Goddammit Siri pic.twitter.com/kbAb89NuTV — kyle wagner (@kylenw) March 2, 2014

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5 Ways Humans Can Cause Earthquakes

5 Ways Humans Can Cause Earthquakes

It’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.

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North Korea Used Camo Paint to Pass Off Civilian Planes as Military

North Korea Used Camo Paint to Pass Off Civilian Planes as Military

Having been burned when it used Photoshop to make its military seem more mighty, North Korea has apparently gone the analog route. That "military cargo plane" from a few weeks back? Nothing more than a short loan from Air Koryo and a cheap coat of camo.

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Q&A With the Chicago Tribune Editors Who Put a Cat on Their Homepage

Q&A With the Chicago Tribune Editors Who Put a Cat on Their Homepage

Earlier today, visitors to the Chicago Tribune‘s homepage were greeted not with traditional lead story or splash image. Instead, there was an adorable kitty, a placeholder headline, and the word test over and over again. While it was a welcome break from the the usual gloom and doom, it was also very clearly a mistake. One that Trib Social Media and SEO Manager Amy Guth was kind enough to dissect for us over email.

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The Chicago Tribune Has Made the Best Internet Mistake of the Day

The Chicago Tribune Has Made the Best Internet Mistake of the Day

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.

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North Korea Photoshopped Its Hovercraft Fleet To Make It Look Less Terrible and Sad

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

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 »

Best Buy’s Deal of the Day Ad Uses (GASP!) a Jailbroken iPad (Updated)

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 »

Thanks To HTML5 This Website Can Fill Your Whole Hard Drive with Cats

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 »

Windows Phone 8 Has The Funniest Error Ever

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 »