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8 Apps Designed Specifically for Modern Douchebags

If you're a regular person, your regular-person-shield (otherwise known as common human decency) will repel you from apps like these. Of course, that doesn't mean there isn't a market for these things -- which is most frightening of all.

Authors: By Benjamin Buso, Dennis Fulton
Published: December 28, 2011
Comments: 1273

6 Awesome Vehicles of War with Ridiculous Weaknesses

These weapons almost worked, in a world where 'almost working' might as well be 'hilarious failure.'

Authors: By Xavier Jackson
Published: December 23, 2011
Comments: 690

7 Nuclear Weapon Screw-Ups You Won't Believe We Survived

Suprisingly, Stanley Kubrick was probably closest when he imagined the nuclear era as a game of poker between cocky, absent-minded lunatics. Only he probably didn't go far enough.

Authors: By Eric Yosomono, Dustin Koski, Evan V. Symon
Published: December 01, 2011
Comments: 864

8 Gadgets That Lie to You Every Day

Now that we have all the fancy gauges and buttons modern life provides to us, we may have gotten a little bit overdependent on them. As it turns out, many of these gadgets are scarily inaccurate or even deliberately configured to lie to and appease us.

Authors: By Christina H
Published: November 28, 2011
Comments: 1463

7 Ways Your Cellphone Is Screwing With Your Body and Mind

The cancer thing seems to have been overblown, but apparently the jury is still out on a whole host of much weirder effects your phone could be having on you right now.

Authors: By Andrew Martin
Published: November 22, 2011
Comments: 963

5 True Stories That Prove You Shouldn't Piss Off The IT Guy

In some offices, the IT guys wield more power than the owner of the company. And if you want proof, just look at what happens when they get pissed off.

Authors: By Benjamin Buso
Published: November 18, 2011
Comments: 800

6 Terrifying Emergency Escape Pods (That Aren't Worth It)

We tend to think of escape pods as a science fiction trope: They jettison off of Star Destroyers or launch out the top of giant mechanical spiders just before Will Smith destroys them with a pun. But they're not all fictional: When everything has gone to hell, when the ship is sinking, when the shuttle is exploding, when that natural disaster is be

Authors: By Greg Taylor
Published: November 16, 2011
Comments: 485

5 Tiny Computer Glitches That Caused Huge Disasters

There are certain jobs where making the same mistakes can cost companies billions of dollars, and sometimes costs people their lives.

Authors: By Robert Evans
Published: November 13, 2011
Comments: 815

The 5 Most Mind-Blowingly Huge Machines Built By Science

Right at this moment, scientists and engineers are in the process of building -- or using -- instruments that look like the engine for a Star Destroyer.

Authors: By Josh E
Published: November 05, 2011
Comments: 863

The 6 Types of People Selling Stuff on Craigslist [CHART]

The Internet's trailer park garage sale.

Authors: By Stephen Cook
Published: November 04, 2011
Comments: 374

5 Energy Crisis Solutions Clearly Designed by a Supervillain

Sure, these potential power sources we're tapping into would normally be considered ridiculous, cartoony or just plain evil. But are they worse than coal?

Authors: By Kenny Thompson
Published: November 03, 2011
Comments: 387

5 Criminals Who Pulled Off Major Crimes With Only a Phone

When we think of criminals, we tend to think of two types: The street-level thug committing his crimes with a gun or a fist, and the upper-level management, dictating orders to the thugs below. But there's a third type: The guys who picks up the phone and decide that crime sounds like a fun thing to do today.

Authors: By Jason Edward Harrington
Published: October 23, 2011
Comments: 234