Top 6 Cartoon Characters who finally revealed their secret faces

What the hell does Kenny from South Park look like? And what about all those cartoon characters who we have only seen from shoulders down? Extreme trends compiled a list with the top 6 characters […]

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Social experiment: We have more in common than that we are different

Of course, Heineken ends this video with a commercial for their nice green bottles of beer, but the premise is actually very interesting. Put two people in a room with very opposing view points, and […]

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Pigeon Scares Woman To Death

LOL. Take a look at the horrified reaction when she enters the balcony! It’s only a pigeon, calm down!

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Test

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We’ve had a good run – Just let the world die

You have probably heard older people say this all the time: “Back in the old day, things were so much better”. Even youngsters these days, in the era of Trump, get a small taste of […]

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Dogs love their sticks

When a dog gets a new stick, preferably a gigantic one, they get this proud look in their eyes. This video demonstrates how far they are willing to go to experience that sensation.

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Cat Learning How To Trust Fall

It’s 100% against a cats instinct, but Didga the cat seems to have no problem with it. Didga learned the trick of trust falling backwards into the hands of her owner Robert Dollwet.

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What If Credit Card Commercials Were Honest

How would a honest credit card advertisement look like? Well, like this. This latest video of the “Honest Ads” series reveals how credit card companies are running legal Ponzi schemes to keep us, the people, in […]

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Hot Wheels Fly Through Fire And Drive Underwater

Former NASA engineer Mark Rober and Hot Wheels fanatic Robert Carlson teamed up to create this amazing Hot Wheels stunt video! The vid is filled with well known television and film cars like the Delorian from […]

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Dachshund Takes Horse For A Walk

Say Hi to Schnitzel the Dachshund. This long-haired dog leads his best friend Connemara the horse around the stables!

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The Five Stages Of Watching A Disney Remake

Take a look at this hilarious video made by LA-based illustrator Leigh Lahav. A funny illustration of the five emotions every Disney fan goes through when a new live-action Disney reboot comes out!

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What Happens When A Child Superhero Wants A Hamburger

Even good old Spiderman craves a unhealthy meal every now and then. These boys show us what that looks like, and they’re adorable!

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Homeless Pit Bull Gives Birth During Massive Rainstorm

This poor dog gives birth in horrible circumstances, but she’s in good hands now. Hopefully her puppies one day realize what she did for them.

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Error'd: Sneaking Past the Censors

"If you want to sneak in an ad that doesn't necessarily belong in Kongregate, I guess a little creative spelling is one way to do it," wrote Ben J.

 

Stephen wrote, "Thank you Holiday Inn, in case of 'NA', 'NA', or a bed, I'll take ...a bed, I guess."

 

"With all the oddities in Microsoft product naming and versioning you just knew we were eventually coming to this," writes John.

 

"It's a little cool this morning, but no worries - by 1 am it should be plenty warm! Sunday and the following Friday look good too", wrote Israel B.

 

"I booked a cheap flight on a brand new airline, apparently before they had a chance to add the brand name to the code that sends a confirmation email," writes Eric G.

 

Daniel N. writes, "Between a 404 short URL and the account page claiming I made a payment decades before I was even born, I'm beginning to think banking with Citi might be a mistake to correct in the near future."

 

"Did I add enough money? Did I add too much? Who knows...it's not defined," wrote Edward W.

 

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Taking A Picture Of Kittens Is Impossible

It’s hard to get ten kittens to sit quietly next to one another, but this lady gives it her best shot!

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Daddy Husky Meets His Baby Huskies For The First Time

Lots of puppy happiness and dog love in this video, we just can’t stop watching.

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Cats Versus Boxes: A Lovestory

We love cartoons and we love cats, so naturally we love Simon’s cat as well.

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Vacuum Cleaner Screams At The Top Of Its Lungs

Usually it’s the vacuum cleaner that frightens animals or small kids, but this one is easily scared itself. LOL.

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Crash Diet

WT Durham had never met Bruce, former sales executive and new COO of Prepackaged Pixels, before he paid a visit to WT’s department. They were responsible for maintaining the licensing API for the company’s toolkit bundle, which included their prized platform-agnostic GUI. The bundle was used for internal projects as well as for third-party licensing, and customers often bought the entire bundle just to use the GUI. Bruce wasn’t too happy about that.

“We’ve conducted several customer surveys,” Bruce said. “Two-thirds of our customer base only want the GUI toolkit, not the rest of our bundle.”

