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Why does a security guard at a baseball game need a helmet? Here’s one reason: So he can barely flinch when a stray ball slams right into his skull. https://deadspin.com/good-thing-this-oakland-as-security-guard-wore-a-helmet-513128709
Not only white people are quickly becoming a minority in the United states, but “new Census figures released today show that for the first time in more than a century, more white Americans died than were born last year.” http://gawker.com/weep-weep-for-white-america-is-dying-513099508
Psychologists say that there are two proven methods to get people to do you favors. For big favors, is better to use the foot-in-the-door tactic. For small ones, the technique is called door-in-the-face. Learn how you can put them to good—or evil!—use. https://gizmodo.com/these-two-psychological-tricks-will-get-people-to-do-yo-513064707
Apparently, San Francisco has been invaded by douchebags—”frat boys and sorority girls and mommy bloggers and snobbish rich kids” who have ruined life in one of the most beautiful and amazing cities on Earth with their contempt and lack of sensitivity towards the people who were there in the first place.
Believe it or not, North Korea has an ice hockey team. One that high schoolers from Minnesota can beat, but an ice hockey team nonetheless. They have been playing at the lowest division of the World Championships in Capetown, South Africa. And as you would expect, it was weird and awkward.
According to marine mammal rescue centers, many malnourished sea lion babies are appearing on Southern California beaches. The one in this sweet video, who jumped into a boat to snuggle with a complete stranger, seems to be one of them. Heart. Crushed.
Edward Snowden and his acrobatic dancer girlfriend Lindsay Mills are the real-life protagonists of our paranoid era’s best spy thriller/graphic novel. With her art degree and wordy blog and burlesque stripper-pole YouTube videos and artsy lingerie shots, Mills couldn’t be more of a nerd dream girl unless she put on a Guy Fawkes mask—and she’s…
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is retiring, “making good on a promise [he] made to [his] wife.” Hadfield—commander of the International Space Station for three months—gave some of the joy of space exploration back to the world with his awesome photos, videos and Bowie in space. https://gizmodo.com/so-long-commander-hadfield-and-thanks-for-all-the-aw-504656863
Pew Research just released a new study that proves a majority of Americans are completely fine with having every part of their banal lives fed into the data-mining maw of the U.S. Government Technology Complex. If 56% of voters elected a president, we’d call it a landslide. But only 27% of Americans are paying close…
Redesign, schmedesign. Apple’s designmeister Jony Ive can harp all he wants about harmonious grids, elegant typography and the holy essence of genius contained in Dieter Ram’s underpants. But the fact is that the most oooh!-aaah! feature in his new iOS 7 is the parallax effect you can see in this animated GIF. It’s like magic…
Hillary Clinton’s managers started a Twitter account for her, which apparently proves she’s running for president.
If the constant downsizing in the news-media industry hasn’t already convinced you to pick something else to do with your life, a new study shows the worst “return on investment” for a four-year degree is a job in journalism. It takes journalists nearly 32 years to pay off their college loans. With a median salary…
BASE jumps! If they go wrong, most of the times they are fatal. But not for Maria Steinmayr, who has miraculously survived a failed Extreme BASE jump from the top of the Gran Bali Hotel in Benidorm, Spain. Her parachute failed, making her crash against the building. Hard. Miraculously, she only got a few contusions.…
“I applied for a writer job at Palantir,” a California journalist tells Front! “They specialize in using artificial intelligence to analyze data, something like that. My [Republican friend] works there. I have a few tidbits from the hiring process—they are sort of menacing, in retrospect.” It’s apparently a tough place to get a job. The…
Many people argue that, since they have nothing to hide, they don’t care about the NSA capturing all their emails, messages, calls, photos, videos and documents. This Gizmodo post is a good example of that. These arguments are horribly wrong. https://gizmodo.com/why-i-just-dont-give-a-shit-about-prism-or-any-other-s-511941519 Yes, the world doesn’t give a shit about you and your antics, your Instagrams…
If you’re feeling like the U.S. government is only picking on American humans this week, consider the wolves hunted very nearly to extinction until federal endangered species protection brought them back from the brink. As of today, wolves are on their own again. The Obama Administration is bowing to pressure from Western ranchers and hunting…
A Kansas City Royals’ fan thought that ball was coming straight to her hands, but a crafty kid with quick reflexes hopped in front of her and took home the souvenir baseball. Watch how sad she looks in the video!
The long troubled oceanfront nuclear plant in Southern California will be shut down for good, Southern California Edison announced today. The doomed domes have been closed for multiple, outrageous safety and operating violations since January 2012. More than 7 million people live within a 50-mile radius of the dangerously mismanaged and unsafe nuclear plant. Sitting…
Gizmodo dissects PRISM, “the secret government program that gives the NSA unprecedented access to the servers of major tech companies [with their cooperation]. With it the agency can spy on unwitting US citizens with terrifying granularity. Shockingly enough, it’s totally legal.” https://gizmodo.com/what-is-prism-511875267
In response to PRISM—the NSA and top tech companies’ spy network to capture all your calls, photos, videos and files—hacker group Anonymous has published 13 secret US government’s secret documents. These include documents about PRISM and the Department of Defense’s Strategic Vision for controlling the internet. https://gizmodo.com/nsa-surveillance-scandal-feds-shut-down-snowdens-secu-511588927
