 Below is everything (newest at top) with "culture OR humor OR internet" in its title or subcategories. For a strict listing (matching all categories and subcats), click hereUSEFUL ONLINE IMAGE IDENTIFIERfrom 2025 in ( education / tech / computers / internet )
'Search across 146 billion images instantly with our advanced image recognition technology.' Go here: PicDetective.com... read more THE CREATIVE'S MAP TO GETTING DISCOVERED (AND PAID FOR IT)from 2025 in ( education / tech / internet / advice )
by Michelle Casey of doityourself.com In a world where visibility can make or break a creative career, learning how to be seen matters as much as mastering your craft. Whether you're a painter, fashion designer, ceramicist, or indie musician the same rules of creative discovery apply: show up, structure your presence, and share it consistentl... read more COMPLETE LIST OF EMOJISfrom 2025 in ( culture / tech / internet / icons )
For the most comprehensive and official reference, check out the Unicode Consortium's Full Emoji List It includes: Every emoji character and sequence Their Unicode code points Sample images from major platforms (Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc.) Descriptions and keywords for each emoji If you want a broader catalog that includes all Unicode sym... read more SPAM: I AM WRITING TO YOU TODAY UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES OF EXTREME URGENCYfrom 2025 in ( culture / humor / internet / spam )
It's been a while since I've received a funny enough spam/junk email, but here it is: Dear Contact Us, I am writing to you today under circumstances of extreme urgency. My name is Dennis somebody, a resident of Hurlock, Maryland, and I am formally requesting an emergency loan in the amount of $800,000. This substantial loan is critically ... read more GOOGLE TERMS OF SERVICE - HMMMfrom 2024 in ( education / research / internet )
. Watch on Bitchute I don't use Google (I hate when people say, 'google it'). I have Brave browser. If I really want to search for something that 'they' want to CENSOR, I use TOR browser. I wonder how many people realize that Google is manipulating them, very subtly so they have to step back and think about when people mention e... read more TEST POSTfrom 2023 in ( education / tech / internet / test )Once upon a time, there was this test post you see here. It had a brief, if shortened, life as a post on this website. Sadly, as mentioned, it didn't last.... read more SYNDICHAIN LAUNCHES FIRST VERSION OF ITS OPEN, CENSORSHIP-RESISTANT NEWS AGGREGATORfrom 2022 in ( education / tech / computers / internet )
Since Syndichain is built on a public blockchain, its data is also open and public. Every post, comment, and like is stored on a distributed public ledger which can be viewed at any time via Syndichain's block viewer...... read more FACEBOOK ADMITS IN COURT ITS FACT-CHECKS ARE JUST THIRD-PARTY OPINIONSfrom 2022 in ( education / tech / internet / social )
'Facebook (a.k.a. Meta) has admitted in court that the fact-checks used by the site to blacklist non-corporate media content are actually opinion-based labels which do not conduct any real fact-checking of information posted to the site. The evidence was revealed during the court proceeding for a defamation case filed by Stossel.': Faceboo... read more ELON MUSK FLOODED WITH REQUESTS TO BUY FACEBOOK, LINKEDIN AND YOUTUBE TO RETURN FREE SPEECH TO THOSE PLATFORMSfrom 2022 in ( culture / humor / internet / social )
If you came here looking for an actual article, you'll be disappointed. The title has more words than the article, or did until I wrote this sentence. This is a joke, though I wouldn't be surprised to hear this is actually happening. Elon never calls just to chat anymore, though, so I don't know.... read more YOU HAVE A DONATION FROM CLAY TOUSEYfrom 2022 in ( culture / humor / internet / spam )
They try hard on this one to look legitimate, but the fact remains that nobody shares their money with strangers unless it's a charity.This notification memo has been sent to you three times without a response from you and this will be the last time and I do hope you receive it. I am Clay Tousey am 69, I live at Ponte Vedra Beach.June 5th 2021 ... read more PORTFOLIO MANAGER FROM STOCKHOLM, SWEDENfrom 2022 in ( culture / humor / internet / spam )My name is doesn't matter, a portfolio manager from Stockholm, Sweden and a custodian of the Late David Holmes certificate of deposit (CD) valued fortune. here we go I sent you an initial email without a reply, Just curious if you received the email I sent ... on a matter concerning the death of David, your relative. a very common firstnam... read more CHECK OUT A SUSPICIOUS IP (INTERNET PROTOCOL) ADDRESS HEREfrom 2021 in ( education / tech / internet / spam )Check out an IP address here: abuseipdb.com/check. Just FYI if you're not sure a visitor or emailer is legitimate.AbuseIPDB is a project dedicated to helping combat the spread of hackers, spammers, and abusive activity on the internet.... read more CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTUREfrom 2021 in ( education / schools / internet )
