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You might recall teenage Limbaugh wannabe Caiden Cowger, whose virulently anti-gay rants have appeared on JMG in years past. Well, it appears that YouTube has had enough of him. From their email to Cowger: We’d like to inform you that due to repeated or severe violations of our Community Guidelines, your YouTube account CaidenCowgerShow has been suspended. After review we …

The Huffington Post today announced that in order to bring “civility and accountability” to their comments, they are switching to a (mostly) Facebook-based system. When you log in to your account and go to make a comment, you will be prompted to link your commenting account to your verified Facebook account. Then, choose how you’d like your name to be …

The headline above is from Wonkette.  Over at Buzzfeed, they are more charitable. Twitchy, the conservative Twitter aggregation site, has been sold for an undisclosed amount to Salem Communications, the Christian radio conglomerate and owners of Hotair.com and Townhall.com. Jonathan Garthwaite, general manager and editor-in-chief of Townhall.com, confirmed the news to BuzzFeed Tuesday, saying he was “excited” to be folding …

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz writes for the New York Times: Using surveys, social networks, pornographic searches and dating sites, I recently studied evidence on the number of gay men. The data used in this analysis is available in highly aggregated form only and can be downloaded from publicly accessible sites. While none of these data sources are ideal, they combine to tell …

Computer security specialist Graham Cluley tips us to a website that has compiled the jillions of email addresses recently exposed when hackers obtained the membership accounts of popular websites. Enter sites like “Have i been pwned?”, created by computer scientist Troy Hunt. Have I Been Pwned makes it easy for you to search for your email address amongst the hundreds …

“I’m very proud if Grindr has forced us to up up our game. To brush our teeth. Comb our hair. Eat right. Go to the gym. Be a healthy person. Cut back on the smoking. Cut back on the bad things and look your best. We’re men. We visualize. We see before we hear, before we think, before we do …

The FDA has ordered the genetic testing company 23andMe to cease selling its products. A high profile effort to make consumer-oriented genetic testing commonplace was derailed Monday when the FDA told Mountain View-based 23andMe to stop selling its personal DNA analysis kits, claiming that the $99 tests might be based on bad science. The agency pointedly said that 23andMe, which …

Remember last year when he did Call Me Maybe?

This is great. (Tipped by JMG reader Daddy Ray)

Business Insider notes the rise of a new preposition. Let’s start with the dull stuff, because pragmatism. The word “because,” in standard English usage, is a subordinating conjunction, which means that it connects two parts of a sentence in which one (the subordinate) explains the other. In that capacity, “because” has two distinct forms. It can be followed either by …

The woman whose face adorned the Obamacare site has finally stepped forward, but is declining to give her last name because she says she’s been the subject of brutal cyber-bullying. Right wing sites today are taking particular glee at the news that the woman is not an American citizen. ABC News interviewed her this morning.

Amazon has struck a deal with the US Postal Service who will begin delivering their packages on Sundays. Starting this week, the postal service will bring Amazon packages on Sundays to shoppers’ doors in the Los Angeles and New York metropolitan areas at no extra charge. Next year, it plans to roll out year-round Sunday delivery to Dallas, New Orleans, …

As CNN puts it, your Blockbuster late fees are now waived. On Wednesday, DISH Network, which purchased Blockbuster in 2011, announced it was closing the chain’s 300 remaining U.S.-based retail stores, as well as its distribution centers. “Consumer demand is clearly moving to digital distribution of video entertainment,” said DISH president and CEO Joseph P. Clayton in the press release …

Inspired by a similar campaign about women’s rights, the United Nation’s human rights office has launched an ad campaign which notes the most common suggestions when Google searches are made on LGBT-related topics. More results are at the link.

On the firing line are the administrators and executives of the companies paid hundreds of millions of dollars to create and operate the site. Click below for the live video.