Posts tagged with ‘reddit’

Reddit AMA with the director of Birdemic 2 at 1pm EST

Join us on Wednesday, April 23rd at 10am PST for an AMA (Ask Me Anything) with the director of Birdemic 2:The Resurrection,  James Nyugen. The film, destined to be another cult classic, has “romance, horror, awkward sex, deadly birds, zombies, and a giant jellyfish.” Birdemic 2: The Resurrection picks up on the catastrophe of the first film when a flock of eagles and vultures wreak havoc amidst blossoming romance in Hollywood, California, leaving bloodshed and destruction wherever they hover in the sequel to the cult smash hit Birdemic: Shock and Terror.

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Reddit will now let its users upvote and downvote their ads

Reddit has been democratizing internet news for a while now and it’s still gotta have ads to pay the bills. But at least now you can upvote or downvote ads. See an ad and hate it? Downvote it and you’ll never see it again. Hopefully this will give advertisers feedback on the kinds of ads that annoy people, because they seem to have no idea at all whatsoever.

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Indie band asks Dave Grohl on Reddit to listen to their song, internet fame ensues

Last week, Dave Grohl did an AMA on Reddit and in the middle of the normal AMA chaos, a roommate of one of the members of the Pittsburgh band Winter Brave linked to one of their songs, asking Grohl to give it a listen. He did, he loved it and Winter Brave kinda blew up over night.

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Aaron Swartz, computer activist and co-founder of Reddit, takes his own life

At age 14, Aaron Swartz co-authored the first set of specs for RSS. He then went on to co-found Reddit and later founded DemandProgress.org, the leading voice against the SOPA and PIPA internet censorship bills. He died by his own hand yesterday at the age of 26. Today, the internet has lost one of its great talents and assets and protectors. RIP.

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Unmasking Reddit’s Violentacrez, the biggest troll on the entire internet

The internet is full of trolls, but when you’re a big enough troll to become both a hero and villain on a site like Reddit, you must be doing something right. The Redditor that goes by the name of Violentacrez has been a Reddit fixture for some time now, operating anonymously… that is until Gawker went and tracked him down.Thoughts? Was it right to out him? At first I thought so, but now, not so much.

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Borderlands on the Vita… WE NEED YOUR HELP!

Just wanted to see if I could get some IHC love for a petition that was started on Reddit.  We are trying to get Borderlands on the Vita and could use all the help we can get.  I know it’s asking for a shit ton but I knew that IHC has always shown the love in the past.  Thanks in advance… Link to the reddit page and the petition…  (Join up Redditors)

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President Obama doing an AMA on Reddit right now. UPDATE: His questions and answers

President Obama’s account has been verified, and is partaking in a Reddit AMA. For those unfamiliar, it is an open Q&A where the poster goes through and answers as many questions asked as they can in a certain time period.

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Reddit and the internet brilliantly explained through a single scene from Groundhog day

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Reddit user finds mysterious cipher, Reddit deciphers it, things get really fucking weird

So a few days ago, a Reddit user named delverofsecrets went on to Reddit to explain that he had been handed a mysterious grid cipher by a scruffy guy on a subway train and needed the site’s help to decipher it.

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Neal Stephenson is doing an AMA on Reddit tonight!

Author and Post-Cyber-Punk God Neal Stephenson is doing an AMA on Reddit tonight.  He’s taking questions at the moment and will be back online to start answering at 8PM CST

http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/vdt11/i_am_neal_stephenson_author_geek_and_now_sword/