The 2016 presidential race already has its Mama Grizzly.
The 2016 presidential race already has its Mama Grizzly. Meet the Ubertarian: "They support government regulation—except when it inconveniences them."Read more...
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Google's Investigating Rap Genius For Using Spammy SEO to Grow Traffic
How has Rap Genius distinguished itself all the other lyrics sites? With sweet, sweet old school spam techniques, or at Silicon Valley likes to call it "growth hacking." The tactic is so shady that...
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Uber CEO Continues Condescending Asshole Routine
There's nothing wrong with having contempt for your customers—maybe your customers really are stupid. But if you're the CEO of a prominent company in the midst of popular backlash, hoping to IPO...
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Paleofuture The Coolest Toys from the 1911 FAO Schwarz Catalog | Defamer Breakdowns: The Girls Have Accomplished So Little In Four Years | Regressing Is Carmelo Secretly A Great Passer? (No.) | Sploid...
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Google Renders Rap Genius Unsearchable As Punishment for Spamming
The cofounders of Rap Genius got lumps of coal in their Christmas stockings, courtesy of Google. Matt Cutts, Google's head of search, promised he was looking into the lyric site's SEO scheme. His...
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Rap Genius Traffic Tanked After Google Smacked It Down for Spamming
Quantcast shows that the number of unique visitors to Rap Genius has dropped 60 percent since Google punished the startup for its questionable SEO scheme. Last year, unique visitors to Rap Genius only...
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The Year in Completely Incoherent TechCrunch Headlines
It's been a banner year for Silicon Valley's blog of record—investor cash is flowing, and incomprehensible gibberish companies are flourishing. As are incomprehensible gibberish articles about...
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Snapchat Ignored Security Hole That Lets Hackers Identify Your Account
On Christmas Eve, Gibson Security published information on how to exploit loopholes in Snapchat's security that "allow mass matching of phone numbers with names and mass creation of bogus accounts,"...
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Is Rap Genius Fucked?
"We effed up," lyrics annotation supersite Rap Genius admitted this week after its SEO cheating was revealed. They sure did. And there's good reason to believe this isn't just a gaffe for the...
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Paleofuture 7 (More) Fun Facts That Are Total Lies | Defamer Breakdowns: Miley Cyrus Chews on Bed Sheets in Her New Video | Regressing The Amazing MLB Payroll Graphic Gets An Update | Sploid British...
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Rap Genius in Exile Day 2: Traffic Still Plummeting
It wasn't just Christmas, kiddos: Google's swift and merciless de-listing of Rap Genius has sent the site's traffic even further towards oblivion, as shown by the newest numbers out of Quantcast.Read...
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Not Even Lindsay Lohan Can Save a Terrible Idea
Karaoke is fun because it's a group activity, usually involving a lot of beer and yelling loudly with your arms around others. Using your smartphone is the opposite of this, and yet, here is Just Sing...
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Another Ex-Clinkle Employee Trashes Nightmare Boss
The overwhelming evidence against giving a 20-something Stanford kid millions of dollars for a startup and letting him run wild continues to pile: an anonymous post by a former employee says Clinkle's...
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Andreessen Horowitz's Newest Hire Thinks Death Can Be Deprogrammed
Earlier this month Andreessen Horowitz hired the secessionist, Balaji Srinivasan. The academic and entrepreneur infamous for suggesting that techies build their own society "outside the U.S." scratches...
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Tumblr Is Now Using the Saddest Kind of Online Advertising
In July, Tumblr's tween creator David Karp predicted native, multimedia advertising would be the most exciting, dazzling part of the company. At the year's end, they're running depressing link ads for...
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Defamer The Author of Mary Poppins Is A Homewrecking Monster | Paleofuture The Top 10 Time Capsules of 2013 | Regressing Chart: The Average Weight Of NFL Rookies, By Position And Year | Sploid The best...
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Paul Graham Says Women "Haven't Been Hacking For the Past 10 Years"
The Information just proved that it's worth the $400 price of admission. On display in an interview with Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham is the clearest picture of Silicon Valley's unacknowledged...
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Paleofuture No, Real ID Is Not a National ID Card | Defamer The Shit-Slingers Over At TMZ Think Rape Culture Is A Hilarious Joke | Regressing How The Eagles' "Predator" Defense Saved Philadelphia's...
View ArticlePaul Graham, a man with great empathy for the misunderstood, has written an...
Paul Graham, a man with great empathy for the misunderstood, has written an essay to explain statements he gave The Information about the gender gap in tech. Read more...
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Brit Morin's DIY2k13: A Look Back at Making Magic
Dear Diary/God/All Y'all Makers out there. PHEW. What a year! It has been full of blessings, Washi tape, pretzels with googly eyes on them, Velcro™, 3D printed spheres (put 'em on a bowl!) and doilies...
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