5 Ways Humans Can Cause Earthquakes
Posted in: Today's ChiliIt’s 2013. We’ve sent humans to the moon and can send trillions of gigabytes zipping around the world with the tap of finger, but still—still—we can’t predict earthquakes. But we do know this: Messing around with a fault—injecting things in it, taking things out of it—can induce earthquakes.
Having been burned when it used Photoshop
Earlier today, visitors to the Chicago Tribune‘s homepage were greeted
It looks as though they’ve fixed it, but for a glorious 16 minutes this was the Chicago Tribune homepage. It is self-evidently wonderful, but let’s still talk about just how wonderful it is.
North Korea Photoshopped Its Hovercraft Fleet To Make It Look Less Terrible and Sad
Posted in: Today's Chili There’s nothing like a little Photoshop touch-up to make your navy look like more toned, suppled, and fearsome than it ever really could be. First Iran used a little editing magic to put its jets “in the air” and now North Korea is getting in on the fun as well. A glamour shot of the nation’s recent hovercraft exercise shows a couple of its models looking suspiciously similar. More »
An Idiot Counterfeiter Returned His Printer with a Sheet of Fake Hundreds Inside
Posted in: Today's Chili It’s one of the oldest tricks in the book; if you can’t earn money, why not make it? With your printer. Now that doesn’t actually work. Making counterfeit cash is really hard. But that won’t keep idiots from trying it, apparently. A Wisconsin man took it a step further though, by trying to return his copier/printer with failed copies still inside. More »
Can you spot anything amiss in today’s Best Buy Deal of the Day page? Anything out of the ordinary? Look a little closer. Still don’t see it? Here’s a better look: More »
Sometimes a browser needs to leave a little data on your computer, just a little 5-10KB nibblit, a cookie. HTML5 is a hungrier beast than that which came before it though, and sometimes wants a little more. Maybe 5MB or so. But that’s where it should end. Thanks to a little HTML5 vulnerability, however, this site can and will fill your entire hard drive with trash. Specifically cats. Lots and lots of cats. More »
A Windows Phone 8 error that asks you to put in your Windows installation disc and restart the computer. It sounds too funny to be true, right? Apparently it’s not. According to some digging by WMPoweruser, it’s rare, but real. More »