Gingerbread Iron Throne Is Worth Climbing A Wall Of Sugar For

Seriously, this gingerbread version of the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones is just so well done. If Princess Bubblegum crossed the Narrow Sea and conquered Westeros, this is probably the throne she would sit on. Right before she started doing unholy experiments to create candy White Walkers. This thing of pure beauty was tweeted…

Think You Get A Lot Of Snow? These Are The Largest Snowfalls On Record

Snow can be a wonderful thing—until it buries your car, prevents you from opening your front door, and ensures that you won’t be going anywhere for at least a week. Curl up under a blanket and pray that you don’t see as much snow as fell during these winter storms. The Great Snow of 1717,…

Luke Cage Has Been Officially Cast

Marvel has finally made it official. Mike Colter, who has been long-rumored as the next Luke Cage, will in fact be the Luke Cage for the Netflix Marvel series A.K.A. Jessica Jones. Jessica Jones is a retired superhero turned private detective who meets Cage, “During the course of an investigation in New York… ” And…

What Fanfiction Do You Re-Read Again And Again?

We all have books that we pull out and thumb through the dog-eared pages of, over and over. But sometimes works created by fans can have just as much sticking power. Which fanfiction do you find yourself returning to over and over again, to revisit your favorite parts? Please include a picture (or piece of…

First Look At LAIKA’s Next Movie, Kubo And The Two Strings 

LAIKA’s next movie Kubo and the Two Strings is centered around Japanese folktales. Already the creators are promising “mystical origami” and that is something I would very much like to see from a LAIKA production. Today, LAIKA announced the title and premise of their new film. In a press release, it stated that LAIKA President…

This Orangutan Is Now A Legally Recognized Nonhuman Person In Argentina

History was made this past weekend in Buenos Aires when an appeals court ruled that an orangutan held in a zoo is a nonhuman person unlawfully deprived of its right to bodily autonomy. The legal strategy used in this case is similar to the one recently employed by the Nonhuman Rights Project in the United…

Do We Really Need Remasters Of Old Shows?

Last week we covered the unfortunate awfulness of Buffy’s HD remastering, and it got me thinking – even if Buffy had gotten the treatment it rightly deserves, is it something that needed to be done in the first place? https://gizmodo.com/oh-dear-buffys-hd-makeover-is-a-total-mess-1671812347 Now obviously Buffy’s remastering isn’t your average remaster, in terms of its less than stellar…

The Real Reason You Shouldn’t Get Drunk And Write Political Comments

We’ve all done it. We’ve gone to the wrong website in the wrong mood — or under the influence— and left angry scrawls in the comments. But we shouldn’t, and not just because it makes us look stupid. This behavior actually strengthens the position of the people we’re arguing against. In fact, some recent experiments…

This Starts As A 3D Animation Tutorial—Until The Animation Takes Over

If you’ve ever seen Chuck Jones’ Duck Amuck and Rabbit Rampage, in which Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny battle with their animators, check out this great short, in which a 3D animator deals with a hilariously uncooperative Maya rig. Nathan Hibberd made Animating a Jump Tutorial Part #269, and while it’s definitely on the fanciful…

Why I’m Kind Of Tired Of The “Smartest Man In The Room”

He used to be so cool and unpredictable. He would breeze into a complicated situation and make it simple through the razor-sharp power of his intellect. But lately, he’s gotten dull, performing the same party trick over and over. The “smartest man in the room” is overexposed lately, and he needs a vacation. The “smartest…

People Getting Too Close to Lions at the Zoo is Not a New Phenomenon

Every few years, we see cases of people going into enclosures at zoos, wanting to “make friends” with animals. It always ends badly. And, as it turns out, this is not a new phenomenon. Even as habitats are shrinking and species are disappearing, the world never goes more than a few years without an attack…

Today is the ground breaking ceremony for the $50 billion Nicaragua Canal. This despite the fact that no environmental or social assessment has been made available to the public. The 172 mile (278 km) canal will take five years to rebuild, resulting in the displacement of 29,000 people and unknown ecological consequences.

Of Course There’s A Movie Called Ebola Zombies

Ebola movies are nothing new (hellooo, Ebola Syndrome), but as Fangoria reports, the world will soon see its disease fear du jour explored in all its flesh-ripping glory in cinematic form: Wild Eye Releasing will unleash EBOLA ZOMBIES on DVD March 24, with a making-of featurette and trailers. The Category III Hong Kong production, written…

The Best New Webcomics Of 2014

Each year, we are stunned by the remarkable and diverse comics that appear on the Internet, and 2014 has been no exception. From gorgeously illustrated epics to spooky short stories to comics that made us cry, here are the best new webcomics that we read this year. Top image from Stand Still. Stay Silent by…

​How to Explain the Sony Hack to Your Relatives

The holidays are a time for eggnog and presents and bizarre credulous rituals involving an old elf-man and his pack of flying caribou. It’s also a time to cuddle up by the hearth and begrudgingly explain the latest technology news to your relatives. This week’s edition: The Sony hack. Lucky for everyone, the tech involved…

Amazing Princess Bride Theory Dreamed Up By A Child Just BLEW OUR MINDS

This kid’s take on the story behind the story of The Princess Bride is blowing our minds. All it took was one character speaking the classic “As you wish” line and suddenly, everything has changed. Larry Young, co-founder of comic company AiT/Planet Lar and author of Astronauts In Trouble: Live From The Moon, shared his…

Amateur Paleontologist Finds Complete Ichthyosaur Skeleton On The Beach

A man out for a stroll on a South Welsh beach stumbled upon something rather remarkable: a fully-articulated, seven-foot ichthyosaur skeleton — described by the National Museum Wales as “a potentially very, very important find.” As Wales Online reports: Amateur fossil hunter Jonathan Bow has unearthed a seven foot skeleton of a ichthyosaur carniverous marine…

What The Hell Are Uvulas For?

That dangly, speed-bag-looking thing at the rear of your mouth is called your palatine uvula, or just uvula for short. What’s it for? That’s a good question. People have been asking this for hundreds of years (seriously), and their answers are… mysterious. The Riddle Of The Uvula Consider the abstract to “The riddle of the…

First Look At Benedict Cumberbatch As Marvel’s Doctor Strange

Wanna see what Benedict Cumberbatch could look like as new member of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Doctor Strange? Spoiler alert, he has a mustache. Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson has been tweeting out beautiful old comic panels from past Doctor Strange works, concept art inspiration-type images and other things that may directly influence his movie—but…

The CIA Explains How to Avoid a Secondary Search in Airports

Worried you’ll be singled out for the hassle and humiliation of a secondary screening at the airport when traveling to another country? Wikileaks has published a leaked document from the CIA that explains what makes agents give travelers a hard time — and how you can prevent it. Over at Popular Mechanics, John Wenz sums…