“Isn’t that a good thing?” WT replied. “We get a big markup on selling our toolkits as a bundle.”

“We could capture more of the market if we sell the GUI toolkit separately,” Bruce responded. “We need the ability to license just the GUI.”

“We’ll need to refactor our API.” WT did some mental calculations. “It’ll take our team six months.”

“All twelve of you working for six months?!” Bruce shouted. “Just to make the installer work with one toolkit? That thing is 150MB! I’ll bet the installer would be one-tenth of that size with just the GUI toolkit.” Bruce made it clear that single-toolkit licensing – and decreasing the size of the installer – would be their priorities.

Stovepipe Solution

WT wasn’t sure where Bruce, who had no programming experience, had gotten that information about the install size, but had a suspicion it was the head of the GUI toolkit team.

“He called me first.” Mindy, senior developer for the GUI toolkit, welcomed WT into her office. “Probably right after he got promoted.”

“You told him the installer size was 150MB?”

“I was making nice. Everyone complains about the size of the installer.”

WT sighed. “We inherited the installer codebase from a contractor almost ten years ago and built the licensing API on top of it. I told Bruce it would take six months to refactor for single-toolkit licensing, but who knows how long it would take to figure the base installer code out.”

“Maybe you can just trim it down?” Mindy suggested. “Fork the installer, tear out anything not related to the GUI, and stovepipe the licensing code for now. That would take less than six months, right?”

Redundant Redundancies

WT convinced the rest of his team to give the stovepipe solution a try. At worst, it would be a month wasted. At best, it would save them months of development time, allowing them to refactor the licensing code – and the underlying installer – properly later on.

While every part of the installer was audited, they would analyze their installation statistics, seeing exactly what environments they needed (and which they could chuck). If a particular environment fell below 5% of their installation base, they’d throw it out.

As the audit progressed, it became very apparent just why their installer was 150MB. Binaries were distributed in both 32- and 64-bit varieties, and each API namespace had its own binary. There were also optimized binaries for three different compilers. Each of these were duplicated again for debug and release versions. In all, 24 binaries per library were shipped in the installer.

And the installation stats? Nearly every installation was for the 64-bit GUI toolkit, using two of their three supported compilers. Out of 24 copies of each library, they needed only two.

Crash Diet

Bruce’s demeanor changed when he heard that the licensing team could deliver a GUI-only installer in a month. “I knew it wasn’t that hard!” he said, not knowing at all how hard it was.

Unfortunately, sales of the overpriced bundle – which included the GUI as well as their other toolkits – fell, as everyone bought the discounted GUI-only installer instead. Without their marked-up product sales, Prepackaged Pixels faced their first quarter without a profit. Bruce weathered the storm, but WT and others fell victim to layoffs.

Several years later, WT bought a license for Prepackaged Pixel’s toolkit bundle for a freelance project. The company no longer sold GUI-only licenses, so WT had to download the entire bundle – all 150MB of it. Prepackaged Pixels had kept their business model intact, but hadn’t been able to de-bloat their installer.

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Just Some Grizzlies Minding Their Own Business

Grizzlies can be really freaking scary, but after this video all you want to do is hug them.

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How Every Nickelback Song Is Written

Writing a Nickelback song is easy, you can do it yourself! Watch this to know how.

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Keg Tapping: A How Not To Tutorial

Keg tapping is an underrated skill and this video proves why it takes extensive training to get it right.

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When Bungeejumping Goes Wrong… Ouch

You’re full of adrenaline, and the last thing you want to happen is tripping over. Ouch.

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CodeSOD: This Hits an Association

I recently have needed to write some systems that do analysis on a stream of samples. The target stream of the analysis process was stored in a variable targetOfAnal, because obviously, that’s more efficient to type than targetOfAnalysis. I of course needed an analProcess and analComplete flag, and yes, my inner 13-year old was snickering the entire time.

