This was on the Consumerist last month, but I just came across it. On the left, the box for a kiddie pool. On the right, a photo of the actual kiddie pool. A note on the box reads: "Product may not be as appears on image." Banzai Wild Waves Water Park Box Picture Vs Reality
"I recently purchased a house and while putting things away I had an 'Are you kidding me?' moment when trying to open that one drawer," says Tyler of Fishkill, New York. "I never realized my drawer would have 3-factor authentication just to open it." READ THE REST
Alex Melton reimagines Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" if it were written by Blink-182. Some will win. Some will loseSome were born to sing the blues. Here's Journey's original as performed live in 1981: READ THE REST
It's widely understood, in the collective consciousness of the meme-anschauung, that inhaling sulphur hexafluoride is how one briefly attains an extremely deep and manly voice. But there is a gas that offers even deeper and manlier formants: perfluorobutane. Cody's lab: "I breath in samples of sulfur hexafluoride and perfluorobutane which has nearly twice the density.… READ THE REST
Cloud storage has opened up all kinds of new file storage and sharing possibilities for small companies and on-the-go individuals. Of course, it does require some coordination issues to be worked out beforehand. Like…did you remember to move those files from your personal PC to the cloud? And then there's the apocalyptic cloud storage fear… READ THE REST
We all think living in a smart home would be really cool. And many of us have enlisted smart home assistants, smart bulbs, and smart appliances to help bring that dream of a voice-controlled home of the future into reality. Unfortunately, most of us aren't living in a home constructed after 2015, and our house,… READ THE REST
When you need to know an answer to a coding problem, there's nothing like a reliable reference library to feed you the information you need. Sure, most people just start Googling these days, but if you aren't 100 percent sure about the information you're getting online, especially about something as idiosyncratic as programming, can you… READ THE REST