Tuesday, July 15, 2014

The Call From Hell

The Most Frustrating And Painful Phone Call We've Ever Heard (Except Maybe That AOL One), What's So Funny?, Now You Can Use Bitcoin To Buy (Almost) Everything You Want, When Teachers Cheat, The Jalapeño Grinding Experiment That Nearly Caused The 'Sriracha Apocalypse', If 'David Goes To The Dentist' Grew Up
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014
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The Most Frustrating And Painful Phone Call We've Ever Heard (Except Maybe That AOL One)
digg.com
Remember how we wrote that article about how audio rarely goes viral? Well Ryan Block's 8-minute phone call trying to cancel service from Comcast is going to be one of those exceptions.
FARTS
What's So Funny?
chronicle.com
So many theories of laughter, so many chortles left unexplained.
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Now You Can Use Bitcoin To Buy (Almost) Everything You Want
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Look, there are a lot of sites and stores that sell the things you want, but only Newegg gives you the best prices and uses their money to fight patent trolls. You couldn't ask for a better deal. Oh, and for you currency geeks, now if you pay using bitcoin you get 10% off (up to $100). Go buy yourself something nice!
WRONG ANSWERS
When Teachers Cheat
newyorker.com
In an era of high-stakes testing, a struggling school made a shocking choice.
CRUSHED RED PEPPER
The Jalapeño Grinding Experiment That Nearly Caused The 'Sriracha Apocalypse'
motherboard.vice.com
That time a kitchen lab experiment nearly shut down the world's most popular sriracha hot sauce company.
PARENTS, STOP RECORDING THESE
If 'David Goes To The Dentist' Grew Up
digg.com
We've gone way beyond "Is this real life?" Kids these days have gotten much more practical in their drug-induced anxieties.
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CITY OF LIGHT
Image: Fireworks illuminate the Eiffel Tower in Paris during Bastille Day celebrations late Monday, July 14, 2014. Bastille Day marks the July 14, 1789, storming of the Bastille prison by angry Paris crowds that helped spark the French Revolution.
Fireworks illuminate the Eiffel Tower in Paris during Bastille Day celebrations late Monday, July 14, 2014. Bastille Day marks the July 14, 1789, storming of the Bastille prison by angry Paris crowds that helped spark the French Revolution. Credit: AP Photo/Thibault Camus
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