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February 27, 2011
Facebook Now Useful Tool for Hookers
So Facebook is essentially a seedy motel in Times Square now, what with the spammers crowding your wall and all the prostitutes hanging out. Because according to a Columbia sociology professor, Facebook is the new Craigslist for hookers. So -- Facebook can't deal with arty nude drawings, but ... More >>
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February 27, 2011
Runnin' Scared Liveblogs the Oscars
These aren't blurry Facebook photos or anything.Hey -- the Oscars are tonight. Jen Doll and I will be liveblogging it here, so read it or else. We have a lot of opinions even though we've seen four of the Best Picture nominees between us, and I'm the one who has seen those four. White wine wi ... More >>
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March 1, 2011
You Might Want to Take Your Phone Number Off Your Facebook Profile
Facebook is about to make you mad. Facebook is about to make you storm off to your computer (oh, wait, you're already here?) and go into your profile settings, and very nearly delete yourself from Facebook, except how would you live with yourself not knowing which of the popular girls from hi ... More >>
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March 7, 2011
Mark Zuckerberg's Dog Has a Facebook Page; We Actually Just Wrote That
via ForbesFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his girlfriend have a new pooch you can man's-best-friend! [Christ, these words are going to be recorded for posterity.] Forbes reports that his name is "Beast," and the precocious Puli has his very own Facebook page. He's the most adorable on-li ... More >>
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March 8, 2011
Drag Star Laments Reality Show Editing
RuPaul's Drag Race's beauty Manila Luzon just posted this wail of woe on Facebook: "Puh-leeeezzzzz! Why do they show me crying my eyes out cuz I bombed a joke? "Firrrst, you can take a guess why I am crying my eyes out in the interview room. Second, I didn't bomb no jokes. "Thirrrdly, wh ... More >>
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March 9, 2011
Yes, You Can Order Di Fara on Facebook, as Long as It's a Day in Advance
Paul Lowry/FlickrEarlier today, Slice noticed that Di Fara, the Midwood pizzeria whose legendary pies are matched by its legendary lines, had started taking orders over Facebook.
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March 14, 2011
Facebook Apps Will Hook You Up With Your Friends, Painlessly
After Facebook rapidly pulled stalker app Breakup Notifier, which would notify you whenever the objects of your affection changed their relationship status (i.e., became free to date you), it seems like new Facebook dating apps are popping up all over the place. Once of them, called iWould, a ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
Facebook Ads To Get Even More Invasive
Mark Zuckerberg's personal mission to sell thing you things is now even more next-level than it was previously, as Facebook has long delivered "targeted ads" to users based on anything you put into the site, from interests to wall posts to status messages. Now testing with 1% of Facebook user ... More >>
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March 29, 2011
Facebook Sued By Grieving Staten Island Parents
Caroline Wimmer was murdered by Calvin Lawson in her home in 2009. While Lawson was sentenced to 25 years to life this past summer, Wimmer's parents' legal battles continue over the photos of Wimmer's dead body that were posted onto Facebook by the EMT who handled her corpse. Mark Musarella, ... More >>
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March 30, 2011
Your Facebook Friends Hate You
Being on Facebook can be an exercise in self-punishment, whether that means obsessively spying on your friends' baby pictures and envying their "perfect life" or constantly monitoring your ex's wall. We all know this, and yet no one really talks about it. Until now. There's a survey that has ... More >>
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April 1, 2011
Teacher Faces Lawsuit After Friends Mock Student's 'Jolly Rancher Hairdo' on Facebook
viaHave you heard of the Jolly Rancher Hairdo? This is a hairdo in which Jolly Ranchers are tied to the ends of the hair. How could any kid, or candy fanatic, not love this hairstyle? When a seven-year-old student at a Chicago school excitedly sported it for picture day after seeing the style ... More >>
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April 11, 2011
Anti-Gay Activist Actually Loves Gay Marriage
There's an adage about intelligent people changing their minds, so maybe anti-gay activist Louis J. Marinelli is smarter than we thought. He formerly served as the National Organization For Marriage's tour organizer and social media expert, and writes that he "spent the last five years puttin ... More >>
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April 11, 2011
