Cracked Archive - Tech

5 Bad Ideas Humanity Is Sticking With Out of Habit

Old habits die harder than Bruce Willis.

Authors: By Paul Jury
Published: April 21, 2011
Comments: 3305

Five Surefire Ways to Piss off a Smoker [CHART]

If you really want to take years off a smoker's life, ask them any of these questions.

Authors: By Stephen Cook
Published: April 14, 2011
Comments: 1292

6 Bizarrely Creepy Moments from the Mario Universe

It's a place where hitting a floating brick with your head and expecting money to come out is considered normal. These games are classics, so we don't even stop to think about the absurdity of what goes on in them. For something to be considered creepy within that context it would have to be pretty messed up. Like, for example ...

Authors: By Maxwell Yezpitelok, Peter File
Published: April 11, 2011
Comments: 785

7 Memes That Went Viral Before The Internet Existed

In the very likely case that you're on the Internet right now, you already know what a "meme" is. But you may not realize that the concept -- a meaningless phrase, image or joke getting repeated endlessly for no reason at all -- predates the Internet generation by a long shot.

Authors: By Jacopo della Quercia
Published: April 11, 2011
Comments: 786

5 Soviet Space Programs That Prove Russia Was Insane

The thing about the Iron Curtain is that we'll never fully know what crazy shit went on behind it during the Cold War. And that's too bad, because the little hints that leak out really make it look like these people just did not give a shit.

Authors: By Evan V. Symon
Published: April 06, 2011
Comments: 781

The 7 Most Needlessly Terrifying Pieces of Heavy Machinery

If you never dreamed of driving a huge tank fitted with a giant chainsaw while growing up, then congratulations on having been a well-adjusted kid. As for the rest of us? Well, people like us grew up and built these machines for real.

Authors: By Brian Thompson
Published: April 01, 2011
Comments: 425

The Good The Bad and the Ugly of Video Games [COMIC]

The spectrums for success and failure for ten different aspects of gaming.

Authors: By Winston Rowntree
Published: March 20, 2011
Comments: 761

The 6 Most Ingenious Misuses of Military Hardware

War is serious business. Life-and-death stuff. Brutal, bloody and unrelenting. But who says it can't also be fun?

Authors: By Karl Smallwood, Tony Pilgram
Published: March 16, 2011
Comments: 499

6 New Anti-Pervert Technologies (We Really Shouldn't Need)

Technology is really only there to help people put their dongs into other people, or to prevent others from getting unwanted dongs put into them. This eternal technological sex conflict is called the Great Pervert War, and here are the latest weapons on both sides.

Authors: By Mark M., Paul K Pickett
Published: March 13, 2011
Comments: 896

The 6 Stages of Smartphone Ownership [CHART]

From love to hate, and back to love again.

Authors: By Stephen Cook
Published: March 10, 2011
Comments: 450

6 Bad Ideas in Video Game Mash-Ups We'll Probably See Next

or years, game companies have been combining games that make money in order to make even more money. Occiasionally this works out pretty well. But with 'Marvel vs. Capcom 3' hitting shelves and selling pretty briskly, game designers will be trying to cram even more blockbusters together into the same universe.

Authors: By Christina H
Published: March 07, 2011
Comments: 665