Uber CEO Travis Kalanick’s net worth is $6.3 billion, but if you’re a turd, you’re a turd, and all that wonderful cash can’t buy you a better personality. There’s a video to prove it: Bloomberg obtained footage of Kalanick getting into a heated argument with an Uber driver.
Source: Gizmodo – Billionaire Uber CEO Yells at Bankrupt Driver: ‘Some People Don’t Like to Take Responsibility’
It’s a bird … it’s a plane … it’s a weedy seadragon!
Source: TreeHugger – Photo: Weedy seadragon soars like a superhero
To celebrate the 55th anniversary of its coffee brand’s release, Snow Brand Milk of Japan is selling this smooth, spreadable coffee for toast or crackers or fruit or foreplay. Apparently Snow Brand Milk coffee is already sweet and creamy, so it might actually work well as a spread for toast. Plus it still has CAFFEINE. Obviously, I’m going to rub some on my nipples and lick it off for a little mid-morning pick-me-up. “Um, is GW breast-feeding himself again?” You can stare all you want but if you take a picture it’ll last longer. I’m serious I don’t care this is perfectly natural you people need to grow up and stop calling HR on me.
Thanks again to lizzy , who agrees the easiest way to stay caffeinated is never letting it leave your system. “GW, please tell me you don’t have a rubber band around your penis.” It works, I’m totally wired right now.
Source: Geekologie – I’d Try It: Japanese Spreadable Coffee For Toast
I have long used bubble wrap as a stress-relieving device, but it turns out those sheets of air pockets have another use that is extremely pertinent to my life: sous vide insulation.
Source: LifeHacker – Use Bubble Wrap to Insulate Your Sous Vide Tub
In March, Buffy the Vampire Slayer turns 20 years old. And David Boreanaz wants nothing to do with either a reunion or a remake. So just leave him alone.
Source: io9 – David Boreanaz Is So Done With Buffy, So Please Stop Asking Him About It
Vizio’s higher-priced HDR-capable TVs aren’t exactly pricey, but you now have some truly low-cost options if you’re just looking for the basics. The company has launched its 2017 E-Series line, and the emphasis this time is on making high dynamic ra…
Source: Engadget – Vizio’s new entry-level 4K TVs make HDR accessible
Today on Highlight Reel we have Titanfall plays, Battlefield 1 streaks, For Honor ladder plays, and much more!
Source: Kotaku – Ghost Recon Player Believes He Can Fly
Welcome to planet Earth, little wheat berry. I know, you didn’t ask to be brought into the world…no one did. But you should know that you started fucking the planet over just by being here.
Source: Gizmodo – Bread Starts Screwing the Environment Before It’s a Loaf
The CW/DC universe has so far been unafraid to start dealing with alternate Earth versions of its characters —especially Flash, with its regular sojourns to Earth-2. But even though Supergirl is already set on an alternate Earth, it has no plans to reveal its own takes on Barry, Ollie, or anyone else any time soon.
Source: io9 – Supergirl Does Not Want to Open the Pandora’s Box of Alternate Flash and Arrow Heroes
In preparation for Ryzen tests coming up in the near future, I’ve been running some fresh benchmarks across a range of Intel and AMD x86_64 Linux systems. For those curious about the current performance of Ubuntu 17.04 daily with the Linux 4.10 kernel, here are benchmarks from 14 of the systems.
Source: Phoronix – 14-Way Intel/AMD Benchmarks On Ubuntu 17.04 + Linux 4.10
I never played a Fire Emblem game until Fire Emblem Heroes. The game dazzled me with a colorful (if horny) cast and the promise of distant realms. I wanted to see more so I bought a 3DS and played Awakening. What I found was magical and inspiring.
