If you’ve ever wanted to know Reddit’s secrets — dramas, mod collusion, even tips and tricks — there’s a thread of interest blowing up today over in r/askreddit, titled “What Are Some Interesting Secrets About Reddit?” Yeah, it’s meta, but the thread has some interesting nuggets of advice and information regarding the secrets of Reddit,…Continue Reading ›
According to legend, a massive Atari stash of cartridges — for the ill-fated E.T. game considered by many to be the “worst” title in gaming history — languished for three decades in a desert landfill, gaining cachet under the sand all these years in Alamagordo. The Alamagordo Atari landfill legend was the stuff of internet…Continue Reading ›
Social media and long-distance relationships are certainly not specifically interdependent circumstances — the latter provably far predates the former, and social networks have little to do overall with LDRs in as much as their purposes are legion. However, we can safely say long-distance relationships have both changed and increased in both prominence and status since…Continue Reading ›
Facebook and Twitter are social networking standard names, but maybe you’ve got a bit of an interest in kinky social media — and sites like FetLife are quietly, discreetly growing in prominence amid the more vanilla social networks. Of kinky social media options, you’ll find enclaves on Tumblr, Reddit, and other sites — but FetLife is…Continue Reading ›
A True Blood tease was offered to fans as an Easter Monday treat, giving the show’s slightly addled and massively confused fan base a look into how the game changing seventh and final season may pan out when it hits HBO screens in June. In the clip tease, True Blood fans get a glimpse into what might…Continue Reading ›
Infamous “Club Kid” Michael Alig — who captivated the hedonistic New York City nightlife scene in the late 90s and eventually went to jail for a grisly murder — is set to be released after 17 years in prison. Michael Alig became the strange central character in a bizarre whodunit mystery in the New York…Continue Reading ›
Over on Twitter, “Happy Good Friday” is the top trending term, leading me to believe y’all never had to go to Stations Of The Cross with Sister Adelaide while the CCD kids colored eggs in comfort at home watching TV and not wearing scratchy polyester skirts and kneeling under threat of death or dismemberment with…Continue Reading ›
A US Airways tweet involving a pornographic image has caused foreseeable headaches for the air carrier, and as Social News Daily reported yesterday, the brand has already gone into backpedal mode following the Twitter controversy. In our earlier post on the US Airways tweet, Dan Evon noted that the image was at least on-brand for…Continue Reading ›
Firefly is having a bit of a moment in social right now, with Joss Whedon giving fans a new art nod — and now, the first International Space Station Instagram selfie from space … featuring astronaut Steve Swanson sporting a really shiny tee in the super sciencey cool image. It’s not really surprising astronauts would…Continue Reading ›
Joss Whedon’s Firefly is one of the internet’s first not fully requited loves, the sort of fandom that erupted solely because as it died a sudden and premature death, fans were newly enabled to mourn its passing en masse and eternally — and have they ever. Whedon and the Firefly cast frequently interact on social media sites…Continue Reading ›
