Tell me the first thing that pops in your head when I say: yellow bottle sipping, shit look like a toupee and suicide doors. Got it? Now watch this MS Paint-created music video of Chris Brown's "Look at Me Now". It literally translates the lyrics into MS Paint graphics. I can't stop laughing. [BuzzFeed] More »
Despite the Deep Water Horizon fiasco, deep-water drilling remains one of the worlds' primary sources of crude. And among deep drilling rigs, this 56,860 ton Scarabeo 9 is king. More »
When I heard The Cure was playing a show in LA next week, I was so excited! ...Until I also heard the show sold out in just under 45 seconds. Well shit, that's staying on my bucket list. More »
Just like the rendering from last year, the now completed ArcelorMittal Orbit looks like a brain-liquifying roller coaster. Or a metal spaghetti monster twice the size of the Eiffel Tower, stranded in the rainy city, sad and confused. More »
If you come from a household where the best thing your father knew how to make was a phone call, Top Chef: Dads is going to seem pretty familiar. And honestly, frozen jalapeño poppers? That's as haute a cuisine as I need. More »
Above, if you can see through all the weed smoke, you get a scene that's something like the aftermath of a bad LAN party—clutter, shitty laptops, and monitors everywhere. But music's being made in this budget-tech dungeon. More »
There are good cleaning ladies and there are bad cleaning ladies. Bad cleaning ladies? You want to avoid. Good cleaning ladies? They sometimes do bad things by being too good. Like the cleaning lady who cleaned a "dirty" art piece on accident. More »
Here's your feel good video of the day. A uselessly cute and furry little Ewok going head to head against the menacing Incredible Hulk. The Hulk does what George Lucas should've done to Ewoks. [YouTube via @kwameopam] More »
If there's something that I hate more than one of those freaking winged sons-of-dinosaurs known as birds, that's a few thousand of them invading the entire sky, networked like a single individual. It's a natural phenomenon called murmuration. More »
So I had kind of a rough week. I lost some things I probably shouldn't have lost. I had the cops called on me as I sat frozen by a motion-sensing alarm. Some of these situations can be avoided. Others... can also be avoided. They can all be avoided, okay? Here's how to avoid, at the very least, going nuts over lost valuables. More »
Dippin' Dots isn't dead. But it's dying—the company filed for bankruptcy today in federal court. It's a sad day not just for you and for me and for minor league concession stands. It's a sad day for the future. More »
Doing what FPSRussia does is dangerous. And to demonstrate just how dangerous it is, he sought out a fan on Twitter to get tazed; and pepper sprayed; and, um, branded? Look, things got weird, ok? More »
Eye-C Taglist: Eye-C for Android and iPhone lets users from both platforms send music automagically to AirPlay. If you're on Android, that's ah-mazing. You can use Eye-C to create shareable "Taglists" out of music, photos, and videos on SoundCloud, YouTube, Picasa, Facebook, or their own music libraries to send to Airplay capable devices. Who says you're always locked out of Apple's walled garden?
Apps make the iPhone shine. And you want your new (or even old) iPhone to shine, right? Here are the best iPhone apps this week! It's a solid list.
I'd call these underwater Ukrainian artists gimmicky showboats if the paintings weren't so beautiful. Imagine what Van Gough would have cut off if he had to work underwater. More »
I don't hide my love of stock photography. From the terrifying to the sublime, Shutterstock is a trove of crazy. Enter words, get pictures. Grandparent bacon. Angry prostitute. Let's enter the cave of stock wonder madness together. More »
Judging from a 29-page thread brewing on the Apple support forums over the past few weeks, the iPhone 4S is suffering from a glitch where outbound calls have no audio coming from the earpiece. And the problem is affecting people on all three carriers. More »
