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Flowcharts are a great tool for finding solutions to difficult problems. That’s why we’ve created a flowchart to help you solve one of the most difficult problems of all: what to use as your super-cool nickname.
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Written by Dutch Mechanic
There’s not much that’s more embarrassing than someone walking in on you having sex. But at least you’re getting some. What’s more embarrassing is trying to get some 90’s cyber sex action and being owned by the person you thought was gonna give it up… [...]
Written by Jennifer Van Grove
The Google Wave invite rollout extravaganza started more than a month ago. While in some respects the buzz around Google Wave has started to subside, the term is still constantly one of the top trending topics on Twitter, and new gadgets, extensions, and applications are [...]
Written by Will Zweigart
Thanks to Facebook, mobile devices and impaired judgment, we’re only a few seconds (and clicks) away from staining our entire extended social network! That’s piece of mind in your pocket. To make sure you never appear on Facebook Fails, follow our how-not-to [...]
Written by Ray Villard
My Take: Ray Villard takes on some of the more popular doomsday theories, debunking each in turn.In the [...]
Written by Jason Fitzpatrick
Computer viruses are increasingly sophisticated and pervasive. If you can’t afford to run your computer without some sort of antivirus software installed, check out these five popular options to protect your PC.
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Written by Brian Altano & Brian Miggels
Get in. Get game. Get out.
Battling the hordes of shoppers, holiday seasons, and seasonal influenza we march on through the jungle of commerce towards the ultimate prize: New Game Day. For some of us this day is a rarity and understandably so, with [...]
Collected by sloshspot
Quagmire is by far one of the most popular characters from any animated series, and with good reason. This perverted pilot has given us a wealth of sound bites and, of course, the ubiquitous ‘giggity’. The following is a list of our favorite Quagmire moments, styled as [...]
Written By mademan
Keep Your Metabolism Burning Quick kickstarts to keep you going all day
Not all of us are blessed with bodies like David Beckham. Furthermore, many of us can’t find the time to fling ourselves crazily across [...]
Translation BY bspcn:
My life here is pretty bad.
Work conditions are horrid, benefits are nonexistant.
But don’t worry, each day only about ten people get seriously injured,
while I am very cautious.
We opened a little shop, business is going well.
Although my [...]
Written by Simon Slangen
Over the past months, we’ve written quite a few PDF manuals for you, on all kinds of diverging subjects, including BitTorrent, iTunes, iPhone, Twitter, Mac, Linux, Photoshop and several other topics.
Initially available only for subscribers, there are now multiple manuals released every month, [...]
Collected by Sharenator
This is my favorite 4chan meme. I’ve spent half of my boring day in the office looking for the best rage threads and made this collection. I’d love to credit authors but most of them seem to be… anonymous. I found some of these on 4chan, some [...]
Written by Jason Arango
After seeing Reader Digest’s recent list of 13 things your pizza guy won’t tell you, it only seemed fitting to start reflecting on my high school days as a pizza delivery driver. Even though pretty much everything in the article was dead [...]
Written by Julian
As they say, never email anything you wouldn’t want on the front page of the newspapers. So if you’re considering using your work email to send military secrets, a character assassination or even an erotic proposition, then think again – the end result could cost you your [...]
Written by Chris Lesinski
Months after the initial announcement, today, it becomes official: Yahoo has shut down GeoCities — one of the original kings of free web hosting services.
Now, all of those GeoCities websites (excuse me, “Web Sites”) are coming down. It’s got me more tear-jerkingly [...]
Collected by cracked
It’s the not-to-distant future. They’ve turned off the Internet. After the riots have settled down and the withdrawal symptoms have faded, how would you cope?
We asked you to Photoshop what life would be like in an Internet-addicted society learning to cope without [...]
Collected by casey jones
Since you’re on a site called Ice Ice Babies, it can be assumed that the 90’s is your nostalgic decade. That said, below is a collection of awesomeness that will take you right back to a time when ‘responsibility’ wasn’t in your vocabulary, Encarta helped you [...]
Written by Subhajit Banerjee
1. Impossible as it may sound there are still Beatles songs unreleased – the most notable ones being Carnival of Light (an experimental piece recorded on 5 January 1967 for The Million Volt Light and Sound Rave) and a 27-minute jam of Helter Skelter. [...]
Written by screenhead
Disney is forever synonymous with cartoons and animation, and while the recent Pixar films (Pixar is owned by Disney) have gathered critical acclaim, they’re still a far cry from some of the best Anime movies ever made. During the late 80s and the 90s, Anime went from [...]
Written by Steven Walling
Meetings suck. But if there’s one thing worse than meetings, it’s playing email tag to schedule them. Is your company still sending out mass emails to ask for preferred meeting times? It’s the pits, isn’t it? Yes, Outlook has a hack whereby you [...]
