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Today, I woke up, and I wanted to go on a quest.

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In the wake of an extremely distressing report which found that Seamless and GrubHub restaurants often use…
Who among us doesn't remember the halcyon days of youth when, lying in bed past our bedtime, we read the classic…
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Rumblr, the app that professed to be the "Tinder for fighting," is a stunt designed to market a consulting firm.
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Amazon's Book forum is—big surprise!—mostly about books. There's a long running thread about what different users…
The latest version of the iTunes Terms and Conditions is 20,656 words long. You probably haven't read the whole…
Twitter announced today that their longstanding "Favorite" function, long represented with a gold star icon, will be…
Life can be rough, but not as rough as it can be for a dog who's in space.
Early last week Canada elected a new parliament, and with it a new Prime Minister, the Liberal Party's Justin…
There's a song in the movie Mulan, "I'll Make a Man Out of You." You've probably heard it; it begins "Let's get down…

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Tonight's the night: World Series Game 1! The New York Mets vs. The Kansas City Royals. It's been 15 years since the…
Spent the past few years trying to pare down your Facebook feed, but miss the weirdness that your high school…
Last month Pizza Rat won the hearts and minds of millions as it dragged a slice of pizza larger than its body down…