http://www.cracked.com/article_19384_the-5-creepiest-ways-animals-have-mastered-mi...
http://www.cracked.com/article_18483_the-5-creepiest-serial-killers-who-were-anima...
http://www.cracked.com/article/109_natures-6-most-diabolical-predators/
http://www.cracked.com/article_18764_the-6-most-insane-sex-lives-in-animal-kingdom...
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Aug. 25, 2011 8:17 p.m. JoeyM SuperDork
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Aug. 27, 2011 6:24 a.m. Luke SuperDork
Cracked is such a monumental time-suck. I opened one of those, then couldn't leave for an hour
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Aug. 27, 2011 9:49 a.m. griffin729 HalfDork
Every time I open a link to Cracked I don't leave for at least an hour, usually 2 or 3.
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Aug. 27, 2011 10:46 a.m. DrBoost SuperDork
Yeah, cracked.com should be crack.com
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Aug. 27, 2011 12:45 p.m. JoeyM SuperDork
regardless, the information is good....written in an entertaining manner, linked to the sources so you can verify it if you like, informative.
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Aug. 27, 2011 12:53 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork
amazing how long they have been in business... and still entertaining
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Aug. 27, 2011 1:10 p.m. mndsm SuperDork
Yeah, I love reading that site. 1 link leads to 14 others. Gotta love it. I've learned some REALLY neat history stuff.
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Aug. 28, 2011 5:50 p.m. keethrax HalfDork
JoeyM wrote:
regardless, the information is good....written in an entertaining manner, linked to the sources so you can verify it if you like, informative.
Actually the information is overall pretty terrible, even with the linked sources. The sheer volume of blatant errors in those lists is staggering. But they are still massive time sinks for me even knowing that.
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Aug. 28, 2011 6:33 p.m. JoeyM SuperDork
keethrax wrote:
JoeyM wrote:
regardless, the information is good....written in an entertaining manner, linked to the sources so you can verify it if you like, informative.
Actually the information is overall pretty terrible, even with the linked sources. The sheer volume of blatant errors in those lists is staggering. But they are still massive time sinks for me even knowing that.
Interesting. I'm curious what errors you have spotted.
The only biology error I've caught - not saying there were not others, just that I haven't spotted them[*] - was someone confusing smilodon (sabertooth cat) with thylacosmilus (sabertooth marsupial) in their list six formerly kickass creatures ruined by evolution. Maybe I'm being lenient, but my general attitude was, "OK, they used the wrong latin name. They still had the right idea, and I bet a lot of their readers didn't know about sabertoothed marsupials before this." I already knew about Thylacosmilus, and I thought it was good that they informed people in an entertaining manner.
BTW, Thylacoleo was even cooler, with the biggest carnassials (premolars modified for shearing flesh) found so far
cats have the biggest carnassials of living critters, but they are nothing like those
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Aug. 28, 2011 8:11 p.m. JG Pasterjak Production/Art Director
Cracked has largely replaced The Onion for me as my go-to comedy site.
Interesting fact: Cracked's Seanbaby—arguably their most talented writer, although the whole crew is stellar—was an instrumental figure in a site that wasted hours and hours of GRM staff time over the years back when the web was just a pup. That site being http://fatchicksinpartyhats.com/
jg
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Aug. 28, 2011 8:24 p.m. JoeyM SuperDork
I just checked that site, JG....I'll stick with Cracked.