James’s co-worker decided to demonstrate that immature dirty jokes should only be taken so far. James heard him cursing up a storm, and thus offered to help debug whatever the problem was. You could say this code is hitting the “dirty variable names” button a bit too hard. I present it here without modification, because honestly, there is no way to censor this code and have it convey its full meaning. Ready your alt-tab before the boss comes by:

for(int ishit = 0; ishit < shit.size(); ++ishit) {
  shitareas.clear();
  shitsubareas.clear();
  if(messed_up_order) {
    messed_up_order = false;
    continue;
  }
  if(shit[ishit].areas != "" || shit[ishit].subareas != "") {
    if(shit[ishit].areas == "" && shit[ishit].subareas != "" && ishit+1<shit.size()) {
      messed_up_order = true;
    }
    if(shit[ishit].areas != "") {
      auto shitstart = shit[ishit].areas.begin();
      auto shitend = shit[ishit].areas.begin();
      while(shitend != shit[ishit].areas.end()) {
        shitend = search(shitstart, shit[ishit].areas.end(), delim.begin(), delim.end());
        string asdf(shitstart,shitend);
        shitareas.push_back(asdf);
        shitstart = shitend + delim.size();
      }
    }
    if(shit[ishit].subareas != "") {
      auto shitstart = shit[ishit].subareas.begin();
      auto shitend = shit[ishit].subareas.begin();
      while(shitend != shit[ishit].subareas.end()) {
        shitend = search(shitstart, shit[ishit].subareas.end(), delim.begin(), delim.end());
        string asdf(shitstart,shitend);
        shitsubareas.push_back(asdf);
        shitstart = shitend + delim.size();
      }
    }
    if(messed_up_order) {
      auto shitstart = shit[ishit+1].areas.begin();
      auto shitend = shit[ishit+1].areas.begin();
      while(shitend != shit[ishit+1].areas.end()) {
        shitend = search(shitstart, shit[ishit+1].areas.end(), delim.begin(), delim.end());
        string asdf(shitstart,shitend);
        shitareas.push_back(asdf);
        shitstart = shitend + delim.size();
      }
    }
  }
}

It’s a bit cheap to say this code is remarkably self-describing, but this is clearly a mishit. It’s crass as the dickens. If this developer was paid in cash, it wouldn’t surprise me. Imagine the code review- bet it would have been quite the pisser.

Honestly, it’s variable asdf that’s the worst thing here, but maybe that’s because I type Dvorak.

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Dog Is Cute And Tough At The Same Time

Driving your motorcycle with your dog accompanying you, it’s still on our bucket list…

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Kermit The Frog Is Smooth As Hell In This Music Video

R.Kelly’s Ignition is a smooth song for sure, but Kermit brings it to a whole new level of slickness.

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Your Weekly Dose Of Brutal Human Fails

Every day, every hour, every minute, someone, somewhere, fails. Sometimes just a tiny, little fail, often they mess up in a big way!

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Proof That Bowling Is An Art

The Big Lebowski proved it a long time ago, and this is just a reminder–bowling is an art!

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A Lost Voice

Having survived the scourge of Jack's automated testing debacle, Rita thought she could handle anything. Since that time, Rita had Operations burn/kill/destroy all the JCKRKS servers and set up new ones that she had full control over. Rita felt well-prepared for a future where nothing that bad could happen again. But sometimes those who only look forward are unprepared for the return of a long-forgotten relic.

In a different IVR-enabled part of their health insurance system, customers could call in to hear information about their health benefits. These benefits, as is par for anything with health insurance, were governed by a very complex set of rules, contracts, overrides, and addendums. Depending on the caller's employer, benefit administrator, subscriber level, eye color, astrological sign and feng shui positioning, their very specific set of benefit information would be read back to them.

To house this complex set of business rules, the organization depended on ILOG to keep things in order. It did the job but when it came time to tweak said rules, customers had to file a formal change request and wait weeks to see their change implemented. Customers complained about the process enough that Gregor, bringer of Jack, had the bright idea to give them a way to make rule changes on the fly themselves.

"It's quite simple, Rita," he began to explain with an arrogant tone. "It's taking too long for our customers to get their changes and it takes too much of our time to implement them. We need to create a web-based way for them to alter their business rules and I think you're just the girl to make it happen!"

"Gregor, I agree that we could do better with this, but are you sure we want our end-users messing around with complicated settings? Things could get ugly in a hurry," Rita expressed great concern.

"Point taken, but I still think this is a brilliant way to make everyone happy and more productive! Plus we can deprecate that expensive ILOG system and just store everything in a database! Get to work."

So began a large unplanned, unbudgeted project to get the web interface built with a SQL backend while exporting all the data from ILOG to a massive Excel spreadsheet. It drove Rita to her wit's end but she started to see the light at the end of the tunnel. They were now prepared for a round of beta testing by HealthLords, their biggest client (see: biggest complainer).

