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Today in things that make us scream incoherently

Facebook Finally Pulls Page of Sexist, Violent Jokes About Female Marines… Three Years Late

by Rebecca Pahle | 1:59 pm, May 9th, 2013

After three years a Facebook page dedicated to making violent jokes targeted at female marines has finally been taken down. All it took was a state Representative writing a letter to the Defense Secretary and top military brass to say “Hey, this is really messed up and contributes to the culture of sexual abuse in the military, and you’ve known about it for years, but it’s still there. Maybe you should do something about it?”

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Facebook Banner Inspiration of the Day, Featuring MST3K, Adventure Time, Star Trek and More

by Susana Polo | 10:16 am, April 15th, 2013

It’s safe to say that there isn’t a lot of love for Facebook in the universe, but nobody doesn’t like a well coordinated together Facebook profile pic and cover photo. Redditor RubberDogTurds recently shared six of hers with the Internet.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Tom Hardy Adopted the Adorableness. This Kid Was Born in It

by Susana Polo | 4:57 pm, April 3rd, 2013

Tom Hardy and a tiny Bane, making people all over the world want to have babies. Some of them with Tom Hardy. (Digital Spy)

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I See What They Did There

If Websites Existed In Game of Thrones’ Westeros

by Jill Pantozzi | 3:33 pm, April 2nd, 2013

Caldwell Tanner didn’t use HBO’s Join the Realm website to create these unique House Sigils. Instead, he came up with his own designs for what popular websites might hang from their proverbial castle walls if they lived in the world of Game of Thrones. And we decided to join in on the fun. Look at the House Sigils and mottos from Twitter, Wikipedia, The Mary Sue, and more!

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: An Adorable Swedish Detective Agency

by Susana Polo | 5:02 pm, March 26th, 2013

According to Jezebel’s translation, these young ladies are charging $2.50 for easy cases, $6.25 for medium, and $12.50 for hard, but they won’t work on their own birthdays. I’d say that’s a good deal.

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she blinded me with science

Science Blogger Shocks Internet With Obvious Indication of Her Gender

by Susana Polo | 2:02 pm, March 21st, 2013

If you’re a Facebook sort of person, you might be familiar with the page I Fucking Love Science and its PG-13 counterpart Science is Awesome, both run by the same person. Or you might be familiar with the pages, but not the person. I say that because apparently many of those who like the page and follow its posts had no idea of the identity of Elise Andrew, an English blogger by way of Canada. Which, in and of itself is no bad thing. Though Andrew has done interviews before and mentions her gender in the page’s About, IFLS and SiA are both written in a general style without out much personal interjection from her, and certainly everybody has a right to release only so much info as they want to on the internet.

What’s notable, or perhaps depressingly mundane, about the reaction to a recent post in which Andrew plugged her Twitter feed, the avatar of which is a picture of her face, is the number of people who A) were excited to share their shock that a science blog was run by a woman or B) figured this was license to share their opinion on her relative attractiveness.

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Winter Is Coming

When You Play Social Media Game of Thrones, You Win Or You Die

by Rebecca Pahle | 2:45 pm, February 22nd, 2013

Westeros and Facebook have some things in common. Both have their fair share of jerks therein and are ruled by powers that don’t seem to care all that much about the rights of their peons. We are all pawns in the Game of Social Media. And now the two long-lost siblings have joined forces with Game of Thrones Ascent, a Facebook game set in George R.R. Martin‘s A Song of Ice and Fire series.

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Your Stupid Minds! Stupid! Stupid!

Facebook Possibly to Introduce Autoplay Ads; It’s Almost Like They’re Asking Us to Delete Our Accounts

by Rebecca Pahle | 2:45 pm, February 18th, 2013

Well now. Usually when we hear about something whacktastic Facebook has done it’s related to their ever-present disregard for privacy. I almost appreciate how they’re giving Facebook users a nice variety of reasons to delete their accounts. Autoplay ads? Really, Facebook? Not cool.

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Elsewhere on the internet

You Can Make Phone Calls With Facebook Now (If You Have an iPhone)

by Susana Polo | 11:47 am, January 18th, 2013

If you’re a Skype user and an iPhone owner you may already be aware of this particular wrinkle: that, using the Skype app for iPhone, you can use your phone’s internet connection to make a phone call to someone on Skype. If your phone has access to Wifi, you can do it by completely bypassing the cellular phone system, using neither your minutes or your dataplan.

This week, Facebook rolled out the same functionality to its Messenger app, so lets talk about what that actually means.

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And All Was Right With the World

Facebook User Helps Couple Recover Lost Memory Card In Global Search

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:03 am, January 11th, 2013

Facebook may not be the best social network for customer satisfaction but it can help with a good mystery now and again. When one couple lost their camera’s memory card, they thought it was lost for good, but thanks to Facebook it was returned. How did it go from Point A to Point B? Allow us to explain… 

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