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  • #disasters

    Cornell Employees' Email Blunder from Hell

    A tech consultant at Cornell University somehow CCed the entire campus emails to his mistress, a Cornell staffer and fellow married person. The naughty man is in no position to be "SPANKING that FINE ASS of yours" now! More »
  • #apocalypse

    Landmark Dog-Cat Internet Pact Signals End of Days

    Clearly, the online ad market is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions. Old Testament, wrath of God type stuff: Dogster and LOLcats-based I Can Has Cheezburger are now selling ads together, per a new agreement. Next up: Mass hysteria.
  • #disasters

    Google Office Fire Digitially Captured From Like 432 Different Angles

    Google's London office building briefly caught on fire, and there's a very good chance you heard about it, because internet geeks are great at instantly broadcasting images of flames, globally. If only they were as good at igniting grills. More »
  • #disasters

    Flickr Loses a Few Thousand More Pictures, with No Recourse

    A Flickr user is complaining loudly that the photo service allowed 3,000+ of his photos to be deleted by a hacker with no warning. Now they're supposedly gone, forever. When will Flickr start making backups? More »
  • #facebook

    Facebook Your Party, Start a Street War

    Facebook is quite powerful at lubricating relationships between acquaintances. Too powerful, sometimes: the social network turned an English garden party into a riot requiring a small police army to put down. More »
  • #disasters

    How Google's Thirst for Power Might Bury San Francisco in Rubble

    With its many servers, Google devours electricity. And with search queries growing by 50%, it's only getting hungrier. The solution? Drill a two-mile-deep hole in the Earth, extracting geothermal energy and possibly destroying San Francisco with a terrible earthquake. More »
  • #disasters

    Yahoo Nukes Man's Photos Over Obama Comments

    Flickr user Shepherd Johnson was browsing the official White House photostream one night when he decided to post a politically-charged comment. Then another, then another. Soon, without warning, Yahoo's photo-sharing service deleted his account, complete with 1,200 pictures. More »
  • #disasters

    Apple's Conference Breaks Digg

    The traffic, it was too much: Digg just went down, a likely victim of an overwhelming surge of traffic around the ongoing keynote speech at Apple's developer conference. What's weird about this news? More »
  • #disasters

    Times Nukes Itself On Google

    The New York Times has been demanding Google welfare, which would artificially promote the newspaper's stories in search results. Yet inept Times webmasters just killed hundreds of thousands of their own Google hits. More »
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    Tucker Max's Movie Script

  • #yahoo

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  • #paypal

    Who blew up PayPal?

  • #ebay

    EBay building bombed: Exclusive IMs from an eBayer inside the building

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