The HealthLords were excited to get started so they could brag about being the first insurer to set up their own business rules. They logged in to Rita's slick web interface and began to manipulate stuff. As they dug through their extensive set of rules, they came across one that was foreign to them - "PAUL TEST DO NOT DELETE". They opened it up to find the shocking description of "This is just an internal test. Those whiny HealthLord idiots will never see this once ILOG is implemented."

Almost immediately, Rita received an angry call from a big whig at HealthLords. Caught off guard, she was only able to offer a token apology and promise to look in to it. It had never been there before, so it was definitely a mystery to solve.

She dug in to the IVR platform that was still being used before and after the days of ILOG. After many rounds of tracing the code, she found the rule embedded deep in a dusty corner of the code in a class that shouldn't have processed benefit addenda at all. There stood a comment on the offending rule, "// remove this if we decides [sic] to pay for ILOG ~ Paul".

Paul hadn't been with the company for several years and had quit just before the ILOG system was implemented. But that didn't mean Rita couldn't curse his name on this day. ILOG had been covering up his test rule forever and now that it was out of the picture, it showed up again during HealthLords' beta testing. It took Gregor escalating to his bosses' bosses' boss just to keep HealthLords from backing out of their contract.

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Girl Dying To Meet A Sloth… Meets A Sloth

Her obsession with sloths almost took over her life, so her friend thought setting up a meeting would calm things down again. Well, nothing calm in this video…

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Amazing Sportmanship At The London Marathon

London marathon runner needs help getting to the finish line, and another runner guides him all the way. Don’t tear up now!

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Why It Is Impossible To Tickle Yourself

The science is very clear–if you really want to be tickled, you’re going to have to find someone else to do it.

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The Mysterious Life Of Artist Bob Ross

You’ve probably heard of Bob Ross, but how well did you really know this artistic celebrity?

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CodeSOD: Identifying the Globally Unique

UUIDs, aka GUIDs are, well… unique. Unique identifiers. It’s right there in the name.

Active Directory needs to identify things. Thus, it uses GUIDs. “Omni’s” co-worker got this far, but then ran into a problem. If you print a GUID from AD, it looks like this: “35918bc9196d40ea9779889d79b753f0”, but if you print it from C#, it looks like this: “35918bc9–196d–40ea–9779–889d79b753f0”. Whatever is a programmer to do when dealing with these radically incompotible formats?

private void GetUsers(Guid guid)
{
    byte[] bytes = guid.ToByteArray();
    string native = BitConverter.ToString(bytes).Replace("-", string.Empty).ToLower();
    …
}

Okay, step one- turn the GUID into an array of 16 bytes. That makes sense. There’s no dashes in an array. Then we feed it into something called BitConverter. Now, I don’t know what BitConverter does, so I can only guess, and there are two likely things:

1. It turns an array of bytes into a string
2. It turns an array of bytes into a string AND FOR SOME REASON INSERTS DASHES

Once we’ve got the array of bytes back into a string, we can replace the dashes (which either are not there, or were inserted by BitConverter), and then convert it into lowercase, just in case hexidecimal has suddenly become case sensitive.

Of course, all of this is unnecessary. The GUID datatype in .NET overloads ToString. guid.ToString("N") would return “35918bc9196d40ea9779889d79b753f0”, just like our developer wanted.

This is at least a case of a developer not checking the documentation or lacking the instinct to ask, “Wait, does ToString have any overloads?” That, however, is not TRWTF. TRWTF is stringly typed data. GUIDs are not strings. They are numbers. We render them as strings for readability. We should not process them as strings. We should not pass them around as strings. The string representation of a GUID should not be relevant to a program.

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Cat Reacts To Owner Who’s Been Away A Few Weeks

Spoiler alert: This video contains a lot of kissing and purring.

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Undercover In A Chinese iPhone Factory

A lot has already been said about the conditions in cheap labor factories, but this undercover guy gives us some new insights after his time in an iPhone factory!

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What God Looks Like According To Kids

These kids are adorable in describing what God looks like, and their imagination is as rich as you’d expect.

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Getting Stuff Out of the Car Nip Slip!

Great shot of a braless hottie getting stuff out of the car. Downblouse nip slip! View the picture (Via EHOWA)

How A Hockey Puck In Your Face Feels

Ice hockey is by no means a sport for pussies, as this video proves.

