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#listicle Click here to read After Craigslist and Manhunt, Here is Where Gays Will Get Their Clicks

After Craigslist and Manhunt, Here is Where Gays Will Get Their Clicks

The gays have been using the internet to get laid since AOL launched chat rooms to Friendster, but with Craigslist and Manhunt ruining their formulas, what is a homo with a hard-on to do now? What's next for easily-available ass? More »
07/22/09
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By Brian Moylan
#anniversaries

The Web at 20: Not Quite Old Enough to Drink, Yet Drives Us to It

03/13/09
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#theinternets

Let's Go Over the Rules of Internet Microfeuds Again

10/16/08
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#bloglash

Keith Gessen Did Everything Wrong on the Internet, Someone Besides Us Concludes

10/10/08
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#theinternets

Google Will Curb Your Drunk E-Mails

10/07/08
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#howthingswork

How to Date a Web Celebrity

10/01/08
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#tooinsidery

Raging Against the Snark Machine

09/29/08
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An explanation of the Internet, circa 1993. [MyHogTown]

09/23/08
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#sexwars

Face It, Ladies Don't Know How to Name Websites

09/23/08
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#theinternets

Fake Prince William's Facebook Fools A-List "Friends"

09/16/08
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#crossovers

That Lion YouTube Hit to Become Movie

09/05/08
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#fogofblog

"Baghdad Diarist" Agrees: Internet War As Dehumanizing As Real War!

Click here to read "Baghdad Diarist" Agrees: Internet War As Dehumanizing As Real War!
Remember Scott Thomas Beauchamp, that soldier who wrote candidly about the dehumanizing effects of the war for The New Republic while pursuing a passionate affair with the TNR intern fact-checking his pieces until the conservablogosphere began campaigning to get him shitcanned? Former TNR staffer Spencer "Attackerman" Ackerman tracked him down in Germany for a fascinating profile in next month's Radar. The story contains a lot of chilling details about Beauchamp's experiences at war, like mass graves and running over dogs in Bradley Fighting Vehicles and how a mob of soldiers in a mess hall mock a woman whose face has been gruesomely disfigured by an improvised explosive device, but probably the most nauseating passage describes what it was like for the 24-year-old Army private to be the target of evildoers and insurgents and such while simultaneously being the target of an internet struggle session: "I began to make mistakes. Once I nearly forgot my eye protection before a mission. I was thinking about bloggers as much as I was thinking about my buddies," he tells the magazine. "That scared me." Tell us about it. More »
08/21/08
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By Moe
#snarkbreak

"What If Nothing Was Ever Lost?"

08/21/08
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#art

FBI to Internet: "Hey, Do Any of These Priceless Stolen Paintings Look Familiar To You Guys?"

08/20/08
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#theinternets

Tragic Disaster, or Chance for Youtube Fame?

08/20/08
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#microfame

We Have Seen the Future of Internet Microfame, and It Looks Anonymous

08/13/08
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#theinternets

Facebook-Fired

08/13/08
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#almostfamous

Rex Sorgatz Forgot His Internet Safeword

08/13/08
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#internationalaffairs

Blog War in Georgia, or Commenter Trend Piece Again?

08/13/08
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#microfame

Even Noncelebrities Need Interns

08/13/08
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#theinternets

"You Will": Workers Wary About Working from Home

08/12/08
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