Splash-Free Urinals Beat Cockroach Milk
Splash-free urinals take the only A+ on this year's Ig Nobel list, and a snake-stepping study takes the F. Kissing, defined as lip movement with no food changing hands: exact…
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Raypunk Is Not AtomicPunk: A Correction
The internet keeps mashing these two together, and the Doctor has had enough. AtomicPunk is the dark side of the atom: duck-and-cover drills, fallout shelters in the backyard, the mushroom…
The Guild: Ren Faire’d
Felicia Day just did something the internet desperately needed: she brought back The Guild. Not a reboot, not a remake, not a soulless streaming-service cash-grab. A fan-funded reunion movie, titled…
Summer, Processed Through the Formulae
It is July 16. The sun is a diesel-powered furnace welded directly above your skull by a malevolent engineer who clearly never had to work outdoors. Heat indexes are lying…
Someone Applied my Formula to a NES and I Owe Them a High-5
The Formula works on hardware. We have proof. ACEMAGIC took one look at the original 1985 Nintendo Entertainment System, nodded slowly, and stuffed an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370…
Commodore Made a Flip Phone That Blocks the Internet and I Have Feelings
The Commodore Callback 8020 is a flip phone. A FLIP PHONE. With a T9 keypad, a dome LED that glows instead of screaming notifications at you, and SID chiptune ringtones…
Gen Z Discovered Analog and Now I Feel Personally Attacked
So apparently Gen Z is buying Polaroid cameras, carrying MP3 players, and purchasing physical CDs in 2026 because they want to, quote, “slow down” and “own their media.” I need…
Plague Rats and Power Vacuums: The Brass Screw Consortium Convenes
Right now, as you read this, the fine citizens of Port Townsend, Washington are three days deep into the Brass Screw Consortium Steampunk Festival (June 12–14), a “chronologically discontiguous” weekend…
The Pi Apocalypse
The next apocalypse is scheduled for March 14, 2015, 9:26:53am. This event is known as "The Pi Apocalypse" because the date aligns to the value of Pi perfectly, 3.141592653. On…
Steampunk Books?
Somebody with too much time on their hands went through the effort of creating this image. I too, having too much time on my hands, shall analyze said image: The…