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CodeSOD: The Wrong Sacrifice

Folks, you need to choose a different sacrificial animal for your multithreading issues. Thanks to this comment Edward found in a stubborn bit of Java code, we now know the programming gods won't take our goats.

public static boolean doSomeOSStuff() {

        // Forgive me father for I have sinned - with the bag of crap written in the lines below.
        // When running multiple threads (~500) concurrently, the damn OS commands fail at a 1% rate for no apparent reason.
        // There is no error message, or any indication of failure, they just don't happen and come bite you in the ass.
        // After much frustration, I decided to try 3 things:
        // 1. sacrifice a goat. - did not go as planned.
        // 2. semaphoring this shit. did not change anything...
        // 3. after each failed command, I will try and verify if it succeeded  or not. If not I'll try it 4 more times.
        // I am now going home to take a hot shower, and cry laying on the shower floor. and /or sacrifice a few more goats.
        //
        //                                          ...
        //                       s,                .                    .s
        //                        ss,              . ..               .ss
        //                        'SsSs,           ..  .           .sSsS'
        //                         sSs'sSs,        .   .        .sSs'sSs
        //                          sSs  'sSs,      ...      .sSs'  sSs
        //                           sS,    'sSs,         .sSs'    .Ss
        //                           'Ss       'sSs,   .sSs'       sS'
        //                  ...       sSs         ' .sSs'         sSs       ...
        //                 .           sSs       .sSs' ..,       sSs       .
        //                 . ..         sS,   .sSs'  .  'sSs,   .Ss        . ..
        //                 ..  .        'Ss .Ss'     .     'sSs. ''        ..  .
        //                 .   .         sSs '       .        'sSs,        .   .
        //                  ...      .sS.'sSs        .        .. 'sSs,      ...
        //                        .sSs'    sS,     .....     .Ss    'sSs,
        //                     .sSs'       'Ss       .       sS'       'sSs,
        //                  .sSs'           sSs      .      sSs           'sSs,
        //               .sSs'____________________________ sSs ______________'sSs,
        //            .sSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS'.Ss SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSs,
        //                                    ...         sS'
        //                                     sSs       sSs
        //                                      sSs     sSs
        //                                       sS,   .Ss
        //                                       'Ss   sS'
        //                                        sSs sSs
        //                                         sSsSs
        //                                          sSs
        //                                           s
        
        // snipped OS manipulation code with several cases of aforementioned ritual
}

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Food Slicing Level: It’s Over 9000!

Crafting your one shotgun is one thing, but to use it for slicing your food… Yeah, pretty damn cool.

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When You’re Jogging And Run Into A Dinosaur

Remi Gaillard is lucky a lot of people don’t recognize him yet. This makes room for him to keep pulling of excellent pranks, in this case Jurassic World comes to life!

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Claire Danes Pokies After a Workout!

Candids of a braless Claire Danes who looks like she's on the phone after a workout in Los Angeles! View the pictures

Charli XCX in a Bikini at a Coachella Pool Party!

Here's Charli XCX wearing a bikini while hosting a Coachella pool party! Lookin' alright. View the pictures (Via Drunken Stepfather)

Selena Gomez in Leggings!

Selena Gomez is covering up her face in these candids, but that's OK! Her face isn't what we're interested in.. View the pictures (Via GCeleb)

Joanna Krupa Showing a Lil’ Lip at the Beach!

Bikini candids of Joanna Krupa at the beach in Miami! You can see some of her pussy lips! View the pictures

Jesus Casually Rollerblading In Boston This Easter Weekend

Who knew Jesus was this skilled on a pair of rollerblade skates? Many faces light up when they see him and he makes a great show out of it!

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Chrissy Teigen Wardrobe Struggle!

Boobtastic clip of Chrissy Teigen struggling to put on a jumpsuit! View the clip (Via Alrincon)

Ariel Winter with Pink Hair at Coachella!

Ariel Winter wore shorts (obviously) to Coachella over the weekend. She also had pink hair. View the pictures (Via DListed)

Paris Hilton See Through at Coachella!

If you are a hot young female celeb you were at Coachella this weekend and if you're an older still trying to be young female celeb you were also there. Paris Hilton would fall into the latter category but that's OK because she wore a see through dress and no bra! View the pictures

Jessica Simpson in a Tank Top!

Candids of Jessica Simpson looking STACKED in a tight top while leaving a restaurant! View the pictures (Via Boobie Blog)

Jasmin Walia in a See Through Top!

