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16 Feb 06:47
Uber's surge pricing is ostensibly meant to put more drivers on the road and get you a timely trip during busy hours. But does it really? Not if you ask researchers at Northeastern University. They've conducted a study showing that surges don't...
Uber's surge pricing doesn't translate to more drivers
by Jon Fingas
Philip.paulssonIs that what Uber says?? Cause really, the only thing surge pricing does is reduce the # of people willing to pay extra... so in theory, I'd think that would result in more available cars. But not because it draws more drivers, that's just silly. Surge pricing last like, 5 minutes. Like some uber driver is gonna see there is surge and skip dinner or sleep for five minutes of a higher fare.
Uber's surge pricing is ostensibly meant to put more drivers on the road and get you a timely trip during busy hours. But does it really? Not if you ask researchers at Northeastern University. They've conducted a study showing that surges don't...
16 Feb 02:49
14 Reasons Why Todd Chrisley Is The Best Dad On TV
Philip.paulssonLOL
15 Feb 17:26
Yes, this prehistoric fish actually had a buzzsaw of spiraling teeth
by Annalee Newitz
Philip.paulssonCrazy.
LOOK INTO MY TEETH AND DESPAIR. (credit: Ray Troll)
Nicknamed the "buzzsaw shark," this 270 million-year-old creature is actually an extinct relative of the ratfish called a Helicoprion. Its bizarre tooth arrangement has confused scientists for over a century, but one artist finally got it right.
Ray Troll, whose art show about Hilicoprion has been touring the US for the past three years, has been on the front lines of scientific research about one of the strangest fossils ever found. When geologist Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky discovered the creature's tooth whorl in 1899, at first he thought it was a kind of ammonite because the teeth looked so much like the ammonite's spiral shell.
Paleo expert Brian Switek writes that it took Karpinsky a little while to realize that it was actually part of a larger animal. Over the next century, many different paleontologists offered explanations for what it might be, including a defensive formation on Helicoprion's nose, a ridge on its back, or even sticking out of its mouth like a spiky, curled tongue.
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11 Feb 19:07
nickncik says FML
by nickncik
Philip.paulssonHahahah there are SO many things wrong with this.
Today, I came inside a girl's vagina by accident. Neither one of us wants her to be pregnant, and I had to spend half an hour with her sitting on my face, while I sucked my own cum out of her. I don't even know if this will work. FML
11 Feb 14:50
Today you can get 2GB of Google Drive storage for free
by Valentina Palladino
Philip.paulssonFree 2GB storage if you do this today. It's super easy and took me all of 30 seconds.
You can never have too much Google Drive space, right? At least that's what Google thinks, and it's giving away 2GB today to anyone that wants it.
This has become a yearly tradition for the company, with today's offer specifically honoring Safer Internet Day 2016. To get the extra Drive space, all you have to do is sign into your Google account and review your security settings, including factors like two-step verification, authorized devices, account verification settings, and a couple more. The process takes just a few minutes, and once you complete the check-up, you'll be awarded the extra 2GB of permanent Drive space for free.
Those who took advantage of the same Google promotion last year can rejoice, as they are welcome to snatch up this year's promotion as well. There's no word on when this 2GB offer will expire, but you have at least one week to complete the security check-up.
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11 Feb 12:06
News in Brief: Olay Introduces New Line Of Pre-Moisturized Skin
Philip.paulssonEwwwwwww
CINCINNATI―Calling it a quick and simple way to achieve a “radiant, youthful glow,” health and beauty giant Olay announced the launch of its new line of pre-moisturized skin Wednesday. “Olay Hydrating Effects Epidermal Layer Plus is guaranteed to give women the luscious, dazzling skin they’ve always wanted,” Olay marketing director Devin Salazar said in a press release, adding that consumers who purchase the 6-ounce jar of human skin can use it to touch up “trouble areas,” immediately reversing the effects of drying, aging, or discoloration. “Just tear off as much or as little skin as you need, apply it where desired, and enjoy the confidence that comes from knowing you can have a fresh, young face at any age.” Salazar went on to state that the new product contains no additives or synthetic chemicals, as it is procured entirely from all-natural sources.
11 Feb 06:07
This Dad Used An App To Switch Faces With His Baby And It's Both Hilarious And Scary
by Kirsten King
Philip.paulssonNice.
I’m crying. But also laughing. But mostly crying.
Part-time YouTuber and full-time dad Woodsie knows there's no better way to spend time with family than by freaking everyone the fuq out.
So, of course, using the Face Swap Live app, this dad decided to switch faces with his infant...
...and this little toddler.
While he's at it, he might as well switch faces with his wife, ensuring she'll never look at him the same again!
11 Feb 04:42
My Little Sister Taught Me How To Snapchat Like “The Teens”
by Ben Rosen
Philip.paulssonOh man, the younger generation is fucked.
