy, but that “We just […]
Several major social networks are reexamining their policies after the revelation of a loophole that could allow advertisers to access personal details of users more easily. The problem is remarkably simple: when a user of a website (Facebook, Myspace, etc…) clicks on an advert, the advertiser is able to see the website address from which […]