The 15 Types of People You'll See at Comic Con [Humor]

By Casey Chan Oct 16, 2011 9:00 PM 23,303 29

Comic Con NY is wrapping up this weekend and it's mostly a nerdfest shit show with the occasional girl dressed in cosplay, creeps who don't know they're being creepy creeping and the same people over and over again. Here's 15 people you'll see at Comic Con:

I feel like they're missing some. Speak up in the comments if you feel your type was left out! Oh and click the pic to embiggen. [Dorkly via Geeks are Sexy]

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Americans Like To Secretly Record People In Embarrassing Outfits [Video]

By Kelly Hodgkins Oct 11, 2011 9:40 PM 14,926 34

Americans love to use their mobile phone cameras. We take videos of our pets, videos of our kids and shockingly 50 percent of us covertly take video of someone else.

Those that confessed to taking secret spy videos of strangers said their favorite target was someone in an embarrassing outfit. Yes, we are talking about you "Mister I like to wear my sandals with socks."

Other subjects worthy of our secret spy camera time include athletes at a sporting event and someone tripping or falling. Bonus points if you catch the sports hero in mid-fall.

Rounding out the top five were videos of the sexy waitress at a restaurant and the shirtless hunk mowing the neighbor's lawn. Judging by what we see on YouTube, these results appear to be spot on. [Qumu via Baltimore Sun and CNET]

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Why Does This Car's GPS Mock French People? [Video]

Stereotypes: vicious, unfair, and hurtful. And perpetrated by malicious onboard guidance systems like this one, which assumes you're a Francophone just because you make the nasally laugh-moan of a Frenchman cliché. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, voiture vilain.

I've been to France, friends. And let me tell you—they don't make this noise in France. In cartoons, maybe. But in France? They greet you warmly, sell you fresh breads, and point eagerly at the abundance of astonishing art and architecture they've heaped upon themselves through their time as a civilization. They've accomplished things. Great things. Have they made mistakes as a nation? No more than anyone else. Do they deserve to be ridiculed by a rental car's GPS voiceover? No. Absolutely not. Let's take a stand and find this car and wag our fingers at it. [Daily What via Reddit]

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Only Awesome People Need a Carbon Fiber Tub [Desired]

So you might think a carbon fiber bathtub is silly, but somewhere there's a person who won't just bathe themselves in a common porcelain basin—they need excess. The Corcel
N°1 is a beautiful thing for the awesomely opulent.

Carbon fiber is tough and versatile, sure, but the Corcel N°1 is made of the material because it's expensive and looks badass—making it part of a time-honored tradition of giving random household objects the carbon fiber treatment. I suppose the tub will probably last a lifetime as well. The Corcel N°1 is eight feet long and holds almost 90 gallons of water. That's pretty big, so I'm assuming it isn't intended for single occupancy.

So why do people need this tub? Because until swimming in heaps of money is actually possible, splashing around inside a vessel that costs a lot of money will have to suffice. The Corcel N°1 is limited to a production run of fifty-one. You'll have to figure out how much it costs, because the price isn't listed on the product's website. Then again, if you're seriously considering one of these monsters, I'm sure cost isn't a concern.[Corcel N°1 via Elite Choice]

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Facebook's Rolling Out Smart Lists and Summaries for People with Too Many Friends [Facebook]

Facebook's doling out new features to the masses this week. Their Google-Plus-alike Smart Lists will help you divide up the friends you care about. And their new email summaries will mush together the thousands of notifications you get from friends you don't.

Smart Lists, as you know, allows you to cull through your friends and divvy them up according to how they relate. That's not all that smart, so they'll automagically create lists for you based on associations—college, workplace, etc. You can also determine how you see them in your feed. Select your Work list, and you'll see your work buddies in your feed. Meanwhile, put someone in the Acquaintances list, and you'll simply see them less.

Facebook's also reportedly testing out new summary emails for those of you who didn't turn off all email notifications a long time ago. People who get bombarded with emails about people commenting on how much they loved True Blood can now expect emails digesting all the comments into one simple place. That's nice of them... but I kind of don't want the emails at all. [Facebook Blog, Inside Facebook via Geekosystem]

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Why Would a Company Spend $200 Million to Build a 20-Mile Ghost Town for 35,000 Invisible People? [Cities]

New Mexico, where people go to cook Crystal Meth and disappear into the maw that isn't quite Mexico, is going to get another claim to fame: a brand new, $200 million 20-square mile city with no residents. A modern day ghost town.

It could fit 35,000 people if people were allowed to live there but that's not the point for this ghost town. Instead, the purpose is to let anyone test anything on a city wide scale without the interference of nosy citizens. Think of it as one gigantic lab, only it'll have highways, houses, old buildings, new buildings instead of coats and beakers.