Winklevii Row Out of Court Losers; Zuckerberg Wins Again
It's a sad day for millionaire identical twin Olympians everywhere: Forbes reports a federal appeals court has ordered Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss to accept their $65 million settlement with Facebook. That means no more suing Mark Zuckerberg. This is the part of the post where we are legally ... More >>
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April 12, 2011
Mark Zuckerberg Might Have Promised Someone 50% of Facebook in Emails From 2003
Everyone giggled a little bit when Paul Ceglia said he was the rightful owner of half of Facebook based on a promise from founder Mark Zuckerberg back in 2003. "If you had invented Facebook, you would've invented Facebook," and all that. The plaintiff waited until 2010 to file his lawsuit and ... More >>
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April 15, 2011
Facebook Triggers Hormone That Makes You Feel Like You're Falling in Love
Here is incontrovertible proof that Mark Zuckerberg is an evil, evil man: Scientists now believe that Facebook triggers oxytocin, also known as the "love" or "cuddle" hormone, which basically makes you feel like you're falling in love and that the world is a beautiful place full of butterflie ... More >>
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April 19, 2011
Xi'an Famous Foods Will Go Big With a Second Chinatown Location
Robert SietsemaPlentiful and pungent savory lamb noodles.A few months after sending out a Facebook message asking its fans for information on available storefronts in Manhattan and Williamsburg, Xi'an Famous Foods has officially announced the imminent opening of its fifth location.
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May 4, 2011
Guys Who Like Fat Chicks
Robert SietsemaPlentiful and pungent savory lamb noodles.A few months after sending out a Facebook message asking its fans for information on available storefronts in Manhattan and Williamsburg, Xi'an Famous Foods has officially announced the imminent opening of its fifth location.
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May 10, 2011
R.I.P. Mia Amber Davis, Plus-Size Model and Road Trip Comic Seductress
via FacebookMia Amber Davis, plus-sized model, size-positive blogger, and the underwear-clad full-figured seductress from Road Trip, has passed away. Earlier today, the subject of our recent feature Guys Who Like Fat Chicks chose the actress, model, and producer as one of the Fat Community's most be ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
Facebook Tried to Plant Negative Press About Google
A secretive story has been bubbling in Silicon Valley this week, in which the PR firm Burson-Marsteller pitched anti-Google articles to national newspapers on behalf of some unnamed client. Google, they claimed, has privacy issues that the American people should know about -- but it was far f ... More >>
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June 4, 2011
Grubwithus Allows You to Pay to Eat With Strangers Without Difficulty
Do you hate your friends and would rather eat with a bunch of strangers instead of them? Would you like to shell out thirty dollars to do so? There's a new application called Grubwithus which is built just for you. Basically, it lists a bunch of meals organized by people using the service, for wh ... More >>
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June 6, 2011
Facebook Feelings Are Contagious
Of the many powers of Facebook, one you might not have guessed is that if your friends are feeling sad or happy or cranky or whatever on Facebook, you will probably feel that way too. This is an argument for only having awesome, happy friends on Facebook, so that you can catch only awesomenes ... More >>
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June 8, 2011
Facebook Facial Recognition Technology Being Probed By EU; Plus, How to Turn It Off!
viaFacebook will be investigated by the European Union's sector on data protection, Bloomberg reports this afternoon, because of new facial recognition technology added to profiles that users have to opt out of through a typically convoluted security settings process. Yes, again. Facebook's l ... More >>
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June 22, 2011
Why I Hate Being Gay! 62 Reasons!
Here's why we hate being gay
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July 22, 2011
Naked Bike Ride Set for Sunday
viaBecause we know you've all been waiting for it, we are happy to report that the World Naked Bike Ride is happening Sunday. Postponed in June because of inclement weather, the ride will depart from East River Park near Houston Street at 4 p.m. The event's Facebook page declares: "Bare as yo ... More >>
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July 26, 2011
Food Trucks Have Now Been Appropriated by the Solar Industry
Sungevity/FacebookIce pops, and geese.Even if the city has decided it hates food trucks, the solar industry still loves them.
