CHANNELING THEIR RAGE
The Cable Company Complaint Factory
The FCC gets more Internet service complaints about Comcast than it does for AT&T;, Verizon, and Time Warner Cable (TWC) combined.
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SPANNING THE WORLD
The World's Most Impressive Bridges
From old stone spans to sweeping modern suspensions, bridges have a way of wowing us.
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CUE MANIPULATIVE MUSIC
This Modern Trailer For 'The Empire Strikes Back' Will Make You Want To See It Again
Trailers, today, are fully dramatized productions meant to extract maximum emotion towards a film. Back when "Star Wars" came out it didn't get this full treatment, so Tom F of YouTube decided to do it himself.
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STARTUPS WE DIGG ǀ SPONSORED
Low Interest Loans? Yes, Please
Guess what, it’s almost 2016. That degree you want to get? That debt you want to reduce? Time to make it happen. And Pave can help.
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THE REAL QUESTION: DOES IT HAVE A HEMI?
A Big Truck Attempts To Cross A Very Thin Bridge
A large pickup truck crosses an incredibly thin bridge, inducing nail-biting and teeth-clenching everywhere.
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DISCLAIMER: SENT FROM MY IPHONE
Are Email Disclaimers Meaningless?
How much legal weight does that disclaimer at the end of an email from one's accountant or insurance advisor really carry? None, practically speaking.
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Send Us Your Cool Links
What's the best thing you read/watched today? Share it with us here!
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YUP, WE'RE STILL IN KANSAS
What Happens When An Extremely Kansas Man Gets A GoPro For Christmas
GoPro is supposed to be there for you to capture your most extreme moments, but it can also be there to capture your everyday encounters...like the ones you have with your dog in the garage.
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SO CALL HIM MAYBE?
How Alexander Graham Bell Pioneered Li-Fi With The Photophone In 1880
A mere four years after patenting the telephone, inventor Alexander Graham Bellwas already looking for ways to improve on his new technology. Specifically, he wanted to go wireless.
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420 GRAZE IT
Goats Love To Eat Christmas Trees
Don't believe it? Just watch these goat feeding frenzies.
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WE SHOULD HAVE TRIED HARDER IN MATH
We're Not Sure That This Explanation Of Reality Makes Anything Clearer
Explanimator takes a stab at explaining reality, and it gets pretty trippy. The good news is that it's a good animation and you'll learn something. The bad news is that math is really important.
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GOOGLE IS A GLASS-HALF-FULL COMPANY
A First Look At Google Glass 2.0
Despite killing it off at the beginning of this year, Google has revealed a new version of its Glass wearable computer, aimed squarely at enterprise businesses such as healthcare and manufacturing.
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SHIT FLOATS
The Primary That Disqualified The Qualified
This year, Republican voters rebelled against any candidates with real governing experience.
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THE LOLS CAN HELP YOU WEATHER ANY STORM
The Best Weather Bloopers Of 2015
From the same YouTube account that brought you "Best News Bloopers Of 2015," comes the best weather bloopers of 2015. There's nothing more innocent than a weather blooper.
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WE REALLY DON'T KNOW
How Would A Dog Wear Pants?
Dogs don't wear pants, but what if they did? What would a pair of dog slacks look like? Four-legged or two-legged? The question is tearing the Internet apart.
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THEY'RE NOT WEARING HOCKEY MASKS
Ford Wants to Turn Your Car’s Back Wheel Into A Batpod
Like the Batpod that ejected from the Batmobile in The Dark Knight, the back wheel of your car could quickly transform into a self-balancing electric unicycle.
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FROM THE DIGG STORE
Play Your Guitar Anywhere Without Looking Like 'That Guy'
Real strings, real frets, and real easy to take with you anywhere. This smart guitar is equally ideal for beginners learning to play and experts looking to experiment with MIDI synths and apps.
