What David Foster Wallace Can Teach You About Traffic

David Foster Wallace was a novelist and writer with an interesting view on life. He wanted all of us to think not about how we get up, get in a car, go to work, get in a car, and go to sleep again. He wanted us to really consider everything that happens in between, and how we are all small fish in a big pond.

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Post The Most Hilarious Arrested Development GIFs You Can Find

Everyone's favorite stair-car related program is making a triumphant return to the internets at the end of next month. That's right, Arrested Development is coming back. Sit back, relax, grab some candy beans, and lets laugh at some GIFs.

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This Hippie/Nerd-Built Super-Secret Computer Network Is Now The…

Forty-three years ago today, two groups of mangy computer nerds sat huddled around their massive computers. Sweat made thick-rimmed glasses slide too far down noses as the word "lo" was transmitted, for the first time via computer, from UCLA to Stanford.

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Salon Describing Home Improvement Is The Most Salon Thing Ever

On that show, Allen's grunting, not-so-handy man struggled to affirm himself at home, where his wife's upwardly mobile intellectualism and the burden of raising three rabble-rousing sons posed a tacit affront to his "fathers knows best" ideals. Allen's character took to the garage to find himself, tinkering on an endless …
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Do You Have What It Takes To Be A British Secret Service Agent? Take…

MI6 has a French agent being chased by five enemy operatives. Her only chance of survival is you, and your only method of communication is a command line chat window. Can you somehow guide her away from danger and capture the enemy operatives for interrogation?

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How Many Marine Snipers Can You Count In This Photo?

Camouflage has been an important part of combat since the Prussian army adopted its feldgrau uniforms to blend in with Northern Europe's grayish fields in the 19th century. Armed forces have come a long way since then, using research tested patterns to break up the outlines of troops, trucks and aircraft, making them…

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"They Won't Magically Turn You Into A Lustful Cockmonster": Chris Kluwe…

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo has spoken out in favor of a Maryland ballot initiative that would legalize gay marriage. Yahoo has published a letter that Maryland state delegate Emmett C. Burns Jr. wrote last week to Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti, urging him to "inhibit such expressions from your…

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