The camera flash notification thing is useful for people that are deaf or hard of hearing if they don’t have the phone actually on their person when the notification goes off

Pretty sure it’s the New York Times crossword

The dude tweeting used to run a site called Pointless Waste of Time under the pseudonym “David Wong.” Had a bunch of funny articles and the forums were great. Ended up going away when he became the (I think) chief editor at Cracked (before it was all list based) and they merged the forums.