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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

BuzzFeed FWD: How A Promoted Levi's Tweet Ended Up Under A Pro-Ana Tag And More!


How A Promoted Levi's Tweet Ended Up Under A Pro-Ana Tag

Search "thigh gap" on Twitter and a promotional Levi's tweet appears, atop a list of mostly pro-anorexia tweets. This is probably not what Levi's wanted.

No, Let's Talk About Video Game Violence

Gaming's soul is sick. And gamers hate talking about it.

Google Maps Captures A Drone Landing

Or maybe taking off? At Creech Air Force Base in Nevada. Spotted by James Bridle, the man behind Dronestagram.

20 Horrible Ted Parody Accounts

There are countless Twitter "parody" accounts for the bear at the center of Seth MacFarlane's Ted. Most of them have more followers than you do. All of them are terrible.

What Online Retailers Will Ship Your Gifts The Fastest?

Zappos is fast, Walmart and JCPenney are slow.

Twitter's Asking You To Spam Your Friends

Twitter really, really wants your friends to log back in to Twitter. Even if they're dead.

One Chart Shows How Sandy Hook Reignited The Gun Control Debate

The Google search trend chart "reflects how many searches have been done for a particular term, relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time." Post-Sandy Hook a huge spike in searches for gun control.

The 10 Most Popular Videos Of The Year

YouTube seems to be having an identity crisis. And our strange, fickle tastes aren't helping.

Instagram Refugees Landing At Flickr

While the number of users fleeing Instagram is relatively tiny, it's something of a reversal to see that some of those people are landing at Flickr — now resurgent with a new iPhone app — given Instagram is widely considered to have eaten Flickr's lunch in mobile.

Foxconn Employees Want To Work More, Not Less

Foxconn workers on the new overtime limits the company has imposed: "But more than 15 workers on the Shenzhen campus said in interviews that they work more than the legal limit of nine overtime hours a week. A majority said they work 10 to 15 overtime hours and would prefer more, having left their distant homes to make money in this southern Chinese boomtown on the border of Hong Kong."

Why You Won't Care About Instagram's Ads

They'll be so good you won't even know they're ads.

Never Underestimate The Power Of The Glitch

Theory: video game glitches are actually demons from an unseen underworld, where nothing clips properly, you can never quite jump high enough, and the physics make absolutely no sense. Think about it.

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