Clever license plate spells out DMV-banned dirty word in rear view mirror

Have you spent a worrisome amount of time reading r/PublicFreakout, r/IdiotsInCars or other archives of public misfortune? Perhaps you need a break from schadenfreude. Perhaps you should visit r/GatekeepingYuri. Remember Virgin vs. Chad, as emerged from 4Chan back in 2016? They're boyfriends now.  That "De-Bimbofication" piece that's made the rounds since 2017? They're all in… READ THE REST

I'll bet you can recognize these famous meme faces even though I've mosaiced the heck out of them. Click here to see who they are and what they look like today. READ THE REST

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

For decades, they've been mortal enemies. Oil and water. Fire and ice. Hatfields and McCoys. Windows and Mac. Never the twain shall meet. Nowhere is the dichotomous relationship between the two programming giants more evident than when you run an emulator to try and make a Windows app work on a Mac. There's a good… READ THE REST

If you're running a website, you want people to visit that website. Presumably. Wild guess. If you're going through the work and cost of operating a website just to dump your thoughts on the web, that's cool. Diary is probably safer, but whatever. Back to the point at hand: If you're operating a website, you… READ THE REST

How do you protect yourself from everybody online trying to get all up in your business? And we aren't just talking about cybercriminals and other malevolent black hats rummaging around the internet either. We also mean all those "legitimate" businesses that use trackers, cookies, and other online tricks to harvest as much usable information from… READ THE REST