This drummer plays with more feeling than any other musician ever

Twenty years ago this week, Newgrounds forum user Bad-CRC shared the intro animation above from the 1992 Mega Drive/Genesis game "Zero Wing." While macros and gifs from the animation had previously been shared online, that 2001 posting and the memetic power it unleashed truly felt as if somebody set up us the bomb. (Ars Technica) READ THE REST

Luckily, this truck came to a full stop before it hit anything. Ice is dangerous! This is why I woke up at 5am to drive my daughter to play in the snow. READ THE REST

As William Gibson famously wrote, "The street finds its own uses for things." Chicago resident Adam Selzer is using frozen pants instead of lawn chairs instead of orange cones to call dibs on public parking spaces that he's shoveled out. "The one thing I tried this time that I haven't before is I also froze… READ THE REST

If you live in a home without a fireplace, you probably aren't in the minority anymore. In fact, more and more residents don't have that home feature that used to be a central source of warmth, light, and food preparation for centuries. Just this century, the percentage of new single-family homes built including a fireplace… READ THE REST

By the time you feel the burn coming from the bottom of your dangerously overheated laptop, it might already be too late. Airflow is hugely important in making sure the hard-charging components inside your laptop stay cool so they can keep functioning properly.  But, without adequate airflow, your processor and battery can build up tremendous… READ THE REST

Learning to play an instrument like the piano can be amazingly rewarding. However, it just as often turns out to be amazingly frustrating. We all have visions of sitting down to learn, then being able to toss off a note-perfect version of something like Beethoven's Fur Elise or Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody in short order. While… READ THE REST