Why does a toaster need a microcontroller?

I tried to use Google Translate to translate "have prosperity" from English into Latin. The result was "non felicitatum", which means "no happiness".

Does anyone remember how the 1864 and 1876 presidential elections went?

Twitter is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. Apologies to Gene Spafford

Who's the one at eBay who decided that floppy disks are not acceptable for shipping by Media Mail? The U.S. Postal Service hasn't changed its list of things that are okay for shipping by Media Mail.

#Lemon64's DNS is messed up. Emails from them are being tossed into the bitbucket because of "cannot find your hostname".

Unix #Frotz version 2.54 is now ready. This release introduces easy cross-compilation to 16-bit #MSDOS and it can be compiled on a PDP10 running TOPS20. gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/…

For you city folks that don't know how a calf is born, here is a rare pic of a cow's nest.

I received bizarre email from Navy Federal Credit Union about the same time it went down. Strange grammar. Strange timing. Strange all around.

Hey, Glassdoor. Your login stuff for people who don't want to use google or facebook is broken.

Apparently it's perfectly okay for third-party sellers on Amazon to price-gouge customers.

Why does Newegg allow fraudulent resellers?

I opened up this box of Nature Valley granola bars and found there's four inches of empty space - about a third of the box. ???

Hey, Angi (Formerly Angie's List). Why is it such a pain to delete a bogus project? Why is it when I decide I don't want to mess with that any more and want to delete my account, you give me a runaround?

Hey, The Home Depot. Your website is showing gray boxes when opening individual product pages on their own tabs in Firefox. Telling people to use Google Chrome is not a valid fix.

#protip: If someone tells you that email to you is bouncing, the proper response is NOT something like "Please email [email protected] and report the problem".