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A pair of flip-flops which have become a viral hit on Reddit could very well become everyone's fashion choice this summer.
They stamp messages into sand, therefore they might be ideal for meeting new people on the beach, whether you are planning to or not.
This photo of the foot print that the flippers leave b... |
20 May 2013
10:56 GMT |
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A photo of a man with no clothes on, running around with a giant cross through the city of Beijing in China, at night, has made quite the impression on curious Redditors. Nobody known why this modern-day missionary has chosen to carry the message of Christianity with no pants on, or anything else for that matter. T... |
17 May 2013
08:56 GMT |
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Reddit is getting a revamped privacy policy. The changes are designed to make the policy simpler and easier to understand, so most of the changes are to the wording rather than the substance of the document. The new policy doesn't change any of the protections Reddit users enjoy, though it is more specific in a... |
2 May 2013
04:33 GMT |
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A response to a quiz question on Earth Day has gone viral on Reddit, due to one student’s lack of commitment in celebrating and learning about this day.
He is asked what he has learned on this day and how the knowledge acquired on the occasion can prove useful to him in the future.
"I did not know Earth Day was Apr... |
24 April 2013
13:01 GMT |
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Redditor seenic posts an awesome apology letter from a woman who has stolen, or better yet borrowed his bike a few nights ago.
The thief has returned the bike and explained her motivation for taking it. She has also added a Domino's voucher for a free cake to the mix.
The robber was headed home from her booze-... |
24 April 2013
10:38 GMT |
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Last week, Reddit experienced a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack that took the site completely down for a period of 50 minutes. Now, Reddit representatives have published a post to reveal some details of the attack.
According to Reddit Systems Admin Jason Harvey, the attack mitigation strategy was continu... |
24 April 2013
05:15 GMT |
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A couple of hours ago, Reddit representatives announced on Twitter that they were working on mitigating a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack that disrupted the website. “We are working on recovering from what appears to be a DDoS,” reads one notification posted on the Reddit Status Twitter feed.... |
19 April 2013
08:30 GMT |
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The Boston Marathon explosions have left a dent in the spirit of the town but more and more people are trying to help.
According to Today, a Random Acts of Pizza (RAOP) forum has been set up on Reddit, giving users a chance to contribute and send over food to local hospitals where staff is tending to those wounded i... |
17 April 2013
08:26 GMT |
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Redditor Samafoof shares a shot of his first Revolutionary War reenactment experience, and it looks like his horse is enjoying it even more than he is.
This photobombing photo was posted less than a day ago to Reddit and it has been upvoted almost 40,000 times.
“Had my first Revolutionary War reenactment yest... |
15 April 2013
03:21 GMT |
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Telling the difference between nerds and hipsters has become quite hard, with the latter group borrowing style elements from the first.
To make it easier, Reddit user moson has drawn us a visual representation of how both groups would look in a similar situation.
The original photo was taken in Poland in 1997, and... |
1 April 2013
10:48 GMT |
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They say that no good deed goes unpunished, but, with Reddit, nobody even knows which good deeds are legit anymore.
The photo of an Olive Garden receipt, also posted above this news blog, has been upvoted thousands of times this week, but now many users are dubbing it an advertising stunt.
User Tanek42 uploaded th... |
28 March 2013
14:11 GMT |
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A man opening up a bag of mulch five weeks ago found an adorable baby squirrel inside, still pretty much alive.
The animal was looking a little under the weather, as you can see in the photo posted above, but he took the time to nurse it back to life.
Redditor Nadtacular took it in when it was still smaller than t... |
26 March 2013
06:52 GMT |
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iOS developer Mediaspree LLC has released Karma, a simplistic Reddit client for iPhone users that “seeks to get out of the way and let you get back to what you want to do: view links, upvote comments, open orangereds, and amass that sweet, sweet karma.”
Mediaspree promotes some cool features, such as an ... |
25 March 2013
15:51 GMT |
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Reddit is getting bigger and bigger and, while its popularity is directly linked to its support for free speech, with all that entails, and its open culture, it still has to make money and it does it mostly just like any other site on the internet, with ads.
Unlike most other sites though, its users don't reall... |
23 March 2013
11:11 GMT |
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Reddit is known for one thing, Reddit. But the company that runs the site is expanding into video. Not a video platform, but actual video, it put together a new video series dubbed Explain It Like I'm Five which strives to do just that.
The series was inspired by the ELIF threads on Reddit itself, where people ... |
19 March 2013
06:23 GMT |
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Redditor JoDiegoJo has posted a cheat sheet given to her by a good friend, while she was suffering short-term memory loss. According to the Daily Mail, she was hospitalized after suffering cognitive trauma that left her forgetting everything every 5 minutes. She has been attending memory building therapy sessions ... |
8 March 2013
07:44 GMT |
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A string of good news for the Bitcoin currency has pushed its value to record heights, this after a catastrophic drop last year. Bitcoins hit $34, €26 briefly and now trade at above $32, €24.50 having doubled their value in the past couple of months.
