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Startup: How To Worship False Idols

It’s about time somebody codified the law regarding cell phone usage. Some people just weren’t getting it. I’m looking at you, Professor.

 

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Startup: It’s Never Too Early

Do you want your baby to be the only one incapable of identifying a threat, brandishing a shotgun, and dealing swift, holy justice? Start preparing for the zombie apocalypse early!

 

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Startup: Punctuation Counts

People on the Internet love to have an argument and be right, that’s mostly why I’m here. But remember, just because that idiot that you suspect of being a 15 year old mouth-breather is being a pompous jackass about ridiculous semantics, he may have a point. One seemingly harmless apostrophe could turn a clever [...]

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Startup: Treadmill Defense

If the Zombie Apocalypse does start, I’m just going to surround my house with treadmills and leave them running. I should be fine.

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Startup: Troll Hunting

OK, before you get all bent out of shape let me clarify: I own and have enjoyed Apple products. I have also owned and enjoyed other products. I would not call myself a fanboy, but I have been to an Apple store and it did feel very much like this. It’s like being in [...]

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Startup: The Stalking Dead

Are you a huge fan of “The Walking Dead” but wish you had a convenient way to spoil the series for yourself and see where in the real world each of the events in the series took place? Me neither. Somebody figured it was important, and the results are actually kind of cool: a [...]

Genius Innovators

Zombie-Proof House

Last night while researching zombie apocalypse survival techniques (aka watching The Walking Dead), I recalled seeing this house in one of our Atomic Toasters Staff Meetings Where Mitch Beats Us Then Gives Us Cookies. I dug out the link and decided to share it with you. Because, let’s face it, we have a social responsibility here to make sure that all of our readers are as prepared for a zombie outbreak as we are.
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Great Scams in History

The Great Moon Hoax

On August 25, 1835 the first of a fantastic series of articles was published. Supposedly written by a Dr. Andrew Grant and published in the Edinburgh Journal of Science, this series of articles claimed Sir John Herschel had discovered a vast array of life on the moon; including unicorns, biped beavers, and furry winged humanoid bats. He did all this from an observatory he had built in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Startup: Where Does He Get Those Toys?

Not exactly a precision instrument.

Techie stumbled across this great find a few days ago, which in and of itself is remarkable. Generally, Techie will spend countless hours on YouTube, searching for videos of kittens waking up, or lengthy monologues from comedians who aren’t really funny, which he will bookmark and force us to watch for two or three hours before we finally get to watch whatever it is we wanted to watch on his enormous big-screen. At first, we thought he actually found these videos entertaining. Then we realized that he did it to test and see how long we would put up with it before we punched him in the coin purse, and tracked the results in an Excel spreadsheet. For science!

So when he presented me with this video, and it turned out to be frickin’ cool, you can imagine my bewilderment. I still don’t completely understand it, but I’ll overlook that little detail, and content myself with the knowledge that it involves zombies blowing up.

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User Input

User Input: Concerning the Surrealism of Cutlery

One encounters, as a geek, a veritable cornucopia of the malcontent. Now geeks come in many flavors, but the general public tend to regard anyone with a healthy working knowledge of anything to be in some kind of alliance with all of it’s motivations and trappings. If you know how to install Windows [...]