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Illustrator Kiersten Essenpreis takes funny tweets and makes them even funnier on her genius website, Twaggies. Whenever inspiration strikes, Essenpresis designs clever illustrations depicting particularly humorous or inspired tweets. Essenpries has done about 90 illustrations so far and hasn’t showed any indication of stopping. Now I just need to think of a tweet clever enough to be preserved until the ...

The BBC’s new Dimensions website uses the size of important places and events in modern and ancient history as well as science, and superimposes the dimensions over any location on planet Earth. Doing so provides some perspective on events and places that most of us (or all of us in some cases) will never get to see first-hand, much like ...

While the talks heat up about the future of Foursquare in the wake of Facebook Places’ choppy launch, Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley tweeted that yesterday set a new company record in terms of new user signups. While this can largely be attributed to Foursquare’s newly found nook in the media following the launch of Places, it bears repeating that Facebook ...

UPDATE: The newest Facebook app update released (3.2.1), the second update in less than 12 hours, seems to remove this problem. Most people who were not seeing a check in button will now see a “this feature will be available in your region soon” message with the newest bug fix update. At least, that’s the case for me. I thought ...

I’ve read about the history of the net from probably well-near 100 sources overall. I probably didn’t absorb everything I’ve read, but I swear, everytime I read one of these tremendous infographics, I learn new things. Everything from J.C. R. Licklider’s 1962 concept of an “intergalactic network” to the end of 2009, in which mobile data exceeded that of voice ...

Our favorite single-serving Tumblr blog of� the week, Pinup RDJ, photoshops Robert Downey Jr.’s face onto the body of vintage pinup model prints. It’s going to be hard to find a blog more single-serving than this one. He is pretty. Oh, so pretty. I like that natural European look. Link

#Some people just @don’t understand the lingo of the internet. Particularly people who are unaffiliated with the ways of Twitter. Hash tags certainly don’t require a degree in rocket science to understand. Most people can usually get the point after seeing a few statuses including the elusive “#” symbol. Most people. This Facebook user is not most people. I’m pretty ...

In the beginning, God created Facebook. So stop taking all of the credit, Mr. Zuckerberg. You’ve been exposed. Historical figures have been using Facebook to embarrass themselves since creation, all the way up to modern history and everywhere in between. Need more proof? Hit the jump to see some of the most historical status updates in the history of history.

Cracked offers a helpful little rule-of-thumb for determining rather you should like a Facebook page or not. It’s easy enough really. Just ask yourself “Would I talk about this on a date?” Seriously though, consider whether you’d include the page topic in conversation on a first date or just talking with a friend, and then reconsider. So, what does it ...

The internet’s social landscape is constantly in a state of transition. Five years ago, no one would have imagined the massive popularity of Facebook or the complete deterioration and mass migration of MySpace and its users. But the Social Networking Map doesn’t lie or play games, and Facebook is clearly the new superpower. Just to give Facebook’s meteoric rise some ...