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Popularity of Rage Comics Dwindling, Internet Actually Displaying Some Taste
Rage Comics are a lot like that obscure, off-the-radar television series that offered you unadulterated bliss until it got swept up in the vicious current of the mainstream: The humor starts becoming...
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Kepler Data Shows At Least 17 Billion Earth-Sized Planets in the Milky Way
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has been on a roll lately. The group Planet Hunters recently analyzed data from Kepler to discover 15 “Goldilocks” planets, and mentioned it could mean there are a lot more of...
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Nice Knowing You: Dangerous Asteroid Apophis is Bigger, More Dangerous Than...
The asteroid Apophis, clearly named for the Stargate SG-1 villain, has been called a “doomsday asteroid,” because in 2004 there was a study that said there was a 2.7% chance of Apophis hitting Earth...
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Clap On, Clap…Uh-oh: Antibiotic Resistant Gonorrhea Makes Its North American...
The last oral antibiotic that is effective in curing the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea may not be effective anymore. A study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
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Geekolinks: 1/9
7 superhero Twitter feeds you should follow right now (The Daily Dot) Hardcore porn played behind Swedish news for 10 minutes (Mediaite) This dolphin stampede is downright majestic (HyperVocal)...
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Development of New Godzilla an Unnecessary Mess of Petty Disputes and Rewrites
Did you just feel the ground shake violently beneath your feet? Hear that deafening roar from off in the distance? As much as we wish we could say it’s Godzilla, those tremors and bellowing are...
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Listen to the Stark Kids Beatbox the Game of Thrones Theme Song [Video]
The opening theme for Game of Thrones is epic and all, but — and there’s no denying the truth, people — it just doesn’t resonate with the easily bored kids of today. While the music no doubt gets our...
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Not So Fast: Fossilized Dinosaur Stampede Is Actually A Fossilized Dinosaur...
For year’s, Australia’s Lark Quarry has been cited as a rare example of a dinosaur stampede frozen in time, the tracks this massive “running of the giant lizards” left behind captured forever in...
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Get A Banner Ready: New Arrested Development Hits Netflix In May
Hey, everybody, have you heard THE BEST news? Word dropped last night that new episodes of Arrested Development will make their debut on Netflix sometime in May. That means you’ve got just a few short...
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European Pike Dies Trying To Swallow Fish Nearly As Big As It Is
With the holidays still fresh in our mental rearview mirrors, most of us have some fairly fresh memories of sitting down to meals so big we had no business trying to consume them. All of our piled...
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Connecticut Town Calls Off Violent Video Game Version of a Book Burning
When the small town of Southington, Connecticut decided to host what amounts to a book burning for violent video games, we weren’t exactly surprised. As we said then, tragedies like the Newtown...
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8 Pieces That Hasbro Should Add to Monopoly That Are Better Than What They’re...
One of the most iconic things about the board game Monopoly is the pieces. Some people (me) even refuse to play if their favorite piece (top hat) is taken by another player, but there’s about to be a...
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I’m a Ghost! Invisible Driver Fast Food Prank [Video]
As if the people working the drive-through window of fast food places don’t have it bad enough, they’re often on the receiving end of a lot of dumb pranks. “Coning” was a weird one where people grabbed...
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The FDA just Approved a Magnetic Hat to Treat Depression
Ominously-named Israeli tech company Brainsway has just gotten clearance from the FDA to sell its depression-treating helmet in the United States. Billed as an alternative to mood-altering...
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Here’s All the 2013 Oscar Nominations You Might Actually Care About
2012 was a weird year for film. That isn’t to say there weren’t some great ones, but even some of the greats were a little odd. The 2013 Oscar nominees were recently announced, and let’s just say that...
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Google Maps Makes Its Triumphant Return to Windows Phone
Earlier this week, we reported that Windows Phone owners were disappointed to discover that accessing Google Maps on their Internet Explorer web browser redirected them to the company’s search engine...
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A+ Would Buy Again: Amazon Gives Customers MP3 Versions of Physical CDs
If you’ve ordered a CD off Amazon in the last fifteen years but haven’t gotten around to ripping it to your computer yet, don’t worry. Amazon just announced a new AutoRip feature for the Amazon Cloud...
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Honey Boo Boo Has a Comic Book, and Now There’s Variant Covers
We don’t know how we missed the fact that in November comics publisher Blue Water Productions printed a comic book about reality television child Alana Thompson as in Honey Boo Boo — we’re just lucky...
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Celebrate the Return of the Bluth Family With These Arrested...
Arrested Development has a date (well, a month at least) set for its comeback, and we couldn’t be happier. The show is one of our rerun go-tos — great for watching while doing doing the dishes or...
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Geekolinks: 1/10
The 100 most anticipated video games of 2013 (GamesRadar) Spend seven minutes in heaven with Tina Fey (The Mary Sue) 8 words of the year from other countries (Mental Floss) The 13 biggest 2013 Oscar...
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