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At least 2,000 people were rescued from unprecedented rising flood waters in Baton Rouge on Saturday, and that was just the last reported count. There’s one rescue in particular you have to see though. The video, posted by WAFB, the Baton Rouge CBS affiliate, shows two men working to pull a woman from a car…
Disclaimer: Don’t do drugs and assemble furniture. The creative team of Hunter Fine and Alex Taylor, two copywriters, convinced complete strangers to do shrooms and try and assemble Ikea products. This first couple is Giancarlo and Nicole and they are so high. There’s only posted two episodes of the show called, sigh, “Hikea,” but it…
Niantic Inc., the company behind that app you won’t stop hearing about Pokémon Go, has taken a stand against cheaters in the past, or anybody who violates its terms of service, such as sending out cease and desist letters to tracker apps. Now the company has stated that it will outright ban users for those…
I’m a writer, so I’ll always have a place in my heart for the handwritten page (partially because I believe in romantic ideas about writing, but also because there is no way I’m using my phone to type out anything beyond a few words). If there’s a way to combine handwriting and computer typing, I’d…
It’s Windows 10 update time! The so-called “Anniversary Update” marks a year since the OS officially made it out of Redmond and it’s the biggest update yet. We’ve already posted our initial impressions of the update, but with the hefty patch now rolling out for everybody, here are 12 new tricks to try on your…
Scientists have long wondered why humans often give without accepting anything in return, or why we tend to help unrelated strangers. Apparently, what others think means a lot to us as a species and that has contributed to the size of our big brains. Humans are particularly judgmental of others, but scientists at Cardiff University…
We already knew that a recent hack that targeted Democratic officials was going to be more than just access to possibly incriminating emails, but we didn’t realize it would be this soon. According to a post from a notorious hacker, the contact and password information for multiple Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) members has been…
Subtweeting is something people generally consider to be mean and thus bad. For those unaware, subtweeting is tweeting about an individual without naming them. While this might sound bad on principle, subtweeting contains multitudes. It’s not only things people consider to be mean, like for example tweeting, “WOW, one of my coworkers didn’t know what…
I haven’t been to Walt Disney World in many years, but the next time I go my first stop is going to be the Animal Kingdom park. Disney opened a delightful market in 2015 that serves ribs, curry sausages, and an assortment of other grilled foods. The name? The Harambe Market. Lunch sounds especially delicious…
Not all emails are what they seem. Many messages come with embedded code designed to tell the sender when (and even where) you open them up. It’s a trick often used by marketing companies to work out if you’re actually paying any attention to them, but there are ways of spotting this kind of email…
Hmm. Is it really possible that I’ve only been soothed and satisfied by a mere 43 posts here? Seems low. In fact, that doesn’t seem soothing at all. That’s, like, not even a post a month to be satisfied with myself. I think this obviously means that I should post more stories that are soothing…
Your next tattoo could also be used to control your computer. A new technology called DuoSkin, developed by MIT Media Lab and Microsoft Research, allows anyone to create customized gold metal leaf print tattoos that can be worn directly on the skin. The temporary tattoos can be used as touchpad inputs, display outputs, and wireless…
The best science always involves explosions and destruction, and we probably would have paid closer attention to our teachers in grade school if they did experiments like this. While it’s probably easy to guess what happens when a bowling ball is dropped on an axe head from 150 feet, the slo-mo results are still far…
The reigning champion of breaking shit for YouTube views has been vaporized. How the mighty have fallen. We suspect the Hydraulic Press Channel threw the fight to Swedish Dynamite—clearly this is a smaller, less capable press than we’re used to. Still it’s a grim reminder that our 15 minutes of fame will always be fleeting.…
Junkyard flint knapping is my new favorite thing because it takes a piece of trash and recycles it into something else entirely with just a few taps (okay, more than a few taps). But watch Shawn Woods find an old bottle and then reshape it with tools that consist of an antler, a screw, and…
If you haven’t seen the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi yet, it’s a fascinating look at the man behind the best sushi restaurant in the world, Jiro Ono, and his obsessive drive to continue to improve his craft, and stay one step ahead of the machines that might one day steal his job. Although he…
Rule 34 is a foundational principle of the internet. The idea is simple: if something exists, porn of that something must also exist. Steve Wozniak exists. Alexis Ohanian and Jack Ma exist. Tom Anderson, Larry Page, Evan Spiegel, and Peter Thiel likewise exist. And yet, there is no smut of them I could find—though there’s…
[This is the most Homeric story that’s ever unfolded in my life, that until now, has only been shared as an epic oral history. Every site I’ve ever worked for has asked me to commit it to paper, er, blog, and I’ve consistently resisted. But seeing as a new chapter of Gawker Media and Gizmodo…
As a society, our relationship with food is in constant flux. Sometimes we value efficiency in the name of feeding as many people as possible. Other times we value quality ingredients in the name of nurturing the body or soul. When the modern fish stick was invented in the 1950s, it was definitely for efficiency.…
