Tag: PARTY

Posting an event on Facebook used to be a quick and convenient way to let your friends know where a party was, or when your band was performing. Now it's becoming a good way to hand your home address over to thousands of anonymous strangers. An Australian girl joined an exclusive league of Facebook event planners who saw thousands of revelers RSVP to their low-key parties. The girl sent the ...

An Australian teen's Facebook account was hacked and used to invite more than 4,000 people to a party at his parents' house. According to an AAP report, the unnamed South Brisbane boy, who apparently had planned on having a small party with friends before his account was compromised, told his dad what had happened when the number of people who RSVPd climbed into the thousands. "The first thing ...

Rebecca Javeleau's 15th birthday party was supposed to be a relatively intimate affair with just 15 friends on the guest list. As it turns out, though, a full 21,000 people ended up adding their names to the list, all because of a casual Facebook faux pas. To publicize her party, Javeleau, like most teens, created an event listing on Facebook. Instead of limiting the invitation to her close ...

It wasn't supposed to be this way. May 23 was supposed to be the day Parisians could forget about their country's stagnant economy, their strenuous six-hour workdays and their oversharing first lady. It was supposed to be a day when thousands of anorexic sisters and effeminate brothers, brought together under a tri-colored Facebook flag, could sport their finest identical black and gray wardrobes ...

Share If there's one thing French people love more than talking about themselves, it's seizing the opportunity to take collective action against some ridiculous non-threat. [Edit. Note: Please forgive our writer. He lives in France, and longs for his terra patria.] In a country where union workers strike faster than you can say "40-hour work week," governmental officials have to tread carefully ...

The worst post-party experience is waking up to find a keg with beer still inside it. If this happens to you, there are two options: you can empty the remaining beer onto the ground (and shed a tear), or you can try your best to keep that keg iced down so the beer won't spoil. But one industrious beer-lover will never have to deal with this problem again. Inspired by a kegerator, Jean-Michel ...

Two Nebraska youngsters who used Facebook to hype an unsupervised house party as "History Making," instead made headlines when police officers busted the underage fiesta. Christopher Phelan, 22, and his sister Cassandra, 19, promoted the soiree, which was expected to draw hundreds of teen revelers and promised to feature a DJ, a photographer, six kegs of beer, and plenty of booze. Given a ...

You know you've watched 'Star Wars' a few too many times when you start to see droids everywhere you look. This might just be the case with artist Paul Loughridge, creator of the droid you see above, called Beer2D3, which was crafted using a Heineken mini-keg and a lot of ingenuity. Loughridge, who goes by the handle Lockwasher, has made numerous robots and gadgets for shows and exhibits, mostly ...

Yes, it's happened before, but that doesn't mean seeing drunken escapades caught on Google StreetView is any less funny. The latest terrific image comes to us from London, where a man can be seen yakking all over a sidewalk. As Gizmodo points out, by way of some readers, the man wearing the antlers signifies that this little incident occurred during a stag party, otherwise known as a bachelor ...

Do you love to drink but get exhausted by having to constantly raise your hand to your mouth? Lucky for you, UrbanTrend.com has a solution. Thanks to the new Alcohol Shot Gun, all you have to do is "pour in an ounce of your favorite drink into the cartridge, cock the trigger, point and shoot." Once armed with the shotgun, you have license to kill as many brain cells as you please without any ...

Earlier today, the UK's Independent reported that a 'Sweet 16' celebration for a Brighton girl devolved into a raging, crowded house party. And the parents blame Facebook. After planning the party for their daughter Georgiana, and allowing her to send out 100 invitations on Facebook, Michael and Sylvia Hobday left their East Sussex mansion for the evening, trusting that the kids were alright. ...

Well, with one fell swoop Facebook may have put a whole class of applications out to pasture. A new feature rolled out by the social networking service sends you a weekly notice of your friends' upcoming birthdays, which makes popular applications like Birthday Calendar and Birthday Alert redundant. The birthday alert business is big money. Social networking service Beebo (owned by our parent ...

Here's a bit of information that probably isn't too shocking -- the louder the bar, the more people drink. Now there is hard scientific evidence to back up what to many probably just seemed like common sense. According to a study being released in the journal 'Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research,' an increase in the decibel level of music within the bar directly correlates to an ...

Do you have one of those "friends" who only calls you when he or she is hosting a "party" to sell some product or another? Companies like Mary Kay Pampered Chef rely on these so-called friends pumping everyone they know for cash to do their business, and while just a few years ago sex toy parties were all the rage, a new type of retail party is starting to make the rounds of living rooms across ...