I’m 29 years old, and I’ve been on Snapchat for about a year now. I post fairly often (usually on my Story), and I get a decent amount of engagement from my friends. Quite honestly, up until Thanksgiving, I thought I was pretty good at Snapchat.
Then I watched my little sister on Snapchat.
This is Brooke.
She’s my 13-year-old sister, and she’s the most prolific Snapchat user I’ve ever seen.
We live in different states, so I rarely get a chance to hang out with her. That’s what made Thanksgiving so eye-opening. I would watch in awe as she flipped through her snaps, opening and responding to each one in less than a second with a quick selfie face. She answered all 40 of her friends’ snaps in under a minute.
How was this even possible? Is she a freak of nature, or is this just how things are done when you’re young? I had to find out what I was missing. What do these “teens” know that I don’t?
I decided to investigate further…
I was in.
With Brooke and Elsbitch on my side, there was no way I could fail. Still, if my goal was to snap like the teens, I needed to blend in. I had to assimilate to teen culture, so I reached out to Brooke to help reshape my image.
Jackpot.
Right off the bat, I could see that my journey as Bitchamin was going to be a difficult one. Brooke and Elsbitch were very advanced doodlers. Just look at this collage she sent me:
PART 1: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A TEEN
To get started, I wanted to understand what Brooke’s Snapchat experience was like on a day-to-day level, so I asked her some questions:
ME: How long have you had Snapchat?
BROOKE: My new account? About a month and a half.
ME: New account?
BROOKE: Yeah, I didn’t like my old name, so I made a new account.
ME: So you lost all your friends…?
BROOKE: Not really. I used to have about 215 and now I’m at around 180 or 190.
ME: In a month and a half??
BROOKE: Yeah, my score is already over 103,000.
For those of you who don’t know (I didn’t), your Snapchat score can be found beneath your barcode on your account page. The score is determined by how many snaps you send and receive as well as how often you post and watch Stories.
For context on how big Brooke’s number is, here is my score after about a year of moderate usage:
I told Brooke what my score was:
BROOKE: That’s it?? OMG that was like my first day.
I continued my line of questioning:
ME: Tell me what your day is like on Snapchat.
BROOKE: When I wake up, I have about 40 snaps from friends. I just roll through and respond to them.
ME: How do you respond? Like, “haha good one, Elsbitch”?
BROOKE: No conversations...it’s mostly selfies. Depending on the person, the selfie changes. Like, if it’s your best friend, you make a gross face, but if it’s someone you like or don’t know very well, it’s more regular.
ME: I’ve seen how fast you do these responses… How are you able to take in all that information so quickly?
BROOKE: I don’t really see what they send. I tap through so fast. It’s rapid fire.
I’m mesmerized. What’s even the point of sending snaps to each other if you don’t look at them? Am I crazy? That seems so unnecessary. Still, this is adult-brain talking. If I wanted to be one of the teens, I needed to just accept it and press on.
ME: What does Dad say when he sees you doing this?
BROOKE: Parents don’t understand. It’s about being there in the moment. Capturing that with your friends or with your expression. One of the biggest fights kids have with their parents is about data usage.
ME: Really? Because you’re using too much?
BROOKE: Yeah. This one girl I know uses 60 gigabytes every month.
ME: 60 GIGS?!?!? Is that for real??
BROOKE: Yeah. [laughs]
ME: Wow. OK, what else do you do during the day?
BROOKE: I look at the new filters. Those are VERY big. I’ve only bought about three of them, but there are new ones, like, every day.
ME: How often are you on Snapchat?
BROOKE: On a day without school? There’s not a time when I’m not on it. I do it while I watch Netflix, I do it at dinner, and I do it when people around me are being awkward. That app is my life.
"Parents don't understand. It's about being there in the moment."
PART 2: HOW TO SNAPCHAT LIKE A BOSS
I asked Brooke and Elsbitch for some rules on how everyone should Snapchat.
ELSBITCH: Streaks are the MOST important thing on Snapchat. Not just one streak — you need to have multiple.
I stopped her right there.
ME: What is a streak?
BROOKE: You don’t know what a streak is? It’s when you send a snap to one of your friends on consecutive days. You have to make sure to respond every day with a snap or you break the streak.
ME: OK. Neat.
They continued...
BROOKE: Don’t Snapchat boys that you like first — wait until they Snapchat you.
ELSBITCH: You need to have more than 150 views on your Story.
I stopped them again.
ME: Wait. Really? I have like 30.
BROOKE: OMG!! 30?? Only NARPs have less than 150.
ME: What the hell is a NARP?
BROOKE: Nonathletic Regular Person. NARP.
ME: Ah. So…I’m basic?
BROOKE: Yeah.
They continued again.
ELSBITCH: Don’t overload your Story. Nobody wants to sit and watch five videos. One video MAX.
