It’s April 1 and once again tech firms are among those pulling April Fool’s Day pranks. It can be hard to figure out which stories are gags given the way unbelievable tech ideas turn out to be reality: a few years ago the idea of a 3D printer would surely have seemed laughable. That said, […]
Here are a bunch of chemistry jokes by our friends over at the Reactions Youtube Channel. Reminds me a little bit of our piece featuring 10 Chemical Compounds with Immature Jokes for Names. [Reactions]
A cool new Minecraft-themed music video by epic rapper extraordinaire Dan Bull. It’s gonna make my brain go boom, Boom, Boom, I can’t stop singing this bloody tune, tune, tune. [Dan Bull]
I wasn’t expecting too much from this at first, but somehow, it was strangely entertaining. [dfj688 | Via LS]
In space, nobody can hear you scream. Yeah, right! [Buzzfeed]
Everyone wants to be productive, organized, successful, and efficient, but there are some of us that geek out a little more than others. Many organization geeks spend hours painstakingly labeling and color-coding their filing cabinets and refrigerators, while efficiency geeks look for back routes to get to work in the most time or gas-efficient way […]
Researchers at Harvard and Northeastern say Google’s Flu Trends service, which tries to predict flu outbreaks based on search activity, has become less reliable over time. They say the effects of even small changes such as those to Google’s own autosuggest tool may have been allowed to mount up and call it a lesson for […]
“Critical Hit Cocktails with Mitch Hutts” airs on Geek & Sundry Vlogs YouTube channel and Hutts specializes in making geek-themed cocktails, all in 5 minutes or less. The libations range from Doctor Who to Sherlock to Firefly to Pokemon to video games A sampling is below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSIzsUZXT-Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dykVq8D28SU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zB5t2HHMow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oytbszK40fo
The Gregory Brothers took some popular songs and “changed several aspects of [the] songs –keys/modes/tempos/arrangements — but the main focus with this project is to hear major songs in a minor mode & minor songs in a major mode.” What do you guys think?? [The Gregory Brothers / YouTube]
Gotta catch ’em — I mean…gotta NAME ’em all! (The Carnegie Hall Ensemble ACJW is a collaboration between Carnegie Hall and Julliard.) [via Roadtrippers]