When creativity sparks in a young person, it tends to get extinguished by societal — and often parental — pressures to join “the real world” and get a “real job.” But the people behind Madelife want ...

-- `Johnny and the Sprites' can be seen at 6:30 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays on The Disney Channel. The new season starts Saturday, Jan. 19. Disney Channel's Sprites don't appear to humans, except for ...

Sock puppets might not seem like an obvious ticket to success, but for one Dallas group, an experimental sock puppet video turned into years' worth of videos with millions of YouTube and social media ...

What's an e-tailer to do when it's one of the worst performing initial public offerings of 2000, Wall Street isn't interested and the competition is intense? If you're Pets.com, you make use of your ...

A phony name made up by a user in order to masquerade as someone else on the Internet. Sock puppets can make controversial comments or vote for or against a cause without revealing their identity.

Those sock puppets sure can harmonize, sling impressive guitar solos — and make sickly excuses. Danny Weinkauf’s catchy power-pop tune tells it like it is as far as a kid wishfully feeling symptoms ...

We’ve previously written about “tweet-less, picture-less,” computer-operated accounts or bots, that make one appear more popular—a.k.a. influential on social media—than one actually is. Recently, ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. Snap, Crackle and Pop, the purveyors of Rice Krispies' good cheer, are just pen-and-ink corporate shills. And ...

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