Why is it that right before you’re about to do something, you almost always hear a ridiculous and/or dangerous story about that thing? The example that always comes to mind for me is years ago when I had to have surgery on my arm. I’m sitting in the living room watching TV with my family …
Monthly Archives: July 2017
Let Her Go, The Bluegrass Edition
It wasn’t this particular one, but a version of it popped up during a mix I was listening to on Spotify a while back. It’s the Travelin’ McCourys doing a bluegrass cover of that Let Her Go song that Passenger had all over the radio a couple years ago, and it’s pretty great.
You Can Cuff Me, But Only For Another $20
Yes, a 70-year-old massage lady did offer to take the nice officer to the full service pumps for an additional fee, but do not let that fact distract you from the best part of this, that being that it all went down (so to speak) at Jax Therapy. Septuagenarian Sun Hee Gribat was collared Tuesday …
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The Floppotron
We’ve posted a few different computer hardware musical creations here over the years, but nothing on this scale, I don’t think. Polish engineer Paweł Zadrożniak built the Floppotron, a synchronized array of obsolete computer hardware programmed to play tunes. The current Floppotron 2.0 build sports 64 floppy drives, 8 hard drives, and a pair of …
If The Late Show Is Good Enough To Anger Trump’s FCC, It’s Good Enough For Me
I haven’t watched the Late Show since Letterman left because rare is the night when I’m not fast asleep by 11:30 and none of our good for nothing cable companies will get around to building me a DVR I can use, but if this is the sort of thing I’m missing I might have to …
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Microsoft’s Seeing AI App Sounds Like TapTapSee On Steroids
I haven’t tried it for myself just yet since this is the first I’ve heard of it, but if Microsoft’s Seeing AI app works as advertised, holy shit! Seeing AI, a free app that narrates the world around you, is available now to iOS customers in the United States, Canada, India, Hong Kong, New Zealand …
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I Just Wondered Wondered Where’s My Fucking Pizza Pizza ‘Cause I’m Hungry
It’s not every day that one of these messed up order food feud stories goes from fight between customer and cashier to all out drunken brawl, but that’s what happened in Toronto over the weekend. So much for Canadians being nice all the time, I guess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=549DEWsRqD0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcK0xSYa-AY Paul Michael, 23, was at the restaurant …
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DirecTV and U-Verse Now Have Accessibility Features
Good news, American blind kids. You now have even more choices when it comes to accessibly watching television. In this interview John Herzog, Accessibility Solutions Engineer, describes the many advancements AT&T media based products have been gaining since November 2016. Both the DirecTV apps for Android and iOS are speech friendly now with their respective …
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United Breaks Custom Motorized Wheelchairs
Jesus, United. I don’t even know what to say anymore. Valentin Duthion has spinal muscular atrophy, and requires the use of his wheelchair to get around. When he and his friends boarded a United Airlines flight to New Jersey, they left his chair in the care of airline staff, as is normal procedure, according to …
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Quit Playing With Our Broadcasts, You Wanker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4iItGNCHsw The owners of radio station Mansfield 103.2 and Ofcom (the British equivalent of the CRTC) are trying to figure out who keeps hijacking the station’s frequency to play the happy little tune above and how it’s being done. The communications regulator is hunting a radio pirate who has repeatedly hijacked the airwaves of a …
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