Help the police!

I must confess that I am a young father who raised his daughter - now a teen - on “Gangsta Rap,” and I didn’t even have the wisdom to put a positive spin on it like the dad in this video. “Havin’ fun cause I’m a teenager with a little bit of gold and [...]

Google Maps Now Show Traffic Conditions In 30 US Cities

Google just rolled out free near-real-time traffic reports for its Google Maps. If you're lucky enough to live in one of the 30 major cities covered and need to know up-to-date traffic conditions on that city's major highways, you can see them on color-coded maps that even differentiate between northbound, ...

Fake Bombs in Mall as PSA

Mark Frauenfelder: Justin says: "Dummy explosives were placed in transparent bags and kept at different locations inside the shopping mall in clear sight of passing crowd." Aren't many shopping mall habitués illiterate? Link Reader comment: Kate says: "Wouldn't those clear plastic bags be the ...

OMG NSFW: Video of Four USB Humping Dogs Destroying a USB Hub

For some silly reason, lots of you just love love love the humping dog USB drive. In order to satisfy your rabid canine lust, here's a video of four! of them ravaging a poor, defenseless USB hub. And you thought it was impressive to see just one dog blasting a Nintendo Wii. – Nicholas Deleon USB ...

Beer + milk = Bilk

Over in Japan, some dude is making beer from milk. Mmm... getting drunk and your daily serving of calcium. A liquor shop owner in Japan's largest dairy farming region has stopped crying about local spilt...

Incredible folding chair

Holy mother of crap. At first I thought it was CG. And then I thought it was magic. And now I'm 100% convinced it's sorcery. Burn them at the stake!

Pop-UP Advertising Gone Wrong [ Hilarious Pic ]

Bad day for Toyota.

Orange snow falling in Siberia

Yes, you read that correctly: Orange, rotten-smelling, oily snow is falling over part of Siberia. Somehow, that doesn't sound natural. An orange-coloured snowfall in Russia? s Siberian Omsk region on Wednesday was not radioactive, the...

Worst Job Ever.

Think you’ve got the worst job ever? You’ve got nothing on this: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Miss Cellania. (warning: strong language near the end).

Choose Your Own Flash Adventure

There's a special place in my heart for "Choose Your own Adventure" books, and it's right next to the place in my heart reserved for "Fighting Fantasy" books. Something about all those alternate choices...very interactive for childhood fiction. This flash (shut up, you'll ...

Fox News, Chuck Norris Confuse Nation

At some point, while we were sleeping off election night ‘06 or something, the entire media landscape became a bad Worth1000 photoshop. How else to explain this clip, in which a lobotomized Chuck Norris, riding his ironic stoner internet rebirth into a gig subbing for Sean Hannity, interviews ...

U. of N.C. Goofs, Tells 2,700 They're In

An admissions department e-mail sent from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill congratulated 2,700 prospective freshmen this week on their acceptance to the school.

How the Japanese Recruit for their Navy

After reading of my desire to join the Japenese Air Force, an astute reader (Wolfe of Wolfe’s Musings) sent us the following REAL Japanese recruiting video: (if you can’t see the video, click here) Japan’s Maritime Self-defense Force (their navy) commissioned actors to create this ...

Artificial intelligence

Computers have started to outperform humans in games they used to lose

Bright Nights Installation in New York City.

Michael Meier of Oakado blog (fun illustrations, btw) found this awesome interactive installation called Bright Nights in New York City’s Union Square: The project was called »Bright nights« and the code for the installation was made with java and c++. It workes basically like the ...

Office Guns.

They may seem crappy but some of these office-made rubber band guns could kill you. In the gallery you can see all the gun models built only using office tools. Also there are comparatives and photos of demostrations of penetration power and so forth. Link

Stowaway's body found in 747 wheel well

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Every MythBusters Myth...On One Page!

JavaScript and the MythBusters: What could be geekier? We've had a fantastic time bringing this one to you, Drivlers. MythBusters guru and Drivl designer Jeff Pollard's geektastic table is finally ready.The Discovery Channel'

Girl in human sling shot

I'm telling you now this looks like the funnest thing in the universe. If you offered me sex with Jessica Alba or this I'd already have pushed down and trampled Jessica trying to strap myself in.

Lies Your Mother Told You.

The Lie: Lemmings commit suicide en masse. The Truth: Lemmings are stupid, not depressed. The myth of lemming suicide goes back a long way - at least to Freud, who in Civilization and Its Discontents (1929) examined the human death instinct in the context of the purported mass suicide of lemmings. But ...