Letting neural networks be weird • The neural network will name your next band
A lot of potential here, especially if you want a shark-themed band – and why wouldn’t you?
How to Talk to Your Kid About Ja Rule
There is a day in every parent-child relationship that all mommies and daddies worry about, and that is the day their child starts asking about Ja Rule. Here’s how to deal with it.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin is reportedly building a $100 million ‘air yacht’ to help the poor
Valley douchebag charity poseur syndrome
Tainted buffet at Jacksonville strip club blamed after severe diarrhea incident on stage
Onion made real
UPDATE: too good to be true. Fake news.
New paint colors invented by neural network
Or Aphex Twin track names?
Jonathan Kay Is Going to Be Just Fine
UPDATED TRUMP DOCTOR LETTER
Since being sworn in, Donald Trump has lost 50 pounds and gained 17 inches of height. He’s the longest president who has ever lived. His livers are both functioning flawlessly. His blood sets an all-time record for the state of New York for “most” and his blood pressure was rated “excellent” by seven different Fox News Twitter polls. He doesn’t even have one cholesterol.
Fyre Festival, a Luxury Music Weekend, Crumbles in the Bahamas
Lord of the Flies for rich social media influencers
InfoWars’ Alex Jones Loses Custody Case, Ex-Wife Wins Right to Decide Where Children Live
Under cross-examination, he spoke not only about George Soros and overly potent marijuana, but also his taste for zebra meat and canned exotic game hunts, and confirmed that a big bowl of hot Texas chili caused him to forget details about his kids’ lives.
‘Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’ Is A Sobering Commentary On The Perils Of America’s Crumbling Infrastructure
‘Museum of Failure’ celebrates legendary product flops
•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA5Yq1DLSmQ
It may be the worst ad I’ve ever seen. (via Colby Cosh)
•The Dallas Runaway Cart GIF
"This GIF has so many characters and subplots, it's like a Shakespearean tragedy"
Indeed. It even has its own oral history article, which contains this amazing quote:
I was hurt probably more than I’d ever been hurt before. But honestly, it was hilarious. I laughed like crazy for about 15 minutes the first time I watched that video, and for the next three or four months I’d just pull that video up and laugh. I was like, man, that cart didn’t have nobody on it, and I wondered if it was Bugs Bunny was driving it or something. There was just something hilarious about that video. I mean, nobody was even driving it!
(via Josh Marshall's twitter, which had a lot of amazing discussion of the GIF he calls "the last supper of fail")
Strange and probably polarizing short film.
•David Letterman on Donald Trump and Late-Night TV Today
Looks like SkyNet fused a car engine to a baby stroller and gave it the angry spirit of a traumatized panther
•Why Does This One Couch From West Elm Suck So Much?
I Work from Home
Nirvanna the Band the Show puts Toronto front and centre in hilarious new show for VICELAND
Awesome!
Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bidet controls
Donald Trump inauguration: Scottish newspaper previews ceremony as Twilight Zone episode
The story begins in a nightmarish version of 2017 in which huge sections of the US electorate have somehow been duped into voting to make Donald Trump president. It sounds far-fetched, and it is is, but as it goes on it becomes more and more chillingly plausible.
How Jokes Won the Election
Great Emily Nussbaum thinkpiece (thanks, y). That Triumph election special where he called Trump a shock comic was prescient.