July 20 10
Reddit recently released reddit gold, a monthly/yearly subscription service offering users new features at a cost. There has been some backlash on the site and many users (myself included) feel this goes against the spirit of the site.
However it could have even uglier consequences.
If you don’t know already, reddit is currently owned by Conde Nast, [...]
January 8 10
I fucking hate Jay Leno, and I don’t think I’m alone (if you google “Jay Leno sucks” you get about 158,000 results). So when news broke yesterday that Jay Leno was bumping Conan to a new time slot or possibly even off the air I decided something had to be done… with eggs.
After calling my [...]
December 3 09
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – a 17 mile long particle accelerator on the France/Switzerland border – has been a center of controversy ever since its construction began.
Pseudoscientists, religious nuts and fear-mongering journalists have speculated that the colliding particles will create a black hole that would swallow the earth, or whatever other crappy idea [...]
November 5 09
How much does it cost to hold the World Series trophy? Well if you’re the New York Yankees it’s somewhere in the neighborhood of $3.4 billion. Yes that’s billion with a ‘B’.
They may have only spent a league leading $209 million team salary this year, but that figure doesn’t include the past eight seasons where [...]
October 31 09
Regardless of where people stand on the issue of religion there is almost one thing unanimously agreed upon: freedom of speech. Both freedom of religion and freedom of speech are part of the first amendment in the United States. Tools like the Internet are supposed to broaden our ability to practice freedom of speech and [...]
October 1 09
“I’ll give you my gun when you take it from my cold, dead hands!” Or so goes the popularized slogan once muttered by NRA President Charlton Heston (conservatives love electing them thar Hollywood stars). Sadly that phrase may ring true for gun owners after a recent study released by the American Journal of Public Health [...]
May 12 09
Ladies and gentlemen I present “Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus”. Somehow I knew Lorenzo Lamas was going to be in this. And yes at :47 seconds that is a giant shark body-slamming a 747.
Via Slog… Via Towleroad.