The Army’s Cybersecurity Training Videos Are Embarrassing and Sad

For the past few years, the government’s been relentless about making the American people respect the importance of cybersecurity. Obama’s given speeches, written newspaper columns, and issued executive orders to drive that point home. This is serious business! So why are the Army’s own instructional videos so silly?

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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Mute

These people need another hole in the head like the need another, um, hole in the head. This adorable CGI short follows the denizens of a mouthless metropolis as they discover all of the awesome things that spectacular orifice is good for. Yes, even that.

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Conan Screwed Up His iOS 7 Upgrade By Trying to Do It on an iPhone 3GS

Conan Screwed Up His iOS 7 Upgrade By Trying to Do It on an iPhone 3GS

When iOS 7 launched, Conan showed us all how to go about installing it. But as one eagle-eyed viewer has since pointed out, he screwed up big time—by trying to install the OS on an iPhone 3GS, which doesn’t even support it.

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Introducing MAP: An Unbreakable, Private, Portable Navigation System

Google Maps? Pfff. Nokia HERE? Get outta here. There’s an alternative to all those navigation systems you use: it’s made from 100 percent sustainable material, it’s easy to share, it’ll never break, you can fit it in your pocket, and it’s completely private.

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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Grandma’s Gift

Just in case the opening theme song from 2006’s Gift: Eternal Rainbow wasn’t saccharine enough on its own, someone went ahead and created this seizure-inducing music video for it, replete with a dancing granny, infinite cookies, and a giant MacOS pointer. Because it’s Japan, why the hell not.

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TWTIT: Smokie and Lady Chronus (NSFW)

When they said "sleep with the fishes," I’m pretty sure they didn’t mean it in the biblical sense.

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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tongiht: Orgesticulanismus

When animator Benoît Labaye’s father passed away from multiple sclerosis at the age of 55, he had spent nearly two decades confined to a wheelchair. In this touching tribute, the younger Labaye gives his father one last taste of freedom—both in form and in spirit.

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Can You Tell These Ikea Products and Death Metal Bands Apart?

Can You Tell These Ikea Products and Death Metal Bands Apart?

Ikea furniture names are often full of umlauts and improbable double consonants. I’ve been told that the names are Swedish—and I have no choice but to believe this, because I don’t speak Swedish. Come to think of it, they sort of resemble the names of another fantastical Scandinavian export: Death Metal.

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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Instant Tentacles

Congratulations everyone, your rampant consumerism has finally broken the Internet. Now where will I get insider beauty tips that my doctor doesn’t want me to know about and CHEEP V1AGR4!!!!!1?

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Oh So This Is Why Progress Bars on Videos Get Stuck So Often

Even though our Internet speed is light years faster than what it was before YouTube, it still seems like videos don’t load as fast as they should. Even on YouTube or Vimeo or Netflix or any streaming video website worth a damn, you run into hang ups and a stubbornly stuck progress bar for no apparent reason. Less satiable websites trap you in buffering purgatory. WHY? It doesn’t make sense! The only reasonable explanation is that the lemmings behind a website who drag the progress bar have mechanical failures every single time a video loads. It’s the only thing that makes sense. [Vincent Broquaire via Laughing Squid]

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