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    Magister: Why would or should Twitter care, if someone could easily hack into your twitter account. I admit that I only use Twitter relatively sparingly, but o... more »
    econdave: abc123 Tito is bumming. more »
    DennyCrane: No. 22 (abgrtyu) seems sort of difficult, no? I'm sort of surprised. more »
    badasscat: Wow, there are a lot more fans of the film Victor/Victoria out there than I thought. more »
    homoviper: 40 & 41 are the same: asdfgh so bad they had to ban it twice? more »
    OMG! Ponies!: Thank goodness they didn't ban "Sugartits". I've been using that for all my accounts. more »
    kremlin-king: Can someone explain the difference between #19 and #20 I've stared at it for a while and can't figure it out. more »
    Jacques-SweatyTechnique-Paysan: nice to see that "Pencil" still remains secure as ever. more »
    shostakobitch: I didn't see "8=====D" on that list. more »
    snugbug: The best password I ever came up with is a Charles Bukowski quote. No way any password-cracking bot can figure out how to combine words like that. I h... more »
    lobstr: Pointless to have a list when they can just encode the backend to bounce back any PW that is not alphanumeric. That would solve the problem. Oh, twi... more »
    Brian Moylan: Both "iloveyou" and "lovers" are on the list. What is Carrie Bradshaw to do! more »
    Botswana Meat Commission FC: 171. Jenkem more »
    Smitros: But not Rockwell? Hm. more »
    ethanhein:   more »
    Uncle_Billy_Slumming: The very list they used to crack the GSM encryption! more »
    BlowJoy: #216 and #217 means people just really love monkeys. more »
    Swifter: They forgot Julia Allison's password, cupcake, and Denton's, 23skidoo. more »
    TheSometimesWhy: I long for the good old days when a tweet was merely a bird's song.... more »
    Alessar: Geeze, there's a really poisonous streak in the gay community. I've noticed they tend to be more outspoken too. On the other hand, I'm sure plenty of ... more »
  • #culturewars

    Let's Fight About a Gay-Sex Videogame This Christmas Season

    Dragon Age: Origins has taken the terribly awkward genre of videogame dialog and melded it with gay romance and, also gay sex scenes. Who, in these United States, could possibly object to foisting this content on teenaged boys? More »
  • #geeksgonewild

    Tech Exec's Gay Side Truly Unleashed

    They say the West Coast tech scene is mostly a straight-guy fraternity. For proof, look no further than Jason Goldberg. He played the heteronormative role while running Jobster; it took a relocation to Germany to really loosen him up. More »
  • #socialnetworks

    Facebook Gaydar Emerges From Breakthrough MIT Project

    Are you quietly stalking someone and too dense to figure out their sexual orientation from Google searches, Flickr party photos and real-life gossip? Well, a couple of MIT geniuses invented just the tool for you. More »
  • #apologies

    Sorry About the Gay Witchhunt, Alan Turing

    The online petition is just about the least convincing showcase of political will yet devised. But it can still trigger meaningful action, like the British Prime Minister's apology to the late computer science pioneer Alan Turing, persecuted for being gay. More »
  • #historylesson

    An Apology for Alan Turing

    Acclaimed mathematician Alan Turing provided a blueprint for the modern computer and helped break German codes during World War II. As a reward, the British government chemically castrated him to "cure" his homosexuality, driving Turing to suicide. Regrettable? Not officially. More »
  • #mastersoftheirdomain

    Gospel Group Sells Morals to Manhunt for 30 Silver Pieces

    For years gay hookup site Manhunt.net has been dogged by many things: crystal meth, trolls lying about their pictures, and people mistakenly visiting a Southern gospel group's website at Manhunt.com. Well, they finally got rid of one of them.
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  • #politics

    Meg Whitman's Big Gay Jolt

    We've always said Meg Whitman flip-flopping on gay rights would come back to haunt the former eBay CEO. And now, amid her campaign for California governor, it has. Whitman's reaction? Flip-flop again. More »
  • #thingsweactuallylike

    Gay-Test Your Twitter

    Stockholm's gay pride organizers have created an application to analyze your Twitter and score how gay you are. As a useful tool, it's more than a little silly. As a piece of marketing, though, it's brilliant. More »
  • #deathofprint

    Will David Geffen Gay Up the New York Times?

    Hello, Pink Lady! David Geffen, the wealthy friend of Dorothy, wants to buy the New York Times. Fantastic news for the paper's gay mafia. More »
  • #nerdfight

    Rachel Maddow, Peter Thiel Show Why Gays and Lesbians Can't Get Along

    What a fight! In one corner, Rhodes scholar Rachel Maddow, the liberal lesbian MSNBC commentator. In the other, arch libertarian chess master Peter Thiel, the gay Facebook investor. Best of all, they've squared off before. More »
  • #censorship

    Why It Makes Sense That a Hacker's Behind Amazon's Big Gay Outrage

    Twitter had a big tizzy yesterday over Amazon.com's supposed censorship of gay and lesbian titles, did you hear? Just one problem: A well-known hacker has come forward and claimed the whole thing was his prank. More »
  • #flackery

    Why Amazon Can't Just Call Gay Blacklist a 'Glitch'

    (UPDATED) After stripping sales rankings from a variety of gay-themed books, from romance novels to histories, Amazon.com now blames "a glitch" for the changes and promises a fix. Good luck selling that line. More »
  • #books

    These Books Too Gay for Amazon

    (UPDATED) As if it wasn't hellacious enough working customer support for Amazon.com on Easter, the online book store's reps must now explain why gay romances (and other books) are too "adult" to rank. More »
  • #secondacts

    Obama's Web Guru, Facebook Cofounder Chris Hughes, Resurfaces

    Whatever happened to Chris Hughes, the Facebook cofounder who joined Barack Obama's fledgling campaign in 2007 and powered it to victory using social networking? He's joined a D.C. PR firm. How crushingly disappointing! More »
  • #thegays

    Jared Polis: To Know Him Is To Loathe Him

    Openly gay Congressman Jared Polis (D.-Colo.) has a peculiar habit of creating enemies. Silicon Valley's movers and shakers loathe him. His fellow rich Colorado gays shun him. And now the media hates him, too! More »
  • #theinternet

    Map Of Anti-Gay Donors Created By Big Chicken

    There's a mashup of Google Maps and the donor list for California's successful anti-gay-marriage initiative, Proposition 8. Some people on the map are being harassed, no laughing matter. What is hilarious? More »
  • #discrimination

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