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August 9, 2011
Anonymous Wants To Destroy Facebook
TwitterAnonymous, the shady-yet-principled hacktivist group that has previously hacked into Iran's government emails, the Pentagon, possibly the IMF, News Corp, Anders Breivik's Twitter account, and much more, has a new target in its crosshairs: Facebook. The hackers have set the date for Fac ... More >>
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August 11, 2011
Anonymous Doesn't Actually Want to Destroy Facebook
Stop backing up your Facebook photos, because hacker collective Anonymous' plot to kill the 'book was all a big misunderstanding. Not a hoax, exactly; there was once a plan by an Anonymous user named Speakeasy and associates to raise awareness about Facebook's privacy policies and start an al ... More >>
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August 11, 2011
Your Phone Numbers and Facebook: What You Should Actually Worry About
Collecting your data to serve you better.If you're on Facebook, you've likely seen the panicky message that's been circulating, warning that the social networking behemoth has started publishing all your phone contacts for everybody to see: "ALL THE PHONE NUMBERS IN YOUR PHONE are now PUBLIS ... More >>
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August 12, 2011
Comments Of The Week: Bringing Back The Village Voice T-Shirt Giveaway
Comments Of The Week is back! We're resuming our post giving away a free t-shirt to commenters who supplied us with our favorite comments, which range from the helpful to the "we have no idea what's going on here, but it amuses us." Email Web Editor Francesca Stabile (fstabile@villagevoice.co ... More >>
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September 19, 2011
Your Awkward Blind Date Will Be Livestreamed
How about we...arrange a blind date in which we will be watched by an array of other people, media professionals and whatnot, but really, whoever happens to be curious about what other people do on their blind dates (because we're all afraid of failing in this regard, right?). How about we go ... More >>
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September 23, 2011
Why You Should Maintain at Least One Human Friend
In this day and age, technology has learned to fuck with us. Facebook will change, without seeming to give us any notice whatsoever! The unfailing Gmail may fail, and none of us will be able to communicate! Those of us who are busy "doing things" on the Internet (where else would we do things ... More >>
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September 23, 2011
The Pros and Cons of Seeing Exactly Who Has Unfriended You On Facebook
Prepare to get indignant at a bunch of people you did a summer program with in high school and friends of friends you had the first week of college. They have been unfriending you on Facebook, and thanks to the new Facebook Timeline, you can see exactly which people have unfriended you and wh ... More >>
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October 4, 2011
Frank Ocean Will Be At The Bowery Ballroom Next Month
The Odd Future associate/Jay and Kanye co-signed R&B singer is bringing his emo and blues to the Bowery Ballroom on November 6. Tickets are on sale now although they might not be for much longer now that word's out, so, if this is your thing, get clicking. UPDATE (5:42 p.m.): All gone! But do ... More >>
Music
October 5, 2011
Facebook + Music: Most People Are DJs
The site's foray into music and the act of performative listening
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October 6, 2011
Marni Kotak, Artist, Will Give Birth at Microscope Gallery, for Real
Now that Facebook has decided to publish a timeline that includes all of our online goings-on since birth, we wonder what a tangible chronicle of this would look like. Enter the very pregnant performance artist Marni Kotak, who is transforming the Microscope Gallery into a home-birth center w ... More >>
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October 7, 2011
Kristen Christian, Who Created 'Bank Transfer Day,' the November 5 Bank Boycott, Tells Us Why
Designed by Eddie CollaEarlier today we wrote of what appeared to be an Occupy Wall Street-related bank boycott planned for November 5th. We've spoken to Kristen Christian, the 27-year-old creator of the event, who has clarified some things. For one, it's not an Occupy Wall Street-organized e ... More >>
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October 14, 2011
HEART2HEART's "Facebook Official": In Which Lance Bass Proves He's Got The Internet-Attention Calculus Down Pat
Last night, Lance Bass—former 'N Sync member, aspiring astronaut, and now apparently boy-band guru—offered a tutorial on how to get your probably-jokey, possibly-somewhat-serious musical project noticed by those folks on the Internet who are looking for things to giggle at as they ... More >>
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October 19, 2011
People With Bigger Brains Have More Facebook Friends
LikeHere is some weird news that you can brag about, if you happen to be one of the privileged few with many, many Facebook friends and a giant brain. Actually, you should probably post this information, along with a photo of your brain, on your Facebook wall -- we hear that's the way to get ... More >>
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October 20, 2011
State Senator Diane Savino's Facebook Friends: An Important Announcement
New York State senator Diane Savino, a Democrat representing Staten Island and Brooklyn, had some important breaking news to share with the media today. Her personal Facebook page has hit the 5,000-friend mark (a "social media milestone," it seems), which is where Facebook cuts you off. Follo ... More >>
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October 24, 2011
A Halloween Warning Found on Facebook
Julie Dorning Sloan via FacebookThis warning posted by Julie Dorning Sloan of the UK on her Facebook page (if you know who arranged the display and took the picture, please tell us) reminds you that a hangover on November 1st is often worse than an assault by a ghoul.
