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6 Devious Ways Farmville Gets People Hooked

If you're on the internet at all (and you obviously are) you probably either play Farmville or know one of the 60 million people who do

Authors: By Christina H
Published: August 16, 2010
Comments: 436

5 Things That Are Being Automated That Probably Shouldn't Be

Here are some things that anyone with a lick of sense would not put in the hands of a computer, and the people who are putting them into the hands of a computer.

Authors: By Christina H
Published: August 09, 2010
Comments: 594

The End of Online Anonymity: Why Will You Be Freaking Out?

When you make forum posts beginning with, 'I'm not a racist, but...' or call us retards in the comments, do you use your real name? What if you had to?

Authors: By Christina H, Jason Pargin
Published: July 27, 2010
Comments: 1234

The 5 Most Humiliating Things We're Doing to Robots

Before our window of time ruling Earth is slammed shut on our fleshy, poorly designed fingers, humanity is making one last stand: having robots do humiliating jobs for which they're wildly overqualified.

Authors: By Kathy Benjamin
Published: July 24, 2010
Comments: 257

The Day the Gaming Industry Died: Impressions from E3 2010

This week is maybe the biggest of the year in the world of entertainment. This is when all of the games you'll be playing for the next twelve months are unveiled at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. This year's event, however, will more likely be remembered as the precise moment video gaming as we know it died a tragic and embarrassing death.

Authors: By Jason Pargin
Published: June 14, 2010
Comments: 802

The 20 Worst NES Games of All-Time

I don't know if the game making people were the nephews of the eccentric billionaire in charge of handing out the gold approval seals, or if Nintendo just didn't bother to check if the games sucked.

Authors: By Seanbaby
Published: May 29, 2010
Comments: 589

Dear Hotmail: What The Hell Happened to You?

It seems like yesterday when you were kicking ass, increasing your storage size and showing up on business cards. You asked for user feedback, you pioneered folder-based mail organization, you were the gold standard for free email. But somewhere along the line you stumbled. You got sloppy or you just gave up, and we drifted apart.

Authors: By Soren Bowie
Published: May 28, 2010
Comments: 428

5 Reasons It's Still Not Cool to Admit You're a Gamer

Seriously, gamers, stop being such jackasses.

Authors: By Jason Pargin
Published: May 24, 2010
Comments: 2770

5 Terrifying Ways Your Own Gadgets Can Be Used to Spy On You

All that paranoia you harbor about being spied on? Turns out it's totally justified!

Authors: By Mark Hill
Published: May 23, 2010
Comments: 289

5 Guilty Pleasures The Web Killed While You Weren't Looking

There are things we miss about the world before the World Wide Web. Mainly the guilty pleasures that a less connected world used to let us get away with.

Authors: By C. Coville
Published: May 21, 2010
Comments: 848

5 Reasons You Should Be Scared of Google

You knew Google would eventually show up on Cracked's 'We Don't Give a Damn' hit list.

Authors: By Robert Evans
Published: May 18, 2010
Comments: 892

5 Insane File Sharing Panics from Before the Internet

Media piracy has been rampant throughout history... probably since the first guy to smear his feces on the wall in the shape of a buffalo turned around and immediately saw 50 more just like it being smeared on the walls behind him.

Authors: By Rani Baker
Published: May 07, 2010
Comments: 492