Day: October 21, 2014

Coming Soon: … A collection of plastic moving parts from a recent movie

Coming soon to a desk near you. (We're joking that it's a paperweight.) (Paper is chewed up tree pulp that we sometimes print text onto. Yes, like wasps.)
Coming soon to a desk near you. (We’re joking that it’s a paperweight.) (Paper is chewed-up tree pulp that we sometimes print text onto.) (Yes, like wasps.)

In case you younger viewers were confused by the piece of sci-fi alien tech that Starlord used in Guardians of the Galaxy, it’s called a tape cassette and actually comes from our own species’ past.

And now, you can buy one, even if you don’t have the means to play it.

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And that’s a good thing because you don’t have the tool to fix your cassette when it eventually unspools.

Skinny jean pockets no longer a problem for the Chinese Apple user

Do you have an iPhone 6 or 6+? Do you wear skinny jeans? Do you have a bent iPhone? Fear not, intrepid reader, as the scourge that was Bend-Ghazi is no longer a problem for you!

As long as you live in China.

And as long as you work for China Unicom.

A photo going around the internet has raised rumors that the telco has hired an in-house tailor to enlarge pockets so that employees won’t have to worry about their utterly gigantic and morbidly obese phone being subject to the laws of metal being warped because they have to wear fashionable jeans at their place of employment.

The ice cream that supports hazing

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from social media this year, it’s that bullying isn’t cool anymore. And a form of bullying is hazing. It comes as no surprise that those jocks at Ben & Jerry’s are big proponents of picking on the freshmen.

One Vermont family has taken offense to the ice cream flavor “Hazed & Confused,” which has hazelnut in it, because it sounds like an all-out endorsement of hazing. A Ben & Jerry’s spokesman took a break from making interns do the elephant walk to tell reporters that the flavor is named after the movie.

This from the company that brought us the fat-shaming flavor “Chubby Hubby.”