We have two children in the home-schooling setting and I am preparing to purchase materials for them from this website. I mentioned this before after I watched The Corbett Report (James Corbett) and saw another episode today called Solutions Watch, which I highly recommend.Take a look through the book titles if you want to get more materials your c... read more A NOVEL LOCATION OF PACK WORKER, ETCfrom 2021 in ( culture / humor / internet / spam )Spam number 1Salute,A novel location of Pack Worker of our package association was unblocked. Our business offers a vast fee and training bundle to make you as a teammate of our team's expanding 'n' favorably influential fellowship.We unearthed yours data by means of the CareerBuilder online space and think that thine attainments possib... read more VACANCIES AVAILABLEfrom 2021 in ( culture / humor / internet / spam )
A global leader with a yahoo address? I don't think so. Supposedly from Kayla Smith but address is iran.retailer? And it was not sent to me but to bonabsad@. Starting to look like randomly-generated AI names, don't you think?Our company, a global leader in the acquisition of specialty financial services and machinery has opening for the ... read more A GUIDE TO UTF-8 ENCODING IN PHP AND MYSQLfrom 2021 in ( education / tech / computers / internet )
UTF-8 is a variable-width encoding that can represent every character in the Unicode character set. It was designed for backward compatibility with ASCII and to avoid the complications of endianness and byte order marks in UTF-16 and UTF-32. UTF-8 has become the dominant character encoding for the World Wide Web, accounting for more than half of a... read more BUSINESS PROPOSAL, FILE NO 180/86from 2021 in ( culture / humor / internet / spam )
Ah, yes, the good ol' Nigerian prince (with a Hungarian email address, for some reason) scam, just looking for somewhere to park my money! First of all, their numbering system is messed up. File number 180 out of 86? Anyway...Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Federal capital territory Office. Dear FriendIt is with trust a... read more ELECTRIC BICYCLE SUPPLIER FROM CHINAfrom 2021 in ( culture / humor / internet / spam )How did they know we sell bicycles!? It's not mentioned anywhere on the site. Sure, we can sell you a bike by creating a link to a local bike shop and let them do the rest, if you want? Anyway, here's the latest very important random email:Hi There,Good day!This is natalie from China, Yes, Natalie is a very common name in China I find tha... read more HACKERS HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR DEVICEfrom 2021 in ( culture / humor / internet / spam )One of our favorite scams! Our comments are interspersed in brackets and look like this.Hello there. Let me introduce myself first -- Seems very polite! I am a professional programmer, who specializes in hacking during my free time. as most of us doThis time you were unlucky to become my next victim and I have just hacked the Operating System... read more THE LATEST CREATIVE SAFETY SHOESfrom 2021 in ( culture / humor / internet / spam )I'm starting to think this 163.com domain is not legit!Dear Sir,Lucky day to you! We ARE feeling lucky now that we've received this email!We are a professional shoes manufacturer, focused on this area for 10 years. We service a good quality shoes with best price and fashionable designs and timely delivery to the customer. If you want to k... read more SUMPTUOUS OPPORTUNITY IS PROMPTLY UNCOVEREDfrom 2021 in ( culture / humor / internet / spam )I am so excited! Sounds sumptuous!Received this email the other day from Iris Holets at mrtito88.. I'm sure that is an actual person and address. People don't lie about these things, but I'm concerned. They're asking homemakers to be package managers. What exactly does that mean? In-home prostitution? Middleman for drugs and exp... read more STAND AGAINST TYRANNYfrom 2021 in ( education / tech / internet / politics )
