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6 Things Social Networking Sites Need to Stop Doing

These terrible trends will continue until the day the zombies eat through our network cables.

Authors: By Maxwell Yezpitelok
Published: March 02, 2011
Comments: 723

8 Amazon Products With Impressively Sarcastic Reviews: Pt. 2

Amazon.com is apparently a hidden treasure trove of aspiring comedy writers.

Authors: By Christina H
Published: March 01, 2011
Comments: 699

5 Wildly Popular Car Modifications That Must Be Stopped

I became a junior member of the rice rocket club and I'm dealing with my guilt by pointing out much more ridiculous rice rockets in a desperate bid to prove I'm still cool.

Authors: By Christina H
Published: January 24, 2011
Comments: 1186

Apple: Hype vs. Reality [CHART]

It's starting to seem like every year around this time, everyone starts talking about an upcoming release from Apple. This year is no different, though things seem somehow quieter this time around ...

Authors: By metallicfire
Published: January 23, 2011
Comments: 737

5 Things We All Do That Make Hackers' Lives Incredibly Easy

Hollywood portrays hackers as superpowered math geniuses who can intimidate computers into giving them whatever they want through intense keyboard mashing. But in reality, it's so much easier. And that's because computers are secure, and never will be.

Authors: By Stuart P. Bentley
Published: January 15, 2011
Comments: 850

Why Modern War FPS Games All Look the Same [CHART]

As we've pointed out before, the gaming industry is out of ideas, and the modern war FPS is probably the best place to go for proof. To truly get a handle on the system while making us all billionaires, we figured out the formula behind the game development process. It wasn't that hard, actually.

Authors: By Tom Flock, Leo Dukes
Published: January 06, 2011
Comments: 664

8 Stupid Amazon Products With Impressively Sarcastic Reviews

Everybody is a comedian these days, and the internet has given them a stage. Maybe the best example is Amazon.com. It's very simple: anybody can write a review, on any product, whether they have bought it or not. So it's just a matter of finding a baffling/ridiculous/useless product and watching the internet's sarcasm run wild.

Authors: By Christina H
Published: December 21, 2010
Comments: 864

The 8 Most WTF Ideas In the History of Transportation

Invent the next great innovation in transportation technology, and you'll be living in a house made of platinum. The problem, of course, is that your innovation has to actually, you know, work.

Authors: By Danny Vittore
Published: December 19, 2010
Comments: 699

7 Insanely Advanced Weapons History Somehow Forgot About

Some ancient weapons were literally centuries ahead of their time yet wound up in the trash when society decided they were simply too awesome for their time.

Authors: By Eric Yosomono
Published: December 17, 2010
Comments: 713

7 Silver Linings Now That You've Lost Your Job

We present to you the lighter side of being forcibly unemployed. We hope these will help you get on with your life, or at least stop crying in your car.

Authors: By Chris Bucholz
Published: December 11, 2010
Comments: 207

6 Shocking Ways TV Rewires Your Brain

Watching enough television rewires your brain in a bunch of unexpected ways. The science for it is pretty much overwhelming.

Authors: By Sam Cooper
Published: December 10, 2010
Comments: 711

6 Video Game Heroes Made Useless By Supporting Characters

Just because you're the star of your very own video game doesn't automatically mean you deserve the lead role. In most cases, we wish we could control the far-better sidekick instead.

Authors: By Jason Iannone
Published: December 02, 2010
Comments: 950

The 5 Hardest, Most Pointless World of Warcraft Achievements

So some achievements are meaningless, and some achievements are insanely difficult. The World of Warcraft developers thought it would be funny to make some that were both. Like these.

Authors: By Christina H
Published: November 30, 2010
Comments: 872