Fact-Checker, Fact-Checker

Here’s another one from Randy Rainbow, A.K.A. the Desperate Cheeto guy. Something occurred to me as I watched this. I laughed because it was funny, but I couldn’t escape the feeling that some of the references seemed way out of date. It was similar to the one I would get in 2009 while sitting at …

A Demonstration Of The Voder, The World’s First Speech Synthesizer

Long ago, Carin put up audio of a history of different speech synthesizers meant to show how the technology has evolved through the years. Included in that demonstration was the Voder, a device first shown by Bell Labs in 1939. What you heard back then was only a few seconds of it, but because the …

Best News Bloopers Of 2017, Part Two

Here’s the second part of the 2017 news blooper compilation. You can catch up on part one here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omyUxKuvYKY The weather is kind of like Harvey Weinstein today… And before any of my fellow blind kids ask, the answer is no, I have no idea what’s going on with the music that keeps cutting in …

Part One Of 2017’s Best News Bloopers, Plus A Bonus Song Parody

In some ways 2017 felt like one giant, never ending news blooper, but things weren’t all misery, believe it or not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD3DjN7i1Fg Oh, like on a playground! And to the folks taking on the one chip challenge, this one’s for you. lyrics and a play button are here, in case the embedded player doesn’t work …

Rapidly Developing Technology

Yesterday, I had to go get some pictures from my phone printed. I went to the “photo finishing” area of Shoppers. For some reason, the term “photo finishing” made me laugh, because this version was nothing like photo finishing as we understood it as kids…which made me go watch this Kids React video, which it …

He Sees You When You’re Sleeping, He Knows When You’re Awake, But He Didn’t See That Light Pole, So His Leg Now Has A Break

If Santa has a harder time than usual getting down your chimney this Christmas, this might be why. Gerard Krokus, an experienced skydiver, was helping Santa deliver the Elf named Kristoff to a nine-year-old girl while flying in toys to the Beach Bums Operation Santa Charity Volleyball Tournament on Saturday.  In the video you can …