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California to Legalize Peer-to-Peer Ride Sharing

In California’s quest to legalize absolutely everything, whether it’s safe or not, so long as it doesn’t pollute the environment with anything other that toxic chemicals after they leave a human body,...

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It is a Good Idea: Film Guessing Tool

You ever play 20 questions on a long car with the theme of films. Isn’t it interesting to see how playing car games make the ride so much longer? Eventually you just want to kill everyone in your car...

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Now You Know: The History of the Internet

Who else loves histories displayed in Timeline form? Raise your hands. Are you raising your hand? I raised my hand. Someone out there apparently appreciates a good timeline as much as I do, so they’ve...

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Disney Princesses as Tattoo Pinups

What better use can be made of the internet than displaying Disney Princesses in every form and fashion imaginable? I can think of none. To that end, artist Tim Shumate has created a group of art...

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So Many Feels: Firefighter Brings Kitten Back to Life

Cory Kalanick is a firefighter, a hero, and now an internet sensation because he wore a GoPro camera on his helmet and filmed himself saving a kitten. During a sweep of a house that had experienced a...

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It’s Opinion Time: Toilet Paper Loading Direction

Lifehacker has just started another flame war over which is the top way the toilet paper should roll. Of course they are looking for, “polite, well-reasoned, and well-articulated arguments” but I’d...

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Internet Win: Daryl Dixon Riding a Squirrel into Battle

Larger version here. Every now and again the internet runs across an image that renders all your arguments invalid. It doesn’t matter what you are arguing about it has now become a moot point. Today’s...

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Why Did I Not Know About This: Cello Wars

Ok, so I like to think I’m up to date with most things on the internet. You know, I write about the happenings on the internets every day. So when something like The Piano Guys shows up and I haven’t...

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Accept No Substitutions: GTA V Torrent Contains 18G of Malware

For any of you that didn’t know, because you don’t have electricity and never go outside, Grand Theft Auto 5 was recently released to huge fanfare. Rockstar, the makers of the series, have not yet...

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Just What I Need: Bacon Deodorant

Everybody loves bacon. All of us have known it for our whole lives. A couple of years ago the Internet figured it out and soon after that advertisers and product manufacturers caught of. Why this...

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Internet Win: Russian Police Choir Performs Daft Punk’s Get Lucky

Do you ever wonder what the police forces in other countries are doing with their time. We already know what the police here are doing, NOTHING, WHERE IS A COP WHEN YOU NEED ONE TO PULL OVER THE...

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Good to Know: How to Open a Can

Random fact time, did you know that tin cans have been around since at least 1772 but the can opener didn’t come about until 1855? Well, according to the Internets it’s true. So how did people back...

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So You Like Unicorns? A Look into Their History.

io9 recently gave us a history of unicorns. Since unicorns are an Internet favorite I thought I’d tip my hat to them and share the story of Wilbur the Indian Unicorn. There are in India certain wild...

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Best Use to Date: 3D Printed Food

By now we are all aware that 3D printing is taking over the world. And some how I’ve had the access to a 3D printer ourselves so I’m not sure I believe it’s as prevalent as the Internet would have me...

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Why Spider-Man Can’t Go Back to That Shop

Let’s list the reasons shopping is hard. You have to make a list. You have no money. The lighting bothers you. There are too many choices of salad dressing. The people, oh god, the people. but, what...

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This Could Work: Groupon Delivery Catapult

With all the buzz about the attack delivery drones that Amazon is working on, Groupon decided it was time for them to explore their options in delivery; really think outside the box, in fact, smash the...

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How Much Did Your Parents Really Love You: Game Consoles Adjusted for Inflation

Larger version here. If you’re ever wanted to ruin that little bit of self-esteem that you have gathered over the last few years you’ve spent in therapy take a look at in infographic. Redditor...

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For the Dino-Bronies: My Little Raptor

If there are two things everyone using the internet loves they are dinosaurs and My Little Pony. Pizza and conspiracy theories come in a close third and fourth. But conspiracy theorists will tell you...

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I can Quit Whenever I Want: Warcraft Disney Princesses

Okay, so I’ve never played World of Warcraft. For the same reason I’ve never played Minecraft. I’m afraid that if I started none of you would ever see or hear from me again. I’ve seen these games ruin...

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Time for a Reset: 2013’s Most Commonly Used Passwords

Everyone always thinks it’s funny when you tell them that “password” is the perennial favorite for the most commonly used password. Then they steal away in the night and reset their password to...

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Oh, Now I Feel Secure: Snapchat Person Verification Cracked in 30 Minutes

Those of you that use Snapchat have probably noticed a new person verification feature that came out yesterday morning. In it you have to pick out a ghost from a series of 9 images. So it’s something...

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Do Not Want: Ron Jeremy Version of Wrecking Ball

So you’ve probably seen the original version of the Wrecking Ball music video with Miley Cyrus swinging around. And you may have seen other parodies of it too. But here’s one I’ll bet you haven’t seen,...

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WTF did I just Watch: Rollercoaster Through the Internet

Every now and then you stumble upon a video that seems like it will be worth you spending three minutes of your valuable time to watch. Maybe the screen capture pulled you in or the title grabbed your...

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For the Nursery: Cthulhu Wallpaper

Designer Megan Rose Gedris aka Rosalarian created this awesome wallpaper pattern that I can’t believe hasn’t existed until now. Of course it wasn’t cool until now. Thank you Internet. Imagine the kind...

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Grumpy Cat Replaces Disney Characters, Isn’t Happy About It

A while ago now the image of Grumpy cat as Ariel from The Little Mermaid made it’s rounds on the Internet. But now I’m going to introduce you to all the grumpy relations. DeviantArtist Eric Proctor has...

