Casey Chan

What 2000 Calories of Food Actually Looks Like

Inspired by WiseGeek’s what 200 calories of food looks like, BuzzFeed made a video that extrapolated those calories into 2000. Which would roughly be the amount of calories you should be eating on a given day plus or minus a few hundred (though who the hell would eat 2000 calories of the same food, right).…

Greatest Dad Ever Creates a Calvin & Hobbes Nursery Complete with Tree Fort

Here’s a father that will make your heart melt in aww and a nursery that’ll make you want to go back to being a kid again. Screw real life, I want to grow up again with Calvin and Hobbes. Heck, I don’t care if I can even fit on the bed… I want to live…

What the Hell, A Live Bomb Was Found Inside a Squid’s Stomach

A Chinese fishmonger was going about his business when he randomly discovered a bomb… inside the stomach of a squid he was gutting. Apparently, a three-pound squid had swallowed an eight-inch bomb on accident. The bomb was live. Fortunately, the fishmonger managed to escape unscathed. His knifework discovered the bomb which he speculates got in…

24 Facts You Didn’t Know About Beer

If you have the fun kind of drinking problem where the world spins happy songs when you’re buzzing, enjoy this 24-pack of beer facts. Did you know that you probably suffer from cenosillicaphobia? Or that the need for beer brought in awesome inventions? Or that drinking beer is like vitamins? These are all facts you…

Here’s Everything Wrong with The Hobbit

Our friends at Cinema Sins found 45 things wrong with The Hobbit and I’m just going to assume all 45 of those things are because of the 48FPS that Peter Jackson chose to use for reasons unknown. Or I guess it could also be because the movie just wasn’t any good. [Cinema Sins]

Awesome Accountant Made an Entire RPG Game Inside Microsoft Excel

Every accountant I know swears by the powers of Excel. But not every accountant can harness that power as beautifully as Cary Walkin, an accountant from Canada. Walkin made a full RPG game inside Excel. As in you can use Excel to actually have fun. The game, called Arena.Xlsm, can be downloaded here. It works…

How to Get a Can of Soda for Free from a Vending Machine

If you’re ever thirsty for delicious carbonated sugar syrup and find yourself without any cash or quarters, maybe you’ll be wise enough to carry around a measuring tape with you. Turns out, the wild minds of Russia have developed a slick vending machine hack that’ll give you free sodas. And it only takes just a…

Um, A Vial of a Deadly Virus Went Missing from a Lab

This is completely reassuring, we don’t have to worry. A vial containing a virus that causes hemorrhagic fever has gone missing from a research facility in Texas. Okay, maybe we should worry. The virus can only be transmitted through contact with rats from Venezuela. It, let’s cross our fingers now, “is not believed” to be…

This Lost Underwater Camera Was Incredibly Reunited with Its Owner After Six Years

Back in 2007, Lindy Scallan went to Hawaii for a vacation and took her camera along. After putting the camera in its underwater housing, she went scuba diving but unfortunately lost her camera. Thinking it was gone forever, the camera was incredibly found thousands of mile away in Taiwan six years later. The pictures she…

What Your Instagram Filter Says About You

What do you think the most popular filter on Instagram is? Valencia for a little fade? Kelvin for photographical equivalent of spray on tans? Maybe Earlybird? Can #NoFilter be considered a filter? But even more than filter popularity, what do using specific filters say about you? This infographic explains. I’m actually quite happy that the…

Which Side of This Picture Is Real and Which Side of It Is CGI?

One side of this picture is a real photograph, the other side is CGI. With CGI getting better and better, it’s almost becoming undistinguishable with real life. Which side do you think is real? The right or the left? The light seems brighter on the right side but the features sort of look slightly digitalized.…

How The Heck Does This Magical Tile Board Work?

This board of tiles, or Azulejos which is a form of Portugese artwork that involves tilework, is making my brain lose its gray matter. The tile board somehow maintains the same number of tiles even when some individual tiles are removed. How did all the tiles fit in the first place? How does it still…

Watch the Full Documentary About 3D Printed Weapons: Click. Print. Gun.

After getting teased with the trailer for Click. Print. Gun, Motherboard’s documentary on the 3D printed gun movement, we finally get to watch the whole thing. The doc takes a look at Cody R. Wilson, a 25-year-old University of Texas law student, and how he’s been building weapon parts with a 3D printer. https://gizmodo.com/the-terrifying-future-is-3d-printed-weapons-5991601 Right…

Almost two-thirds of Americans think that we should be using drones to kill terrorists in foreign countries

Report: T-Mobile Is Finally Getting the iPhone Tomorrow

The saga of T-Mobile and the iPhone is full of twists and turns and fakeouts and missed connections. Every year a new iPhone comes out, every year T-Mobile gets left out of the cool kids club (which is basically every other carrier at this point). That changed in 2012, when T-Mobile announced that it would…

A Stop Motion Video Showing the Drawing of an Art Model from Every Angle Brings the Sketch to Life

Stop motion videos are usually charming because they’re so bare boned, the choppy movements are part of the appeal. But at its most wonderful, stop motion videos can bring sketches or toys or static objects to life. This super creative idea from Wriggles & Robins shows just that—every angle of an art model is captured…

If Star Wars Was Set in Jurassic Park

Mashing up two wonderful things into one ridiculously wonderful thing should be the constant goal of mankind. That’s how we got smartphones. And gummy bears infused with alcohols. And designer drugs. One Minute Galactica imagined what would happen if we mashed up Star Wars and Jurassic Park and they came up with Jurat-at Park. I’ve…

Naked Human Bodies Jumping Up and Down in 2000FPS Is Not Flattering

Jiggle. Blubber. Bounce. Gravity’s a bitch. It’s especially unforgiving if you jump up and down naked while getting filmed at 2000FPS. That sort of slow motion camera work exposes all the extra meat we carry on our bodies. LA video artist Michael Haussman captured naked people in slow motion to show you what you’re missing.…

A Meteor Streaked Across the East Coast of the United States and No One Has a Damn Picture Of It Yet

At around 8 o’clock tonight, a meteor that’s been described as “huuuuge green” and “very bright” and “blueish” and “glowing green” and “pretty big” and “very slow and bright green” was spotted across the east coast of the United States from NYC to DC to Baltimore to West Virginia to Boston and basically any big…

What Happens When You Drop a Hot Ball of Nickel Into Honey

Because dropping super freaking hot balls of nickel is always fun to do, seeing it get dropped in various substances never gets old. This time, honey gets the hot nickel treatment. It starts pulsating like a geyser while getting all bubbly and foamy until it squashes the plastic container holding down the steam. At the…