Nice pics of British reality star Jasmin Walia wearing basically sheer lingerie to some event! View the pictures (Via Taxi Driver)

Britney Spears in a Bikini at the Beach!

Candids of Britney Spears wearing a bikini at the beach in Hawaii! View the pictures (Via Celeb Jihad)

How Movie Stars Look Like According To A Blind Man

When you can’t see them, you can only really judge them based on what you hear from them and from those around you. This guy does a pretty accurate job, almost to the point he […]

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What Equals Equals

Monday morning, 10:00AM. As per usual, today's protagonist, Merv, got some coffee and settled in for his usual Monday morning routine of checking Facebook and trying to drag his brain into some semblance of gear. As he waited, the least interesting conversation ever floated to his ears from the hallway:

"It's like, yak butter, I guess? I put it in my coffee, it's supposed to do wonders."

"No way, man, I can't do dairy."

"Yeah, but it's not dairy, it's yak."

"Like, yak meat?"

"No, like, butter from yak milk."

"Then I can't have it. I'm allergic to dairy."

Merv was so stunned by the inanity of the conversation that his groggy brain didn't clue in on the obvious sign. Of course, the non-dairy drinker would be Sergey. Normally, Merv would have avoided the man this early on a Monday. He had a way of coming up with the weirdest, most bizzare problems when he debugged code, and he always ran straight to Merv to untangle them.

"Merv!" Sergey appeared, leaned into his cube. "Just the guy I was looking for. Do you have a minute?"

Begrudgingly, Merv conceded that he did, in fact, have a minute. And so, a few moments later, he found himself standing behind Sergey's chair, trying to remember what exactly this product did while Sergey explained.

"See, this data here, watch carefully while I run it—there it is. See that? It changed. I don't know why or when, but something's overwriting the data I put there. So I figured it must be here, but look, there's no assignment in this method, or this one."

"Can't you just debug through it?" asked a sleepy Merv.

"That's the weird part: it doesn't do it if I build in debug mode."

Merv frowned. "Run that by me again?"

So Sergey did. Of course, it was silly to step through a release build. There were no debugging symbols, so it was hard to tell what was going on. Merv showed him how to enable debugging symbols in a release build, but the compiler's optimizations made it hard to step through something like this. The more they dug, the weirder the behavior seemed, and the saltier the language got around the monitor.

Could it be an optimization bug in the compiler? Maybe memory values weren't being set correctly in the release build? Was it a race condition where the debugger was changing the timing? Nothing seemed right. Finally, as Merv's brain shifted into high gear, he looked over the exact lines the change was being made in.

"Here, the copy is made. I can see the value. But as we step through the next few lines, it changes, without being touched."

The code was just a simple assignment using a basic equals sign. Feeling a headache coming on, Merv tapped the equals on screen. "What exactly does that copy assignment operator do, for this class?"

They went digging. What they found was beyond the pale: macro magic changed how the function worked depending on how it was compiled. In debug mode, it was a deep copy. In release mode, it was a shallow copy; the returned object was little more than a pointer to the old one. So in release mode, changing the original (off in another thread) also changed the copy, while in debug mode, they were separate objects with their own lifetimes.

"I need more coffee," Merv muttered.

"Me too, buddy," replied Sergey.

Neither of them budged.

"Who wrote this?" demanded Merv.

The commit logs revealed the name: Patrice, who had once committed a 3000 line monstrosity all in one commit that Merv had had to rewrite from scratch. That had taken him four mugs of coffee to get through. Faced with the prospect of digging through the whole codebase to every assignment and guess if they wanted a deep or shallow copy, Merv knew the right answer: he'd have to put in a catering order with the local coffeehouse. He'd break the machine before he was done.

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What Really Is The Difference Between Cheap And Expensive Pizza?

Everyone loves pizza, but is there any justification for a very expensive one or is it basically the same as a cheap one? Buzzfeed puts in an ultimate effort to find out.

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Surprise! You’re On Our Live News Broadcast!

A news anchor is obviously expected to be ready when she facing the camera. This woman got it into her head to free up some time for other urgent matters, and it cost her. We’re […]

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That boy ain’t right

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When You Underestimate The Power Of Nature

These men are looking to get rid of this tree, but the tree isn’t having it. It’s pulling back as hard as it can, and when it finally has to give in… The men are […]

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Incredible Drone Footage From South Africa

Imagine a real life version of the Lion King, and this is what probably comes to mind. The footage looks stunning and had us looking up the actual flight schedule to South Africa. But wait, […]

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A Drone Equipped With Razor Blades Is A Special Kind Of… Kitchen Tool?