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October 26, 2011
For Corporate 'Campus Reps,' Marketing to Classmates Is the Name of the Game
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November 1, 2011
Q&A: Tanlines' Jesse Cohen On Winning The Best Band Twitter In NYC Award, Zucchini-Borne Controversies, And Comedy As Soccer
Jesse Cohen and Eric Emm of Tanlines. Giving the Best Local Music Twitter award in our Best of NYC issue to @tanlines was pretty much a no-brainer. The account, which is run by the duo's Jesse Cohen, is heavy on the wry observational humor and light on the "come see our band" or "here's someb ... More >>
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November 2, 2011
Village Voice Media Asks for Your Support of Senate Bill 596
Jesse Cohen and Eric Emm of Tanlines. Giving the Best Local Music Twitter award in our Best of NYC issue to @tanlines was pretty much a no-brainer. The account, which is run by the duo's Jesse Cohen, is heavy on the wry observational humor and light on the "come see our band" or "here's someb ... More >>
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November 29, 2011
Instead Of Listening To The Michael Jackson Sentencing, Why Not Watch Das Racist Perform "Michael Jackson" On Conan?
Bless Das Racist for always coming along at the right time, right? The group performed on Conan last night, and while the reactions the group was retweeting in the broadcast's wake seemed a little bit confused/outraged/weary, their take on the completely goofy "Michael Jackson" was, I thought ... More >>
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December 8, 2011
2011: The Year Skrillex Got Mentioned In A Lot Of Facebook Status Updates
The increasingly tentacle-extending social-networking site Facebook has released Memology 2011, a quantification of popular topics discussed on the service. Amy Winehouse's death in August was the seventh-most-discussed news topic of 2011, right behind the royal wedding and ahead of the new C ... More >>
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December 12, 2011
Designers of Planned Twin Towers Look-Alike in Seoul 'Regret Deeply' Resemblance
A Dutch architecture firm has designed a building in Seoul that has offended some because of its uncomfortable resemblance to the World Trade Center in a cloud of dust and smoke: MVRDV The project, called "The Cloud," is the work of MVRDV, a firm in Rotterdam. It's intended to be luxury hi ... More >>
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December 19, 2011
Junk Food Might Kill Kids with Video Games: Report
New British research suggests that junk food companies really don't have kids' best interests in mind, as they knowingly shill unhealthy eats to unsuspecting minors, according to the Daily Telegraph.
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January 6, 2012
Facebook 'Business' Cards Are Here
What do you get for the person who has everything, including a Facebook account? A Facebook "business" card, of course! We're not sure if these are more or less insufferable than the Facebook shower curtain (equally so, perhaps, but different?). On one hand, the point of Facebook is, we suppo ... More >>
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January 9, 2012
Al Qaeda Wants to Be Your Friend on Facebook
According to a recent study from the University of Haifa, your latest friend request on Facebook may be from a terrorist organization, for, like the rest of us, they have shifted their Internet activity focus to...social networks, obvi! "Today, about 90% of organized terrorism on the Internet ... More >>
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February 3, 2012
M.I.A. Drives The Action In The "Bad Girls" Video
In other "M.I.A. in a video" news, this morning also marked the premiere of the clip for "Bad Girls," a fleshed-out-by-Danja version of a track from her ViCKi LEEKZ mixtape. In the clip, Maya struts her stuff through a post-apocalyptic tableau where the highways are so empty, drivers can (and ... More >>
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