Cards Against Humanity has come to the web! Cards Against Originality incorporates all of our favorite awful cards, but without having to lug around the bigger blacker box.

Taking the free-to-download print-your-own version of Cards Against Humanity, Cards Against Originality puts the over-the-top adult version of Mad Libs or Apples to Apples onto the web. If you’re not familiar with the game, a judge (usually rotating), reads aloud a black card with a prompt (either answer the question or fill in the blank), the other players offer a white card that completes it. Except that the goal is to make a combination that’s as awful as possible, and the one judged to be worst wins.

A small sampling of the more than 200 black prompt cards:

• My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of _______.
• Why is mommy crying?
• I learned the hard way that you can’t cheer up a grieving friend with _______.
• As part of his contract, Prince won’t perform without ______ in his dressing room.
• I drink to forget _______.
• What gets better with age?
• After the earthquake, Sean Penn brought _______ to the people of Haiti.

And a few of the 800+ white cards:

• Boris the Soviet Love Hammer
• Asians who aren’t good at math
• The basic suffering that pervades all of existence
• The profoundly handicapped
• Passive-aggressive Post-It Notes
• Sean Penn

Which can lead to combinations like “Why is mommy crying? Boris the Soviet Love Hammer.”

And that sampling isn’t even remotely near the worst that Cards Against Originality offers. It can get really bad, so bad that the only way to cope is to laugh.

Cards Against Humanity was conceived as a card game to be played in person, and though Cards Against Originality is web-based, it still needs to be played in person (you just don’t need the physical cards). It works simply: one person hops on, creates a new game, and then shares the link to that game with whoever they want to join in. Everybody is dealt 10 white cards, somebody taps on the black card to serve as the judge, and then reads it aloud to everybody playing.

While this technically could be set up to play remotely, the true fun of Cards Against Humanity is in hearing everything that everybody else played read out loud by a judge trying to maintain his or her composure. And Cards Against Originality maintains that crucial social component of the physical card game.

Cards Against Originality launched yesterday, but the servers were smashed by the unexpected demand. Things are still a little shaky right now, but it’s slowly improving and the developer says to expect improved performance by the weekend (we held off a day just so we could show it to you when it was mostly functional). We’ve tried it out on multiple platforms and you’ll see the best support in Safari on iOS or in the Safari and Chrome desktop browsers (weirdly, Chrome on Android won’t let you scroll through your cards like Chrome desktop).

You can still drop $75 on the base physical Cards Against Humanity plus the four expansions (Or $115 total with the 90’s pack, the two holiday expansions, and the Bigger Blacker Box), and we wouldn’t attempt to stop you. It’s a worthy purchase. But it’s also something considerable to carry around, and for when you want to get in a game when on the road… turn to Cards Against Originality. Just don’t invite any kids. Or your mom — you’ll never be able to look her in the eye afterwards.

Source: Cards Against Originality; Via: Mashable

Anthrax, Big Boi, Snoop Dog, Mastodon and many others for free from Apple

There’s free music on iTunes for you to grab and it features some of the biggest names in hip hop and heavy metal. What’s more, it’s a pair of mixtapes featuring audio clips from HBO’s hugely popular fantasy series Game of Thrones. It’s called Catch the Throne, and there are two free volumes to download: 25 free tracks in all.

Other artists include Method Man, MNDR, Killswitch Engage, Mushroomhead, Daddy Yankee, Common and more. Most of the songs clock in at 4 minutes or less, so it’s a quick listen with some hard-hitting tunes.

Don’t worry about this album turning up unbidden in your music list, either. It’s free to grab, but Apple won’t push it on you.

Warning: Explicit lyrics. Don’t tell Tipper Gore!

• Free – Download Mixtape Vol 1. now
• Free – Download Mixtape Vol. 2 now

Making a decision on which flight to take is about to get a tad easier, as Google Flight Search results will soon display amenity information for each flight.

The new information is the result of a partnership between Google and Routehappy that will integrate flight amenity data, such as whether a flight has in-seat power, Wi-Fi, and ample legroom, into Google Flights results.

The 2015 NCAA basketball tournament is about ready to kick off, and the official March Madness Live app for Windows Phone has been updated accordingly.

New in the update is a refreshed look, new team pages, a new featured section, and new ways to make your bracket picks.

Following up on the announcements of the new MacBook and launch details for the Apple Watch, Apple CEO Tim Cook called in to Jim Cramer’s Mad Money show on CNBC.

Following huge announcements earlier in the week, and a skyrocketing stock price, but it doesn’t change the love fest that was Tim Cook’s call into Mad Money. Marking it’s 10th year on CNBC, host Jim Cramer was “surprised” by the call from “Tim from California” (the show regularly takes calls from viewers asking about stocks) which led to a 7-minute conversation between the two.

The discussion bounded from point-to-point, from Apple Pay hitting 700,000 retailers (including a ribbing about Cramer’s own Bar San Miguel not yet accepting Apple Pay) to the announcement of ResearchKit to the company’s skyrocketing stock price. Asked about the competition, Cook had this to say:

We’re always paranoid. We live paranoid. We always want the very best product. If we’re not trying to beat someone else, we’re trying to beat what we’re currently shipping. Everyone here lives on the edge.

For his part, Cramer’s opinion of Apple as a stock has wavered from bearish to bullish over the years. But given the enormous growth seen in AAPL over the past few years (and that he was talking to the company’s CEO), he put on a positive outlook, saying that he sees automotive and home connectivity as a big part of Apple’s future. But Cook? He sees health and devices like Apple Watch as a huge part of Apple’s future, saying that the health market is “significantly underestimated.”

Cramer closed with strong praise for Apple: “I revere Tim Cook, and I revere Apple. I am proud that they are an American company; I am proud to be an American.”

Source: CNBC

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Popular models such as the Kraken A.M.S., Cyclops, Aegis and Krios cases are making a return for the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge

Trident has made an impact on the mobile case market since the beginning with their rugged designs that have proven worthy of protecting against drops, scratches and normal wear and tear. With these new models for the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge hitting stores, users will have more affordable options over OtterBox.

During the Spring forward event, Apple showed three videos narrated by Jony Ive that highlighted the material and manufacturing processes behind the aluminum, stainless steel, and gold Apple Watch. Greg Koenig, co-founder of Luma Labs, studied the videos and, based on his industry experience, tried to describe just what exactly it is Apple’s doing to make their new watch in a highly detailed, step by step way. From Atomic Delights:

Jonny Ive often speaks of care. It is an odd word to use as it doesn’t imply the traditional notion of “craftsmanship” in the classic, handmade sense. Nor does it imply quality or precision in the way a Japanese car manufacturer or German machine tool maker would. “Care” implies a respect for the raw materials and end result, with little concern about what it takes to link those two ends of the production chain together, and we see that highlighted with the Watch. Apple could very easily have forgone forging to create stainless steel cases, just like everyone else. Hardening gold alloy with cold working could have been eliminated, putting them on par with the rest of the industry. Nobody will see or feel the inside pocket for the microphone on the Sport, yet it has been laser finished to perfection.

I see these videos and I see a process that could only have been created by a team looking to execute on a level far beyond what was necessary or what will be noticed. This isn’t a supply chain, it is a ritual Apple is performing to bring themselves up to the standards necessary to compete against companies with centuries of experience.

Don’t cheat yourself, read the whole thing.

@supcat @monkbent I think it tells us everything that Apple basically made a better bracelet than guys with 80 years experience

— Greg Koenig (@gak_pdx) March 13, 2015