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McDonald’s Is Selling Chocolate-Covered French Fries In Japan
Japan is a land of many weird things, and as such, its fast food creations tend to be dependably curious. The newest menu item at Japanese McDonald’s, for instance, involves French fries covered with multiple types of chocolate. They’re called “McChocolate Potatoes”.
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The Pentagon’s Effort To Make Smaller Nukes Scares Me
Hey look, it’s the scariest New York Times sentence you’ll read in 2016: “The explosive innards of the revitalized [nuclear] weapons may not be entirely new, they argue, but the smaller yields and better targeting can make the arms more tempting to use — even to use first, rather than in retaliation.”
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Everybody Shut Up About The Fake 10,000 Character Limit On Twitter
Once again, the internet is quivering with angst over Twitter ditching its 140-character limit. A Re/code report today claims that the microblogging service will soon become much less micro by expanding that limit to 10,000 characters. Everybody calm down.
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A Sceptic’s Guide To Buying (or Not Buying) A 4K TV
I bought my beloved television half a decade ago, a (then) impressively thin 32-inch Samsung for around $700. Today, you can buy a 50-inch 4K TV for around that much. The real question is: Should you buy a 4K TV at all?