Source: Kotaku – Getting Into Fire Emblem Games After Playing Heroes
Better double check that tap water—today, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at reworking Obama-era protections of clean water. The order asks for a revision of the 2015 Water of the US Act, a move likely to thrill Trump’s supporters in the fossil fuel industry and big agriculture, and confuse just about…
Source: Gizmodo – Trump Is Rolling Back a Key Obama Rule Protecting US Waters
Source: Engadget – Google pulls the plug on its Pixel laptops
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: After a year of rumors, YouTube is finally drawing back the curtain on its latest play for entertainment industry domination — a live TV service. Distinct from YouTube Red, the new service YouTube TV, which has been in the works for years at Google’s internet video behemoth, has quietly been inking contracts with media companies to distribute their content on its TV service. The service is fairly low-cost, with a family of six accounts available for $35 per month, and no long-term contract required. Earlier reports from the Wall Street Journal set pricing for the service somewhere between $25 and $40 per month. However, it will only launch in markets where it can offer full, live local broadcast feeds. That’s planned for the months ahead, but YouTube didn’t offer an exact date. “We decided to create an offering that would give them all of these can’t miss live moments,” said YouTube exec Robert Kinsel of YouTube TV’s offering. He explained that YouTube has partnered with all of the broadcast networks, in order to offer “comprehensive national coverage with ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox all included.” In addition, the service is getting USA, FX, FreeForm, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox News, and Fox Business. ShowTime is available for an additional fee. Missing, however, is HBO. For sports fans, the service includes national coverage from ESPN, FoxSports, and NBC SportsNet. Also offered are regional sports networks from Fox and Comcast, SEC Network, Big Ten and ESPNU. Fox Soccer Plus is available as an add-on. In addition, YouTube TV includes YouTube Red’s 28 original series. Some other features of the service include a DVR that will never run out of space and that’s cable of simultaneous recordings, a visual TV guide, search feature, and voice support integration via Google Home.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – YouTube Unveils YouTube TV, Its Live TV Streaming Service
Part of world-building is language. If you’re creating an entirely new alien species, you’re generally also going to have to create an entirely new language for them. And what good is a language without a bit of profanity? Not much.
Source: Gizmodo – 10 Scifi Curse Words for All Occasions
Your first day on the job is always a stressful experience. You have to put your best foot forward, make good first impressions, learn the landscape of social relationships in the office, and actually do whatever you’re being paid to do. But it doesn’t always go so smoothly.
Source: LifeHacker – Tell Us About Your Worst First Day on the Job
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On Tuesday, AOL (yes, it’s still around) suddenly announced to users of AOL Instant Messenger (including yours truly) that it would be disabling access to its network through at least one third-party messaging app (Adium) as of March 28. Third-party chat apps like Adium, Trillian, or Pidgin use the company’s OSCAR chat protocol to handle AIM messages.
The service will continue to live on through AOL’s proprietary standalone chat app, which exists for MacOS, Windows, iOS, and Android.
Just got this AIM message. Anyone else still using AIM out there? pic.twitter.com/2WpR1lTwmH
— Cyrus Farivar (@cfarivar) February 28, 2017
One Ars editor reported no such message when using the Trillian app, while another editor reported that her AIM account would not connect via Adium at all.
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Source: Ars Technica – AOL will cut off third-party app access to AIM
If you’re a Battlefield 1 fan, get ready to open your wallet and jump into even more WWI-inspired battles. Gaming heavyweights EA and DICE just revealed four new expansion packs for its popular first-person shooter. All four expansions are included i…
Source: Engadget – Expect four new expansions for ‘Battlefield 1’ this year
These are several shots of Pandora the dog wearing dentures. Allegedly her owner Lucas Alves Magalhães of Sao Paulo, Brazil called Pandora inside one day after seeing her dig up something in the backyard (which she apparently loves to do) and keep it in her mouth. This is the result. According to Lucas, “I couldn’t see what it was, so I called her in. When I lifted her head, I almost died from laughing.” Admittedly, that is very funny Lucas, but let’s not glance over the fact that your dog did just find a dead body in the backyard.
Keep going for a handful more shots.
Source: Geekologie – Say Cheese: Owner Catches Dog Wearing Dentures
Static, the best-known character from black-owned comics company Milestone Media, made the jump from paper comics to a TV cartoon called Static Shock back in 2000. There’s only been one six-episode DVD released for Static Shock, and that’s been very tough to find for years. Warner Bros is at long last releasing the…
Source: io9 – Static Shock TV Series Finally Returns to DVD on March 28