Bitcoins hit a low of $2, €1.52 last year after a s... |
28 February 2013
12:11 GMT |
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A photo of a giant eel has made the rounds online these last few days, racking up some 1.2 million views on Reddit.
Some researchers believe that the sea creature is a lamprey, a species of parasite living in northern Atlantic waters.
As the animal has been caught using a bow and arrow, in the photo on the right ... |
27 February 2013
07:56 GMT |
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Team Fortress 2 is a free-to-play FPS produced by Valve and it was launch on Steam for Linux a while ago, but some users have reported problems with the framerate. Even if Valve has pushed a lot of updates for Team Fortress 2, one particular problem hasn't been resolved. Some users reported stuttering, even if ... |
26 February 2013
12:29 GMT |
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Redditor elilanger has posted a photo of a friend's resume on the popular sharing website, and it has quickly gone viral.What's special about said resume is that it is printed out on a chocolate bar wrapper.“This is my friend's resume. He got the job,” the user posted. Had he not got the po... |
22 February 2013
12:00 GMT |
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Just last week Reddit started accepting bitcoins in its store. Now, Mega is doing the same, roughly half a bitcoin will get you one month of Mega Pro I, which comes with 500 GB of storage. For three times that, you get 4 TB of storage. Users get 50 GB for free, but anyone needing more storage space and more bandwid... |
18 February 2013
08:13 GMT |
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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has been busy since arriving at the ISS in December. He's also made some time for the experiments he has to run, presumably.
Most of his time seems to be occupied with tweeting breathtaking photos from space, chatting with William Shatner, doing live concerts and generally bei... |
18 February 2013
05:56 GMT |
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently took part in his first AMA session on Reddit so, just like everyone else, he submitted a photo to administrators to prove his identity.
Pranksters, however, modified the photo to read “Hey Facebook, as some of you may know, I’m Bill Gates. If you click that share ... |
15 February 2013
17:31 GMT |
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Reddit, always a progressive site, is now accepting Bitcoins as payment for Reddit Gold, a sort of paid "pro" account.
Until now, users could pay with PayPal or Google Wallet, there's now a third option, bitcoins, one that may prove popular with Reddit users, at least some groups. Actually, it's adding a ... |
15 February 2013
06:57 GMT |
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Adblock and the myriad of clones and similar add-ons and tools have been hugely popular and for good reason. The web is littered with annoying, sleazy or downright dangerous ads.
A way of getting rid of them was welcomed by most. But the web also depends on ads, most of what you use is paid for by advertising.
Ad... |
5 February 2013
12:22 GMT |
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It was just a matter of time until we saw an application like Reditr for the desktop. Its purpose is pretty simple: help you manage as much content from Reddit as you can handle.
Reditr can do this by showing multiple feeds in a single window and giving you the possibility to check posts in their entirety.
This sim... |
28 January 2013
16:11 GMT |
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You can tell the woman who was proposed to in this viral photo was actually surprised. She wasn't as shocked as the onlooker behind her, though. This photo was uploaded to Reddit by user smashes11 three days ago, with the caption “Not sure who was more shocked by this proposal...” So far, it has bee... |
23 January 2013
09:55 GMT |
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An encouraging message made its way to Reddit, from a restroom stall on the campus of an unnamed university. The letter has been viewed over 760,000 times.
The stall was used by girls who wrote down their painful experiences and memories, which would make it a sort of a therapy restroom.
Someone anonymously posted ... |
19 January 2013
05:03 GMT |
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A photo of sleepy bulldog puppy made its appearance on Reddit rather inconspicuously, but ended up creating quite a buzz.
The pic was uploaded by youarenowpromoted under the appropriate, yet not exactly revealing, thread name “Aaaaaaand Relax.”
With more than 12,000 upvotes in a day, it seems to be abl... |
18 January 2013
09:31 GMT |
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A thief tracked down a family to return 4 gold rings he had stolen from them years ago. He also left an apology letter with the rings. The note is posted above, and you can read the entire note by clicking on the image. The thief does not leave his identity, but he or she does leave a clue about who they might be. T... |
16 January 2013
13:21 GMT |
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Little is known about Aaron Swartz and this name seems to have made a bigger impact after his death, but the truth is that his contributions have had a huge role on how we view the Internet today. Aaron Swartz had all the hallmarks of a child prodigy and he made one of his first contributions at the age of 14 when h... |
13 January 2013
07:51 GMT |
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If you rent and often thought your landlord was being unreasonable, you haven't met this man. The landlord from hell lives somewhere in the UK, but I guess we will never know where.
A picture of his rules and regulations for tenants made it to Reddit and Twitter. It quickly became viral, garnering almost 3,000... |
10 January 2013
13:11 GMT |
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Reddit is going from strength to strength and its public profile couldn't be any higher when the likes of Barack Obama stop by for chats with regular redditors. As a business though, Reddit isn't the home run its traffic numbers would suggest.
It's making money, but keeps advertising very limited, for... |
10 January 2013
08:33 GMT |
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Redditor npdewey83 uploaded an image of a bird that shares Donald Trump's famous or, dare I say, infamous hairdo.
