Category Archives: Fact Check

Trashed Idea – Sex Toy Drive Thru

Apparently there is a porn shop off of University Drive in Alabama named Pleasures that has multiple drive-thru windows for your inconspicuous purchases.

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Trashed Idea – STD Testing phone app

Peeing on your phone seems like an all-around pretty bad idea, but British researchers have managed to find an upside. They claim that by urinating on a computer chip and plugging it into a phone or computer, people will soon … Continue reading

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Trashed Idea – Birth Control Lotion

I haven’t done any actual fact-checking on this but it’s absurd no matter what way you look at it.

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Animation – Gettysburg Address

A reading of the Gettysburg Address with some clever animation to boot. I know some kids who had to memorize this in Elementary school. I think this would help learning it. Gettysburg Address from Adam Gault on Vimeo.

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History – 1945-1998 Nuclear Testing

An amazing catalog of nuclear testing worldwide. This is for my history nerds. Takes a minute to get going but has some pretty interesting statistics. By a guy named Isao Hasimoto.

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Role Models – RSA Animate “Changing Paradigms”

I’ve posted another RSA Animate video before and they are all fantastic. It’s a good way to waste some time to catch their other stuff. I particularly appreciated this one as it’s a topic that comes up a bit in … Continue reading

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Parody – Uncle Matin’s Sword Trick

This explains a lot.

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Fact Check – Quotes Through History Revealed

A recounting of forgotten quotes throughout history. This was done by Atlanta local comedian Justin Morgan and company. If you get a chance to catch one of his shows I would highly recommend it. He does a killer drunken Michael … Continue reading

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Fact Check – Willy Wonka food capsules a reality?

Apparently a group called the Institute of Food Research in Norwich is working on a food capsule. Researchers have developed a technology that allows different flavours to be captured inside microscopic capsules, which can be designed to release the flavours … Continue reading

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Trashed Idea – Hey Baby Game

Apparently there is now a game designed specifically for women to shoot men for making random, oft-times crude sexual advances. Hey Baby, which was released in June and can be played for free at www.heybabygame.com, has raised some controversy on … Continue reading

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Fact Check – Comcast rated Worst Company in America

And they got a neat trophy turd with the title. This was rated by The Consumerist. You can read more here.

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Tech Jargon – Portable Coil Gun

I had written a little about this before the website got restored. I don’t remember anymore. Suffice to say I think it would have been more powerful all things considered but I suppose portable has it’s consequences. Skip to 2:30 … Continue reading

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Commercial – Best Motivational Ad

This video is actually surprisingly serious for Trashed Ideas, but something should be said for the amount of successful failures in life.

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Fact Check – Ringtone improvements

Apparently someone in Japan is working on using ringtones to subliminally alter emotional levels and physical attributes, which include but are not limited to breast sizes.

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Fact Check – Spreading gonorrhea

Ahem. U.S. government medical researchers intentionally infected hundreds of people in Guatemala, including institutionalized mental patients, with gonorrhea and syphilis without their knowledge or permission more than 60 years ago. … The researchers were trying to determine whether the antibiotic … Continue reading

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Tech Jargon – Solar Highway

A neat concept for what the future of roadways could look like using solar panels and LEDs along the way. While they address the big issues with a project like this, i.e. glass that doesn’t shatter and can handle the … Continue reading

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Trashed Idea – Spray-on Clothing

Ummm. So apparently there is a new way of making clothing that only requires a liquid to be sprayed on. A solvent dissolves and the material becomes like cloth. Ed Hardy will have a hard time competing for tightest, douchiest … Continue reading

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Fact Check – Bridalplasty

Uhhhh. In one of the most shocking reality TV ideas yet, E! has ordered a new series that crosses a wedding competition with extreme plastic surgery. The network is set to announce “Bridalplasty,” where brides-to-be compete in wedding-themed challenges to … Continue reading

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Fact Check – Teen hurt in class, sues

If only it were that simple. A New Hampshire high school student shocked so severely in shop class that his heart stopped beating is suing his teacher, the school district and the city of Dover.Kyle Dubois and his parents claim … Continue reading

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Fact Check – Galileo was wrong

Um. Apparently there is a $90 two part series that tries to use science and history to prove that Galileo was wrong about Geocentrism. And they are actually holding a conference for all the believers of this theory. One of … Continue reading

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