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Google wants to be better at Googling Google. The company is hiring an SEO program manager so Google sites get Googled better. What a world! Google controls the largest search engine in the world, so it’s kind of strange to think it needs to hire someone to improve the Google rankings of its pages. It’s…
Hey, y’all! Meet Nannie Doss. Over a period of nearly 30 years, this cheery serial killer chopped multiple limbs off her own family tree, with body count that’s alleged to include four husbands, her mother, one of her mother-in-laws, her two sisters, two of her children, a grandson, and a nephew. Her weapon of choice:…
There’s a lot of things to consider when you commit suicide. How you’ll do it, what you’ll write in the note, who you have to consider, and so on. It’s a logistical nightmare! And things will get worse once your best friends catch wind of your plan too because they’ll hilariously blow holes and expose…
Starting today, you can buy a gold iPod Touch. It’s actually not as lame as it sounds. Beneath its golden shell, the iPod is starting to look a little bit like the low-cost phones that so many of its competitors are working on, too. It would be very easy—and more than a little bit true—to…
The CDC first recommended the widespread use of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in 2007. Eight years later, only Virginia and Rhode Island have mandated that middle and secondary school students get it. Compared to the way other vaccines have been incorporated into state public health efforts, this is remarkably slow. If you’re sexually active,…
With all the handwringing over how ISIS is “winning” on social media, recruiting young people using Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, one policy wonk thinks we should fight back. He’s got disturbingly detailed plans for how the US government could borrow troll strategies to defeat ISIS on the internet. New Jersey senator Cory Booker once noted…
Here’s a wild video of Richard Hammond getting strapped onto a plane as it takes off and flies in the air and does crazy aerial tricks for Top Gear. It’s the most ridiculous type of roller coaster a person could possibly ride and Hammond is literally holding onto his butt cheeks throughout the entire ride.…
I almost fell out of my seat just now when I got the notification in my inbox. THE THUMBS ARE PLAYING A SHOW TONIGHT!?!? But lo, I will not see the punk band that broke up over a decade ago tonight. Bandsintown faked me out hard. For those of you unfamiliar, Bandsintown is a concert…
There is now a hotel in the world with a dinosaur concierge. He’s also a robot. He also speaks English. He wears a cute li’l bowtie. And his coworkers are a bunch of other robots. Welcome to Henn na Hotel, aka, “Weird Hotel.” This Friday, Japan’s Henn na Hotel (“henn na” means “weird” or “strange”…
All week, Amazon promoted its Prime Day sale as a “bigger than Black Friday” shopping bonanza. But today, a lot of the discounts look like they fell off a truck headed to a poorly regulated flea market for sad people held in a dumpster. Here are some of the turkeys of Prime Day: “Lighter Bro”…
Even when we have home field advantage, a beached shark is still not something you want to see on a relaxing trip to the playa. Because for one, the shark baring its teeth and whipping its tail is still scary as hell even though it shouldn’t be able to reach you. But more importantly, because…
Update: The Lego Group have asked that we remove the images from this post, and Leg Godt has complied with that request. The original text of the post is as follows. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is getting a veritable slew of merchandise later this year, and Lego is no exception. Several new pictures of…
When the New Horizons spacecraft sent back its first clear image of everyone’s favorite dwarf planet, Pluto became a perfect storm of a meme. Historians in the future will wonder what we were smoking. An endless assortment of related memes can be found under #pluto hashtags across the social web. Pluto’s image was destined to…
It’s time to update that Wonders of the World list to include this impossibly-perfect Lego creation by Dawid Szmandra. It’s a 1:23.5 scale version of the Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1 mobile crane that’s fully drivable and fully functional thanks to 11 Lego motors hidden away inside. The crane’s outrigger support legs unfold by themselves, its arm…
It wouldn’t be a monumental achievement in human history without some truthers on the internet calling it fake. And NASA’s historic Pluto flyby is no different. The conspiracy theory crowd has descended on the event as their too-good-to-be-true choice this week. Wake up sheeple! Pluto is just a dog at Disneyland! As just one example,…
The story of Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, head of the Sinaloa Cartel, escaping jail is just insane. A mile long, ventilated and lit tunnel was built right under his shower in his prison cell to allow him to escape. Not only that, there was a little motorbike cart inside the tunnel as well to presumably…
Japan is a country that’s 75% mountains, which makes construction more than a little tricky. One architect’s solution? Build homes into the mountains—then rent them out. Tenants then score natural geothermal insulation in an abode that’s downright Seussian. This cozy, seven-unit residential complex is nestled at (and into) the foot of Mineyama Mountain in Takamatsu,…
It was the best place to find out the worst crimes you could commit online. Cybercrime forum Darkode has been shut down after “Operation Shrouded Horizon,” an international law enforcement raid that led to 70 arrests. Known as a digital hangout for groups like Lizard Squad, Darkode was created in 2008 as an invite-only forum…
Driving off-road doesn’t have to be scary. Yet most people that spend serious cash on 4WDs never even put them in low range, much less take them off the pavement. Let’s try to fix that with a few basic skills everyone can master. What 4WD Is And How Traction Works Off-Road Four-wheel drive is actually…
What about the color of software? Or the web in general? This week, William Gibson tweeted a link to a collection of Sherwin Williams’ paint colors—specifically, one called “cyberspace,” a term he of course coined. The link revealed that the company has a whole collection of internet-focused paint colors, each part of a new palette…