The user rewarded those who managed to guess the location of the pet store where he found the bird with Reddit gold. As a result, I can tell you for a fact the funny looking bird lives in Poulsbo, W... |
7 January 2013
10:12 GMT |
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In case you ended up here by mistake and the title of this article has left you bewildered, check out a creative image one Redditor posted.
Featured above is a user's “conversation” with a moth. The scenario is quite simple: kid goes into the bathroom, kid owns a smartphone, he is scared by a moth a... |
30 December 2012
07:01 GMT |
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Reddit brings us yet another hilarious photobomb shot, this time with the added bonus of an unintentional optical illusion.
This photo was uploaded on Christmas Eve by Redditor sammyjay55, along with a rather cheeky comment.
“The longer you look at the man riding that woman, the funnier it gets...,” th... |
28 December 2012
10:45 GMT |
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A Muslim student's letter to Santa went viral on Reddit, basically for being heartwarming and cute. This young boy, who is in the fourth grade, wrote the letter as a school assignment. A picture of it was uploaded by his teacher's son, receiving a lot of positive feedback, and some criticism over the fact... |
14 December 2012
04:42 GMT |
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An employee at Bed Bath & Beyond chose an original way of resigning, by writing what he thinks about his boss on a product tag. He wrote the tag for the Nuwave Pro Infrared Oven on his computer, and placed it in the store. The tag, which you can read in full here, includes his honest opinion of the product and on h... |
11 December 2012
12:51 GMT |
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Reddit brings us the best photobomb pics ever, and this is exactly one of those cases. This picture, marked Epic Husky Photobomb, went viral in the last two days, most likely for its comedic simplicity. It is just a Husky wanting to steal the spotlight, by making faces at the camera. It appears this is one animal th... |
4 December 2012
13:11 GMT |
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With an over-extended moustache and a hero-like air of confidence, this man has singlehandedly ruined Movember for all of us. Only Einstein, peeking at us in the form of his tattoo, was amused when "Burnsidious" uploaded this shot of himself celebrating the month of prostate cancer awareness. His moustache extends t... |
30 November 2012
12:41 GMT |
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One man's "funny" is another's "creepy." One Facebook user, that is to say one internet using human, got the imaginative idea of recreating the profile photos of people that shared his name.
Ryan Roy, and then try to friend them. That actually sounds funny, or at least interesting from the outside.
It w... |
26 November 2012
12:15 GMT |
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A digitally modified photo of a teenager in danger becomes a meme-generator, as the photograph makes a splash on Reddit.
The picture was, of course, a hoax recreated by superimposing cutouts in Photoshop, meant to give one user's mother a scare.
“Mom was worried about my trip to the Grand Canyon, I sent... |
19 November 2012
05:57 GMT |
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Over the weekend, this picture of plastic bags being taped on a car window created a lot of buzz on Reddit. The photo taken in Savannah, Georgia, illustrates someone's unusually refreshing sense of hospitality and community. They had placed the plastic bags there because it was raining, and the side window was... |
19 November 2012
05:09 GMT |
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Here’s one bug you’ll actually enjoy seeing kick in on your Mac. A couple of users are reporting that their Launchpads “crystallized” as OS X’s built-in core image filters got mixed up for a few seconds.
A Reddit user submitted the screenshot displayed above calling it “the pretti... |
15 November 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Redditers are commenting on the shocking resemblance between a New Jersey student and a nobleman portrayed in a century-old piece of artwork. 20-year-old Max Galuppo, of Bloomsbury, stirred Reddit users' imagination when he uploaded this picture of himself standing next to a 16th century Italian painting, at th... |
14 November 2012
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Kelsey Whyte, a 19-year-old amateur photographer, has risen to what is probably temporary fame on Reddit for ruining people's pictures, with silly faces.
She first became known as "Photobomb Girl" after redditor TheHydroMule posted a link to a slideshow from a local pub.
As you can see in the pictures above a... |
13 November 2012
05:59 GMT |
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A three-month-old takes the title for "Ridiculously Good-Looking Surgery Baby," awarded to him by the more than one million Reddit users that saw his photo. Joey Powling Jr. had been diagnosed with a hole in his heart, even from fetus stage. His only chance to be free from the condition, tetralogy of Fallot, or TOF,... |
7 November 2012
02:44 GMT |
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Imgur, the site that everyone uses but few people know about is getting a revamp to make it more of a destination than just the place that hosts all the memes images you see flying around. The change makes sense, the trick is actually getting people to shift their view of the site.
The obvious reason for this is tha... |
25 October 2012
09:53 GMT |
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This couple from Wisconsin chose to plaster their daughter's Facebook wall with silly pictures of themselves, as punishment for her showing them lack of respect. They managed to access their teenage girl's account when they confiscated her phone for a week, after she “got fresh” with them. The... |
24 October 2012
21:11 GMT |
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Reddit influential moderator Violentacrez was exposed last week by Gawker to be 49-year-old Michael Brutsch. Brutsch was fired from the financial company he was working for as a programmer. According to the Huffington Post, the man was fired less than 20 hours after news of his identity was leaked. "It's amazi... |
16 October 2012
05:48 GMT |
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