It’s hard to be original these days on TV talent shows. After years and years being on air, it seems like everything has already been done. Somehow, this guy thought of a hilarious and original bit that starts with a piece of tape over his mouth. The audience and judges were naturally skeptical of TapeFaceBoy at first, but by the end of his bit they were all cheering and clapping. “Brilliant!”
One social phenomenon all young guys in high school and college are familiar with is the so-called Friend Zone. Once ‘Zoned’ the chances of getting with that girl you are crushing on fall to negative infinity. Casually Explained covers the Friend Zone in this viral video.
As humans, we tend to be pretty self-centered. We think the entire world is ours to do with as we please. But what if all of us humans simple disappeared one day? What would the world look like and what would happen?
#Mind Warehouse explains in this eye-opening viral video.
Superhero movies have become a staple at the cineplex. It’s hard to go out to watch a movie without at least one superhero movie showing. That inspired the nerds at Rooster Teeth to merge the hot social dating app Tinder with the superhero genre. The result is a hilarious fake superhero movie for Tinder: The Superhero.
Still not sure that dinosaurs existed? Look no further than alligators and crocodiles. Golfers are used to natural obstacles at the golf course, but this is just crazy. Golf.com reports that a gigantic alligator had golfers shocked at the Buffalo Creek Golf Club.
Magician Rahat is famous for his ghost driver pranks in which he hides himself in the driver seat of a car while ordering at a drive-thru. But with the help of Tesla’s new autopilot, Rahat has pulled off an even more outrageous prank.
His new “no driver in a car on the highway” prank had passersby freaking out and calling the cops.
Fire has mesmerized man since the dawn of time. There’s just something so magical how the flames dance, grow, and then disappear. But The Slow Mo Guys have taken fire to the next level by making a rainbow flame. Stunning!
As all techies already know, the new Teslas have a slew of autopilot functions. One very fun one is summon, which allows drivers to literally summon their Tesla using their smartphone to drive a short distance to pick them up.
This dad just installed the new function and decided to take the opportunity to prank his son who was waiting in the car.
Others have tried this gag, usually with no success, but Brett Sanders has taken it to the next level. After getting a ticket, the Texas man decided that wasn’t going down without a fight. So to make the city work for his $212 ticket, he paid with all pennies. That’s over 210,000 pennies! That’s a lot of copper and zinc! Now, the Internet has split over whether this man is a hero or a jerk. What do you think?
George, an independent contractor, usually spent his first day home from a business trip plowing through the emails that'd piled up in his absence. In the midst of this grind, he received a call from Lucinda, a Microsoft contact from South Africa.
"We have a small banking client with a tricky performance problem after migrating to SQL Server," she explained. "Apparently, it's so bad that they're about to ditch us and revert to their original COBOL system."
"Oh, wow," George said, swiveling away from his keyboard. "Have you sent any techs over to look at it?"
"Yes. They couldn't find anything wrong." An odd little tone in Lucinda's voice indicated this wasn't the full story. "You're the best database performance-tuner we know. Could you call their IT manager and see what you can do?"
George was a little suspicious. Nevertheless, he told her, "Sure. I enjoy a challenge."
Lucinda gladly provided the contact details. From there, George phoned the client to see if he could indeed be of help.
"We spent a year implementing the system in SQL and C++." The client's IT manager pronounced spent as though he'd wanted to say wasted instead. "We were promised it'd be better, but it's even slower than our current system!"
"Was that implementation done in-house?" George asked.
"Yes—by Dawie, our top COBOL guru. He's the only one who deeply understands the business."
Well, a COBOL guy couldn't be expected to be an expert on SQL or relational databases. To George, this was starting to sound like a slam dunk. Swoop in like a comic book superhero, impelement some indexing, head home a champion.
"OK," George said, "I'd like to do an onsite visit to see the problem. From there, I'll see what recommendations I can come up with. Just keep in mind: with performance issues, it's hard to make any guarantees."
"I understand, really," the IT manager said. "Anything you do is appreciated! We're at our wits' end here."
Despite his standard CYA disclaimer, George felt pretty confident in the weeks leading up to his visit to the client site. At the appointed day and time, the IT manager and Dawie met him in the lobby, and from there it was only a short walk to Dawie's cube.
With apologies, the IT manager departed for a meeting.
"Have a seat," Dawie offered George. "I'll walk you through our system."
The newly implemented system allowed specially authorized users to access and maintain customer data. There was no doubt about it, the performance left something to be desired. Queries returning fewer than 100,000 records each took more than a minute to process, making the simplest of tasks an exercise in Zen patience.
"Could we look at the database schema?" George asked.
"Sure." Dawie opened the management studio, drilled down to the database, then expanded the table list.
Only one table appeared, named RECORDS.
George frowned in confusion. "Are you logged into SQL Server properly? Maybe we're viewing this as a user with limited permissions, and this user can't see all the tables."
The question confused Dawie in return. "'All the tables?' This is everything. Here, look."
Dawie brought up the query window and did a SELECT * on the table. This brought up 60 rows of 2 fields: an auto-numbered ID column, and a Data column containing what looked like massive lines of text.
"Can we look at your code?" George sputtered.
Upon switching to Visual Studio, the horror became all too clear. Dawie the COBOL guru had hit upon the idea to store each COBOL data file from the old system as text inside a SQL Server table. To retrieve a customer record, his code queried the RECORDS table, extracted the appropriate text value to memory, saved it to disk, then used file I/O to scan through and find the appropriate record. If customers were added or edited, the code wrote the updates into the text, then packed it back into the SQL record.