We can think of all kinds of stuff to do with such a device, but cutting fruit isn’t directly one of them. This slow motion video makes it look gloriously though.

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A Thrilling Ride Changes In A Flying Nightmare

A decent ride gets your heart racing in your chest, but this is from a whole other level. When you’re dangling by your feet and the ride just keeps going on, we’re sure you’re fearing for […]

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Piano Keyboard Gets Played By The Mozart Among Chickens

Playing the piano is often just for a few child prodigies, playing the piano really well that is. Regular playing is not that hard, as this chicken proves as well. It does quite a remarkable […]

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What Can We Really Make From All Those Fictional Languages?

We all know the movies or TV shows with the fictional languages like Avatar or Game of Thrones. They’re subtitled, so we don’t really miss anything by not understanding the language. But now you can […]

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Drone Does The Best Trick Shots!

Technology is everywhere today. So let’s use it in a useful way and make a drone score some insane trick shots! The joy and enthusiasm of these guys is awesome.

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Who Knew Cows LOVE Jazz?

Cows are smart and sensible animals, we know that. But what if I told you they go through the roof once someone starts playing some jazz? You have to see it to believe it!

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Others Have Failed To Get You Through The Day

Some accidents are nothing to smirk about, but once the victims see fit to upload their fails online… It basically gives us a free pass to have a laugh or two. So let’s have it.

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Deal: Mr. Skin Easter Special!

No need for a celeb nudity Easter hunt this weekend. Thanks to Mr. Skin you will get access to the entire history of celeb nudity for only $4! Act quick because the deal only last as long as Easter! Get The Deal (Via Mr. Skin)

Dog Is Fed Up With The Hospital And Escapes

Hospitals can be boring, especially when you feel you don’t belong there anymore. This sweet dog takes his sweet time to map its escape, and succeeds gloriously.

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Error'd: Would You Mind?

"Since clicking 'Yes, I mind', took me to the review page, I left a one star review," writes Pascal.

 

"As we all know, nanotechnology is huge, but don't apply nano power technology to your mind!" writes Martin

 

Conrad R. wrote, "I will not use the Secret DOM. I will not use the Secret DOM. I MUST not use the Secret DOM...or else!"

 

"Well, sorry folks, looks like the Air Force ran out of jobs," writes Scott.

 

"You can't argue with facts, because you can't argue with facts," Ben S. wrote.

 

Shahim M. wrote, "But I only have a 'Normal 2 true false null' degree, what do I do?"

 

"While trying to set my initial password for a client I'm working with, I encountered an error detailing exactly what I was trying to do in the first place," writes Alex F.

 

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Will Smith Is Awesome In This Trailer From The Matrix

I mean Keanu Reeves is alright, but we really want Will Smith right? He was actually close to getting the part, but it wasn’t meant to be. At least we now get a sneak peek.

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Miley Cyrus is Sexy While Walking Dogs!

Candids from two recent days of Miley Cyrus wearing skimpy workout clothes while walking her dogs around LA! Looks like she's keeping in shape. View the pictures

Fails Of The Week: There Are A Lot Of Naughty Babies Involved

It’s always kind of nice to see other people fail. When you’re that hungry for the camera, to show off or to act tough, it feels good to know it sometimes goes wrong as well. […]

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The Fappening 2.0: Nicolle Radzivil Nude Selfies!

Actress Nicolle Radzivil is part of the 2017 Fappening! She has big boobs and you see a lot of them in these nude selfies! View the pictures (Via Kanoni)

Kylie Jenner in Purple Boots! And no Pants!

Candids of Kylie Jenner going to a club in purple boots but without any pants on! View the pictures (Via DListed)

Sexy Golfer Paige Spiranac!

Paige Spiranac is a pro Golfer who is also smoking hot. Since Golfing season is upon us, why don't we enjoy some of her sexy Instagram pics and clips? View the pictures (Via Alrincon)

Olivia Culpo Pokies!

Candids of the sexy Olivia Culpo looking poketastic in a black top while out and about in LA! View the pictures

The Fappening 2.0: Nude Selfies by Five British Celebs!

British celebs Jennifer Metcalfe, Luisa Zissman, Louisa Johnson, Samara Weaving and Alice Haig are part of the 2017 Fappening! Nude selfies and sex tapes! View the pictures (Via Celeb Jihad)

Kimberley Garner Upskirt Shot!

