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How IBM Pissed of a Master Chess Player

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Despite the fact computers can analyse millions of possible scenarios in the time it takes most human players to scratch their balls, for many years it was the opinion of chess masters that a sufficiently skilled human could never be dunked on by a chess playing machine. That all changed in 1997 when IMB designed a computer solely to beat famed chess nerd, Garry Kasparov.

The Sarcastic Comeback That Helped Team America Get Made

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Depending on who you ask, Team America: World Police is either a satirical pastiche of action movie tropes and clichés, or a stupid puppet movie full of swearing and dick jokes. Regardless of your opinions on the film, you have to admit that its kind of impressive that they even managed to get funding for a puppet action movie, and boy did they get a lot of funding. 

Napoleon Was a Bit of a Dick

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When you’re famous for things like being the Emperor of France and conquering half of Europe, things like “being a dick at parties” kind of get overlooked by historians. Which is fine, those first two things are probably important, we guess. But for the sake of posterity, lets talk about the third thing anyway. Because, well, how often do you get a chance to shit-talk Napoleon?

The Presidential Assassin They Melted With Acid

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Assassinating a President is probably not a good idea, for one thing the President is usually surrounded by burly secret service agents who’ve been trained to snap necks with their eyebrows. Oh and if you’re ever caught, they might just melt you with acid and and unceremoniously bury your ruined corpse in an unmarked grave.

The Rich People Who Ate An Elephant and then Complained About the Taste

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We’re not going to say the 1870 siege of Paris was a barrel of laughs because a lot of people died and that’s very sad. What we are going to say however is that during the siege rich people ate a bunch of rare and exotic animals from the Paris zoo and then complained about how they tasted while other people starved.