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The tragic tale of a crab’s lost love
KC Green of Gunshow Comics offers a heartbreaking crustacean love story: [via Tastefully Offensive]
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Eleanor & Park: a terrifying YA romance that has rescued its readers and...
Eleanor & Park is told as a series of very short vignettes alternating the points of view of Eleanor, a fat, redheaded, awkward teenaged girl who lives with four siblings and an abusive,...
View ArticleMake: a wifi internet Valentine
Becky Stern writes, "Send your valentine a note through the net! This DIY electronics project uses a small vibrating motor to gently wave a tissue paper heart and flash an LED when it receives...
View ArticleSome delightfully sweet Valentine's magic for you to perform
Andy from The Jerx (previously) shows how you can use Thomas Bloomberg's Konami Code effect (which allows the performer to force an observer to pick a certain square in a grid, despite a seeming free...
View ArticleGeorgia police captain got his ex-wife jailed for her Facebook comment about him
According to a lawsuit, Corey King, a police captain in Washington County, Georgia, conspired with his friends magistrate Ralph O. Todd and Sheriff's Investigator Trey Burgamy to arrest King's...
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Customizable, animated feminist "candy hearts" for an anti-trumpist v-day
Clair writes, "In light of all the coverage of Trump Valentines, I wanted to share a kickass content piece I helped create that is a feminist alternative. With the Women's Marches and Trump's complete...
View ArticleMichigan young Republicans apologize for Hitler/Holocaust-themed Valentine
Central Michigan University's College Republicans threw a Valentines event where attendees got gift bags prepared by the university's young, upstanding Republicans, including this one, bearing a...
View ArticleThis year's nerd Valentines are in, and they are boss af
For the fifth year (previously), Evil Mad Scientist Labs offers a selection of supremely nerdy Valentines to download [PDF] and print! Read the rest
View ArticleBake: a Queen of Hearts cherry pie for V-day
Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin (aka @ThePieous) (previously) writes, "Happy Valentines Day! If your readers are looking for a last-minute gift idea for their significant others, they may want to check out...
View ArticleMan proposes to girlfriend on plane, then barfs before her
Moments after executing a meticulously-arranged marriage proposal—a flight in a small airplane, a "marry me" sign on the ground, the ring presentation—Darrell Hamilton Jr vomited at the feet of...
View ArticleA neural network generated these can't-fail pickup lines
Neural nets are starting to wake up. These pickup lines, generated by a neural net maintained by research scientist Janelle Shane are much more interesting than standard pickup lines. Are you a 4loce?...
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Cute single-panel comic about relationships
Yehuda Devir and his wife Maya are both artists, so it was natural for him to create a charming illustrated blog of their relationship. His version of things seems a little one-sided, IMHO. I hope Maya...
View ArticleChinese wives, denied legal rights, hire "mistress dispellers" to keep their...
China's long economic boom and near-total lack of social and legal protections for divorced women has created growth industries in weird services that help women keep their marriages intact after...
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Vinegar Valentines: Villainous Victorian woodcuts that lament the irritations...
Spitalfields Life highlights a selection of the "Villainous Valentines," Victorian-era prints that illustrate the irritations of hiring different kinds of tradesmen, accompanied by appropriate...
View ArticleRomance writers sought for library residency at my former Toronto workplace
I was a teenaged page at the North York Central Library in suburban Toronto, working in the Business and Urban Affairs section, shelving books, taping together newspapers while we waited for their...
View ArticleEmotional labor watch: "Closers" flirt on behalf of men who use Tinder
Closers are paid $1.45/session to log into (usually) men's dating-app accounts and flirt with the women in their queue for 10 minute stretches, as part of a gig-economy company called Vida (Virtual...
View ArticleSpeaking in my professional capacity as a dystopian science fiction writer...
It is hard to imagine a more foolish proposition than putting Mark Zuckerberg in charge of my romantic life. Read the rest
View Article"Cocky" romance novelist embarks on a second career as a trademark troll:...
Over the past 20 years, the world has become a lot more cognizant of the risks of unbalanced copyright, as what was once a way to help creators gain leverage over publishers, studios and labels became...
View ArticleEFF on Cockygate: trademark trolls vs romance literature
Romance author Faleena Hopkins earned the wrong kind of notoriety when she registered a trademark on the word "cocky" for use in romance novel titles and then began indiscriminately threatening to sue...
View ArticleCranberry orange-bread, 50 years later
Patrick Costello (previously) writes, "My mom shares her recipe for cranberry orange bread with help from my dad. They have been married for fifty years and they are still crazy for each other. The...
View ArticleThe Girlfriend Zone: the inverse of "the friend zone"
The Girlfriend Zone is the place that women find themselves repeatedly and insufferably placed into by their male platonic friends, who can't or won't understand that the relationship is and will...
View ArticleBride attains virality by adding pockets to her dress and those of her...
When Cambridge, UK resident Eve Paterson got married, she insisted that her dress and those of her bridesmaids would include pockets and belts; her friend Nell Gordon's tweets about it raced around...
View ArticleA gorgeous, haunting story of technologically mediated love
After years of outstanding work as a cyberlawyer and science fiction/policy wonk, Kevin Bankston (previously) has published his debut science fiction story, Early Adopter, and it's a doozy. Bankston...
View ArticleA glowing, 3D printed rose that "blooms" when you touch its petals
Daren Schwenke's 3D printed blooming rose embeds a capacitive touch sensor -- a magnetic wire -- in one of the leaves, which trips an Arduino-controlled actuator that changes the rose's lighting and...
View ArticleGroup sex dating app has "the worst security for any dating app"
One of the wonderful and terrible things about the internet is how it allows people seeking others with hard-to-find traits to find them: advertisers can find people thinking about buying a...
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Woman charged with making bomb threats at boyfriend's workplace so she could...
Kayla Blake (33) was charged with felony terrorizing after she confessed to calling in two bomb threats against her boyfriend's place of work. She told authorities she threatened to place bombs in and...
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Woman trapped with a blind date after Chinese COVID lockdown
From The Straits Times: Over 100 virus cases have been reported in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou since last week, as China battles to contain multiple local outbreaks of the Delta and Omicron...
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The surprisingly sweet story behind the high-five photos on Wikipedia
The high five, as Wikipedia defines it, is "a hand gesture that occurs when two people simultaneously raise one hand each, about head-high, and push, slide, or slap the flat of their palm against the...
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Netflix's "The Perfect Find" Is a Delightful Black Ode to Old Hollywood
In The Perfect Find, Netflix's new romantic comedy from Numa Perrier, Jenna (Gabrielle Union) feels positively plucked from the type of pre-code romance typically helmed by an Ernst Lubitsch or William...
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Passengers having sex on plane are exposed when flight attendant opens door...
A couple of passengers were a bit too easy on an EasyJet flight — but their mile-high sexcapade was interrupted when a flight attendant opened the bathroom door. And it was caught on video by one of...
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