Turnabout Is Fair Play

This woman just had her bike stolen.



She looks awful happy about it doesn't she? Well, it's because there's much more to this hilarious story.

Wednesday, she realized her bike had been stolen while she was visiting a friend. She called the cops but before hearing back, someone called her saying they saw it for sale on Craigslist! She called the cops again and informed them but was told they wouldn't be able to look into it till the next day. She knew if the bike was sold she'd never see it again so she took matters into her own hands.

She then contacted the seller/thief herself (who lived 2 blocks from where it was stolen) and said she wanted to BUY the bike. They met up and, after verifying it was hers without telling the guy, she asked for a test ride. He agreed and asked her NOT TO RIDE OFF ON IT! Well, that's exactly what she did.

She STOLE BACK HER STOLEN BIKE! This chick is officially a badass. Thumbs up to you Canadian lady!

Click here to see the original story on Reddit.

The Futurama Is Now!

The future of long distance travel may be closer than we think... if we can afford it.

Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla Motors and general science genius, has released designs for the Hyperloop. It's a train in a tube moved by air pressure. Think of Futurama and the personal transport tubes people zip around the city in or the thing at the bank they use to send money out to people at the drive thru. It's basically a bigger one of those.

This would cut travel time across the US by huge percentages. For example: it could go from LA to San Francisco in 30 minutes, a trip that now takes several hours. It would also cost 1/10th of what a high-speed rail line would cost ($7 billion compared to $70 billion).

The "pods" would hold 28 people and travel at speeds in excess of 750 mph! There is also an alternative design that would allow people to drive their cars into the pods with them. All of this is speculation at this point as no real world testing has been done.

There are costs and challenges ahead but this could revolutionize everything from transporting food and other goods to personal travel.

Click to read the full details on the Hyperloop at Gizmodo.com

False Advertising

Advertising by definition is marketing meant to persuade or manipulate an audience but the things advertisers get away with seems criminal... but it's perfectly legal! Here are FOUR big lies advertising tells us daily:

1. Cell phone coverage is bullcrap. Everybody from Sprint to AT&T shows off big coverage maps that make it SEEM like you'll have cell service coast to coast. Well, the problem is that they measure this by where calls are dropped and where they aren't. Here's the problem, ANYTHING can cause a dropped call from trees and buildings to electrical interference. The companies use that flexibility to ASSUME the problem isn't them and count areas as "covered" that are actually dead zones.

2. Food serving sizes are a giant mystery. Companies are constantly changing sizes of what a serving is as well as the package it comes in and many times it makes no sense. For example, Healthy Choice makes a single serving soup THAT HAS 2 SERVINGS PER CONTAINER! So you either overeat or throw away half of the soup. They aren't the only ones guilty of this, just an example.

3. Not all "health benefits" are real. Lately it seems like 2 of the healthiest things to are bee pollen and acai berries for their magical health benefits. But what are those benefits? Anybody? I'll tell you... NOTHING! Neither one has any real benefit but advertising has convinced us they do. Wrigley tried this with Eclipse Gum saying it made your mouth healthier but they got SUED by competitors because it's actually the extra saliva chewing creates that makes you mouth healthier, not the gum itself.

4. Food that SOUNDS healthy, probably isn't. Instead of pointing out what the food is made of, they point out the ONE bad thing the food doesn't have. Like Krispy Kreme saying their donuts have 0% trans fat. Really? That's the bad kind so they must be good! Well, they still have a gallon of sugar and tons of carbs in them. Delicious, but not healthy.

Basically I'm just saying, don't believe the hype. When a commercial goes off and you suddenly crave what you just saw, they just won. Try to read between the lines and question the "facts" that advertising throws your way.

Original story from Cracked.com