It worked against apartheid South Africa. Let's hope it works against other tyrants, in this case tech tyrantsTake a Stand Against Big Tech: Facebook, Google, Twitter. These tech titans seek to silence us from public discourse...and they're doing it with our tax dollars. Each state government spends a tremendous amount of money with these ... read more TIME TO SWITCH FROM FIREFOX TO ANOTHER BROWSERfrom 2021 in ( education / tech / computers / internet )
If this is true, it looks like a good time to get rid of that pesky control freak of a browser, Mozilla Firefox in favor of the Brave, Edge, Opera, Safari or Chrome browsers. Of course, three of those browsers (Edge, Safari, Chrome) are owned by companies with a history of censorship, so.... you should probably download and use Brave, Opera and wha... read more YOU CANNOT SIMPLY BUILD YOUR OWN FREE-SPEECH VERSION OF TWITTERfrom 2021 in ( culture / tech / internet / social )
To build an alternate social media website with a dissenting moderation policy, you must first invent the universe. Good luck.: theamericanconservative.com... read more FIX THOSE FACEBOOK-MANGLED LINKS TO YOUR SITEfrom 2020 in ( education / tech / computers / internet )
I was unaware Facebook recently added a unique click identifier to all outbound links on facebook.com. Coincidentally, one of the security measures of this server is to disallow query strings as part of the URL. Thus, any visitors coming over from Facebook were suddenly blocked and banned on sight.: How to remove Facebook's fbclid parameter us... read more THE QUEST FOR A FACEBOOK REPLACEMENT CONTINUESfrom 2020 in ( culture / tech / internet / social )I keep joining these other social networking sites, only to be disappointed. The main problem is they insist I upload my contact list, which I refuse to do. You're welcome. :) Maybe this one -- Parler -- will work out. UPDATE: Not so much!Here are a few other places you might find me currently (or soon): Flote -- Instagram (owned by Facebook)... read more BRAND SUICIDE OR SAVVY PR MOVE? CEO OF FOOD GIANT GOYA PRAISES TRUMPfrom 2020 in ( culture / tech / internet / social )
After the CEO of Hispanic food megabrand Goya spoke at the White House, demands to cancel the popular brand on social media have arisen, met by equally furious pushback from the corporation's defenders....: goya-hispanic-food-trump-cancel/... read more SPELLING AND GRAMMAR ONLINEfrom 2020 in ( education / language / grammar / internet )
When is that spelling-and-grammar-checking feature coming to Facebook, Instagram, etc.? It's not that my own (or anyone's) grammar and punctuation are flawless (too many contradictory rules), but can we all at least try harder for the sake of being understood?... read more FRIENDS OF HUMANITYfrom 2019 in ( culture / people / internet )
The Friends of Humanity website. Don't know anything about it, but I like the sound of it. :) Friends of Humanity is active in the defense of human rights, education, health care, and environmental protection. Our projects are currently underway in Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America.The .ch TLD at the end of the URL/address stands for S... read more OPTING OUT OF ADSfrom 2018 in ( education / tech / computers / internet )Useful site here to opt out of various online ads: yourchoices.com. Some of the biggest name brands always seem to be conveniently unavailable.... read more FACEBOOK CREEPS ME OUTfrom 2017 in ( culture / tech / internet / social )
Note: I am no longer on Twitter or Facebook, but here's what I've managed to salvage from back then.Every time Facebook shows me one of those notices saying something like Hey there, we've been going through all of your posts and thought you might like to share this compilation, I feel like I'm being approached by some creepy guy ... read more ALTERNATIVES TO AMAZON AND ETSYfrom 2016 in ( education / tech / internet / shopping )
If you're looking for an alternative to Amazon or Etsy, for whatever reason, you might try The Grommet or StorEnvy. I was just reading about them and thought I'd share.For alternatives to EVERYTHING, go here: alternativeto.netGoogle alternatives... read more MY TWITTER POSTSfrom 2013 in ( culture / tech / internet / social )
Note: I am no longer on Twitter or Facebook, but here's what I've managed to salvage from back then.... read more THIS IS DEEPfrom 2013 in ( culture / humor / internet )
I just had to share this comment someone left here on FriendsNews.com. Read it, absorb it, digest it, lather, rinse and repeat it. Then let me know what the %$# it means! Here it is:I comprehend that is genuinely uninteresting and you're merely skipping to the next comment, nonetheless i basically preferred to toss a sizable several many than... read more LOST A FRIENDfrom 2013 in ( culture / humor / internet / social )