The ghost town, which they refer to as The Center, is the brain child of Pegasus Global Holdings, a Washington DC-based company. There won't be any people living at The Center but other companies can see how their solar panels play out on a larger scale, how new traffic systems work in real life simulations, how Wi-Fi will translate between old and new buildings and so much more. It's an actual blank slate city to manipulate however they'd like. A playground for research.

The Center is supposed to be the first of its kind 'round the US and will be finalized in the next few months. I wonder how quick it'll transform to a squatter town though. [Washington Post, Image Credit: upthebanner/Shutterstock]

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Typhoon Talas Kills 47 In Japan, 450,000 People Evacuated [Typhoon]

Japan can't catch a break. It's not right. After dealing with a 9.0 earthquake earlier this year, they just got swarmed by Typhoon Talas, a tropical storm that was just as bad as Hurricane Irene. These are the pictures of the aftermath.

A typhoon is like a hurricane but happens in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. Similarly, a hurricane is like a typhoon that happens in the Northeast Pacific Ocean and Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Semantics, whatever. They're all tropical cyclones, they're all scary and they all destroy everything in their path. If you consider the wind speeds that Typhoon Talas hit—around 120kmh or 75mph—it could be considered a Category 1 hurricane but since typhoons use a different measurement scale, it's not an exact translation to "our" hurricane terms.

The nut of it though: 47 people killed, 56 people missing, 450,000 people evacuated, 26 inches of rain in one night, and a country who has had too much damage done to them by Mother Nature in a six-month span. It's the worst storm for Japan since Typhoon Tokage, which killed 98 people.

The entire East Coast was freaking out over Hurricane Irene (and some of that freaking out was warranted) but most of us managed to escape it without any damage. Looking at the pictures though, Typhoon Talas did just as much damage (if not more) than Irene yet so few seemed to notice. It seems besides the point to prop up natural disasters and compare them to one another but it seems like the aftermath of Talas deserves a little bit more attention. Life is life. [NY Times, Photo Credit: Reuters] You can keep up with Casey Chan, the author of this post, on Twitter or Facebook.

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People Only Care About Your Twitter and Facebook Links for a Few Hours [Factoid]

That Cracked article you linked to on Twitter? That music video you posted on Facebook? Bitly's data suggests those links only have a half-life of 3-5 hours (in terms of your friends and followers actually clicking). [Bitly]

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Daily Desired: The Blunt Umbrella Makes Other People Hate You Less [Desired]

Umbrellas are just another hateful piece of urban luggage that makes my commute unbearable. I mean, I'm more likely to leave one in a bar than to actually use it! The Blunt Umbrella's intelligent design might actually convert this hater.

The Blunt Umbrella gets its name from its snazzy-looking rounded tips, which unlike their pointy counterparts won't take out fellow pedestrians' eyes. One annoyance avoided already. It gets better: the Blunt Umbrella has smartly-engineered internal structure which makes it durable and wind-resistant. For example, the blunt tips aren't just there to help you avoid unfortunate street altercations, they also keep the the fast-drying polyester canopy super-tight. Sure, other umbrellas are wind resistant but the Blunt achieves this in a lightweight, practical design that doesn't turn the concept of an umbrella into a massive space-aged monstrosity—that's a damn feat.

It's going to rain all week on the east coast. For $70, the Blunt Umbrella will keep you not wet and less annoyed. If only it came with GPS-tracker for when I leave it at the bar—I'm still working on that. [Blunt Umbrella]

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How a Despicable Computer Consultant Terrorized More than 100 People by Watching Their Every Move [Crime]

It's one thing to have some sort of "noble purpose" when you grab nudie pics from a person's computer. Extorting people for them and making money off their identities is quite another. That's what 32-year-old Luis Mijangos did, and it's completely vile.

Working out of Santa Ana, the paraplegic Mijangos made about $1000 a week consulting and building websites. Not too shabby. However, he could make up to $3000 a day hacking into people's computers, rooting through their financial data, and causing an unholy mess with people's lives. But it wasn't just the money. He would infect their webcams and microphones, giving him behind the scenes access to people's private activities, and allowing him to blackmail and torture them. According to ComputerWorld:

One victim, a juvenile identified by prosecutors only as S.G., sent Mijangos pornographic photos after he hacked into her computer and tricked her over instant message into believing he was her boyfriend. Mijangos then threatened to post the photos online if she didn't send him more pictures.

Sick. Mijangos went above and beyond what the average identity thief would do and turned it into a twisted game for kiddie porn. He has since gotten six years in prison for his crimes. [ComputerWorld]

Update: I've struck out the paraplegic bit up top. My apologies to those of you who were offended by the mention of Mijangos being a paraplegic. It was added in the interest of completeness, not to be sensational or hurtful. I'll work on the context time.

