Oh, look. They went off-road for a bit...

No, actually, it's not "semantics." There's nothing to debate or discuss about the meaning of the word "zoom" when talking about a lens. Telephoto describes a long focal length, and it's the distance that causes scene compression, not the lens; shoot the same two planes with a wide angle lens and crop it down; you'll…

Jalopnik and news agencies report only the really bad crashes; when someone gets into a minor fender-bender, nobody cares or notices. When someone smashes one into a telephone pole at 100mph, everyone notices (particularly since this happened in NYC, which as we all know, is the only place Gawker staff actually notice…

With that bus:

Yup, transverse leaf spring.

Lots of things at play here. Each one is probably at least 500lb, so there's some simple momentum transfer at work; there's some energy used via the bale sliding during the initial impact; the tight-packed hay absorbs energy as the hay crushes; some energy is used in tearing the bale apart, like pulling apart a piece…

This video comes to us from São Paolo, where the Ford apparently drifted into the right lane in a dark tunnel. This pissed off the motorcycle courier in that lane, leading him to curse and "make a huge fuss" at the car.

You don't end up crashing like that because you were driving in a "spirited" manner.

Got almost everywhere she did based not on her qualifications, but her name. 400 hours of flight experience. With which she's going to try to fly around the world. This should end about as well as the first Amelia's flight did.

Tinder is not "for hookups." It's mostly for women screaming in their profile text about how they're not there for hooking up.

Enough with the damn GIFs. Seriously, I HATE this. So do a lot of other people.

When you say "awww, look at this adorable couple doing something that was actually insanely dangerous to everyone around them" and don't speak to the problem caused by the segment of the population with the HIGHEST CRASH RATE (higher than teenagers!), you may not be endorsing something, but you're definitely not…

Braked. B-R-A-K-E-D.

Step one: tell dispatch the license plate number on the truck.

Good thing they didn't hit any innocent bystanders, huh? There's a reason we employ professionals for this sort of thing.

I don't consider most of these to be even remotely "stunning", much less "totally stunning." Most of these are just pictures of formations.

"Built from the showroom" is a funny way of saying "stripped to the frame and then virtually nothing from the pile of parts put back on the same car."

I imagine there's a slew of possibilities here....insurance scam, perhaps...but it could also be a publicity stunt, loan sharking, competitors, pissed off family members, etc.

Probably the reason it handled so well was because it had 2,000lb of weight in the back, substantially lowering its center of gravity. I'd much rather see you test drive one of those outfitted with 2,000lb worth of stuff the way a plumber, carpenter, or delivery driver would have it set up. Ie: fair amount of weight…

Oh, and by the way: the reason cyclists wear helmet cams is because of colossal douches like you who assume that they're at fault if they're hit, because apparently the behavior of a minority = behavior of the majority. Police don't believe us, witnesses make shit up...like the guy who was cut off by a driver that…