May 102013
- Whoever wrote this headline needs a promotion!: Truth.
- Swedish toy catalog goes gender-neutral: Surely, this is a sign of the last gasp of western civilization… or um…. maybe not.
- If air mattresses were honest from The Oatmeal: Personally, I’m most fond of the 3 am launch.
- Today In Unusually Stupid Legal Threats: You Can’t Write About Me Because of Your Blog’s Name!: “In the past, thuggish and vexatious legal threats have been common because they’ve been risk-free. In the Information Age they aren’t. When you act like a bully, you can become famous as a bully immediately, and reap the consequences.” Yet another reason to love Popehat.
- Found at Auction: The Unseen Photographs of a Legend that Never Was: Wow, these are amazing photographs! What a find!
- Snuggie Texts: “Perhaps because I’ve been in a particularly snarky mood lately, I couldn’t resist last night when I got an accidental text from an unknown number. The following is our text exchange over the next 24 hours in its entirety.” It’s EPIC. Also, part 2 is here.
- Hyper-Realistic 3D Paintings of Sea Animals by Keng Lye: Wow.
- ‘Wiglet’ the baby micro pig has his bath in a bidet: The grunting! It’s too cute!
- Bird sounds from the lyre bird: The lyre bird imitates the sound of camera shutters, car alarms, and foresters cutting down trees with chainsaws. Amazing.
- The 35 Dumbest Things Ever Said On Facebook: Oh humanity.
- Siri vs. Google Voice Experiment: Siri speaking to Google Voice transcription goes very wrong very fast.
- Here Is Today: It’s a simple series of time scales… but wow!
- What happens when pirates play a game development simulator and then go bankrupt because of piracy?: Awesome things, that’s what. I hope this game sells tons more legitimate copies due to this clever ploy.
- How to Talk to Little Girls: I love this… and we can talk in more sensitive and intelligent ways to little boys too!
- Realizing Freedom: It’s from 2009, but these five types of libertarianism … well, they remind me of why I’m not a libertarian or a supporter of the libertarian movement.