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'I'M NOT GONNA SHARE THIS'
Kid Is Genuinely Excited About Getting Steak Sauce For Christmas
Getting a gag gift from the parents is par for the course for many people at Christmas, and most of the time you just have to grin and bear it. One kid with the true Christmas spirit was genuinely excited about receiving a bottle of steak sauce in his stocking.
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OH HELL NO
What’s Supersizing Antarctica’s Sea Spiders?
Sea spiders look like something from the fever dream of an arachnophobic science fiction author. But they are very real, and they live all over the world. And in the dark, cold waters of the polar oceans, sea spiders grow big, huge — their legs spanning the width of your face.
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'I'M THE BEST, I DID IT, WOO!'
The 'Rocky' Training Montage Without Music Just Isn't The Same
When you take out the film's iconic theme song and replace it with Sylvester Stallone grunting, it's just a bit less inspiring.
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CAN'T BE FOILED
These Hats Are For Hip Millennials Who Hate Government Mind Control
Tin-foil hats — DIY headwear that supposedly protects wearers from mind reading — are the classic apparel of conspiracy-obsessed paranoids who believe the government is out to trap them. Now a company is aiming at hip millennials with fashion-forward beanies and snapbacks in a sporty shade of gray.
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CUSHY REVIEW
7 Nights On A Custom-Made Mattress
Plenty of modern mattress-makers like Casper and Leesa offer to get us there by promising us the perfect mattress. But bed startup Helix Sleep says no such straight-from-the-factory mattress exists or will ever exist.
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TAKING A NOSE DIVE
The Slow And Painful Death Of The Dive Bar
A good dive’s exterior should look like it’s survived a nuclear attack and has the chops to go toe-to-toe with another one.
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PREPARE FOR TROUBLE
More And More Twins Are Being Born In The US
In 2014, 33.9 sets of twins were born per 1,000 births in the United States, according to a new report on birth data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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BREAKING THE WIND OUT OF THEIR SAILS
The True Story Of Roland The Farter, And How The Internet Killed Professional Flatulence
Farts are and have always been funny — an odiferous, invisible thread in the rich tapestry of global comic tradition.
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THE SCI OF THE STORM
The Science Behind This Winter's Deadly Tornadoes
Meteorologists are working to better understand the atmosphere’s most vexing, powerful outbursts.
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DUMB ENOUGH TO WORK?
Smart Money Is Now Stupid
To make the economy grow faster, why not drop money from a helicopter?
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OK, THIS IS GETTING EXCESSIVE
Molten Copper Mixed With Antifreeze Makes A Swampy, Fiery Mess
Tito4re is back with another innovative molten copper video. This time, he mixes molten copper with antifreeze in a dog bowl.
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FOREVER A DRONE
3D Printing Will Disrupt The World In Ways We Can Barely Imagine
In the last few years, 3D printing has transformed from an interesting hobby to an industry producing a wide range of products. As businesses learn to use these multi-material printers, the range of products they will be able to print will expand exponentially.
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IN THE COLDSTONE AGE
How Ice Cream Was Made In The 17th Century
History’s first confirmed ice cream graced the court of Charles II in 1671. It was made using a special flavor, orange blossom, and one very special chemical ingredient that made ice cream without refrigeration possible in the first place.
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IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A PLANE, IT'S A DOG
These Dogs Doing Tricks In Slow Motion Look Like Superheroes
If we eat Purina dog chow will we be as talented as these dogs?
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THE REPO MERMEN
Inside The Watery World Of Maritime Repo Men
Thousands of boats are stolen each year, and some are recovered using alcohol, prostitutes, witch doctors and other forms of guile.
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NOT A PHALLUSY
What Horrible Things Did We Do To Our Penises Last Year?
This selection of real, horrible injuries proves that Murphy’s Law is centered on the crotch.
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HE'S NO FLAKE
A Photographer’s Scientific Approach To Shooting Snow Reveals Stunning Geometric Variety
Don Komarechka has spent more than 2,500 hours photographing snowflakes.
