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Texts From Last Night
Texts From Last Night (TFLN) is a regularly updated blog that re-posts short text messages submitted by its users, originally formed as a sorority email chain by creator Lauren Leto. The site tends to post texts that are shocking or scandalous.''WHAS11''"Website makes millions laugh with our private texts". July 19, 2009. The texts are sent in by people who wake in the morning "to find regrettable messages sent to or from their mobile phones".Tim Walker. ''The Evening Herald''"The best way to land a book deal -- start a silly blog" July 29, 2009. The receiver then sends the allegedly discovered text into this website. The copies of the messages do not show the phone numbers, but only area codes. Since the texts are often similar to late night drunk dials, they're often graphic and sexual in nature, thus not safe for work. From a sociological perspective, the website is a "living document of twentysomething life in 2009". While TFLN has many " blackout drinking, sex, and vomit sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blog
A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page. Until 2009, blogs were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject or topic. In the 2010s, "multi-author blogs" (MABs) emerged, featuring the writing of multiple authors and sometimes professionally edited. MABs from newspapers, other media outlets, universities, think tanks, advocacy groups, and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog traffic. The rise of Twitter and other "microblogging" systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into the news media. ''Blog'' can also be used as a verb, meaning ''to maintain or add content to a blog''. The emergence and growth of blogs i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ugly Betty
''Ugly Betty'' is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta, which was originally broadcast on ABC. It premiered on September 28, 2006, and ended on April 14, 2010. The series is based on Fernando Gaitán's Colombian telenovela ''Yo soy Betty, la fea'', which has had many other international adaptations. It revolves around the character Betty Suarez, whodespite her lack of stylelands a job at a prestigious fashion magazine. It was produced by Silent H, Ventanarosa, and Reveille Productions partnered with ABC Studios, with Salma Hayek, Horta, Ben Silverman, Jose Tamez, and Joel Fields serving as executive producers. The pilot was filmed in New York City; seasons one and two were filmed in Los Angeles and seasons three and four were filmed in New York City. During its first three seasons, it aired on Thursday nights, where it was mostly successful. However, viewership dropped significantly in the show's third season, particularly in the 18–49 age grou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MyLifeIsAverage
MyLifeIsAverage (MLIA) was a website where people would submit stories and tales of their day, about average occurrences and average people. MLIA was a spin-off from the website FMyLife. The website's purpose was to demonstrate to its readers that, like them, there are many average people in the world. MLIA sought to show that a person being average does not necessarily mean that they are boring. MLIA was co-founded by UCLA students Guru Khalsa and Enrico Mills. Khalsa said that MLIA sought to "bring to light how much stupid and boring stuff gets posted on the Internet." Nathalie Graham wrote in '' The Stranger'' in 2019 regarding MyLifeIsAverage, "The site doesn't really work anymore". Submission After being submitted, the stories were screened by moderators. If enough users voted that the story was worthy of being posted, then it became the first story on the home page, and would later be pushed down the page. The website allowed anyone to submit stories for a chance of publicat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FMyLife
FMyLife is an English-language blog that serves as "a recollection of everyday anecdotes likely to happen to anyone". Posts on the site are short, user-submitted stories of unfortunate happenings that begin with "Today" and end with "FML". At its peak in 2009, FMyLife received more than 1.7 million hits each day. A book containing stories from the site and illustrations was published in June 2009. From 2013 to 2015, their video team, FML Video Guys, produced weekly videos featuring different FML stories. History FMyLife was created on January 13, 2008 by Maxime Valette, Guillaume Passaglia and Didier Guedj. The site is the English version of the creators' original website in French, Viedemerde.fr, which translates as "shit life". VDM has become one of France's top ten sites. Anybody who visits the site can decide if the writer of each anecdote's life indeed "sucks" or if he or she "deserved" what happened. Members can submit stories and leave comments. Not every story submitt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sexting
Sexting is sending, receiving, or forwarding sexually explicit messages, photographs, or videos, primarily between mobile phones. It may also include the use of a computer or any digital device. The term was first popularized early in the 21st century and is a portmanteau of ''sex'' and ''texting'', where the latter is meant in the wide sense of sending a text possibly with images. Sexting is not an isolated phenomenon but one of many different types of sexual interaction in digital contexts that is related to sexual arousal. Background The first published use of the term ''sexting'' was in a 2005 article in the Australian '' Sunday Telegraph Magazine''. In August 2012, the word ''sexting'' was listed for the first time in Merriam-Webster's ''Collegiate Dictionary''. The Pew Research Center commissioned a study on sexting, which divides the practice into three types: # Exchange of images solely between two romantic partners. # Exchanges between partners that are shared with o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BlackBerry
