Category Archives: Internet

Friday Fun Link – A $2.5 Billion Robot, Designed To Function on Mars For Two Years, Is Still Working 13 Years Later!

A $2.5 billion robot has been alone on another planet for 13 years and is still doing science. The scale of that sentence gets worse the longer you think about it. Curiosity landed in August 2012. Obama was president. Instagram had 80 million users. The iPhone 5 hadn’t shipped… https://t.co/AzXQenKDnH — Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) March […]

Friday Fun Link – “Oh Poop!” A Modern Illustrated Fairy Tale

With some help from ChatGPT, I/we wrote the following fairy tale… (Any resemblence to people, places or things living or on life support, is purely coincidental.) Oh Poop!: A Modern Illustrated Fairy Tale In a broad kingdom, flat as a table and swept by endless winds, there stood an aging castle at the heart of […]

80s/90s Kids See The Future

This hits hard pic.twitter.com/tFc4yF2YaK — Shooter McGavin (@ShooterMcGavin) March 10, 2026

Friday Fun Link – What Was Your “Whoa!” Moment Hearing a Fan Theory?

What is the all out, best, "Woah" moment fan theory that flipped your lid when you first read/viewed/heard it? byu/willhelpmemore inFanTheories

In 2-3 Years, AI Will Mean There Is Basically No Way To Tell What Is Real and What Is Not

This is a huge problem.  (I think I’m fairly tech savvy but I’m already having situations where my kids are saying “Dad – that’s AI!”  They’re more skeptical but will they get sucked in too as it ges better and better?) In 2–3 years, there will be no way to tell what’s real and what’s […]

Going Down The Broth vs. Stock Rabbit Hole

if you enjoy food or cooking, rabbit holes, conspiracies, and have 10 minutes to spare, please watch the best tiktok i’ve seen in a good minute pic.twitter.com/IlPkgNtnJ1 — soggy broccoli (@soggybrocoli) December 7, 2025  

How iPhone 17 Is Made – Inside Apple’s Secret Factory

Friday Fun Link – CloudHiker

In the early days of the Internet, there was a tool called StumbleUpon where you could click a button and get taken to a random web site then click again and again.  It was a great way to experience the full Internet in all its weird and wonderful glory. Now that “the Internet” has become […]

Lawful Evil vs. Chaotic Evil: Understanding the Motivation of the Charlie Kirk Shooter

There is a far-right group called Turning Point USA led by Charlie Kirk and another, even more far-right group called Groypers, led by Charlie Fuentes and they are at war with each other, even while being at war with the wider world in various ways. This is a great explanation of why: @cybelecanterel A quick […]

The Biggest iOS Leak Ever?

My first iPhone was iPhone 3.  Pretty amazing to see the growth and evolution of this technology…