Printers Were Sent From Hell to Make Us Miserable
Matthew Inman once again puts into comic form what we’ve all thought at one time or another. Has anyone ever been completely happy with their printer? Between the cost of ink, the difficulty of setting them up, and their reliability, it’s a wonder anyone uses them anymore! Link -via Gorilla Mask
The Last Decade According to 9-Year-Olds
When I think of the last decade (starting in 2000), I think of it in comparison to previous decades. Being more or less a grownup, I can remember decades like the 80’s and 90’s quite well, and I’ve got some 70’s in there too. But what about kids who were born at the beginning of [...]
CSI Image Enhancer
Anyone who takes digital pictures gets a real kick out of how crime investigators on the CSI TV shows use their computers to zoom in and enhance photographs, as if you could really zoom in to just a few pixels and see a legible image. Now you can! The CSI Image Enhancer lets you zoom [...]
Actual Newspaper Story or Onion Headline?
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Anyone who reads The Weird Week in Review at mental floss knows that news stories can be hard to believe. Anyone who reads The Onion knows that fake news can highlight real issues. In today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss, you are challenged to distinguish actual news stories from the [...]
Viewing Platforms For The Brave
Anyone afraid of heights would most certainly not be interested in exploring any of the 12 viewing platforms featured on this WebEcoist post. The most striking is probably the one shown, found at the Aurland Lookout in Norway. While it looks like a bridge solely made for suicides, it actually has a thick sheet of [...]
The Late Movies: Printer Smashing
Did anyone see Extract this weekend? I’m going this week, and if it’s even a quarter as good as Office Space, I’ll be happy. I’m a big Mike Judge fan, and his brutally realistic portrayal of the soul-sucking hell that is the office cubicle makes that flick one of my all-time favorites. In honor of [...]
The 6 Most Horrific Bosses of All Time
You may think you have a difficult, greedy, egotistical boss, but you haven’t met anyone like the boss who locked his employees inside a factory, or the boss who paid in script only redeemable at his stores, or the one who made his employees analyze animal poop. Then there was Bryant and May who decided [...]