The blackberry is an edible fruit produced by many species in the genus ''Rubus'' in the family Rosaceae, hybrids among these species within the subgenus ''Rubus'', and hybrids between the subgenera ''Rubus'' and ''Idaeobatus''. The taxonomy of blackberries has historically been confused because of hybridization and apomixis, so that species have often been grouped together and called species aggregates. For example, the entire subgenus ''Rubus'' has been called the ''Rubus fruticosus'' aggregate, although the species ''R. fruticosus'' is considered a synonym of '' R. plicatus''. ''Rubus armeniacus'' ("Himalayan" blackberry) is considered a noxious weed and invasive species in many regions of the Pacific Northwest of Canada and the United States, where it grows out of control in urban and suburban parks and woodlands. Description What distinguishes the blackberry from its raspberry relatives is whether or not the torus ( receptacle or stem) "picks with" (i.e., stays with) th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Android (operating System)
Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android is developed by a consortium of developers known as the Open Handset Alliance and commercially sponsored by Google. It was unveiled in November 2007, with the first commercial Android device, the HTC Dream, being launched in September 2008. Most versions of Android are proprietary. The core components are taken from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), which is free and open-source software (FOSS) primarily licensed under the Apache License. When Android is installed on devices, the ability to modify the otherwise free and open-source software is usually restricted, either by not providing the corresponding source code or by preventing reinstallation through technical measures, thus rendering the installed version proprietary. Most Android devices ship with additional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Application Software
Application may refer to: Mathematics and computing * Application software, computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks ** Application layer, an abstraction layer that specifies protocols and interface methods used in a communications network * Function application, in mathematics and computer science Processes and documents * Application for employment, a form or forms that an individual seeking employment must fill out * College application, the process by which prospective students apply for entry into a college or university * Patent application, a document filed at a patent office to support the grant of a patent Other uses * Application (virtue), a characteristic encapsulated in diligence * Topical application, the spreading or putting of medication to body surfaces See also * * Apply {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Benson (filmmaker)
Michael Benson (born March 31, 1962) is an American artist, writer, filmmaker, and exhibitions producer. Career Journalism After receiving a BA in English with a minor in photography at the State University of New York at Albany in 1984, Benson worked as a news assistant and occasional contributor to ''The New York Times'', but he left the paper after two years to pursue a career as a freelance journalist. In 1986, he began a series of articles for ''Rolling Stone'' covering the opening of the Soviet underground rock music scene during the so-called glasnost ("openness") period, which were published either with his own photographs or with images by noted rock photographer Anton Corbijn. Also in the mid-1980s, he wrote an hour-long documentary for MTV on Russian rock titled ''Tell Tchaikovsky the News''. During this period, Benson worked occasionally as a photojournalist for the Reuters news agency’s Moscow bureau, landing front page shots in ''The International Herald Tribun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Abrams
Mark Abrams (27 April 1906 – 25 September 1994) was a British social scientist and market research expert who pioneered new techniques in statistical surveying and opinion polling. Background and education Mark Abrams was born Max Alexander Abramowitz in Edmonton, North London in 1906 to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Lithuania and Latvia to the East End of London in the 1890s. He later described his father Abram Abramowitz, a journeyman bootmaker, shopkeeper, and house agent, as a 'philosophical anarchist'. Abrams received a scholarship to attend The Latymer School, then read economics at the London School of Economics. He went on to complete a PhD in early modern English economic history under the supervision of R. H. Tawney in 1929. Career Between 1931 and 1933 Abrams was a research fellow at the progressive Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. In 1933 he joined the research department of the London Press Exchange, one of Britain's leading advertising agencie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Holland (writer)
Steve Holland (born April 29, 1968) is an American television producer and writer. He has written and produced for a number of notable television series namely ''Kenan & Kel'', '' Drake & Josh'', ''Married to the Kellys'', ''All That'', ''Less than Perfect'', '' Hype'', ''Zoey 101'', '' iCarly'', ''The Big Bang Theory'' and most recently ''Rules of Engagement''. He is not to be confused with Savage Steve Holland Savage Steve Holland (born April 29, 1958) is an American writer, cartoonist, producer, voice actor, animator, and film director who wrote and directed the films '' Better Off Dead'' (1985) and '' One Crazy Summer'' (1986), starring John Cusa ..., a television director and writer with a similar name, or Steve Holland, the writer who covers the White House and US politics for Reuters. White House Correspondent Steve Holland's Twitter account |
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