Fruits Of The Web

I gave 1,100 escape room names to the 124M size of GPT-2 and trained it for literally just a few seconds. The results are great.

Turns out the names Tolkien came up with for inhabitants of fictional Middle Earth are uncannily similar to the kinds of names scientists designate for pharmaceuticals.

It's got everything you'd want in a residence: hardwood floors, a brick fireplace and a 25th century star ship smack in the middle of your home.

If you're a fan of "The Office," you can rewatch the entire series right now… as it might have played out in a world with Slack. That is, as long as people don't ruin it the way people tend to do.

Elon Musk and Grimes announcement on Tuesday that their newborn son would be named X Æ A-12 sparked an outpouring of bemused reactions and facetious memes online.

Imgflip's "This Meme Does Not Exist" takes 48 classic meme formats, from Distracted Boyfriend to Surprised Pikachu, and supplies endless captions that fit each meme's distinctive syntax. It's so much fun.

Yes, you read that right. And it's actually pretty impressive.

Forget about "Love Shack." "Mr. Brightside" is actually the B-52s' best song ever.

Here are the actors who had the most screen time in sitcom, ranked.

Who started doing this? What is broken inside of them? We will never know and we do not care. Let's just chase the joy this meme brings.

This is genius. This is horrifying.

Covering 121 questions (or 28, if you're in a rush) and 400 characters, this test isn't your regular BuzzFeed personality quiz.

Even seemingly ordinary photos can look extraordinary when you transform it in the style of a Van Gogh or an Andy Warhol.

From cafes to the ocean to a spring walk in the woods, they're exactly the sounds you might be missing right now.

Which emoji actually nails the look of the planet in a scientifically accurate fashion?

The Oogachaka Baby — a '90s icon — remastered for our 2020 nightmare.

Good reviews are all alike; every bad review is bonkers in its own unique way.

Today is a very special occasion — the date is a palindrome, meaning it is the same when read forwards and backwards.

Turns out plagiarizing good ideas exists in space too.

Are you living in the Menlo Park area and looking for work? Do you have a university degree, "higher emotional intelligence," and the ability to "correctly quantify how much fish to purchase for five people"? You might be in luck.

According to this informal survey, everyone, um, apparently hates California?

A dive into the weirdest place to be intentionally wrecked online.

Baby Yoda's cultural predecessors include Mike Wazowski (from "Monsters, Inc."), Shrek and Kermit, which led one internet user to ask — what would it look like if you combined these characters?

If you're looking for a way to waste time at the office, look no further than Andrei Kashcha's City Roads project.

Once you start taking a closer attention to movie posters, you can't help but notice all the recurring trends.

Boasting 400 active volcanoes, Jupiter's moon Io is considered the most volcanically active body in the solar system and image processing specialist Jason Perry released some eye-popping images taken by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper off the Juno orbiter.

With all the bad stuff that's happening in the world, it's hard to get too worked about Harry and Meghan's big announcement, so let's laugh about it instead.

Andrew Cushing, a Brooklyn-based copywriter, gave a challenge to Twitter to send him the name of a fake startup company and he'd provide apropos ad copy that you'd see in the New York City subways. The results don't disappoint.

Let's just say sometimes it's worth the extra time to do it the way God intended.

No matter how much you think you're caught up with work, there are always a few (or many) emails sitting there, waiting to be answered.

Movies, books, music, and more from 1924 are all entering the public domain today, meaning that you're free to download, upload, and share these titles however you see fit. And it's completely legal.

Tim Robinson, Akiva Schaffer and Zach Kanin sat with Jesse David Fox to discuss the oral history of their now legendary "Car Focus Group" sketch.

Social media may be riddled with harassment and abuse, but it's also become a safe and encouraging space to be fragile.

Did you know that Mambos 1 through 4 were big hits in their days too?

You may already know that I love picking up new skills, whether that's sewing a patch on some clothes or ripping an apple in half with my bare hands. That's why I love the r/LearnUselessTalents subreddit.

We'd pay to see this show.

Now you see it. Now you don't.

"I didn't know I was sad, but it turns out I was."

This weekend's tweet that launched a thousand other increasingly exhausting tweets was an invitation to a food fight.

We're all only human, and sometimes that makes life really entertaining.

The first real internet connection happened 50 years ago — but those that sent its first messages aren't so pleased with their creation today.

The early social network featured cute animals, games, forums, and even a stock market. It helped bring a whole generation Very Online.

Instagram is a beauty pageant. TikTok is where kids are free to be mediocre, like the "Hi, I'm Ryan" kid.

A roundup including Homestar Runner, The Critic web series, The End of the World, House of Cosbys, Salad Fingers, and more.

It's an internet fight and only the top memes will survive. This week's challengers: hymen memes, history TikTok and wholesome buff guys.

Now let's make that "Star Trek"-"Frozen" crossover happen.

If you've never read it before, r/ULPT is exactly what you'd expect: advice that is often at expense of others "and/or with questionable legality."

In the '90s, an obscure site called Superbad pioneered jarringly bizarre web design. Now the rest of the internet is catching up.

One pair of hands clapping can awaken even the sleepiest audience; every wave begins with one yahoo who insists, "C'mon, it'll be great."

Sometimes, in conflict, it's hard to tell who's in the wrong. Other times, it's extremely clear-cut.

It's not hard to recognize the logos from brands like Lego, BMW, and Spotify. Drawing those logos by memory, however, is a different beast entirely.

Who would have imagined that a book with as somber a subject as "Catch and Kill" would have its author doing unnecessary accents and impressions for the audio book?

What it would look like if the United States was visualized through a Super Nintendo.

The Senior class at North Farmington High School in Michigan have an yearly tradition where they take ID photos dressed up in tribute to their favorite characters in TV, movies and memes.

The new iPhone 11's triple-camera technology made people's imaginations run wild.

Jacob Rees-Mogg, a pro-Brexit politician, came under fire after slouching in parliament during a consequential debate and then — the internet came for him.

There are currently 13 countries in the world with a populations of more than 100 million people. What would the world look without them?

What are some of the distinct cultural pockets of the United States? A Redditor attempted to delineate every specific region.

The theme of the skit was "the 2000s," and to say that there is quite a mishmash of tones would be an understatement.

Nothing is sacred on the Internet. Here's a mashup we didn't need, but thoroughly enjoyed.