When I first say this magic gopher number game, I was perplexed. No matter how randomly I chose my number, the gopher always seemed to guess correctly. After trying it a few times, it became apparent to me that there was a trick. As it turns out, you don’t have to be a math whiz [...]
Tucker Max is a horrible, depraved person. He gets drunk, sleeps around, commits crimes, you name it. Seriously, he’s bad news. His only saving grace is that he writes about his misadventures. Much like the Tard Blog, you just can’t help but laugh at the Tucker Max Stories for all the wrong reasons. As Project [...]
Imagine Snake with a Darwinian twist and you’ve got some idea of what flOw is like. You play an… amoeba-like thing that gets to swim around and eat other microorganisms to get bigger and eventually evolve. It sounds simple enough, and the game play is very straightforward. Just use the mouse cursor to guide your [...]
Apparently, if you put Mentos into Diet Coke, you get a pretty energetic reaction. I could go into the chemistry behind it, but, well, I don’t like chemistry (sorry, Mrs. Hamilton). What I do like are fountains of Diet Coke set up to produce ingenious chain reactions. Just think, all of this was caused by [...]
Most people aren’t at their cognitive best on Monday morning, and this short trick question quiz does a great job of proving it. Since it’s only 11 multiple choice questions, it shouldn’t take very long to complete, although you’ll probably end up wishing you’d given it more thought when you get the results. See if [...]
It’s nice when something genuinely funny happens in your real life instead of just getting to read about other peoples’ humorous experience. Happy day, I finally have my own anecdote. I was sitting in my office the other day having a conversation with a work buddy. We were discussing the coming winter months. I said, [...]
I am not a puzzle person. I’m very analytical and I’ve always considered myself a smart person, but I’ve never been especially good at puzzles. It shouldn’t come as a surprise, then, that it took me more than half an hour to solve the leap frog puzzle that my mother emailed to me the other [...]
“Oh no! You’ve sunk my battleship!” Okay, so the old commercials were pretty hokie, but the game itself has always been solid. It reminds me a bit of poker in that your odds of victory depend just as much on luck as they do on your ability to read your opponent. Unfortunately, there’s no reading [...]
The more I see come out of Microsoft nowadays, the more it looks like an empire ready to crumble under its own weight. Maybe I’m just a biased Google fanboy, but this video seems to indicate otherwise. My wife sent it to me at work and it was all I could do to keep from [...]
It’s a crass but accurate classification, I think. I’ve recently refined my definition. Someone who doesn’t know something, even something that’s common sensical or obvious, is ignorant. Someone who’s sure that they’re right despite their ignorance is just plain stupid. That being established, I Stumbled around yesterday and found several prime examples of stupid people. [...]