Category: Humor

It's easy to get so caught up the addictive gameplay of Angry Birds that you forget the game has a plot. Hardcore Birds fans love all the random extras and YouTube videos following the war with the pigs, though, and now there's a new one that might be the coolest yet. In this live-action video, the Angry Birds attempt to negotiate a peace treaty with their enemies, the evil pigs, but it ...

In this crazy world of constant Facebook and Twitter status updates, it's inevitable that some people are going to make the mistake of posting while drunk. A new browser extension called Social Media Sobriety Test aims to prevent you from doing that -- while you're at your computer and using Firefox or Chrome, anyway -- by making you take a series of tests before your status update can be sent. ...

Chrome Whitelist, which couldn't be more aptly named, builds a whitelist out of domains that you provide it, and then it blocks access to all other sites when active. It's a simple and effective method to keep distractions to a minimum while trying to get work done online, but as can be said for all tools of this nature -- there's no accounting for willpower. So, if you're simply trying to keep ...

Remember when the Pirate Bay tried to raise enough money to buy the Principality of Sealand? Well, this is a bit different. Torrentreactor.net, one of the most popular torrent sites on the Internet today, says it has bought the small village of Gar, in the Tomsk province of Russia. The single requirement was that the town rename itself to "Torrentreactor." Whether this is legit or not is still ...

FriendDA is not even a website; it's just a single Web page, pre-formatted for printing. It's a form, that at first glance appears to be a standard NDA (or other legal form). But when you read past the first WHEREAS, the whole thing becomes much clearer. I quote: WHEREAS I possess a bright idea that I am choosing to disclose to you, The Advisor, with the mutual understanding that you are my ...

Image via TorrentFreak (click image for full size). In an ironic twist, The USCG seems to have been caught quite red-handed in an attempt to lazily steal code from a competitor's website. They didn't just take bits and pieces, either; the site they had "built" was a nearly complete reproduction of the original. To further deepen the irony of the incident, it was the crew at TorrentFreak who ...

Normally this one would fall just outside the Download Squad perimeter, but who doesn't enjoy chuckling at an unlucky criminal? And besides, there's software involved -- which you'll be able to download at some point -- which does kinda make it relevant! See, this particular thief strolled up and nabbed an iPhone out of an unsuspecting woman's hand. Unfortunately for him, the phone was in the ...

Facebook has just launched a new feature-slash-PR-initiative called Facebook Stories, which lets you -- you guessed it! -- share your stories about Facebook. Judging by the categories, they're hoping users will share the positive, miraculous things Facebook has done for them. Love, friendship, peace, communities and support groups are all on the list, but most of the Facebook stories in my ...

When I started writing here, I never once thought I'd get to write a story about Hitler. I knew I'd get the chance to write about many different things, topics that really push the boundary on what constitutes 'a download' but... mein Führer... well, the Third Reich and its illustrious general has always remained just out of reach. Until now. Thanks to Der Untergang and the Hitler Meme, I ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/06/02/google-lets-us-wallpaper-the-search-page-i-set-mine-to-a-bing/'; Last month, we had some fun with Google's explanation of their recent redesign of search results, but it looks like Google isn't quite done yet with not copying Bing. In their quest to make their search engine sexier and more appealing to the fickle masses, Google's now ...

It's May 31st, which makes it not only Memorial Day here in the States, but also the first officially unofficial Quit Facebook Day. You may have noticed that Facebook has been getting a lot of attention from us recently, and it's really no surprise given the amount of public sentiment toward the social-networking site. About a week ago, one of those posts was about a movement to get users to ...

QuitFacebookDay is a website with one, simple agenda: To get you to stop buying bottled water. Well, actually no, but perhaps you can guess the agenda by the domain and the ten-foot-tall header. What? Did I hear someone say "Drama Queen"? Yes, I admit this is kind of dumb, but I really could not resist. Human beings are social creatures, so what better way to quit a social network than... ...

Facebook has become a major hot-button topic recently, what with the endless privacy issues and bug reports floating around and all, so you may be thinking about leaving the social network. Unfortunately, kicking the habit may not be so easily done. Maybe you want to deactivate your account, and let it sit while you think things over. Maybe you're afraid of outright deleting your account out of ...

Ahhh, the good old days. When men were real men, and websites were horrific white-on-dayglo-yellow creations lovingly crafted in notepad, complete with animated GIFs of randomly dancing M&M's and poor MIDI versions of Oasis' Wonderwall on auto-play. Miss those days? Do you? Come on, you can admit it... we're all friends here. Okay, you don't have to say anything -- I can see it in your eyes, ...

I'm sure you're sick of reading about April Fools' Day jokes, but this is one prank with a serious message. Russian Torrent site Vertor, tired of anti-piracy groups trying to shut them down, sent a most unusual package to six of its biggest opponents, including the MPAA. What was inside? Condoms! They were Russian Vizit Overture flavored condoms (in mint, banana and strawberry!) with an ...