A father and home owner in Tega Cay, SC found out via Facebook that his home had been used for a real-life version of the move "Project X" while he and his family were on vacation. While away for the July 4th weekend classmates of his children allegedly broke into to the house thru a window and held a giant bash that three months later pics turned up on someone's Facebook account.  "I'm looking at them like, 'Wait, this is my house!' They are running around doing lewd things with funnels, throwing up in the sink, passed out on the kitchen floor."  The man and his family asked not to be identified. Interestingly...


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One of the best fruits to bare from the interwebspace contraption is how easy it is to find new music, or even more about music that you already love.  "Back in my day" all of that work was heavy lifting at a local CD shop, fanzine/magazine reading or - ick - having to talk to others.  And while I very much miss visiting my local mom & pop shop to dig through records and listening to others scratched up CDs in the used section, music discovery via the 'net is a rather darned awesome thing. Making it better is the never ending and always expanding reach of services to guide you.  Along...


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The Dallas Morning News reported today that John McDaniel, a band teacher at a Colleyville Middle School has been arrested for soliciting a minor online and having an improper relationship with a student.  While this type of story pops up in the news pretty much on a daily basis, there are a couple of special notes about this one. First, John McDaniel was listed as Teacher of the Year going into the 2013 school year as printed in a school newsletter than has since been taken offline.  And secondly, the nature of McDaniel's relationship and actions with this teenage girl are really pretty shocking. From...


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A 17 year old Australian girl learned a hard lesson about Facebook after flashing a wad of cash on her account. While helping her grandmother count personal savings the girl took a picture of the wad of cash and posted it to her Facebook account.  That night two men, armed with clubs and knives, raided the girl's family home and demanded to have the cash shown online.  The girl's parents told the invaders that she not only wasn't there, she didn't live with them anymore and the men left only with some personal items and a small amount of money the parents had.  No one was injured. Police...


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Zachary Meints, 24, a former youth hockey coach was arrested on by Boulder police on five counts of Internet Sexual Exploitation of a Child.  Dating back as far as 2009 Meints was talking online with boys as young as 13 while working as an assistant coach with the Boulder Hockey Club, and continued when he changed clubs a couple of years later.  That team was called, "The RoughRiders". (peet: snicker) Meints alledgely has admitted to chatting with boys and encouraging them to send him photos of themselves naked and challenging them via Facebook to "masturbation races".  Meints is out on bond...


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Neil Geckle is a 19 year with a really twisted sense of humor. Geckle allegedly picked girls via their Facebook pages, although all attend Radnor High School.  He then would copy pictures of the girls from their pages, masturbate to them, would then digitally edit them to include images of his ween, and then reposted the edited pics back onto the girl's Facebook pages.  He did all of this under a fake Facebook account with the name, Matt Hemcher. Police became aware of the crimes when four of the girls went to the police station in hysterics and could only completely explain what had happened...


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I was driving back from a out of office meeting today and listening to the replay of today's Howard Stern show (something I've done a lot lately since getting a free trial of Sirius, and have a 1000 thoughts about Howard that probably aren't of interest to anyone but me).  The show was talking to this kid, KillaKarisma who posted this insane video on YouTube.  You can watch it below.  It is NSFW (language), but with Howard there was a whole discussion about how kids today can do these types of things and suddenly be seen all over the world and have no idea of how it could impact them later...


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With Facebook's one billion dollar purchase of Instagram - a company that had yet to make any revenue - a good percentage of Instagram users are in freak out mode. Understandably concerned that Facebook will dig their data mining tentacles into the rich information that Instagram pics provide via facial recognition and geo-tagging, many people want to close their Instagram accounts and find a new playground.  To be fair, Facebook promises to keep the two things separate, for now, and haven't made any changes - yet.  In fact Instagram has added 10 million users since last week's announcement. But...


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"Girls Around Me" was an app in the iTunes store, but it ain't no mo. The app, designed by a Russian developer, i-Free Innovations was to allow users to know when women are in their vicinity and information about them.  Using information they gathered from Foursquare and Facebook API's, the app presented user photos, profiles about women near them and allowed them to access them directly from the app.  "It makes it easier to find and eat meet people." Obviously Foursquare wanted nothing to do with this and pulled access to their data from the app, claiming it violates a ban on the aggregation...


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You have to give James Hooker credit.  He cashed in all his chips for this one. Quitting his jobs as a high school teacher, and leaving his wife, kids and home all so he could "follow his heart" and move into an apartment with an 18 year old senior, Jordan Powers, who attended the school where he taught. Hooker and Powers met when she was a freshman, but they contend that a relationship didn't begin until she turned 18.  Powers' mother, Tammy, has started a Facebook campaign,  'James Hooker to Jail Page', and contends she can prove the pair have been sexually active well before the girl's...


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