Written by Gwendolen Fairfax
Who doesn’t love eating out? It’s great not to have to cook for yourself, but it can also be anxiety-inducing to think about someone else cooking for you. Just what happened to the food before it' [...]
Collected by telegraph
Remember the days when the word Google was not interchangeable with internet? Or when every site seemed to have a Netscape icon on it? Or when Flash was still something you cleaned your floor with? Then you were clearly using the web in the mid to late [...]
Written by Ben Popken and Meg Marco
If you have any broken, ugly jewelry lying around in a drawer somewhere, you’ve probably taken notice of a company called Cash4Gold that promised to pay “top dollar” for your not-so-precious precious metals. If you’re like us, you might [...]
Collected by sloshspot
Larry David is one of our favorite angry old men.His combined neurosis and wit make for interesting on-screen situations for his characters, and of course genius writing. While he was largely behind-the-scenes for Seinfeld, his brilliance in Curb Your Enthusiasm, goes without saying. The following is a [...]
Collected by Sound & Vision Magazine
HD trailers, equipment news and industry info in 140 characters.You can’t escape Twitter. Even if you don’t use it, you’re bound to hear people talking about it. But, amongst all of the updates about what people are eating for breakfast, is a heap [...]
Written by Justin Halpern, Brenan Sharp, Cory Jones
America is getting fatter and fatter, so in an effort to help guide you through the fatness, we decided to label each stage.As America gets fatter and fatter, we thought we’d help us all figure out what stage of obesity we fall [...]
Written by Ernesto
The end of the Pirate Bay is nearing. Even if the deal with GGF doesn’t go through the current owners are likely to sell to one of the other interested parties. For many BitTorrent fans this means that they have to find an alternative. Luckily there are [...]
Written by Teague Bohlen
?Every kid knew it: lunchboxes meant something. And it wasn’t just that you were a fan of whatever it was that you sported on your lunchtime luggage. It was your proclamation of identity. A window into your third-grade, paste-eating soul.
So the [...]
Written by Janice Lieberman
1. Of course I look familiar. I was here just last week cleaning your carpets, painting your shutters, or delivering your new refrigerator.
2. Hey, thanks for letting me use the bathroom when I was working in your yard last week. While I was in there, I [...]
Written by Gina Trapani
Cloud computing means you can store your data in web applications and access it from any browser, anywhere—but that doesn’t mean you don’t need a backup plan. Safeguard your data when a storm’s a-brewing in the cloud with these tools.
Next time your favorite web [...]
Written by Alex Vo
Hayao Miyazaki’s last three films (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and Howl’s Moving Castle) platformed in America to mild success. For his 10th and latest movie, Ponyo (the story of an ocean goldfish and her quest to become human), Disney will be granting it a [...]
Written by Manolith
So the worst has happened. You’ve lost your job, your account’s in overdraft, and you’re kicked out of your apartment. Or maybe you’ve just arrived in a new town with nothing but what you’re wearing. What do you do? Many people are now facing this strangely hobo-era [...]
Written by Nick Mokey
By now, we’ve all heard that money’s tight, that we’re on the end of the verge of financial apocalypse, and that everyone will have to cut back. But don’t start lining your shoes with cardboard and cooking beans over a garbage fire just yet. Stripping out [...]
Written by Jeff Rosenberg
On 20 hours ago My cousin Jordan is starting his freshman year this coming August. He just got his roommate assignment and sent this over to me the other day. Check it out.
Written by total scifi online
The movies on this list are a good indicator of just how diverse the science fiction genre is. From the epic philosophical ideas of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris to the joyful space opera of Star Wars [...]
Written by Gilberto J. Perera
The history of the Internet is a short but turbulent one. Gilberto J. Perera presents us with the 50 individuals who have had the largest impact on how the Internet looks and works today.
The list below is comprised of some of [...]
Written by BillShrink Guy
“When I grow up, I want to be a principal or a caterpillar.”
- Ralph Wiggum
Though most people probably don’t grow up wanting to be a farmer, a minister, and especially a caterpillar – a farmer and a minister are in fact considered by many people to [...]
Written by Mahendra Palsule
I like Firefox but it’s not as fast as it used to be. This is a comprehensive, safe guide to optimizing Firefox 3.5 for speedy browsing. For each suggestion, your mileage may vary. Before you proceed, create a new [...]
Written by James S. Huggins
1. What are you thinking about?
2. Do you love me?
3. Do I look fat?
4. Do you think she is prettier than me?
5. What would you do if I died?
Here is the problem: If the man answers incorrectly (i.e., tells the truth), every single [...]
