From the Onion: "Facebook: ‘We Will Make Our Product Worse, You Will Be Upset, And Then You Will Live With It’" Is it even satire if everyone’s pretty sure that someone at Menlo Park actually said that at some point?
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That smartphone in your pocket has changed you. You’re not just able to stay in contact with your friends and family now—you’re also a photographer. But what good has really come of it?
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You’ve heard Ho Hey on enough radio stations and in enough commercials by now to be thoroughly sick of it, and you’d be forgiven for never wanting to listen to it again. But maybe, just maybe, the addition of Will Ferrell’s Harry Caray impersonation will be enough to convince you to give it another shot.
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Let’s face it; no one takes better pictures of themselves than superheroes getting ready for a poster. But how do they get the perfect set-up every time? Like this.
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In a world where seemingly every physiological foible is being reclassified as a disease or an addiction (looking at you, husky sex addicts) it was really only a matter of time until the biological mechanism behind assholism surfaced. As this documentary by December Works explains, it’s not your fault that you’re a poorly-socialized, narcissistic, self-serving little prick (unless you’re Justin Bieber
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While Douglas Engelbart’s 1968 Mother of All Demos was nothing short of iconic in the way it predicted our relationship with technology int he future, he missed a couple of tricks. So long, Douglas; the internet will miss you. [XKCD]
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The stink bug: Nature’s skunk. Though not nearly as menacing as say, a Giant Asian Hornet, the humble stink bug doesn’t suffer fools kindly. They’ll unleash a cloud of pungent, cilantro-flavored defensive odors at the slightest provocation. So the fact that director Matthew R Day was able to direct so many of them in such precise choreography is quite a feat.
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Next time you’re trying to squeeze into your skinny jeans, it might pay to give physics a thought—because depending on how fast you’re travelling, you fat frame could look a little different. Randall Munroe explains in the mouse-over text of today’s XKCD:
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In space, no one can hear you be a total perv and tell women that you want to taste them "like yogurt." Good thing too.
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