Youtube user & self-described black man, Desi Cryer, recently uploaded a video titled “Hewlett Packard computers are racist” which demonstrates how his webcam has no problem tracking white faces, but as soon as his “blackness enters the frame, it stopped.” HP is certainly looking at Desi now. The video has reach over 1.2 million views. HP says that they are looking into the problem and that “The technology we use

Japanese toilet manufacturer Toto likes to asks customers “How far should toilets evolve?” Their newest model the Neo 2 may go a little too far. Say hello the world’s first talking toilet. The prominent armrest has loads of audio buttons including functional ones like Otohime (Sound Princess), which masks unpleasant bodily sounds to not-so-functional ones like reciting Senryu (Japanese poetry). Not surprisingly, the toilet likes to talk crap. It’s particularly

We’ve all seen those ridiculous fitness ads promising unrealistic results, often showing before and after pictures of what looks like completely different people. But Villanova University, an online school specializing in Six Sigma certification, sets slightly more attainable goals – like graduating! As you can clearly see from the before and after pictures, they’re not like those other schools where… um, people don’t graduate

No longer will the definition link on Google’s search results page redirect to you to Answers.com, instead you’ll be taken to Google Dictionary (google.com/dictionary). Its minimalist design is a double-edged sword. It’s less cluttered with ads, but there’s also less info (the stuff you want). There’s no wiki, less idioms, a weak thesaurus, and the pronunciation sound clips are hidden! The clips only appear when selecting translations from the drop

Like a lot of women, Cathinka Chandler likes to sleep on her side but this caused her unabridged books to keep falling off the shelf so to speak. So she created the Kush, the world’s first bookend for your boobs! The Kush keeps your “books” stacked and helps prevent page creases. And according to kushsupport.com “The slip-resistant surface and contoured shape help keep Kush in place as a woman rolls

Oh noes, the North Pole has been invaded by zombies! But they’re not the only ones who want to nimble on Santa. Lola is the “last living hooker on Earth” and it’s up to her to evacuate Santa and his elves to her trailer (now that’s what I call a zombie survival plan). Ironically there’s no happy ending. Each level requires you to perform an equivalent amount tricks. After the

For the past several days I’ve been vigorously fighting with my website host Godaddy.com to honor their quotes & coupons. I was trying to order domain renewal @ $10.87 (with ICANN fee) and economy hosting renewal @ $47.88 for a total of $58.75 and using the coupon “nauoff” which takes off $10 the final price is $48.75. I know this for a fact as I saw the price in the

It’s not the first time Doctor Who has been animated but it’s got a whole nother feel to it when it gets the anime treatment, complete with fanservice! The anime short by Paul Michael Johnson is set in Japan (naturally) and features shiny Daleks, spry Cybermen, and the Master looking like he’s about to yell “Hail Zeon!” Who can save Japan? Only the most badass Time Lord of them all

After abruptly ending 5 years ago, Inuyasha picks up right where it left off with one major difference it’s being simulcast on Hulu! If you’ve never seen it or just need a little refresher, Inuyasha is a half human, half demon from Feudal Japan that teams up with a time traveling high school student named Kagome to retrieve magical jewel shards capable of increasing a demon’s powers. Standing in their

On Monday Facebook banned all polls by developer Jesse Farmer, after an anonymous user created a controversial and some say illegal poll asking “should obama be killed?” Unfortunately the only thing getting killed here is freedom of speech, which as I always like to point out: doesn’t only cover popular speech. Of course any threats against the President should be looked into (and they are courtesy of the Secret Service)

What was once a dubious internet meme is now so ubiquitous that it’s being marketed to children by online stores like pedobearstore.com & pedobearplush.com. Now I like child molesting anthropomorphic bears as much as the next guy, but putting Pedobear on an infant creeper is just wrong, although you gotta admit the Pedobear plush is adorable (in a grisly kind of way). Now that kids have become sufficiently comfortable around

You know Google is getting pervasive when it starts ranking plant & animal life. Ecologist Dr. Stefano Allesina realized he could determine the keystones in coextinction, or the loss of one species upon the extinction of another, by reversing Google’s algorithm. “In PageRank, a web page is important if important pages point to it. In our approach a species is important if it points to important species,” said Allesina. “If

If you use firefox to check your Yahoo Mail there’s a good chance you’ve seen the following error message: Warning: Unresponsive script A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete. Script: http://mail.yimg.com/d/combo?/mg/6_1_1/js/yui_utils.js&/mg/6_1_1/js/core.js&bc/bc_2.0.4.js&/mg/6_1_1/js/darla.js&/uh/15/js/uh_mail-1.0.11.js&/mg/6_1_1/js/async.js&/ult/ylc_1.9.js&/mg/6_1_1/js/imboot.js&:1 If you have experienced it, you know it’s very annoying as it eats up memory

In what can only be described as the ultimate irony of ironies, G4 Media Inc. sent Youtube a DMCA notice claiming copyright infringement for my “CLIP” from  Attack of the Show‘s Around the Net segment, in which they talk about & show other people’s “CLIPS” from around the net! I feel like Bruce Lee in that mirror scene from Enter the Dragon except instead of fighting a badass villain with

Organizing for America (OFA) is hoping to rush health care reform through by pressuring senators with a new twitter campaign. Tweet Your Senator generates a pre-written messages based on your zip code such as: “To Sen. Frank Lautenberg: Please support meaningful health insurance reform now http://bit.ly/3133JC #hc09 #NJ #07748″ It remains to be seen how effective the messages will be as most senators don’t have Twitter accounts. Twitters can also