The Panty Raiders – Leba Haber Rubinoff and Katie Marsh – are two women who created a website purporting to sell "Forget-me-not Panties" in 2005, their work was picked up by Fark, the "College Humor" blog, Fark is a community website created by who?
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Panty Raiders The Panty Raiders – Leba Haber Rubinoff and Katie Marsh – are two women who created a website purporting to sell "Forget-me-not Panties" in 2005. The website was created, not as a hoax, but rather as an entry into Contagious Media Showdown's contest to see which purpose-built website could spark the most viral interest over a three-week period. Haber Rubinoff and Marsh saw the contest and website as a venue to raise awareness and discussion about gender. They were not expected to win, but their work was picked up by Fark, the "College Humor" blog and other sites, leading to more than 600,000 sites during the contest period and one million hits in the six months between May and November 2005.
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Fark Fark is a community website created by Drew Curtis that allows members to comment on a daily batch of news articles and other items from various websites. The site receives many story submissions per day and approximately 100 of them are publicly displayed on the site, spread out over the main page and tabs (Entertainment, Sports, Geek, Politics and Business).
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TubeCrush TubeCrush.net is a British website for women and gay men to upload picture of men they find attractive on the London underground. The website has become very popular since its creation as a "drunken joke" by four young roommates.
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Maria Schneider (cartoonist) Maria Schneider (born August 18, 1968) is an American humorist, cartoonist and illustrator best known for her work with the satirical online newspaper "The Onion" and her comic strip "Pathetic Geek Stories".
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Kalika Yap Kalika Joy Nacion Yap is an American entrepreneur and inventor. She is known for inventing the Luxe Link, a fashion accessory that hangs women’s purses to keep them off the floor. Yap is the founder and CEO of an interactive design and consulting agency called Citrus Studios, based in Santa Monica, California, and The Waxing Company, a waxing salon in Honolulu.
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The Oatmeal The Oatmeal is a webcomic and humor website created in 2009 by cartoonist Matthew Inman (born September 24, 1982, and himself sometimes referred to as the Oatmeal). Inman, who lives in Seattle, Washington, updates his site with original comics, quizzes, and occasional articles. "The Oatmeal" has also made the transition to a series of books, featuring content from the webcomic as well as previously unpublished material.
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Kimkins Kimkins is an online diet program created by Heidi Diaz under the pseudonym 'Kimmer' that became famous in 2007 in the magazine "Woman's World". The program became embroiled in controversy when it was found that its founder was morbidly obese and had provided some false testimonials on her website.
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InkTank InkTank is a blog and webcomics portal created by Barry Smith.
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SuperHappyDevHouse SuperHappyDevHouse (aka SHDH) is an international series of social events which organizers originally conceived as parties for hackers and thinkers. Founded May 29, 2005 by Jeff Lindsay and David Weekly (founder of PBwiki), SHDH in Silicon Valley began by hosting 150 to 200 people every six weeks at rotating venues throughout San Francisco Bay and Silicon Valley, California. The unusual name derived from a popular 1991 "Saturday Night Live" satire, Happy Fun Ball, which lampooned TV commercials and the NERF Ball. Weekly lived in a house nicknamed "SuperHappyFunHouse" after SNL's commercial parody, and that name was given yet another twist as SuperHappyDevHouse.
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Keek Keek was a free online social networking service that allowed its users to upload video status updates, which were called "keeks". Users could post keeks to the Keek website using a webcam or via the Keek mobile apps for iPhone, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, or Android. Users could also reply back with text or video comments, known as "keekbacks", and share content to other major social media networks. There was also an embed option so users could embed their keeks into a blog or website.
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Figment (website) Figment is an online community and self-publishing platform for young writers. Created by Jacob Lewis and Dana Goodyear, who both worked at "The New Yorker", the site officially launched on December 6, 2010. Figment currently has over 300,000 registered users and over 440,000 'books', or pieces of writing. Other features include frequent writing contests, a blog, forums, and The Figment Review. On February 27, 2012, Figment announced it would purchase and merge user bases with its rival site, Inkpop.com. On March 1, 2012, the two sites merged userbases and works. On October 29, 2013, Figment was acquired by Random House Children's Group.
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Dana Simpson Dana Claire Simpson is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the syndicated comic strip "Phoebe and Her Unicorn", as well as the long-running web comic "Ozy and Millie". Other works created by Simpson include the political commentary cartoon "I Drew This" and the alternate reality drama comic "Raine Dog".
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College and university dating College dating is the set of behaviors and phenomena centered on the seeking out and the maintenance of romantic relationships in a university setting. It has unique properties that only occur, or occur most frequently, in a campus setting. Such phenomena as hooking up and lavaliering are widely prominent among university and college students. Hooking up is a world wide phenomenon that involves two individuals having a sexual encounter without interest in commitment. Lavaliering is a "pre-engagement" engagement that is a tradition in the Greek life of college campuses. Since fraternities and sororities do not occur much outside of the United States, this occurs, for the most part, only in the US. Technology allows college students to take part in unique ways of finding more partners through social networking. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace allow students to make new friends, and potentially find their spouse.
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Panty Raider: From Here to Immaturity Panty Raider: From Here to Immaturity is a computer game developed by Hypnotix and published by Simon & Schuster Interactive.
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Lenny Pappano Lenny Pappano (born February 14, 1964) is a fantasy sports writer from upstate NY and co-founder of DraftSharks.com, a fantasy football content site based in Rochester, NY.
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World's funniest joke The "world's funniest joke" is a term used by Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire in 2002 to summarize one of the results of his research. For his experiment, named LaughLab, he created a website where people could rate and submit jokes. Purposes of the research included discovering the joke that had the widest appeal and understanding among different cultures, demographics and countries.
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Fucked Company Fucked Company was a website created by Philip J. "Pud" Kaplan after the dot-com bubble in 2000 as a "dot-com dead pool" that chronicled troubled and failing companies in a unique and abrasive manner. The web site also sold rumor listings to subscribers. The site's name is a parody of "Fast Company", a magazine that began covering technology companies during the Internet dot-com boom.
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Farbs Farbs is the pseudonym of Jarrad Woods, an indie gamer who gained media attention when he quit his job at gaming firm 2K Australia using a video game. When asked in an interview where the idea had come from to quit via video game, Woods stated "At the time there were a lot of articles touting indie games as a form of expression, and I hate writing so I wanted to express my goodbye to the team in some other way. I had planned to leave for a few months, but the message was more spontaneous".
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Badri Roysam Badrinath "Badri" Roysam (born 1961) is an Indian-American professor and researcher. He is the current chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering. Dr. Roysam is notable as the creator of the FARSIGHT project, which is a collaborative effort to create an open source software toolkit to analyze multidimensional images. Roysam's work as a researcher focuses on cancer immunotherapy and neuroscience.
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Browns (fashion boutique) Browns is a fashion boutique based in London, England. It was founded by Joan Burstein and husband Sidney in 1970. The flagship store is on London's South Molton Street. In 2015, Browns was acquired by London online fashion company Farfetch to develop and test new retail and omni-channel strategies.
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It's Not News, It's FARK It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News is the first book by
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BlogHer BlogHer is a community and media company founded by Elisa Camahort Page, Jory des Jardins, and Lisa Stone in 2005. The company, Blogher LLC, includes conferences and a blog advertising network. In 2007, it expanded to include BlogHers Act, a political blogging network by and for women. Dan Gillmor quoted the site's community guideline "We embrace the spirit of civil disagreement" as an ideal.