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Hilarious Tinder troll is the stuff of online dating nightmares
We've all had the thought: I just want to date someone who's not a serial killer! You might think that's setting the bar low. Helloletsdate is here to prove you wrong. The randomness of Tinder hookups...
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Randall Munroe's got a new book, but it's not XKCD
"Someday I'll be the first to get a Ph. D in 'Undeclared'," Randall Munroe once wrote in his beloved webcomic xkcd. But his wide-ranging knowledge of all things scientific, technological, and human has...
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#WhiteMenProtestSigns mocks today's white supremacy protests
Today, in cities across the world, disgruntled white supremacists took to the streets to protest... things. And just as predictably, the rest of us took to the Internet to mock them relentlessly. The...
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Parents outraged after old school website replaced with porn
What would you do if you logged on to your children's school website and discovered scantily clad women? These U.K/ parents grew alarmed and caused a wave of concern that led to an apology from their...
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'Teen Wolf' shocker leaves fandom in turmoil
"HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME JEFF DAVIS," wrote xmelodiax on Tumblr last night after the penultimate episode of this season's Teen Wolf. After a controversial season that has brought with it numerous...
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Move over, 'Hunger Games': The next craze in teen dystopia is here
Here's what we know about The Maze Runner. It's based on a super-popular and (we hear) amazing Young Adult dystopia series by James Dashner. It's due out in September. And it's a highly-anticipated...
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Rifftrax kicks it MST3k-style with a return to TV for April Fools
Here's how to break the brain of the Internet: post what may be a series of spoof videos from guys who are known tricksters about an event scheduled for April Fool's Day on a reputable website like....
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Flappy Bird is coming back, but not just yet
Brace yourselves, fans of impossibly addictive mobile games and also this kitten:Flappy Bird is coming back. And it's going to be flappier than ever.@painfullpacman Yes. But not soon.— Dong Nguyen...
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How to suppress women's coding
Last week, GitHub’s first female developer, Julie Ann Horvath, quit the company over a staggering string of allegations that while working there she was subjected to harassment, intimidation, and...
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Anime Boston gets proactive on cosplay etiquette
Staffers at this weekend's Anime Boston convention got proactive about preventing harassment in con spaces: They hosted a panel themselves to discuss consent. Geek conventions are notorious for...
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The absolute must-watch list of fundamental Anime
Is there a true list of must-watch anime? Given the diversity and longevity of anime as a genre, it's a tough claim to make. That's probably why the guys at FrontRowCrew, hosts of the GeekNights...
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Attack on Anime Boston: 'Titan' English dub is just as intense as fans hoped
The lucky crowd who arrived early to a line that wrapped around an entire floor of the Hynes Convention Center Saturday were the first to experience the world premiere of the English dub for Attack on...
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'Cowboy Bebop' screenwriter shares his secrets at Anime Boston
You may not know who Dai Sato is, but you know his stories: Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Eureka 7, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Eden of the East, Lupin III, and the more recent Space...
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Did the wildly popular 'Teen Wolf' Sterek ship just sink?
On the eve of Teen Wolf's third-season finale, swoon-king Dylan O'Brien may have just crushed fandom hearts by declaring that his character Stiles, one-half of the controversial slash ship Sterek, is...
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This stunning 'Game of Thrones' fanart will make your blood run cold for...
What do we say to the god of death? More fanart, please! Or so HBO proclaims with its Game of Thrones countdown website, Beautiful Death. The website, hosted on Tumblr, is celebrating the remaining...
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Tech's first pinup magazine brings the wrong kind of exposure to women
There should be a better way than this to give exposure to women in tech. The Internet has opened tech culture to ongoing discussions about the systemic sexism and harassment in the field. Women are...
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Here's proof 'Seinfeld' was really a show about nothing
Seinfeld comes closer than perhaps any other television show to expressing the foibles and often-hilarious anxiety of modern life. But apparently one Tumblr user has taken the famous dictum that the...
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When fandoms collide: The present and future of anime cons
What do you do if your anime con stops being an anime con and starts being an “everything” con? Anime Boston is one of the largest long-running anime conventions on the East Coast. It's also one of...
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Teacher accused of calling teen 'a brat' after student's suicide
We all handle grief differently. But Simon Cox, a former teacher at a school in Australia's Northern Territory, handled his in the worst way possible this week—or at least with the worst timing ever....
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Saying goodbye to Television Without Pity
Earlier today, fans paused to mourn the passing of an Internet icon—and to marvel at the cultural changes that eventually toppled Television Without Pity, one of the former greats of online pop...
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