BROOKE: If you’re weird, people will judge you. People don’t care as much as you do in that moment. Also, EVERYONE looks at Cosmo on Discover. If it’s funny, they share it.
ELSBITCH: Don’t reply to weird people. You could reply once, but definitely don’t get a streak.
BROOKE: Get trophies. It’s not a huge deal, but friends like to compare trophies.
ELSBITCH: Take a selfie on your friends’ Snapchats and add your handle in the text to request more friends. Still, don’t be desperate for followers.
At this moment, Brooke suddenly stops paying attention to the conversation and looks at her phone. After a few seconds, she looks up and says, “See? Look. I already have 20 new Snapchats.”
She had just cleared them out 10 minutes before this moment. Ten. Fucking. Minutes.
ME: So if I follow all those rules, I’ll be Snapchatting like a boss?
ELSBITCH: Be a boss to snap like a boss.
Here's one of my snaps.
(I'm trying so hard, you guys.)
PART 3: SNAPCHAT TRICKS & TIPS
ME: Tell me some things that I don’t know about Snapchat.
BROOKE: If you need more space with text, just open notes, press enter a bunch, and copy and paste that into your text box.
ELSBITCH: This one is pretty basic, but if you drag your finger down from the color palette, you can find black. If you drag your finger to the top right of the screen, you can find white.
BROOKE: You can make your own geo filter. Go on Snapchat’s website, create one, and submit it. They need still to approve it but yeah.
ELSBITCH: Oh! You can customize your Snapchat emojis. Just go into Settings > Manage > Friend Emojis. You can change everything there.
BROOKE: If you want to take a screenshot without your friend knowing, turn on airplane mode, take the screenshot, log out of the app immediately, turn off airplane mode, and then load the app back up.
MIND = BLOWN.
PART 4: LEARNINGS FROM BROOKE & ELSBITCH
1) Teens don’t really watch much TV anymore. They’re on Netflix, and they like Grey’s Anatomy.
2) Brooke and Elsbitch said Triller is another popular app. So are VSCO (pronounced “visco”) and Instagram (duh).
3) I just need to mention this: While I was talking to Brooke, she mentioned that she has 700 unanswered texts “just from today.”
4) Brooke is usually the first person to look at anything I post on Snapchat. I can confirm that she is on there ALL DAY.
I have so much work to do.
Teens have a lot of time for Snapchat, and it will be hard to match their voracity. This is clear to me now. Still, I’m not giving up. I’m going to put in the work to become marginally better at Snapchat than I was before. There’s a good chance this is the last time you will hear from me. Today, I leave Earth as we know it and begin my quest in the Snapchat realm. Never to return.
In the words of one of this generation's greatest philosophers:
"Be a boss to snap like a boss."
Have you checked out BuzzFeed’s Discover channel? No? Well. Snap this code and get with it, bub.
10 Feb 22:26
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The Rise and Fall of Supernova 2015F
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Philip.paulssonCool!
10 Feb 18:47
This Bystander Just Stopped A Criminal By Tripping Him And It's Amazing
by Kirsten King
Philip.paulssonHahah nice.
Tripping someone has never been more satisfying.
The police tweeted the clip along with the message: "Thank you to the member of public that recently helped @MPSGroveSNT during a foot chase! #TrippedUp #Legend."
Tbh, the Kingston police hashtag game is on point.
After tripping the criminal, the man just continues on his merry way.
Dude doesn't even take his damn hands out of his pockets.
Cheers to the most casual hero on the streets.
10 Feb 12:13
Which "Undertale" Character Are You?
by Anjali Patel
Philip.paulssonI got Mettaton. Nice. Anyone else play this game? It was quite good.
Knowing there’s no bad result to this quiz fills you with DETERMINATION.
09 Feb 11:54
There's A Place Where You Can Ride Falkor From "The NeverEnding Story"
by Alison Caporimo
Philip.paulssonWoah... I'm going to Munich in September. This might have to happen.
Magic is real.
Is Falkor your dream BFF?
Well isn't he just damn magical.
Warner Bros. / Via thephobia.com
Then book a trip to the Bavaria Film Studios to see where all The NeverEnding Story movie props LIVE ON FOR ALL TIME.
That's right. Visit the studio in Munich, Germany, and YOU CAN RIDE FALKOR IN FRONT OF A GREEN SCREEN WITH A FAN BLOWING AND THEN BUY A VIDEO OF THE EVENT. Plus, all of the other original props are there.
Bavaria Films / Via filmstadt.de
You can also see Rock Biter.
Her's much less intimidating in person than he is in the movie.
Bavaria Films / Via filmstadt.de
And Morla.
Look at that wise ancient face.