No, not that kind of lost (knock on wood).But, don't you hate it when you're walking along talking to someone, it's crowded, you hear a muffled scream but think nothing of it, only to realize several blocks down the street that your friend is no longer walking beside you? You've been talking to a homeless person for the past ten m... read more COURT TO FEDS: EXPLAIN MARINE'S FACEBOOK POSTINGS ARRESTfrom 2013 in ( culture / tech / internet / social )
Brandon Raub's case exposes the seedy underbelly of a governmental system that continues to target military veterans for expressing their discontent over America's rapid transition to a police state, said John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute.: Court to feds: Explain Marine's Facebook-postings arrest.... read more BLOG CONTENTfrom 2013 in ( culture / writing / blog / internet )
I'm as guilty as anyone about trying to add content to my blog just for the sake of content (because search engines look for and rate highly based on how fresh your blog's content is). But someone whose blog/newsletter I subscribe to has stooped to simply stating the obvious, maybe phrasing it differently, just to have an interesting to... read more WHICH WEBSITE WOULD YOU CHOOSE?from 2013 in ( culture / people / internet )If you were on a deserted island with an Internet connection and a pug, but could only access ONE website, which site would it be?(BTW, the pug is irrelevant, I just like pugs!)Facebook -- 3 votesGoogle -- 2 votesKindle -- 1 votesTwitter -- 1 votesYour webmail -- 1 votesOther -- 1 votesPinterest -- 0 votesWikipedia -- 0 votesYour own blog -- 0 vote... read more SOME FACEBOOK USERS DISLIKE BEING USED IN ONLINE ADVERTISINGfrom 2012 in ( culture / tech / internet / social )
Some Facebook users 'dislike' being used in online advertising.: online advertising for Mitt Romney... read more CARE2 LARGEST ONLINE COMMUNITY FOR HEALTHY AND GREEN LIVINGfrom 2012 in ( life / help / charity / internet )
Care2 -- largest online community for healthy and green living, human rights and animal welfare. Care2 gives you the tools to make the impossible possible. Sign Trending Petitions... read more PLLEEAASSEE REEAADD!!! IT WAS ON GOODMORNING AMERICA!!!from 2010 in ( education / tech / computers / internet )
It's a very old hoax. Anything with a headline like Plleeaassee reeaadd! It was on Good Morning America! and mentioning Microsoft, AOL and Good Morning America in the same email almost HAS to be a hoax these days, and this one is. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:05 PM:This is probably a hoax, but just in case it's not, I'm forwarding it. Fi... read more COOL FEATURE JUST DISCOVERED ON GOOGLE TRANSLATEfrom 2010 in ( education / tech / computers / internet )
I got an error in a program that was in some foreign language I didn't even recognize, let alone understand. I went to translate.Google.com and typed in one of the words and chose Detect language in the Translate from... box. It told me the word was Danish. Look here: translate.Google.com/#svenbogstaver. Amazing! I thought so, anyway. :)... read more COOL SITE TO HELP PETSfrom 2009 in ( life / help / pets / internet )
The No Paws Left Behind web site is here to help you through some tough times.: NoPawsLeftBehind.org... read more FAKE ANTIVIRUS MAKES UP 15 PERCENT OF ALL MALWAREfrom 2009 in ( education / tech / computers / internet )
Google: Fake antivirus makes up 15 percent of all malware Tech News on ZDNet... read more DOWN FOR EVERYONE, OR JUST ME?from 2009 in ( education / tech / computers / internet )
I LOVE this service! : Down for everyone, or just me?... read more SET EMAIL TO FORWARD TO SOMEONE ELSEfrom 2009 in ( education / tech / computers / internet )
QUESTION: How do I set email (Outlook 2003) to forward to someone else while I'm out?ANSWER: In Outlook, click on Tools, Out of Office AssistantClick I am currently out of the office… and type your outgoing message, if any.Click Add Rule at the bottom left.Check the Forward box and click the To button to find the new recipient in ... read more A HEADS-UP ON RANSOMWAREfrom 2009 in ( education / tech / computers / internet )
Still a huge problem Beware of this scam. Don't bother trying to get them to help you unlock your pc: hackers-gang-russian-bust. The fix is to download, UPDATE, and run Malwarebytes.... read more |
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