This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: All Aboard the Death Coaster
In this week’s top web comedy video, deep-voiced Patrick Warburton (of Seinfeld and Family Guy walks you through the safety instructions for the least safe roller coaster in modern history. Is it wrong that I’d actually still want to ride this thing? but like really actually? Full video below. And the rest of this week’s…
How To Overclock Your Grill
How do you make grilling more awesome? More fire, of course! Whether you’re kickin’ it coal-school or setting fire to a steady stream of volatile gas, it never hurts (well, sometimes it does) to pump up the volume. WARNING! Fire is, like, dangerous! If you are accident-prone, stupid, careless, unlucky, cursed, pyromaniacal, under-age, over-age, the-right-age-but-too-pretty-to-risk-that-million-dollar-mug,…
Make a Tornado of Fire Out of Household Items
Forget fireworks, celebrate this 4th of July with a towering inferno of science. Practical Pyromaniac William Gurstelle explains the physics of the phenomenon and shows us how to build our own. FIRE TORNADOES Fire tornadoes, also known as fire whirls, were a key factor in the extreme deadliness and destructiveness of the October 1871 fires.…
The Best Apps of the Week
In this week’s app roundup: Google+, unveiled; GPS, painted with direction; North Korea, photographed; iPhones, playing dead; Instagram, challenged by Google; background checks, forever creepy; fourways, on Fring; and much, much more. The week’s best iPhone apps TapNav: It’s a GPS app that cleverly uses Augmented Reality to show you which direction the road is…