Seriously? George struggled not to gape. "Did you ever receive any SQL training or anything?"
"I got some documentation that I breezed through." Dawie glanced around as though to find said manuals, which were thoroughly lost amid the decades of clutter upon his desk. He shrugged. "Honestly, when you've been around as long as I have, these systems all start to look the same."
"Well." George tugged at his collar. "It certainly looks like you've done all you could. I'm sorry, but I don't think I'll be able to help out after all."
Upon returning to his hotel, George called Lucinda, explaining the situation. "I can't help them. I'm not sure who can. You may just want to accept the account as lost."
"Yeah. That's what our technical team said," Lucinda replied. "They didn't have the courage to tell the client, either."
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The cheetah is famous as the fastest ground animal in the animal kingdom. If you ever wanted to experience the pure power and speed of a cheetah, here’s your chance. The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden strapped a GoPro camera to the back of one of their friendly cheetah’s and captured this epic video. Intense!
Chloe Moretz is becoming the queen of the camel toe! Didn't see that coming. Here are some candids of Chloe and her toe leaving a hotel in NYC. Looks like she's got her nipples pierced too. Photos via Imagevenue: 
Most little girls love kittens, puppies, and ponies. But what about a rhinoceros? They might not seem like it, but baby rhinos are just as cute as any of those other famously adorable baby animals. This girl got the special chance to go for a stroll with a baby white rhino. Aww.
Candids of Chrissy Teigen showing off her very large mom boobs outside a restaurant in Malibu! She looks great. Photos via Imagevenue: 
Most of us are lucky if we even own a decent car and might take it to the local car wash once a year for $12. But for the super rich that’s simply unacceptable. Their super cars must always look show room perfect. So they hire Paul Dalton, the world’s most expensive car washer who starts at £5000. This older clip from 2015 is trending again now with over 750,000 new hits!
One time, out of boredom, I wrote a little utility called BitVerifier. It would loop over a folder and check every bit of each file. If the bit's value wasn't one or zero, it would prompt the user for the correct bit. At least in theory. I somehow never encountered a file with a "two" bit. But I got one key component right – an understanding of the valid range of values.
Rob K.'s colleague didn't even get that far.
private static final String[] HEX_STRING_VALUES = {"0", "1", "2", "3",
"4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F"};
But wait, that's not the whole WTF! Consider this code later in the class:
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for ( int h = 0; h < 6; h++ ) {
int randomHex = randomGen.nextInt(HEX_STRING_VALUES.length);
sb.append( HEX_STRING_VALUES[randomHex] );
}
//for some crazy reason, sometimes the loop above creates 7 chars.
//that is why the below usees substring to get exactly 6 Hex chars.
defaultVisualStyle.setColor( "0x" + sb.substring( 0, 6 ) );
"Some crazy reason" indeed. For "some crazy reason," the output could be up to twelve characters. It might have something to do with the fact that the "hex" array has 17 values, and that one of them is "10."
For some crazy reason, this individual won't be writing code in this project anymore.
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Everyone loves Legos, but there’s more you can do with the famous plastic bricks than just build toys. The Household Hacker explains nine unique life hacks you can try out all using Legos.
If you ask most people about their Internet service provider, they will give you an earful how awful the company is. But Jacob Fisher has an extra reason to be pissed off. His neighbor got new cable, and the technician decided to use his yard for the wire. Now, this video has gone viral this weekend with over 1.5 million views!
The new Ghostbusters movie is set to debut, even if most people on the Web don’t seem to pleased about it… Digitalwizardz decided to honor the original films by making this Ghostbusters short film in all Legos.
Time to fill up the bird feeder now that spring is finally here. Fjwjr was looking at his bird feeder when he noticed an intruder. A chipmunk was stealing the food! When he approached the little rodent apparently realized he had been caught so he dumped out all the food he ‘stole’ from his cheek pockets.
It seems late night shows have found a segment that never gets old. The rap battle. This time, James Corden invited his celebrity guests David Schwimmer and Rebel Wilson to have an epic rap battle.
This video has gone viral this weekend with over 2 million views!
This older clip from The Late Show With David Letterman has strangely started trending only now. Dave invited a woman onto the show to show off her rare talent. What was her trick? She can spit out a piece of chewing gum and then suck it back in her mouth.
Watch closely. This vintage clip has gone viral with over 500,000 new views!
Wheel Of Fortune is arguably the most famous television game show, tied with Jeopardy and The Price Is Right. Speaking of tying, having a tie on the famous letter guessing game is extreme rare. But it happened for the first time in a decade on this latest show.
Japan is known to make Americans go WTF, but this new commercial has even surprised Western Internet users. And that’s no small feat. To demonstrate the strength of their new sticky bug trap, EarthChemical had humans attempt to escape from the glue.
Now, this trending ad has amassed over one million hits in just a week!
Sadly, most of us at best can simply get through the day at work, while many passionately hate their job. Nathan Sawaya didn’t hate his job per say, but he was quickly becoming tired of corporate law he practiced in New York City.
After work, he would often take up art to relax. After being inspired to create art with Legos, he realized he might be onto something when he started getting requests for pieces.
Amsterdam, the capital of the Netheralands, is famous for a lot of things. Anyone who has visited the city notices the streams and canals that cut through the town. Film maker Casey Neistat was recently in Amsterdam, and wanted to make the trip extra memorable. So he decided to not only go wakeboarding down the canals, but do it while wearing a full tux!
Tia Shipman is a model and an actress who is mostly known for her role on The Bold and the Beautiful and Project Runway. Here she is, naked for Treats magazine, and she definitely is a treat! Photos via Imgbox: 