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Where Has This Been All My Life: Build LEGO Online

So, I don’t know how long this has been around but I just found it and you didn’t know about it either or else you would have told me.  But now that I have found it everything will be okay. Google...

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LEGO Gets Called Out by 7-year-old Girl

7-year-old Charlotte Benjamin has had it with LEGO and their lack of cool, adventuring female minifigs. So she decided to point her rage at the company in what became an open letter. I’m sure her...

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To Stop Bleeding Inject Sponges

RevMedx is currently working on a new invention for the Army. It’s called the XStat and it’s a lot like what it appears, a syringe full of sponges. I have to say this is one of those ideas that when it...

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Now There’s a Temporary Solution: Website Buys Users New Computers

If you’re unfortunately like me then you live the constant nightmare of helping people fix their computers all the time. I hope that you are blessed with grandparents whose worst problem is when they...

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Well Choreographed: Twerking Storm Troopers

If you’ve ever wondered what Stormtroopers were doing in their free time then you are spending too much time alone. Nevertheless, let’s use the process of elimination to figure out what these guys are...

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Oh Internet: Lays Asks for Chip Flavor Suggestions the Internet Responds as...

Remember last year when Lays did their promotion for people to choose a new flavor. In the end Cheesy Garlic Bread beat out Sriracha and Chicken & Waffles to our great dismay. Well this year...

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Clear Your Cache: Squirrel Hides Nut in Dogs Fur

I’m going to use this as a reminder that you haven’t cleared your browser’s cache in a while and you should do that now. I know you hat doing it and it kills Firefox every time. Trust me, I feel your...

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Oh the Nightmares: Realistic Sonic the Hedgehog

It’s not often that I like to contemplate what any of my childhood heroes would be like in real life. Doing so always tends towards ruining my childhood little by little and killing me on the inside....

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Because They Can: Luke Skywalker’s Silly Pose Photoshopped

Let me show you an image. This one up there. You see it? If you were to run across this one day while browsing the Internet what would you do. Probably just hit Stumble again and not give it another...

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Play it Again: Holy Stomping

When’s the last time you found a really good, amazingly simple, outlandishly dumb, and endlessly entertaining Internet game? If it’s been a while then today is the day for a new one. Holy Stomping is...

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That’s What You Get: Selfies Lead to Head Lice Epidemic

Who can raise their hand and tell me how head lice spread? Anybody? Don’t be shy? Ok fine, I’ll tell you. Head lice spread when something that touches the head of a carrier touches something else that...

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Oh It’s Real: Jeff Gordon Test Drive 2

Last year a video came out of Jeff Gordon ruining a car salesman’s day by taking him on the most horrifying test drive ever. Well the Internet was skeptical of how staged that video was. Of course,...

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It’s a New Record: LEGO Rubik’s Cube Solver Robot

The entirely of a new world record in one GIF. Watch and be amazed over and over again. Cubestormer 3 is a robot with just one job—to solve a scrambled Rubik’s Cube as swiftly as possible. Today, at...

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Man Turns Himself in after Google Search Reveals he’s a Fugitive

Christopher Viatafa, of Palo Alto, California, pictured on the left above, recently tried out this “Googling yourself” trend that he’d heard of. As in most cases Googling yourself turns into a...

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Sign Me Up: You can Now Enroll in Hogwarts Online Classes

A new site just hit the internet offering online classes for all the wizards ad witches out there. Hogwarts Is Here allows students to sign up and take the same classes that the characters int he Harry...

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Living with Lag: Oculus Rift’s New Experiment

An unfortunate fact of life for many of us living in rural areas is that the Internet, and therefore life, is sometimes plagued with a lot of lag. For this reason I’ve never been big on playing online...

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Take Me with You: Hackaday is Sending People to Space

If you’re not familiar with Hackaday you should check them out. It’s pretty much everything you could want in a site that’s not UncannyFlats. They’re currently running a contest to develop new open...

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Time Waster: 3D Mastodon Bones

Sometimes two seemingly unrelated technologies come together in such a way that you can easily wast a whole day playing with the results. This is one of those times. So before you get too far into this...

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Hypotheticals: If Famous Cats Existed as 8-Bit Video Games

You you recognize the cat above? “That’s a cat?” Yes, that’s a cat. In fact it’s your favorite cat named Sylvester. This is Sylvester as he might have looked in an 8-bit video game in the 80’s. He’s...

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So Many Things: Roller Coaster Flip Book

  What you see here is much more impressive that you realize. At first glance you might think this is an interesting GIF of a roller coaster flip book. Is that what you think? Because if that’s what...

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I Suspected as Much: The Moon has Faster WiFi than you do

How many of you are actually happy with your internet service? I know I’m not. Unfortunately I live in an area where there is only one choice for broadband internet so I’m just all kinds of buggered....

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Not Fast Food: Collaborative Cooking lets 5 Chefs Cook at Once

you know the saying, “Too many cooks in the kitchen?” Does that apply when none of the cooks are actually in the kitchen but instead are working remotely and a machine is preparing the meal per their...

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Everyone’s Life Sucks: Why You Shouldn’t Trust Facebook Statuses

Everyone has done it at some point, we’ve posted something to a social media site that was less than entirely true. Whether it was innocently trying to find the silver lining in the storm-cloud that’s...

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Because This is the Internet: Jurassic Park Theme Performed by Goats

Goats are one of those animals that the internet loves. Especially those fainting goats. But not feinting goats, I’ll tell you why. Because goats are already untrustworthy. I mean, how can you trust an...

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Finally: Photos of Schrödinger’s Cat

If you know what Schrödinger’s cat is then you’ll be happy to hear that his photo has now reached the Internet. Seeing that the Internet was created to house cat photos I find it surprising that it’s...

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