Treating Your IT Pro Right: The Two-Way Street of Communication and Respect (Sponsored by Canon)

This post is sponsored by the new Canon imageCLASS MF800 Series color printers, designed to help you get through IT. With features like a remote user interface (for control) and a 3.5” color LCD touch screen (for efficiency), imageCLASS printers give your office the type of reliable output and efficiency you demand from your printer – giving SYSADMINS […]



10 Practical Tips for Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse

While a zombie apocalypse probably won’t happen, there is enough zombie saturation in the media right now that if you were ever gonna start planning on how to survive one, now would be the time. So what do you think you would do? Who would you team up with? Where would you go? The Walking […]

IT Horror Stories: Upgrading got you down? Don’t let the bugs win! (Sponsored by Canon)

This post is sponsored by the new Canon imageCLASS MF800 Series color printers, designed to help you get through IT. With features like a remote user interface (for control) and a 3.5” color LCD touch screen (for efficiency), imageCLASS printers give your office the type of reliable output and efficiency you demand from your printer – giving SYSADMINS […]



10 Gaming Hacks Everyone Should Know

When it comes to gaming, you don’t have to be a hacker to know how to hack some video games. You just need to know these ten tips. [Image via Phys.org, vid via Gameranx]

A Quick and Simple Recipe for Homemade Microwave Kettle Corn

Kettle corn is very much the best of both worlds when it comes to snacking. Both sweet and salty, it provides a delicious balance when doing some nibbling during a movie or while you watch some TV. But how do you make kettle corn the easy way? A microwave, of course. Kids, don’t try this […]

Chart Shows You How To Win on Jeopardy

  Nathan Yau over FlowingData looked at all the daily double placements over all 31 seasons of this historic game show and worked out an average to where the daily doubles usually fall on Jeopardy. We are not saying you use this chart and get on Jeopardy you could leave a millionaire. We are telling you […]

How Do Jeans Get Blue? [Science Video]

Do you ever find yourself wondering why your jeans are blue? Are they sad? Are they attempting to match someone’s eyes? Like all good things, there is science and chemistry behind the whole thing that will have you looking at your jeans in a whole different light. Keep in mind, they will still be blue, […]

Photomath: The App That Does Your Math For You

I look at the Photomath app, and I get very sad. Not that it will make future generations stupid or any such nonsense. No, I am mad that it didn’t exist while I struggled through algebra. That was essentially a semester I spent barely treading water, and knowing this would exist one day would’ve eased […]

For the Adventurous: Mix Your Coke with Milk Because Science

So there is a ‘thing’ going around the interwebz right now about mixing coke with milk and what happens as a result. I, myself, am not sure it is something I would ever want to do, but apparently it is the “Coke and Mentos” of 2015. It is a reaction of the Phosphoric Acid contained […]

Have You Seen The Boston Snow Tunnel for Cyclists?

What do you do when you are a cyclist in Boston right now and need to ride your bike, but the streets and sidewalks have about three feet of snow? Well, you build a snow tunnel, of course. These folks aren’t professional engineers. As far as anyone can tell, they simply saw a whopping pile of […]