Harvey Shows Progress on Emergency Communications Since Katrina The damage done by Hurricane Harvey is, as the National Weather Service, tweeted ominously over the weekend, “unknown & beyond anything experienced.” Rain continues to fall over the water-soaked region of Southeast Texas where the category 4 hurricane […]
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Bungie’s ‘Destiny’ Characters Were Born to Be Cosplayed
Bungie’s ‘Destiny’ Characters Were Born to Be Cosplayed There are a million and one reasons cosplaying is a fine art. It requires not only time, patience, and resources, but also a very specific skill set that can include everything from expert wig selection to carpentry. The […]
What Are the Odds of Another “500-year-old” Flood?
What Are the Odds of Another “500-year-old” Flood? Super-soaker Hurricane Harvey has already dumped 9 trillion gallons of water on Texas and may leave even more before it backs up to the Gulf of Mexico. Starting as a category 4 hurricane as it made landfall […]
YouTube’s Redesign Makes It Easier to Watch All the Videos
YouTube’s Redesign Makes It Easier to Watch All the Videos Once upon a time, YouTube was simply the place you went to watch a cat play the keyboard, or upload the video of your child, stoned out of his head after the dentist, having an existential […]
Google Joins the Augmented Reality Party with ARCore
Google Joins the Augmented Reality Party with ARCore Augmented reality is a thing, and everyone in tech seems to agree that it will soon become a very important thing. But what do people want to do in AR? What kinds of products and services do they […]
Netflix’s 20th Anniversary Is Nice, But It Doesn’t Matter
Netflix’s 20th Anniversary Is Nice, But It Doesn’t Matter A few years ago, one eagle-eyed YouTube user uploaded a true internet find: a 1998 DVD-Rom ad for a new service called NetFlix.com. Over a swell of stringed instruments and a parade of movie posters from Raging […]
How Can a Cat Survive a High-Rise Fall? Physics!
How Can a Cat Survive a High-Rise Fall? Physics! Sometimes a cat will fall out of a window or balcony—a byproduct, no doubt, of a cat doing cat things. If you have a house cat, your feline’s propensity for aerial shenanigans probably doesn’t worry you that […]
Behold Burning Man’s Awesome and Totally Bizarre Architecture
Behold Burning Man’s Awesome and Totally Bizarre Architecture Burning Man takes place every August in the middle of the Black Rock Desert in northwest Nevada. It’s not a pleasant place, with triple-digit temperatures, 30-mile-an-hour winds and blinding sand storms. Yet that doesn’t stop some 70,000 burners […]
The Cadillac of First Aid Kits Could Turn Civilians into Life-Savers
The Cadillac of First Aid Kits Could Turn Civilians into Life-Savers Earlier this year, Collin Smith came into possession of an “intelligent” first aid kit. When he did, the first thing he did was try to outsmart it. The kit in question was the Comprehensive Rescue […]
The ‘Distracted Boyfriend’ Meme Photographer Explains All
The ‘Distracted Boyfriend’ Meme Photographer Explains All You’ve seen it by now, maybe enough times to be sick of it: A man walks down a city street with his girlfriend, head turned backward, face curved into a Tex Avery ogle directed at a woman walking the […]