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Alive and well within YouTube and the geeky musical sub-culture is the art of the chiptune, which basically sounds like the soundtrack to an 8-bit video game on steroids. YouTube user Robinerd took inspiration from the meme-erific Trololo and created a geektastic chiptune masterpiece which is sure to grace the iPods of many-a meme junky. “Trololo Chiptune Cover” was made ...

Search, as we know it, is about to change. The search giant Google has unveiled an overhauled search system they call Google Instant. Basically what Google Instant does is eliminate the need for a search button. Just start typing and the search is automatically updated in real-time with each new letter. How did they accomplish this? Magic! With a few ...

Thanks to OKCupid and their massive database of dating profiles, racial stereotyping just got a whole lot easier. Dating and social networking site OKCupid took data from 526,000 user profiles to create a description of racial likes. They’ve also accumulated a few awesome stereotypes of their own, including facts like white woman show off their eyes (mascara is high in ...

What can’t the internet do? Copy writer and part-time developer hobbyist Zach Golden created the extremely awesome “What the Fuck Should I Make For Dinner?” website, which has a very simple, but essential use — to tell you what the fuck you should make for dinner. With a simple black Helvetica type on white background design, WTFSIMFD pulls a random ...

Every once in a while Threadless holds these awesome shirt sales where everyone of their awesome t-shirt designs are $9 each. Now is one of those times. Some of the cooler shirts have a tendency to sell out quick during these blowout sales, so you might want to head over there now to have your pick of the litter. Quick! ...

This is the best you can expect ladies. So romantic. If her and her fiancee ever meet, I’m sure they’ll live happily ever after. I love Facebook just as much as anyone, but is this really what we’ve become? Actually, you know what? I can’t even blame Facebook. This is purely MySpace’s fault. Screw you, Tom! Screw you and your ...

You know, websites and the human body aren’t that different when it all comes down to it. We both have a head, we both have a body (some beefier than others) and we both have our spots we’d prefer to be hidden to the general public. You can argue that making a baby is a much more entertaining activity, but ...

While the meteoric rise of Netflix isn’t so much of a surprise, the relative steadiness of Blockbuster surprised the hell out of me. While Blockbuster has surely lost droves of customers to its competitors and a considerable chunk of that search volume could be associated with unsatisfactory or negative queries (such as Blockbuster bankruptcy rumors), the big news here seems ...

I don’t know what it is about Microsoft and making terrible commercials. Their Seinfeld ads were a disaster. With Bing, they just sort of used the power of information overload, mass tedium and constant brand plugging to get their point across. I sort of liked the “Windows 7 was my idea” commercials, and by Microsoft standards they were works of ...

Yeah, that’s right. History is still here guys. Preserved through time on stone tablets and cave paintings. Archaeologists recently uncovered an ancient hard drive from the sands of Egypt. And held on that hard drive was an archive of the Facebook statuses that changed history. In part II of Facebook history, Cool Material explores The Crusades, Pearl Harbor, the parting ...