Bavaria Films
08 Feb 19:39
Right now, you have slim pickings if you want to pay for things from your wrist: there's the Apple Watch, an upcoming Swatch model, eventual Samsung Gear S2 support and... that's about it. However, Fit Pay might just widen the field a bit. It's crowd...
Smart strap brings payments to your Pebble smartwatch
by Jon Fingas
Philip.paulssonSweet
Right now, you have slim pickings if you want to pay for things from your wrist: there's the Apple Watch, an upcoming Swatch model, eventual Samsung Gear S2 support and... that's about it. However, Fit Pay might just widen the field a bit. It's crowd...
08 Feb 17:37
LL says FML
by LL
Philip.paulssonThe East Coast is more sexist than the West Coast? Or than central US? Or just everywhere? I had no idea!
Today, after being told numerous times how sexist the East Coast is, I went ahead with my East Coast grad school architecture interview. The first thing out of the interviewer's mouth was, "Are you sure you don't want to do interior architecture?" FML
08 Feb 15:19
Today Is National Working Naked Day So Take Off All Your Clothes
by Julie Gerstein
Philip.paulssonI am SO glad my office didn't hear about this one.
Honestly, why do you still have pants on?
YOU GUYS! Today is a national holiday!
MTV / Via giphy.com
It's National Work Naked Day!
HUH.
Some offices have already done it — like onebestway, in Newcastle, UK, which had a Naked Friday.
Their ~experiment~ was filmed for a one-off TV show called Naked Office that ran in 2009.
And the folks at San Francisco website Bold Italic did a month-long working naked experiment.
According to an Imgur post from one of the participants, "Sure, our heating bills went up a bit, and we could collect enough rogue pubes to furnish the scalp of a small doll, but it’s a very small price to pay for this level of workplace satisfaction."
08 Feb 15:11
Dropping a hole-in-one at the 16th hole of the Waste Management Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, Arizona apparently isn't that hard. Tiger Woods famously got one back in 1997, Italian pro Francesco Molinari did the same last month and just this Wednesday,...
Golf-bot sinks hole-in-one at PGA event
by Andrew Tarantola
Philip.paulssonImpressive!
Dropping a hole-in-one at the 16th hole of the Waste Management Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, Arizona apparently isn't that hard. Tiger Woods famously got one back in 1997, Italian pro Francesco Molinari did the same last month and just this Wednesday,...
08 Feb 15:10
Indian man could be first recorded human fatality due to a meteorite
by Eric Berger
Philip.paulssonCrazy.
A Perseid meteor is seen entering Earth's atmosphere from the International Space Station. (credit: NASA)
Indian officials say a meteorite struck the campus of a private engineering college on Saturday, killing one person. If scientists confirm the explosion was due to a meteorite, it would be the first recorded human fatality due to a falling space rock.
According to local reports, a bus driver was killed on Saturday when a meteorite landed in the area where he was walking, damaging the window panes of nearby buses and buildings. Three other people were injured.
On Sunday, various Indian publications, including The Hindu, reported that the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa, issued a statement confirming the death: "A mishap occurred yesterday when a meteorite fell in the campus of a private engineering college in Vellore district's K Pantharappalli village." Tamil Nadu is located in southern India, and has a population of more than 70 million people.
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08 Feb 13:10
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Philip.paulssonWeird formatting, but the Dirty Dancing sketch on SNL's Weekend Update was fantastic. The whole episode was really good, actually.
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08 Feb 12:40
Respawn hasn't said much about its Titanfall sequel beyond plans for multi-platform support, but some details are starting to trickle out... and they'll be good news for fans of the robot-slash-infantry shooter. In a chat with Forbes, head writer Je...
'Titanfall 2' will have a real single-player campaign
by Jon Fingas
Philip.paulssonSweet.
Respawn hasn't said much about its Titanfall sequel beyond plans for multi-platform support, but some details are starting to trickle out... and they'll be good news for fans of the robot-slash-infantry shooter. In a chat with Forbes, head writer Je...
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05 Feb 17:58
17 Mouthwatering Foods You Need To Eat For Chinese New Year
by Christina Lan
Philip.paulssonYes please.
The best excuse to wear red in February.
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05 Feb 17:56
This is probably the greatest custom PC build of all time
by Sebastian Anthony
Philip.paulssonOk that is freakin' cool.
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My friends, I might have found the greatest custom PC ever conceived or constructed: the Lego Gaming Computer.
No, this isn't a computer designed specifically for the myriad Lego-themed games that have flooded the market over the last 10 years—though it certainly could do that with aplomb. The Lego Gaming Computer is a top-spec, completely-built-from-scratch X-shaped gaming rig that's made entirely out of Lego bricks.
Because ATX PCs aren't meant to be X-shaped, the mastermind behind the build—a guy called Mike Schropp—had to come up with some ingenious solutions, such as a custom-made GPU heatsink and a transverse-mounted motherboard that separated the GPU's airflow path from the other components.
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