When enabling CloudFlare through our hosting provider’s (Media Temple) built in integration a strange thing happened. The integration looked great and appeared to be setup correctly but we were only seeing a small trickle of pageviews reported by CloudFlare, one or two per day when we regularly get many thousands. Here is how to properly enable CloudFlare to service a website through Media Temple that uses a subdomain or does not use WWW to prefix the URL. Continue reading
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Some time ago I started browsing in earnest among the sprawling online community of Reddit — which probably has a subforum for any substantial interest you can think of.
I explored the site for quite a while, but concluded that most of the forums seemed either uninspired or else poorly calibrated to my interests. Continue reading
If you run a WordPress blog you may have heard about the brute force password attacks that have been going on for a few months now. If you haven’t then there’s a pretty good chance that you’ve done nothing to protect your site and Russians control your site.
Up until today the attack has focused on the “admin” username and trying to guess the password over and over. In a sign that the attacks are continuing and evolving we noticed a slightly updated tactic of guessing the password for an accounts called “adminadmin” and “administrator.” Continue reading
You know what will get you publicity? A really terrible music video. The question is what is Jonah Falcon trying to publicize, a book, a movie, a website about video games? Below is the full three minutes and seven seconds of wonderment that is “It’s Too Big”. Continue reading
Yesterday Gawker Prime rolled out the latest in a never ending effort reinvent itself. All sites get redesigns otherwise they would become stale and outdated. Gawker takes special pride in doing new and risky things with their designs. Let’s climb in the Wayback Machine and look at the different incarnations of Gawker throughout the years. Continue reading
Recently, adult male fans of Hasbro’s “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic”, (MLP:FIM) colloquially referred to as “Bronies”, and their female equivalents, known as “Pegasisters”, have garnered the interest and attention of the media, or at the very least the internet. As I was reading the various articles about the phenomenon, I found myself fascinated at how the residents of 4Chan, generally agreed upon as the worst people on the internet, had become enthralled by a cartoon about ponies aimed at pre-teen girls.
Several months ago, I set out to answer that question. These are my dispatches from Ponyville. Continue reading
I’ve had friends of various types throughout my life. But the first time I ever encountered the phenomenon of internet-only friends — “nonlocal acquaintances” — was about six years ago. Continue reading
It has been an exciting tournament and we had some fierce competition for our first battle for the Internet’s most appalling commenting community. However, one site distinguished itself in the cacophony of obscenity, stupidity, and rancor. Ladies and gentleman please give a giant middle finger to your Worst Commenters Champion of 2013. Continue reading
Welcome to the first Crasstalk Worst Internet Commenter Finals. It has been a tough tournament, but we have a really exciting final match today. This is championship level trolling and ass clownery. Continue reading
Well, round one is over and the people have decided. Let’s have a moment of silence for the horrible commenters on Craigslist, Twitter, The Blaze, and Huffington Post. You were awful, but not awful enough. Now let’s talk about the winners. Continue reading