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The funniest web addresses

(NEWSER) - Choosing a web address can be a perilous task—especially if your company is named Pen Island. Before choosing a URL, think carefully about where other people might mentally insert spaces in a multiple-word name written without any, the Daily Telegraph reports. Here's a sampling of the funniest double entendres to arise from poorly chosen URLs: More»

(NEWSER) - Joel Stein’s 3-month-old son Laszlo wasn’t a model Facebook citizen—“he threatened to pee on some, cut others,” and would routinely comment “I’d hit that” on other babies’ photos—but that’s no reason to kick him off the site, right? Turns out Baby Stein's account disabled because he was under 13. More»

Gawker writer calls out colleague for effortless idea

(NEWSER) - It takes very little work to put together a book nowadays, Gawker's Ryan Tate observes. He slams former colleague Nick Douglas for collecting a five-figure fee to "write" Twitter Wit, a book of his favorite tweets. Douglas retorts: "Reading a thousand jokes is like watching five hours of porn." More»

One-star reviews offer relief from literary anxiety

(NEWSER) - Anne Enright's The Gathering won the prestigious Booker Prize and dozens of adulatory reviews, but Cynthia Crossen of the Wall Street Journal didn't find much to admire in the bleak story of a dysfunctional family. Luckily, there's a place to vent such disappointment, she writes: amid Amazon's readers' reviews, where best-sellers and classics alike come in for bitter complaint and bad-mannered invective. More»

'Genuine smile' behind sales success, her popularity, Auburn student says

(NEWSER) - Alice Fraasa—better known as the SnorgTees girl—rejects the label of professional model even though her image hawking the shirts is ubiquitous on high-traffic websites. The Auburn senior tells BrandFreak she does the gig for fun and because she gets all the free T-shirts—with slogans such as "I'm kind of a big deal" and "I drink your milkshake"—she wants. Fraasa chalks up her popularity to her "genuine smile." More»