Nice shot of Kimberley Garner flashing panties in a white summer dress. View the pictures (Via Taxi Driver)

Is Anastasia Kvitko the Curviest Girl on Instagram?

Collection of Instagram babe Anastasia Kvitko who may have the biggest boob / butt combo online. View the pictures (Via Yes Bitch)

Combine Juggling And Pool Trick Shots And You Get One Sick Video

We’re always interested in trick shot videos, so this naturally came to our attention. A master juggler combined with a great pool player makes for an excellent video with some real skill going on.

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Lourdes Leon Pink Bikini Pokies!

Candids of Lourdes Leon wearing a pink bikini at the beach in Miami. Like the pokies, not thrilled about the arm pits..

The Fappening 2.0: Yvonne Strahovski Masturbation Pics!

Actress Yvonne Strahovski is part of the 2017 Fappening! Behind the scenes body paint pics and masturbation selfies! View the pictures (Via Celeb Jihad)

Sofia Vergara Minus Makeup!

Want to know what Sofia Vergara looks like with no makeup on? Let's just say.... different. I wonder what her tits look like without makeup. View the picture (Via I Don't Like You In That Way)

Golden Retriever Puppies Have No Mercy

They don’t care what other people think and definitely whether mom and dad have time for them. They just bomb them both all together and see how long they can last. Mom and dad seem […]

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Bella Thorne Naked in Bed for Harper’s Bazaar!

A few outtakes of Bella Thorne looking like Marilyn Monroe while posing nude in bed for Harper's Bazaar! View the pictures (Via The Blemish)

All You Zombies…

We've all been approached for jobs where the job description was merely an endless list of buzzwords across disciplines, and there was no real way to figure out what was actually the top couple of relevant skills. The head hunter is usually of no help as they're rarely tech-savvy enough to understand what the buzzwords mean. The phone screen is often misleading as they always say that one or two skills are the important ones, and then reject candidates because they don't have expertise in some ancillary skill.

Teddy applied for a position at a firm that started out as a telco but morphed into a business service provider. The job was advertised as looking for people with at least 15-20 years of experience in designing complex systems, and Java programming. The phone screen confirmed the advert and claims of the head hunter. "This is a really great opportunity," the head hunter proclaimed.

Then it was time for the interview. The interview was the sort where you meet with the manager, a peer of the manager, and several senior members of the team, repeating your work history for each one.

There was a coding exercise to see if you could convert an int to a Roman numeral and vice versa.

Each person asked some simplistic architectural design type questions...

   What is Big-O notation?
   How would you compare three sets of numbers to see if any number was common to all three?
   How would you count the number of unique words in the input and report the tally?

OK, so they have verified that you went to school and at least sort of paid attention.

Then some more complex architectural questions were added: How would you design a phone-call pricing system, and what sorts of things would you need to consider? How would you add in a new module to provide additional functionality without breaking the existing system? How would you test it all?

After several hours of this, one of the interviewers admitted that they were looking for someone who has at least 10-15 years technical experience with all of the latest technologies.

"Wait a minute, most new technologies are, by definition, new!", Teddy protested. "They haven't been around ten years?" He questioned how they expected anyone to have that many years of familiarity with anything that hasn't existed that long? Also, wasn't this supposed to be a project that required Java developers?

The interviewer nodded. "That's exactly the problem we've been facing. We simply can't find anyone who had more than a decade of experience with latest technologies." While Java was relevant, they were phasing it out in favor of the flavor of the day.

"Perhaps," Teddy suggested, "you should be looking for a candidate who has many years in the field, doing work that's the same level of complexity and kind of work as you do here." Anyone with that level of expertise should be able to pick up the new technologies as they required.

"We don't *want* to train someone," the interveiwer said, "especially a veteran. We want to hire someone with more than ten years of experience in the latest technologies. We want to build our system using the latest tools."

Teddy warned that if they did one-off projects using different technologies, it'd be fun for the developers, but it would be virtually impossible to swap people in and out as nobody would know the technology used on the next project. Perhaps it might be more prudent to pick a few mainstay technologies as their base platform and make sure that everyone is an expert in at least those skills to effect redundancy across the organization.

The interview ended shortly thereafter, and Teddy never expected to hear from them again. Several months later the same job was still posted. Teddy knew this because another head hunter approached him with the exact same job description. "This is a really great opportunity," the head hunter proclaimed.

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