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5 Reasons Twitter Isn't Actually Overthrowing Governments
The media loves to breathlessly cover 'The Twitter Revolution.' Unfortuantely, the only place it actually exists is in newspapers and blogs.
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424 The 6 Most Badass Weapons Ever Improvised in Battle
War is a terrible thing: Sometimes you have to take the life of your fellow man in the most brutal and extravagant ways...and you just don't have a good enough weapon to do it as hard as you want. That's when you start strapping every weapon you have to every other weapon you have, and hope that physics is in a good enough mood today to let you fir
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- By Tony Pilgram
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The Rise And Fall Of An Internet Meme [CHART]
The cake is a spy.
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- By Dr. Gentleman
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7 Bizarre Advances in Animal Cyborg Technology
If there are two things the Internet loves, it's cute, fuzzy animals and deadly cyborgs. As awesome as those two things are on their own, though, combining them gives us something that's often more disturbing and insane than either of those could bring us on their own.
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- By M. Asher Cantrell
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8 Creepy Video Game Urban Legends (That Happen to Be True)
The urban legends of every era always seem to reflect whatever teenagers are doing at the time. That's why it only makes sense that today's are centered around video games. Except ... these are absolutely true.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
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6 Hilarious Ways Game Designers Are Screwing With Pirates
Piracy accounts for 31% of all Internet traffic and, regardless of your personal opinion on the issue, it does really suck for a lot of game developers. But rather than just try to sue the pants off of everyone who ever logs into Bittorrent, some have started thinking outside the box a little.
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- By Kyle Nazario
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5 Bad Ideas Humanity Is Sticking With Out of Habit
Old habits die harder than Bruce Willis.
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- By Paul Jury
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Five Surefire Ways to Piss off a Smoker [CHART]
If you really want to take years off a smoker's life, ask them any of these questions.
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- By Stephen Cook
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6 Bizarrely Creepy Moments from the Mario Universe
It's a place where hitting a floating brick with your head and expecting money to come out is considered normal. These games are classics, so we don't even stop to think about the absurdity of what goes on in them. For something to be considered creepy within that context it would have to be pretty messed up. Like, for example ...
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, Peter File
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7 Memes That Went Viral Before The Internet Existed
In the very likely case that you're on the Internet right now, you already know what a "meme" is. But you may not realize that the concept -- a meaningless phrase, image or joke getting repeated endlessly for no reason at all -- predates the Internet generation by a long shot.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Soviet Space Programs That Prove Russia Was Insane
The thing about the Iron Curtain is that we'll never fully know what crazy shit went on behind it during the Cold War. And that's too bad, because the little hints that leak out really make it look like these people just did not give a shit.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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The 7 Most Needlessly Terrifying Pieces of Heavy Machinery
If you never dreamed of driving a huge tank fitted with a giant chainsaw while growing up, then congratulations on having been a well-adjusted kid. As for the rest of us? Well, people like us grew up and built these machines for real.
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- By Brian Thompson
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The Good The Bad and the Ugly of Video Games [COMIC]
The spectrums for success and failure for ten different aspects of gaming.
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- By Winston Rowntree
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The 6 Most Ingenious Misuses of Military Hardware
War is serious business. Life-and-death stuff. Brutal, bloody and unrelenting. But who says it can't also be fun?
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- By Karl Smallwood, Tony Pilgram
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6 New Anti-Pervert Technologies (We Really Shouldn't Need)
Technology is really only there to help people put their dongs into other people, or to prevent others from getting unwanted dongs put into them. This eternal technological sex conflict is called the Great Pervert War, and here are the latest weapons on both sides.
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- By Mark M., Paul K Pickett
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