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Nobody likes it, it’s always broken, users are leaving in unprecedented droves and the community of SU is so used to being screwed over that, at this point, they don’t even kick up a fuss about it, they just leave.

The new interface is impossible to use, even for users with IT backgrounds, no I am not exaggerating. It is also super frustrating because it’s anti-social and most of the provided functionality doesn’t actually function.

The once thriving community of StumbleUpon has clung to each other as they spread across the web and can be found, still playing in the pool together, in several fun places. The best two options are:

• Categorian (best option for people who liked the way of blogging SU once provided)
• Tumblr (best option for people who like instant gratification on their shared posts)

You can find everyone else and all their other blogs at the new forum SUCats, where everyone is hanging out these days.

[Watch the video to find out!]

Today, they’re giving every deviantART member an all-access Premium Membership pass!

Also, check out Deviantart on tumblr, which I only just discovered.

lovetonikki:

i think i want to throwup now…

Okay well at first I felt really awful for her….

… O.O

i was NOT expecting that ending bit.

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what the actual fuck..i meanthe end is just..omg wut the actual fuck 0_____________________0

OH SHIT THAT´S AN UNEXPECTED END

^^^ Literally making the exact same face as Neffy right now.

*insert picture of extreme awe beyond capability*

yea i totally saw that coming.

Wait… What.. But.. I..

rebloggin for the video but esp the ACCURATE reactions O_O

[Reblog from tumblr]

Downloading songs from Tumblr is a snap with Firefox!

1. Download the Greasemonkey addon, which lets you install third-party scripts to customize the way you view webpages.
2. Install Tumtaster (the script used for downloading mp3s from tumblr).

That’s it! The script adds a download button right under the music player displayed on tumblr, that allows you to easily download any songs tumblrs post. Downloading the mp3 is a 2 click process, right-click on the download button and select ‘Save Link As’.

Downloading mp3’s from tumblr is even easier with Google Chrome because installing Greasemonkey isn’t even necessary!

For IE and Safari users, you can try reading this guide to make Greasemonkey/Tumtaster work, or you can just use a better browser, which is what I recommend.

Step one: Make a tumblr blog and then theme it with a decent theme (note: you can skip steps 2 onward if you know how to make your own wicked cool theme and promote it).
Step two: Learn how to make animated gif’s.
Step three: Make lots of animated gif’s and post them all the time.
Step four: Post the url to your ask box a couple times a day and then answer totally random questions from your followers.
Step Five: Reblog other gif makers so the word gets out that you’re cool. Wait for your follower count to rise to the skies.

Here are a couple tumblrs that have done just that:

Sure there are other ways to become tumblr famous, you can create epic youtube videos and hope they take off and what not but creating gif’s is the easiest way I know to climb the ladder fast!

A jack-o’-lantern (formerly also known as a Jack o’ the lantern) is typically a carved pumpkin. People have been making jack o’lanterns at Halloween for centuries.

An old Irish folk tale tells of Stingy Jack, a lazy yet astute farmer who uses a cross to trap the Devil. One myth says Stingy Jack invited the Devil to have a drink with him and then tricked the Devil because he was too stingy to pay for his drink. He convinced the Devil to turn himself into a coin that Jack could use to buy their drinks. Once the Devil did so, Jack decided to keep the money and put it into his pocket next to a silver cross, which prevented the Devil from changing back into his original form.

Jack eventually freed the Devil, under the condition that he would not bother Jack for one year and that, should Jack die, he would never claim his soul. The next year, Jack tricked the Devil again by convincing him into climbing an apple tree, once he was up there Jack quickly placed crosses around the trunk or carved a cross into the bark (Another version of the folklore says that Jack put a key in the Devil’s pocket while he was suspended upside-down), so that the Devil couldn’t get down until the Devil promised Jack not to bother him for ten more years.

Before the ten years were up, Jack died. Of course, his life had been too sinful for Jack to go to heaven (some believe he was a thief) and the Devil had promised not to take his soul, so he was barred from hell as well. Jack’s soul was doomed to wonder in darkness with no place of rest. He asked how he would see where to go, as he had no light, and the Devil mockingly tossed him an ember that would never burn out from the flames of hell. Jack carved out one of his turnips (his favorite food), put the ember inside it, and began endlessly wandering the Earth for a resting place. He became known as “Jack of the Lantern”.

Another commonly told version of lore is that Jack tricks the Grim-Reaper into giving him eternal life, and in exchange, the reaper takes his head to hell with him. Jack then wanders the earth using a carved pumpkin for a head.

Despite the colorful legends, the term jack-o’-lantern originally meant a night watchman, or man with a lantern, with the earliest known use in the mid-17th century.

There are hundreds of other stories and variations on the origin of the jack-o’-lantern but I think nowadays people carve pumpkins for the fun of it, although it is still widely believed (if only jokingly) that placing a carved pumpkin in your yard on All Hallows’ Eve will keep the evil spirits away.

“The poisoned candy scare was a moral panic in the United States (and Canada) during the 1970s and 1980s regarding the threat that children could be in danger of ingesting razor blades, needles, or poison introduced to candy by tampering, especially during traditional Halloween trick-or-treating. Apart from one incident—actually an act of premeditated murder by a trick-or-treater’s father—there have been no recorded incidents of deliberately poisoned candy during Halloween or any similar occasion. ” wikipedia.org

Every year around this time, this topic comes up and every year I have to explain to at least a few people that what they are talking about is an urban legend. Halloween candy is your friend, don’t fear it. Sadly it is because of the panic this rumor ensued that it is illegal in several states to hand out homemade treats which is a real shame, imagine the days when there was a change the door you knocked on had a freshly made candy apple for your treat.

1. Take a few moments to check over your kids candy before they are allowed to start gobbling it down like true little goblins.
2 Take out any damaged or open pieces, set aside or eat them yourself.
3. Use your best judgment, based on your child’s age some hard candy or gum could be a choking hazard, so you can scarf that stuff as well.

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This face melting preteen saved his and his sisters life with his mad MMO skillz! Srsly, how fantastic is that? I am guessing by the description in the article he plays a rogue, he taunted and then feigned death…so WIN! I hope he gets a guild promotion for having crazy RL skillz.

Hans Jørgen Olsen, a 12-year-old Norwegian boy, saved himself and his sister from a moose attack using skills he picked up playing the online role playing game World of Warcraft.

Hans and his sister got into trouble after they had trespassed the territory of the moose during a walk in the forest near their home. When the moose attacked them, Hans knew the first thing he had to do was ‘taunt’ and provoke the animal so that it would leave his sister alone and she could run to safety. ‘Taunting’ is a move one uses in World of Warcraft to get monsters off of the less-well-armored team members.

Once Hans was a target, he remembered another skill he had picked up at level 30 in ‘World of Warcraft’ – he feigned death. The moose lost interest in the inanimate boy and wandered off into the woods. When he was safely alone Hans ran back home to share his tale of video game-inspired survival.