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Every dog has his day. And the Web’s most celebrated canine is getting more than one. The Pets.com sock puppet–perhaps the best-known icon of the dot-com boom and bust–is coming back from the Internet ...

With all the little ghosts and ghouls wandering about town, October is definitely the spookiest month of the year. What better time to teach your kids a little bit about bats and have some fun with ...

IF YOU thought sock puppets were made merely for the amusement of small children, think again. In cyberspace, a sock puppet is a vandal’s alter ego, an additional account that they use to pose as a ...

A best-selling British author has been caught red-handed slamming others’ books on Amazon while praising his own under a number of pseudonyms. It was the assiduous work of Jeremy Duns, another writer, ...

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.