Google’s WebM Eviscerating GIFs (at least on 4chan)

Animated GIFs have long severed the Internet adequately for short, low-quality animated cat and sleazy porn videos. Google improved on the decades-old GIF technology with WebM, a format that has better compression, lets you watch cat videos in true color instead of a crappy 256 color pallet, a higher frame rate (like 60fps), greater CPU … Read more

Overclocking? Check Yo Damn Thermo Widget!

So punk, you think you can just flash some kernel, crank your CPU up to 82GHz and watch your animated cat GIFs at a higher framerate? Well, maybe with your computer that’s how it works, but maybe not with your phone. Let me break it down for you. But let’s forget about the danger of … Read more

Scram Farther (ft. Megyn Kelly)

It seems no one, except my dad, has any idea whether to say farther or further. Isn’t one only for distance? How about figurative usage? Oh what about if it is not figurative per se but is in reference to distance figuratively, then what? Hey, is farthermost a word? Farthermore as well? No? Enough!! I … Read more

C’mon WordPress, Support WebM and WebP [rant]

What’s wrong with this picture of my WordPress v3.8.2 wp-includes/functions.php in which image and video types are defined? click to make it big — ahh, don’t bother, who cares That’s right chief, it’s not the real and current functions.php — it’s shopped to include WebM and WebP. Why? Because WordPress obviously should include these formats … Read more

I Am #TwittaNinja!

HEY!! You know what I hate about Twitter most? That most of the tweets on a search return are retweets and links dumped from blogs like ours every time they post another dumb article. Am I right? So I searched for how to search like a ninja on Twitter and struck gold, so let me … Read more