Casey Chan

Did Someone Really Name Their Kid Hashtag?

The problem with kooky people having babies? The names they come up with! Gone are the days of John and Jane, it’s now all about a senseless race to the bottom in idiotic naming. Fallyn, Sharpay, Zebulon and

The Lost Pictures Found in Old Motorola Razrs Sold on eBay Are Pretty Epic

Even though we had crappier phones with crappier cameras, most of us still loved to document our not so crappy lives on our phones. New York artist Kyle M. F. Williams bought 44 Razr phones on eBay and found that “half of them still had texts, sexts, pics, and vids.” He put them all together…

The 37 or So Ingredients That Make a Twinkie

If you’ve been nostalgic for Twinkies because you won’t be able to buy them anymore even though you’ve stopped eating them for years, a photographer would like to remind you what Twinkies are actually made of. Some of the ingredients don’t even look like food. Dwight Eschliman, a photographer, decided to create a gallery of…

How Old People Text

Your dear grandma and grandpa are wonderful, caring people who love you very, very much. But why is it that when they add technology into the mix, it messes everything up? What happened to sweet Gammy? Maybe they’re taking too much advice from Conan, whose hilarious Senior Tech 101 series breaks down how to use…

Social Media Is Ruining Our Real Life Conversations

If you use Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, everybody already knows everything there is to know about you. That sailing trip you took? Liked. Breaking up with your girlfriend? Replied to on Twitter. All these over-sharing, always-on social networks create situations where there’s nothing left to talk about! [Shoebox Blog via Neatorama]

If You Didn’t Know, Condoms Are Much Stronger Than Water Balloons

In this hilarious video about Durex condoms, boys are tossing water balloons that explode all over the sidewalk and leak onto people. But if they use a condom? No matter the pressure, no matter the friction, it stays strong. So yeah, condoms are better than water balloons at not ripping. [Vimeo via Design Taxi]

This Insane Image Shows How Many Planes Are in the Air Right Now for Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving means turkey. Thanksgiving means football. Thanksgiving also means a helluva lot of people taking a helluva lot of flights to get home the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. According to Flightradar24.com, this image shows how many planes that are in the air right now. It’s insane. Safe travels, everybody. [Flight Radar 24 via @BuzzFeedAndrew]

Here Are All the Gestures That Beat Every Level of Angry Birds

Does anyone actually play Angry Birds anymore? Whatever. Artist Evan Roth actually had a novel idea with Angry Birds that doesn’t include plush pillows and crappy TV shows. He painted all the gestures required to beat 300 levels of Angry Birds. It’s beautiful smudging. Roth says: “[Angry Birds All Levels] comments on the rise of…

Verizon FiOS updated its iOS App to let you stream 75 channels on your iPad [Engadget]

This Amazing Stop-Motion Video Was Made with Velcro

Stop-motion videos are always a good time, even if it’s just a stick figure dancing in a flip book. So imagine how fun a stop-motion video made with velcro (yes, velcro) is. It’s a freaking mind trip. The video called ‘Freckle’, which was directed by Mike Cantor, uses 19,000 velcro dots to act as pixels…

The Longest Word in English Takes 3.5 Hours to Pronounce

The longest word in English has 189,819 letters and would take you three and a half hours to pronounce correctly. Seriously. It’s the chemical name of Titin (or connectin), a giant protein “that functions as a molecular spring which is responsible for the passive elasticity of muscle.” You can listen to a guy pronounce the…

Is AT&T Letting You Use FaceTime Over Cellular?

AT&T recently allowed FaceTime over cellular for iPhone users on tiered data plans but reports are coming through that AT&T iPhone users on unlimited data plans are also getting unchained from FaceTime’s Wi-Fi only shackles. Is this happening to you too? https://gizmodo.com/at-t-reverses-you-can-use-iphone-5-facetime-without-wi-5958936 Previously, when you switch on the toggle for “Use Cellular Data” under Settings>FaceTime…

These Sand Castles Will Never Wash Away

Remember all the hard work you put into sand castles as a little kid? Crouching, scooping and shaping. It was tough! And it was always for naught because the stupid ocean would eventually swallow your castles whole and wash it away. What if you could make sand castles live forever, though? Turns out you can.…

Apple Finally Fixed the iMessage Bug That Let Stolen iPhones Receive Messages Not Meant for Them

iMessage, which can be a fickle bitch sometimes, had an annoying, downright scary flaw that remained unfixed for too long: if your iPhone got stolen, the stolen phone would keep receiving messages sent via iMessage even after a remote wipe out and deactivation. That meant the thief who stole your phone, could see your messages.…

Hulu Plus is now available on the Wii U. You can use the Wii U GamePad as a second screen of sorts too.

Is It Mathematically Possible to Run Out of New Music?

If you think music repeats itself and that some songs sound exactly the freaking same, there could be a reason for that (well, other than piss poor artists being gobbled up by the machine): there’s a finite limitation on how different songs can be. There is? Yep, says MATH. The thinking is that there are…

Israeli Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom Has Been Hacked by Anonymous

Anonymous, who has been trying to go after Israel, has swallowed a big fish: Israeli Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom. Anon has hacked his Facebook account and replaced the cover photo with a Free Palestine picture. Pretty embarrassing for a high ranking official! https://gizmodo.com/anonymous-is-losing-its-war-against-israel-5961685 Anon has also hacked his Twitter account and have been teasing…

Dorm-Warming Gifts for Your College Roommate

You’re young, you’re probably broke and you might not even really like your roommate. But you know what? That college roommate of yours is on the short list of people—which includes your parents, your brothers and sisters and your husband/wife—that you’re going to live with. You want to get them something. Here’s what. Hey there!…

Report: The Next Xbox Will Have a Quad-Core Processor, 8GB Ram, Blu-Ray, Kinect 2.0 and More

Xbox World has a report on the next Xbox, which will likely be called just Xbox and not Xbox 720 or Windows Xbox 8 or something. The next Xbox is expected to have “four hardware cores, each divided into four logical cores” and 8GB of RAM and more goodies. Currently codenamed Durango, the next Xbox…

A Guy Wants to Fly Across the Atlantic Ocean Using a Bunch of Balloons Just Like the Movie UP

We’ll forgive you for mistaking Jonathan Trappe for Carl Fredriksen of the Pixar movie UP. Like Fredriksen, Trappe is a “cluster balloonist” who likes to fly around the world with a bunch of balloons. He’s attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean soon. To promote his upcoming trip, Trappe teamed up with Casasyes to make another…