It's always felt like something's missing from your local public bathroom's hand dryer tutorial. Something simple, yet crucial. Something like, say, this missing third step that Doghouse Diaries has so smartly proposed. Read More >>

Everyone loves to hate traffic wardens. It's a tough job, and someone's got to do it, I guess, but there's a reason people don't like traffic wardens. This brilliant prank pretty much demonstrates why -- they will literally ticket anything, including snow. Read More >>

“So,” I say, shouldering my way through the crowd, “Job one is we find ourselves the bar. And job two is we try out some headphones. Sound good?” Read More >>

And, as Randall Munroe points out in today's XKCD, this is how to do it. Maybe then they'll understand why preserving aspect ratios is important. [XKCD] Read More >>

Was there more to the climax of Star Wars: A New Hope than met the eye? According to the creators of Luke's Change: an Inside Job, a fantastically clever take on another documentary you're probably aware of, there certainly was. And come to think of it, some of the details of the whole thing were pretty convenient. I'm starting to think that maybe all this stuff didn't actually happen... [Boing Boing via io9] Read More >>

Gizmodo is a TV program now, and to celebrate, our friends over at Jalopnik got on board to help find out what was faster, a Dodge Viper SRT or a potato. Surprisingly, the potato wins, but then, the Viper's no Lambo Veneno, now is it? [Jalopnik] Read More >>

If Google Glass does turn out to be really cool (and the world accepts people who willingly want to look like a goofus), think about how much it can change! Well, not much actually. You'll still be the same person who drinks too much, throws up in bathrooms, gets in trouble with the police and runs away -- only you'll be that guy with Google Glass. Basically, Google Glass will let you remember how awful you are. Read More >>

As an experiment, New York Times media columnist David Carr decided to gather a bunch of geeks at SXSW and ask them to tell jokes. This video is the result. It's left to you to decide how funny it is. [Vimeo via BoingBoing] Read More >>

All those social networks we spend more than half our life on? There all just varying degrees of the same damn thing. Basically, look at my cat's albums. Watch my cat videos. Read how I hashtag my cat. Check this filtered cat. And on and on we go. Read More >>

Even though we're going to be wow'd and inspired by the future that Google Glass and the Apple iWatch will bring, let's not kid ourselves. The most realistic future is going to be the silly arguments we all get into about Google Glass and the Apple iWatch... which will only get more ridiculous after Apple releases its own glasses and Google makes a watch. It's the next level of Android vs iPhone. The future is going to suck. At least we have Joy of Tech's amusing comic to laugh at before it happens. [Joy of Tech] Read More >>

This is basically everything you need to know about what happens in the The Matrix in just 60 hilariously-animated seconds. Imagine if the Wachowski brothers had adopted the 1A4Studio's speedrun technique, maybe the Matrix sequels wouldn't have sucked so much. [YouTube via Gizmodo Australia] Read More >>

Though you may look like a complete dork wearing Google Glass, it's the capital-F future realised in the most overtly futuristic way possible. That means people are going to be interested in this thing. That means once guys realise what they can do with it, they'll just use it in any way possible to get laid. Or watch sports while trying to get laid. Or play video games while trying to get laid. Or talk to their buddies while trying to get laid. Read More >>

If you start wasting somebody's time at NASA, this is how they're going to get you out of their office. Or, it's how JPL engineer Mark Rober will, anyway. This hacked Nintendo console will definitely put you on notice. Read More >>

If you somehow haven't had quite enough of the Harlem Shake yet, you might be inclined to surf on over to YouTube and type in "Do The Harlem Shake." And if you were to do that, YouTube'll interpret it as a direct order, and unleash a meta-jig of its own. Can this be the final, referential nail in the viral coffin? Please? Read More >>

If you want a picture of a dinosaur drawing people in an art class. Jim'll paint it for you in MS Paint. If you want a picture of Moby throwing ninja stars at a 'melancholic' badger wearing specific clothing in a specific situation. Jim'll paint it for you in MS Paint. Jim will basically paint you anything in MS Paint and they will always be incredible. Read More >>