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Samsung's Swiveling MV800 Is a Gift to People Who Love Their Own Faces [Video]

Sammy's got a triple blast of cameras today, and the kookiest release is the MV800, with an AMOLED screen that flips around for perfected self-portraiture. No more MySpace arm extension!

The 16 MP MV800's not particularly thrilling beyond its shape-shifting frame—although touch controls are the capacitive screen are nice. Really, unless you want to take a lot of photos of yourself and your friends, and don't feel like tossing your camera up into the air, there's not much reason to pay a premium for the swivel action. It's a pumped-up point and shoot for the vain. Check for it at the end of the month.

Samsung's next fresh camera, the 20 MP NX200, is a nice hunk of meat. It's a mirrorless interchangeable-lens unit—the successor to the NX100—with a bevy of lens options coming out along with it, an ISO range up to 12,800, and 1080p video at 30 FPS. A particularly neat touch is the lens-mounted switch, allowing you to control shutter speed, aperture, exposure, white balance, and ISO, by twisting the lens ring. It's nice to see controls move off oft-overly crowded back of the camera, and to somewhere more natural.

The last of the trio, the WB750, is a fancy little point and shoot: 12.5 MP, a generous 18x optical zoom, 1080p video cap, and still capture while recording video. Other than that, it's just a point and shoot. But that zoom!

No availability on those latter two.

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Study: People Would Sooner Make Love to Their Laptops Than to Their Lovers [Science]

It's Saturday night, and you're feeling randy. You turn to your significant other, and without a word you start nuzzling close. And without a word she pushes you off, too wrapped up in the Tudors on Netflix. You're not alone.

According to the Ikea-funded study—which really does wonders for its credibility—people have become much too attached to their laptops, to the point that they've started taking them to bed when they should be cuddling. It just plain gets in the way of good old-fashioned intimacy, which is all these researchers want. Although I wonder why Ikea signed onto this when they sell something like this beauty.

To be fair, the glow from a laptops screen has been found to disrupt sleep patterns. Which is old news. But there are probably plenty of ways of bringing the laptop into the bedroom play. Uncomfortable ways, perhaps, but if we're all doing it then we can move with the times. Such couples would then earn the right to call their laptops sexy. [Daily Mail]

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NYC Orders First Mandatory Evacuation In History, 250,000 People Affected [Hurricane Irene]

We're all laughing nervously in the office but Irene is no joke. Obama already has said the hurricane will be of historic proportions, and the City of New York has ordered the first mandatory evacuation in history.

250,000 people are affected by the order. [Evacuation Zones via CNN]

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The Touchscreen Computer for Old People Unclear on the Concept [Computers]

I hope I never get so old as to require my progeny to buy me an idiot-proofed version of the latest technological innovation—that'd be insulting. But I might just get one of these Telikins for my Mom.

Billed as a "senior-friendly" computer system, the Telikin features an 18-inch capacitive touchscreen, Dual-core 1.8GHz processor, 320GB hard drive, 802.11b/g/n wireless, a 1.3MP webcam for video conferencing with the grandkids, and a suite of basic connectivity software including a text editor, email client, and weather tracking, and news feeds.

Don't get me wrong—I'm well-versed in elderly folks' aversion to new technology. Hell, convincing my grandfather that fuel injection wasn't the work of the devil required a six-month discussion with diagrams. But this—it's like the physical embodiment of AOL's old web portal. For one, the Telikin runs a proprietary software suite that prevents any third party software from being installed—good for preventing Trojans, bad for expanding the system's utility beyond the dozen pre-installed functions that it comes with (of which PowerPoint was somehow deemed necessary).

The 18-inch screen version costs $700 and is ready-to-go out of the box. The upgraded "Elite" version includes a 20-inch screen, 500GB hard drive, HDMI port, and runs $1200. [Telikin]

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Why the Hell Are People Buying Touchpads for $300 on eBay? [WebOS]

Ah, the HP Touchpad. When it was previewed, it looked amazing. When it was reviewed, it was smashed. When it was launched, it was ignored. When HP killed webOS and dropped the price to $100, it sold out? Yes. And now it's selling for more than retail on eBay.

What. The. Hell. Is. Going. On. PEOPLE! HP is selling it at $100 (which makes it a great deal) because they don't want to think about it anymore, they want to get rid of it and pretend it never happened. It's a dead device. Dead dead dead. Yes, we said that you can flip the tablet into one of many things but that's at 100 bucks, at 300 bucks the deal isn't as sweet. Why the hell would you drop nearly 300 bucks on a dead device when you could've paid a little more when it was alive and kicking? I don't understand you Internet, I don't understand you one bit. [eBay via PC World]

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