Written by dailyrft
Anybody can do it! Follow these instructions:
(Editor’s Note: This actually happened last weekend; check out the story at Lake News Online)
1) Grab two other dudes and steal a Kawasaki Mule (kind of like a golf cart [...]
Written by Pete Cashmore
With over 250 million users, Facebook is a social networking behemoth. The site is host to thousands of celebrity fan pages and has been taking steps to make these more appealing to self-promoters.
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Germany invades Czechoslovakia.
Britain & France tell them to stop that bullshit.
Germany invades Poland.
(Russia also invades Poland from the other side: everybody forgets this.)
Britain & France declare war. This is the ‘official’ kick-off.
Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, & Romania [...]
Written by Brie Cadman
Liquid calories slip by so easily, it’s almost hard to take them seriously. But alas, all those super-sized beverages and high fructose corn syrup concoctions have contributed, quite stealthily, to our obesity epidemic. Our adults have the beer bellies and our children the Big Gulp guts [...]
Written by Sean Percival
The human tendency to act in a way that is detrimental to health has always been a part of society. Whether wearing a cape jumping off the roof to test your flight abilities when you’re six, or dancing on a wire dozens of stories off the [...]
Written by Chris Baskind
The problem with most articles about summer energy saving is that they’re geared for homeowners. But more people are renting then ever before.
So you’re a renter? That power bill insert suggesting you upgrade attic insulation is [...]
Written by Ben Parr
What can’t iPhone applications do? There are apps for almost every interest and every need. But while apps for politics or saving money are great, you can live without them.
However, the same cannot be said for the seven apps highlighted in this [...]
Written by Kevin Purdy
What’s inside Google’s just-announced Chrome Operating System? How does it work, exactly? Nobody outside Google knows. We can, however, build a dream operating system from the ground up, and that’s what we’re doing with some help from the hive mind.
Written by Sean Percival
In today’s modern world there are many things we take for granted, many things our fathers would have known how to do, and some others that might baffle them. Additionally, on average, Americans and European men are starting to get married older, meaning that there is [...]
Written by Brandi Lynn
If I could have one superhero power it would be the ability to snap my fingers and get to any destination I could dream of. But I’m a mere mortal so I had to become a a wing-wearin’, heel-stomping, drink-slinging flight attendant.
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Written by Jim Rendon
1. “Good luck finding the best deal.”
When it comes to gas prices, most stations are branded — meaning the name of a major oil company hangs out front — and must buy gas from their proprietary company. They can’t shop around.
With a lock on [...]
Written by holytaco
The 4th of July is a time to spend with family and friends, celebrating the things that make America what it is: beer, meat, fireworks, and more beer…and boobs, also. And you’re pretty much guaranteed four of those five things on the 4th of July. Be warned, [...]
Written by Smashing Editorial
Effective writing skills are to a writer what petrol is to a car. Like the petrol and car relationship, without solid skills writers cannot move ahead. These skills don’t come overnight, and they require patience and determination. You have to work smart and hard to acquire [...]
Written by Zombologist
There was a great article on how to meet and woo Nerdy Girls and I’ve recently seen lots of posts on how to catch/date/seduce the female Geek.
But I haven’t seen a lot suggestions for the ladies on how to deal with [...]
Written by Rhonda Hackett
As a Canadian living in the United States for the past 17 years, I am frequently asked by Americans and Canadians alike to declare one health care system as the better one.
Often I’ll avoid answering, regardless of the questioner’s nationality. To choose one or [...]
Written by Jeryl Brunner
Turns out, your guilty pleasures (red wine, video games) may not be so guilty after all. And those pesky side effects of being an adult-stress, anyone?-can actually benefit you too. Read on to learn the positives of your seemingly negative habits.
Say Yes [...]
Written by 11points
Yesterday, I found myself in a discussion about the anti-abortion people. The reason: It’s just incomprehensible to us that people get so zealous about that issue that they’ll go as far as to murder doctors who perform abortions and bomb abortion clinics.
The [...]
Written by Bruce Owens
I want you all to look at this column as a summer reading list. These are the 10 beers you must drink this summer. Some of these beers you are probably very familiar with, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale for example. Think back when [...]
Written by Amit Agarwal
You may find this technique useful even if you are not a very tech-savvy user.
Before getting into the actual process, let’s look at a couple of real-world situations that explain why you may want to turn your home computer [...]
Written by Hung-Su
Nike to sports, McDonald’s to hamburgers, Apple iPod to mp3 players; almost every major consumer industry has a handful of iconic companies that embody almost everything that industry is about. But what about the video gaming industry? An industry that has existed for decades, [...]
Written by ItStartsWith.Us
Just about everyone wants to do great work, look good in the eyes of their boss, and earn the respect of their peers. In my 15-year career I’ve worked at a large number of different companies and held a wide variety of positions. I’ve [...]
