Dear Kids of America: YOU ARE STOOPID!Look, I know that it’s “cool” to read newspapers and all your friends are doing it. But facts are facts: By the time you get to college, there won’t even BE newspapers! That’s why you should pick up on this “internet” tip and fast. Besides… wait. What the fuck […]
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Solar Powered Beetle Assassins Coming Soon
For those of you worried that the massive chunk of the US budget given over to the military is being frittered away, heartening news! According to various sources, the Pentagon is currently working on developing remote controlled solar-powered cyborg beetle spies: The Pentagon has funded a project at UC Berkley in which scientists have successfully […]
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Twitter’s Up The Shitter
In the mean time, feel free to leave your Tweets in the comments. @kiala, I did this for your mental health.
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Are You a Pervert? There’s an App for That!
In case you’ve been looking for an iPhone app that allows you to cause the skirts of cute Japanese girls to fly up in the air… well, you’re in luck. Because now (sigh) there’s an app for that. So when are they gonna create an app that makes a phone scream, “CALL THE POLICE! I’M […]
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Bustin’ Heads With the Swiss!
Why don’t the Swiss recognize that increasing your ability to win a bar fight is worthy of a Nobel Prize? I guess “neutrality” is just another way of saying “we’re big wimps.” Thank goodness then that the people behind Harvard’s Annals of Improbable Research are there to pick up the slack by awarding a team […]
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McSweeney’s iPhone App: The Secret to Love and Happiness.
Anyone with an iPhone can attest that the App Store is filled with 652 billion different apps. They can also attest that approximately three of these apps are actually worth anyone’s time and/or money. Add one more to that short list: the new app from indie publishing juggernaut McSweeney’s. The McSweeney’s app launched last week, […]
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Unicyclists? I No Longer Accept Your Existence.
… That is, unless you retire your old-timey, ridiculous looking unicycle in favor of this extremely awesome new-timey personal mobility device built by Honda. It is a compact experimental device that fits comfortably between the riders legs, to provide free movement in all directions just as in human walking forward, backward, side-to-side, and diagonally. So […]
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Your Toaster Sucks!
There are few foods that I love as much as I love toast. The reasons for my affection are numerous. Among them are the facts toast is warm and crunchy, it’s made quickly, and varies widely in flavor depending on what bread you happen to be using. Kitty and I recently took the leap of […]
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When Technology, Laziness, and New Age Collide
According to neatorama, British scientists are in the process of developing a chip that goes inside of your brain to turn on the TV with your mind. The tiny sensor would sit on the surface of the brain, picking up the electrical activity of nerve cells and passing the signal wirelessly to a receiver on […]
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Adventures with Kindle
As a book-worm college student, I love towering piles of books. I love the smell of old pages and ink. And I hate reading off a computer screen. I spend hundreds of dollars on ink each school year to print my PDF readings just so I can hold the material in my hands. So when […]
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“Why Can’t We Just All Be Nice?”
Maureen Dowd has an interesting column today about people being mean on the internet. Also, she has apparently always dreamed of being a cocktail waitress? Dowd starts her column, “If I read all the vile stuff about me on the Internet, I’d never come to work. I’d scamper off and live my dream of being […]
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App Demonstration of the Week: The iGun
The following video features a demonstration of the iGun application for iPhone, as performed by the most perfect person in the most perfect scenario. (Note: In this particular situation, one can substitute “perfect” with “fucked up.” Audio NSFW, headphones up!) Hat tips to Buzzfeed!