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Roger Corman experiments with paid subscription channel
Fans of bad movies and cult classics, your moment on YouTube has arrived, brought to you by the godfather of independent B-movies, Roger Corman. Long known as an Ed Wood-style director, Corman won...
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How I taught my mom to love Tumblr
When I found out my mom was reading my Tumblr, I had a moment of sheer panic. It was as if I was still a teenager and she had burst into my bedroom unannounced."How did you know I had a Tumblr?" I...
View ArticleAustin band turns historic filibuster into new anthem
For those who tuned in to the livestream of Wendy Davis’s historic crowdsourced filibuster, the event felt like a political rock show. Now, it has an appropriate soundtrack. Austin-based power trio...
View ArticleThe Internet Hall of Fame has a diversity problem
What does it take to make it into the Internet Hall of Fame? For starters, it's not Internet fame. Instead, try white male privilege that seems to stretch as far as the Internet can reach. The...
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The power of Homestuck: How an unknown artist raised $200K
Need further proof of the power of fandom? A former former Homestuck artist just raised nearly $200,000 to bring her original webcomic to print form. Michelle Czajkowski is the author of Ava's Demon,...
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10 essential works of Kitten Cam fanart
What could possibly make a pair of a cute cuddly kittens even cuter and cuddlier (or irreparably strange, depending on your perspective)? Anthropomorphizing the animals as a pair of teenagers, of...
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The disturbing online trail of Comedy Central writer Kurt Metzger
Comedy Central's latest girl wonder, Amy Schumer, just had her satirical comedy show Inside Amy Schumer renewed for a second season. The show has drawn praise for its awkward, frank humor and for...
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Feminist Disney smashes the patriarchy in your childhood favorites
If any consumer brand in America has truly aligned itself with innocence, purity, and warm fuzzy feelings, it's Disney. But for every child who grows up surrounded by Disney products ranging from...
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Tumblr documents the Chicago Sun-Times' descent into iPhone photography
Just over a month after the Chicago Sun-Times laid off its entire photography department, the newspaper's new policy of letting reporters use smartphones to take photos on their beats has turned into...
View ArticleGun instruction video gets just about everything spectacularly wrong
It’s the Fourth of July, and nothing says “U.S. patriotism” like a dumb white guy holding a gun.“I’m being stupid today,” says the proud new owner of a replica Ithaca M-37 shotgun in a “gun...
View ArticleWhen will this sub's spy tactics finally get our attention?
Amid the continuing revelations of just how far-reaching the NSA’s info-gathering abilities are, an anonymous Pastebin exposé has made one big allegation that whistleblower Edward Snowden didn't....
View ArticleCitizen watchdog site battles scrutiny and censorship in African nation
Zambia may have recently been named one of the world's fastest recovering economies by the World Bank, but the south African nation is not without its struggles. Despite having a democratically...
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"Swimming Anime" debut is light on shirts, heavy on sexual tension
"Just watched the first episode of Free!, and all I can say is that I didn’t know taking your shirt off could be so dramatic." Yep, that's pretty much the best summary we can think of to encapsulate...
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Why slashtivism is hurting "Teen Wolf" fans
Okay, slash shippers. It’s time for an intervention. It’s okay if a ship doesn’t become canon. The slashtivism needs to stop. If you’re involved in fandom at all, you know that queer male pairings,...
View ArticleDragon Con finally severs connection to alleged pedophile
Dragon Con, the 26-year-old Atlanta-based sci-fi convention that draws over 50,000 geeks annually, has long operated under the shadow of its affiliation with its co-founder and alleged pedophile Ed...
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Tumblr hugs its stuffed animals in support of a lost best friend
Listen up: It's cool to own a stuffed animal—even when you're an adult. While most of us spent our Fourth of July holiday weekends watching fireworks, one Tumblr user was searching for her best...
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Is Facebook turning a blind eye to fat-shaming?
It took less than two days for a Facebook page called "The Sluts of Lorain County" to enrage half the Internet and get subsequently banned. But why on earth did a page devoted to mocking the denizens...
View Article10 must-watch summer webseries
Summertime's here, and with it the interminable boredom that comes from being in-between seasons of all your favorite shows. And it's not just television series that have gone on hiatus: Many of the...
View ArticleKilling your husband is easier than divorce, except when your hitman is a cop
At first the “little business” under discussion when 21-year-old Julia Merfeld enters a car and politely shakes hands with an unknown man isn’t quite clear. But as this video continues, it quickly...
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This is the most interesting man on Wikipedia
Forget that Dos Equis character. Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart is the most interesting man in all of Wikipedia. Carton de Wiart has a list of titles as long as his name....
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