YouTube has long been established as the home of the absolute worst commentariat on the internet today; a vile, racist, hatful spigot of bad spelling and small minds. But maybe that one downvote on that magical tale of human triumph has a simple explanation: literally everyone's on YouTube. Even misogynists, idiots, and Death. [Doghouse Diaries] Read More >
Featured comment by Denius:
"I know. It's like they were abused by everyone as a children, and so they are suffering OCD (which, in this case, stands for Obnoxious C**t Disorder),..." More »
After being away from the TV world for quite a while, national treasure and comedy darling, Alan Partridge, is set to return to television sets around the country after Steve Coogan signed a deal to move the character to Sky. Read More >
Scott Hanselman is a Microsoft programmer, stand-up comedian, and author. And now, he is a philosopher of computer iconography. The bane of his existence? It's the Icons whose real world analogues no longer exist. Here are five of the worst offenders. For the rest of the list, be sure to visit Scott's blog.Read More >
These gross distortions of cheek, lip, and nose look can top the most hilarious images ever made with any Facetime warp effect—and these are real. Read More >
Spotted on the Central line tube in London: A chap reading (and annotating!) some paperwork titled "The Basics: What is a penis extender?" True, he was probably an overworked copywriter working on a particularly-embarrassing project as Reddit commenters suggest, but please don't rain on my parade anymore than the existence of penis extenders already have, mmmkay? Click below for a more detailed, erm, read. [Reddit via @IanVisits] Read More >
There is one big problem with themed naming schemes, and that's running out of good words. While OS X has had a good run, evolving from Cheetah, through Jaguar, Tiger, Leopards and—most recently—Lions, the future looks bleak. Read More >
It was only a few days ago when we asked Siri the fateful question, "What's the best smartphone ever?", to which our faithful assistant replied with, er, the Nokia Lumia 900. But now, it seems Siri has the answer to that question with a varied amount of witty and humorous responses. Read More >
Featured comment by Darrell Jones:
"My point had nothing to do with how serious the problems were, merely that they were cases where Apple flat out denied there was any problem despite m..." More »
Kickstarter is becoming such a widely abused platform that it will soon eat itself. That sentiment is beautifully conveyed by today's XKCD, which depicts a fictional Kickstarter project looking to score enough capital to write the perfect Kickstarter pitch. As ever on XKCD, the mouse-over text is just as hilarious as the cartoon itself: Read More >
Featured comment by dja357:
"I was feeling hopeful. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before Randall puts something like that into one of his comics." More »
What's the best smartphone ever? That's a difficult question; there are quite a few pretty decent phones around at the moment. You've got the HTC One series; Samsung's new incoming Galaxy S III; LG's Optimus 4XHD; not to mention the iPhone 4S. But according to Siri, none of the others make the grade -- it's all about Nokia's Lumia 900. Read More >
Featured comment by kwiiiq:
"Fair enough! I thought that was the case for some of it's queries - not the built in ones. I wouldn't be surprised if I was wrong with that." More »
Pinterest would probably not have been quite the runaway hit had it started life in the 90s. As this advert demonstrates, it loses some of its appeal when users have to wait a couple of months to get an updated CD-ROM with what's fashionable. There's nothing more embarrassing than showing up to a party wearing a B.U.M. sweater that went passe two weeks ago. Read More >
Featured comment by flynndean:
"See, what actually happened was that people dressed badly and dog-eared catalogues with girl-friends so that they could all co-ordinate with each othe..." More »
Chocolat, a text editor for Mac, offers its users a free trial before asking users to buy its app. After the free trial is over, you can still use the app but... it'll display everything in Comic Sans. You win Chocolat. [Chocolat via @jakemarsh via Stellar] Read More >
A search history? Sure, that can unearth some embarrassing moments. But don't forget that if you leave your browser history unchecked for long enough, every Wikipedia rabbit hole you go down will be hyperlinked for posterity. And man, have you clicked on some weirdness. [xkcd] Read More >
Featured comment by Tacos:
"Just explain it as a game of the Hitler Wikipedia game. Why you went into bondage to find Hitler I'm sure can be explained off with some German relate..." More »
Constantly being bombarded with emails urging you to join your friends' and co-workers' professional networks on LinkedIn is incredibly annoying these days. But the folks at Squirrel-Monkey show us that it could have been a lot worse had LinkedIn existed in the '80s. Read More >
Featured comment by Dotter:
"If LinkedIn had been invented in the 80s, you'd probably have been using the arrow keys to get the 'cursor' to move around, not a mouse. :D" More »
Featured comment by pretpat:
"Disabled my ad-blocker and visited some of my frequently visited websites.
I don't think they would be visited very frequently like this. Re-enabled." More »
Hey there, future person, you've misplaced your iPhone 5. Some nefarious person is trying to break in and steal all of your naked pictures. Not to worry, you've programed Siri to self-destruct Mission Impossible-style after three incorrect login attempts. Boom. Read More >
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