Casey Chan

Facebook Apologized to a Mom After Accidentally Banning Her Twice for Posting Breastfeeding Pictures

Facebook doesn’t like boobs (even when they’re just elbows) so much that it banned a mother from the social network for posting pictures of her breastfeeding her children. What’s interesting is that Kemp’s photos weren’t especially revealing (in the explicit sense of the word) and that Facebook actually allows photos of breastfeeding to be posted.…

It Took Four Months to Recreate Jurassic Park in Minecraft and It Was Totally Worth It

If you’re not interested in watching Jurassic Park with three d’s, here’s something that might change your mind: Jurassic Park, completely recreated in Minecraft. Take a tour of the magical world, it’s so amazing and just as awe-inspiring as the movie version! Josh Collin spent four months building out and digitally placing each brick to…

A Woman Robbed a Bank with a Can of Spaghetti Sauce

Of all the food related items or household goods that you could use to pretend to be a bomb, spaghetti sauce has to be pretty low on the list. Not to a 60-year-old woman near Detroit though, she used spaghetti sauce to rob an entire bank. And she got away. Don’t worry for humanity, it…

How to Make Sure No One Bothers You in a Computer Lab

You have a lot of work to do. You’re on a deadline. You’re stressing out because people are constantly dropping by your desk saying hi, how you’re doing because you’re in a computer lab. You need to block everybody out. What do you do? Slap on some headphones and tape this sign onto your back.…

This Guy Created an Awesome Pringles Can That Actually Makes It Easy to Get Chips

Putting your hand inside a Pringles can is like placing your hand inside quicksand or a Chinese finger trap or a snake hole, it’s always uncomfortable and sometimes impossible to pull your hand out without serious injury. And the worst part is you never grab enough chips! No more. Jason Poel Smith of DIYHacksAndHowTos created…

What Aging from 1 Year Old to 102 Years Old Looks Like and What It Means

Aside from the science of aging and how faces get wrinkled and joints get creaky, there are also the hidden costs of aging too. Like how many times we went to the doctor’s or how many calories we’ve eaten or how much money we spend on healthcare and when. This video shows what it means…

What The Special Effects in The Walking Dead Looks Like

Unlike other shows who sneakily add special effects without you realizing, The Walking Dead is so overtly gruesome and bloody and gore-y that we’re completely aware that what we see is being spiced up with visual effects. Still, it’s awesome to see how the effects are added. Stargate Studios shows off the reel of effects…

If Going to a Party Was Like Playing a Video Game

Let’s face it, for some gamers going to a party is harder than playing a video game. And for partiers, playing video games is harder than partying. So what if we combined the two worlds and made a video game just for partying? It’d be a lot tougher than you think. Balancing getting drunk, meeting…

What Verizon’s Nokia Lumia 928 Will Probably Look Like

We’ve heard about the thinner, lighter and better variant of the Nokia Lumia 920 that Verizon is expected to get and now we get a look of what it’ll look like. Probably. The reliable leak happy @evleaks Twitter account has posted pictures of a black Lumia 928 and it looks great (it also looks like…

I Love This Little Girl Who Wants to Make a Hoverboard After Watching Back to the Future II

This short film, “Hoverboard”, is about a girl and her teddy bear trying to create a hoverboard after watching Back to the Future II. I can totally relate to her because I was trying to make my own hoverboard really hover just last month. You’re an inspiration girl! Written and directed by Sydney Freeland, the…

How Much Sugar Really Is in Food?

Sugar is sweet, sugar is delicious, sugar is lovely but sugar can be so terribly bad for you. How much sugar is in foods and drinks you love? Like a soda or orange juice or cereal or even baked beans? Sugar is everywhere! That white cocaine powder adds up. BuzzFeed made a video visualizing the…

The Old World Translations for Modern Day Social Networks

You know all the social networks we use? Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, hell even LinkedIn and everything else? They’re all just replacing old stuff we used to do by ourselves at our desks. Twitter would be Post-Its, Skype would be a phone call, Foursquare is your globe and YouTube is the distracting window to the…

Describing Tech Companies As File Menu Commands

Matt Gemmell, developer of Mac and iOS apps, created a little funny about tech companies and file menu commands. Using TextEdit’s actual File menu, Gemmell used it to describe tech companies like Apple, Google, Samsung and more. My favorite might be describing HP as just a printing company. See the full picture here. [@MattGemmell]

How Far Can North Korea’s Missiles Actually Reach?

Though we know in theoretical terms that North Korea has missiles that could hit Los Angeles, where else could North Korea’s missiles actually hit? With all the hub bub about North Korea and its redeployment of missiles on North Korea’s eastern coast, the Washington Post created a map showing the range of North Korea’s various…

Report: Apple Is Close to Signing Two Major Music Labels for Its Upcoming Music Streaming Service

CNET is reporting that Apple is very close to signing deals with both Warner Music and Universal Music Group for its upcoming music streaming service. Apple still would have to sign a deal with Sony but snagging two major music labels makes Apple’s streaming service that much more ready for launch. Supposedly, Apple wants to…

If you dream of Google Glasses, Google’s entire presentation of Google Glass at SXSW is available to watch on YouTube

There Is Such Thing As a Cockroach Cam and It’s Just As Gross As You’d Imagine

If you’re one of those people who feel as if you’re undeserving of love and/or enjoy torturing yourself for fun, here’s something new to add to your self-mutilation bag o’ tricks: watch a 24/7/365 Cockroach Cam. It’s like watching a bunch of cam girls go about their daily lives only the opposite of that because…

What Facebook’s Real Facebook Home Would Look Like

Facebook announced a phone! No, Facebook just announced Facebook Home. Facebook announced a home? No, it’s just a home screen. Hmm… what would a real Facebook home actually look like? The guys at Joy of Tech wondered just that and created a comic that shows what Facebook distilled into a home would look like. Foundation…

Watching a Hummingbird in Slow Motion Is Still Pretty Majestic

Slow motion was invented to capture every single thing in slow motion. Explosions, cheetahs, robots, people and of course, hummingbirds. The detail you see in slow motion is always better than real life. What’s amazing though is that even when you slow down a hummingbird, those damn birds still seem fast. But ticking down those…

This Fantastic Website Shows How Far Mars Really Is from Earth (Spoiler: It’s Faaaaar)

This ingenious website made by David Paliwoda shows how far Mars is from Earth in a metric all us Internet lovers understand: pixels. If Earth was a 100 pixels wide, how far would Mars be? To start off, the moon would be 3000 pixels away (and 27 pixels wide). Mars? 428,00 pixels away. And boy…