THE HOBBIT “I’ve hired the finest special effects artists and production designers the world has to offer! Now I’m going to make all their hard work look like crap.” Peter Jackson’s long-awaited The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey starts playing at midnight tomorrow night, and it’s going to make 14 billion dollars because every single person […]
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Robot Apocalypse Update: Farm Edition
Harvest Automation This will move your plants and then STRANGLE YOU! NPR’s Marketplace did a story the other day about the adorable $30k robots that are taking the place of normal, blood pumping, human workers on farms. While Americans were worried about immigrants taking our jobs, an army of robots plotted how to re-take those […]
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Dan Harmon’s XOXO Fest Keynote Speech
September’s XOXO fest was an amazingly cool thing. A tech conference focused on innovation and the arts, it brought a dizzying array of high-level talent to town, and supplemented the conference itself with a range of free, open-to-the-public film, music, and video game programming. One of the festival’s highlights is now online: A keynote speech […]
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Predatory Websites Turn Mug Shots Into an Extortion Racket
Here’s something that I never thought I’d write: The Daily has published a story that everyone should read. Websites like Mugshots.com and Arrests.org have collected millions of mug shots by scraping police department websites, and if innocent arrestees want their photos taken down, they have to spend anywhere from $399 to $1,479. The other option […]
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Apple iPhone Hoarders in the Middle of the Night
I was downtown past midnight recently and was surprised to see this eerie line of empty chairs outside the Pioneer Place mall. What was this? A Rose Parade flashback? No, said a friendly security guard doing his patrol, this was people waiting for the Apple store to open in the morning. The line has been […]
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My Retirement Plan: Robot Murderer
Alex just posted something that gave me a great idea on how to spend my retirement. Since all of you are so deathly afraid of robots—and well you should be—I’m going to go around murdering them for pay. Like this guy. I dig Magnus, Robot Fighter’s steez for a few reasons: 1) His first name […]
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Robot Apocalypse Update
A couple months back I warned you of the threat posed by noodle robots. And yet you did nothing to protect yourself. Well, things are getting worse. Not only are robots making noodles to fatten us up, they’re now able to slowly and awkwardly cut cucumbers into random sized slices. Holy shit. You can’t watch […]
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The Water Bob: When You Need a Bathtub Full of Drinking Water (Or Vodka)
So right about now you’re thinking… man. I really need to run to the store to stock up on drinking water for when WE get hit by a natural disaster not unlike Hurricane Sandy. BUT MY BACK HURRRRRRRTS. Well, save that aching back and buy The Water Bob instead! It’s a giant rubber bladder you […]
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Hurricane Sandy: Too Soon
From a friend of mine on Facebook, in regards to Facebook: Hey idiots/empathy-deficient facebook zombie-people: there is such a thing as “too soon” and just plain “garbage-person behavior”. If you are currently in a safe/non-disaster-zone city making “ironic” humorous posts about New York and the other eastern seaboard cities being affected by the storm RIGHT […]
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The Complete Guide To The iPad Mini, Nexus 10, and Surface Announcements
It’s been a big couple weeks for tablet computers with the Big 3 all announcing new products. Tablets are the fastest growing segment of the computers-without-practical-uses market. But how should you decide which tablet to spend a few hundred bucks on and then leave sitting around the house? With this handy guide, silly! Models available: […]
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Playboy‘s Girls of the (1996) Internet
Waitaminute!! Three things: 1) I had no idea the internet web could be so eroti-sexual! 2) Email = erotic interface!3) Girls used the internet in a much more hotter fashion back in 1996.4) Nipples were blurrier back in 1996.5) Kind of safe for work… but still pretty hard to explain. via
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Stuff Moms Do On Facebook
Facebook has largely survived the great momalanche of 2007-2008. The rest of us didn’t leave in huge numbers like we promised. When the moms showed up, though, they brought with them their own set of mom-behaviors that, while harmless, should nonetheless be stopped. Moms sign their comments and messages. “Looks like you’re having a great […]