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By Kelly Faircloth 5/21 2:50pm

New Slang

Ratchet? (Am I using it right?)

America’s Courtrooms Now Being Polluted With Urban Dictionary Definitions

Get ready to retire the term “sober as a judge,” because we’re about to explode your notion of America’s legal system as staid and dignified. The New York Times reports that courts are, increasingly, turning to Urban Dictionary, that Internet cesspool tended by dirty-minded 14-year-olds, as an authoritative source on slang.

The Times says:  Read More

By Jessica Roy 2/17 6:45pm

XXX in Tech

Mr. Brittain (Photo: CBS4-Denver)

Revenge Porn Proprietor Reportedly Posed as Woman on Craigslist to Collect Naked Pics

Craig Brittain, the 28-year-old operator of the revenge porn website Is Anybody Down, may have obtained some of the site’s photos by catfishing women on Craigslist. According to an investigation by CBS Denver. Mr. Brittain reportedly pretended to be a woman on Craigslist’s W4W section where he solicited nude photos from unsuspecting women. Read More

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