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FOR THE BIRDS!
The Quest To Make New York City Stop Killing Birds
New York City, beyond being a hub of finance and culture, is also a major hub for migratory birds who stop here every spring and fall on their bi-annual migrations. But thousands of others die here, killed off by the very things that make New York’s skyline so striking — all that twinkling light and glass.
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THERE IS NO GOOD CANCER
Our Image Of The Cancer Experience Needs A Reality Check
With awareness levels higher than ever, translating into faster diagnosis and better treatments, Breastcancer.org estimates that only 40,000 women will die of the disease this year. This is a large decrease from the 1980s, and as such, breast cancer is often labelled the 'good' cancer.
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YOU'LL BE SHAKEN AND STIRRED
Everything You Think You Know About Vermouth Is Wrong
It's not just for martinis.
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ON THE ROAD TO FINLAND
A Tale Of Two Alis
Of the roughly one million migrants who arrived in Europe by sea this year roughly a quarter, according to the UN refugee agency, were children. British barrister Hashi Mohamed, once a child refugee himself, went to Italy to meet some new arrivals — and with one in particular he made an immediate connection.
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ALT RIGHT, ALT RIGHT, ALT RIGHT, ALT RIGHT
How 2015 Fueled The Rise Of The Freewheeling, White Nationalist Alt Right Movement
In a year dominated by Trump, the alt right — a loosely connected movement related to obscure political theories and a great feel for how the Internet actually works — has hit it big.
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THERE'S GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS
Can The Planet Be Saved?
Experts on ecology, conservation, and climate change offer their reasons for optimism and pessimism going into 2016.
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LONELY LITTLE MAN IN AN ONION PATCH
How Not To Cry While Cutting Onions
"Try to breath evenly. Use a sharp knife to reduce spray. Keep your face at least one and a half feet away from the cutting surface. Don’t think about Jamie, bro. Whatever you do, you have to forget about her and move on to someone new."
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TWO OTHER SIDES OF THE SAME COIN
What Adele's 'Hello' Has In Common With Donald Trump
Adele’s single is the musical equivalent of the desire for experiential homogeneity that Trump satisfies.
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CULPRIT UNKNOWN
Database Configuration Issues Expose 191 Million Voter Records
A misconfigured database has led to the disclosure of 191 million voter records. The database, discovered by researcher Chris Vickery, doesn't seem to have an owner; it's just sitting in the public – waiting to be discovered by anyone who happens to be looking.
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ACTIVISTS ANONYMOUS
Everything Hacktivists Accomplished In 2015, For Better Or Worse
Mic's year-end roundup of the masked mischief that made headlines in 2015.
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ERIE PHOTOS
Surreal Photos Of Crashing Waves Caught In Motion On Lake Erie
Canada-based photographer David Sandford has been making pictures for more than 18 years. During that time, he has mostly been able to pay his bills by shooting sports. But his true passion lies in making photographs about anything to do with water.
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MOTHER ALSO IN CUSTODY
'Affluenza' Teen Ethan Couch Detained In Mexico
Mexican authorities have detained the so-called "affluenza" teen Ethan Couch and his mother near the popular Mexican Pacific beach resort town of Puerto Vallarta.
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APP-OCALYPSE
Can The Mobile Web Make Apps Obsolete?
The mobile landscape is significantly different than it was a year or two ago (let alone five). Today, apps aren't really necessary. In fact, it's easy to envision an excellent, software-rich mobile device that uses the Web instead of apps.
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'I HAD FOUND MY WAY HOME'
What It's Like To Be Adopted At 17
After years of misery and abuse, I finally learned what it’s like to have a loving and supportive family — right before my childhood officially ended.
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SLOOOOWRIIIIIIIDE
These Ultralight Model Planes Are Like Indoor Jellyfish
Indoor free flight model planes are made of almost nothing, and they can fly, unassisted, for up to half an hour off of one twisted rubber band.
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