Refusing to be drawn into their fray by Oxford’s choice of ‘rage bait’ for word of the year, Merriam-Webster has just announced their own word of the year: slop. I wold have gone with sloppy, but that was pretty much 2025 in a nutshell. We define slop as “digital content
Inspired by a Kickstarter for a laser razor that never materialized, Youtuber Allen Pan decided to attempt making one himself. The results? Less than impressive. The 5W laser manages to burn through a single hair in several seconds, making it incredibly impractical for anybody with more than 2-4 hairs to
This is a video of Mark Zuerkerbrek (if you spell his name wrong he can’t track you on Facebook) demonstrating the latest iteration of Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses during a developer event and the glasses failing to cooperate. In the first scene, he can’t manage to answer an incoming call.
This is a video from San Francisco of a Waymo self-driving taxi encountering an open fire hydrant and being unable to assess the situation. It doesn’t want to drive through the water, but it doesn’t want to enter the protected bike lane either. Apparently in a situation like this the
This is a video from the 90’s grocery game show Supermarket Sweep of contestant Jeff completely blowing it during the shopping spree round of gameplay, only bringing back a total of $7 in groceries. Granted that’s like $200 in today’s groceries, but still. His wife Barb is none too pleased
This is a video from a woman whose mother made a delicious looking pasta dinner only to realize towards the end of the process that the new olive oil she bought online wasn’t olive oil at all, but olive body wash. I assumed the video was fake at first because
This is a video of caricature artist Saemee Yoon of Waikiki, Hawaii’s Caricature Party sketching a couple and really hitting their insecurities like a wrecking ball. She makes the woman almost entirely teeth, and the man just a giant nose and Adam’s apple. They have a good laugh about it
Because a first day on the job is always chockfull of pitfalls, this is a video of a man tripping down the stairs and accidentally pulling the fire alarm on his first day at a new gig. Those fire doors shut QUICK. I doubt he was fired for the incident,