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Flying By Comet Hartley 2 at 27,560MPH

,560MPH, 12.32 km/h. That was the whizzing speed of NASA’s spacecraft Deep Impact as it approached comet Hartley on its EPOXI mission. Here’s a time lapse video of its complete trajectory, just released by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. https://gizmodo.com/beautiful-first-images-of-comet-hartley-2-5681690

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Dirty Bandit Watches Some Porn Before Finishing Off His Burglary

A 25-year old guy broke into a woman’s house in New Jersey, and rather than getting the goods and getting out of there, he took a mid-robbery porn break on her computer in the living room. The man, Dwan Koonce, was charged with second-degree burglary, first-degree robbery, and third-degree charges for terroristic threats and possession…

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Snow White Just Rocked My Face Off

You’ve never heard Disney like this: the sampled sounds of Snow White remixed, reshuffled, and refitted into a soaring trip-hop beat. And wait until you hear Harry Potter. The tunes are compliments of Pogo, who’s also responsible for that Dexter music video from a few weeks back. The artist known as Pogo composed many of…

Movies Brian Barrett

Former HP CEO Mark Hurd May Have Leaked Company Secrets

Just when we thought that the gossip about former HP CEO had quieted down, we hear this gem: The fellow may have shared company secrets with Jodie Fisher, the pretty lady who accused him of sexual harassment. https://gizmodo.com/apparently-former-hp-ceo-mark-hurd-was-a-thug-5609780 According to a report by the WSJ, there is a letter revealing Mark Hurd‘s slip up: [The…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Walk through this portal with me into another world

The “portal fantasy,” where somebody walks through a magical door (or wardrobe) into a fantasy world, has become a terrible cliche. So why do we keep walking through those portals and loving the hell out of it? I heard a lot of grumbling about portal fantasies last weekend at the World Fantasy Convention in Ohio,…

Movies Annalee Newitz

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: A Gross Misuse of Inception

Let’s be honest: if you really had the power of inception, you wouldn’t waste it on something as mundane as corporate espionage. You’d do exactly what this guy does. Creep. Rounding out the rest of the week’s best comedy vids over at Splitsider: one bad therapist, a few great fake ads, and what it’s like…

Tech News Splitsider

Yes, That’s a Goddamn Flying Shark

It may not be a motherf*cking invisible shark but it’s a motherf*cking flying shark, remote controlled. I can’t wait for the summer to be back, to fly it low over Coney Island Beach. https://gizmodo.com/motherf-cking-sharks-can-become-motherf-cking-invisible-5547252 It’s only $99, teeth and fake blood not included. [Nitroplanes]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Pool Noodle Girlfriend

The Pool Noodle Girlfriend, courtesy of the weirdos at Vice, is a masturbatory contraption comprised of a pool noodle, a few condoms, and a plunger. I hope your Friday night doesn’t resemble this in any way. Here’s the inventor recounting his Eureka! moment: I cut it up while I was on the can taking a…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Sean Connery’s chest hair vs. a rogue meteorite fragment — to the death!

Sean Connery, shirt unbuttoned halfway to his navel, plays chicken with a meteor fragment heading straight for his base, while Natalie Wood and Martin Landau watch. Will it strike before he can launch his missiles to destroy the big meteor? 1979’s Meteor isn’t exactly the greatest movie ever made — it’s really, really slow and…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Video: Thomas Edison Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in 1899

The bridge was only 16-years-old when Edison shot this video from a BMT train crossing to Manhattan. It may not be HD, or 3D, or whatever fancy-format you kids like these days, but it takes me right back. [KottkeviaBoingBoing]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Here’s the Bizarro Sam Spratt Illustration You Asked For

Earlier today we asked you to come up with something really really strange for our illustrator extraordinaire Sam Spratt to draw. Well, here it is: “Chewbacca breast-feeding Macaulay Culkin… in Space.” A masterpiece. https://gizmodo.com/come-up-with-a-batshit-crazy-scene-for-sam-spratt-to-il-5682730 Have a good weekend, all. Illustration by Gizmodo illustrator Sam Spratt. Check out Sam’s portfolio and become a fan of his…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

It’s Never Too Late For a Great Social Network Parody

Finally, a parody of The Social Network that’s actually about The Social Network. It’s funny! And as is so often the case in life, the highlights mostly come from Justin Timberlake. The video’s from How It Should Have Ended, though I’m glad they branched out to skewer the whole movie instead of just the final…

Social Media Brian Barrett

Hot Tub Time Machine’s director to take on the Toxic Avenger

This looks like a perfect mash-up of minds, gore and sex jokes. Steve Pink, director of the smutty Hot Tub Time Machine is going to direct a Toxic Avenger movie. Let the New Jersey jokes fly. [Deadline]

Movies Meredith Woerner

Your Packages Never Arrive Because UPS Employs Ninjas

An eagerly anticipated package that never seems to come. Frustrating! You track it online, you wait diligently at home—and yet, all you get is a HEY SORRY WE MISSED YA notice. So that’s how they pull it off. This informative page from your carrier of choice’s training manual clears it all up. You see, they…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Megamind answers the question, “What if Lex Luthor won?”

DreamWorks latest animated outing Megamind infuses the rote battles of serial film superheroes with a heaping of existential malaise. In this fun, fart-joke-free kids’ flick, a supercriminal vanquishes his foe…and loses his reason to wake up in the morning. Megamind wears its pastiche on its sleeve. The titular supervillain (Will Ferrell) and his foe-for-life Metro…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

What It’s Like to Have a High-Powered Laser Shot Into Your Eyeball

So the Wicked Laser was a letdown, but it’s still super dangerous, so that’s kind of cool, right? We wondered what it might be like to get Wicked lasered in the eyeball. So we shot one into a camera. Ouch. https://gizmodo.com/what-happened-to-wicked-lasers-spyder-iii-pro-arctic-la-5628925 Our poor little pocket HD cam couldn’t vocalize any feelings of intense pain or…

Tech News Sam Biddle

How will Tuesday’s election results affect the future of science?

Science was rarely mentioned on the campaign trail, so what exactly does the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives mean for science? For environmental science, it looks very bad. But on other issues, there’s reason for a little optimism. The Republican platform, “The Pledge to America”, never mentions the words “science”, “technology”, “NASA”, “research…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Check Out The Kickass Covers Gizmodo’s Contributing Artist Sam Spratt Drew For Game Informer

You might’ve not guessed it, but when he’s not drawing creepy zombie families or batshit crazy scenes, Gizmodo’s Contributing Artist Sam Spratt is working on some serious projects and producing fantastic art—like these amazing covers he drew for Game Informer: https://gizmodo.com/the-prize-portrait-from-our-halloween-illustration-cont-5676960 Illustration by Sam Spratt. Check out Sam’s newly redesigned portfolio website and become a…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Inside Tu Books, a new publisher focusing on multicultural SF and fantasy books for kids

Science fiction and fantasy books for younger audiences are booming — but they still mostly feature white heroes and are aimed at white audiences. So Stacy Whitman is launching Tu Books, a new publisher of multicultural children’s and young-adult SF. Whitman, a former editor with Wizards of the Coast imprint Mirrorstone Books, decided to start…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Android Apps November 5th

Twitter for Android: The official Twitter app for Android gets an update and it’s now more like Twitter for iPhone. Which is actually a good thing! What’s new? @brbarrett says: https://gizmodo.com/twitter-for-android-update-catches-up-with-ios-version-5680929 As part of the update, you can now pull down to refresh your feed, swipe across a tweet for options like sharing or replying,…

Tech News Casey Chan

Flying By Comet Hartley 2 at 27,560MPH

Dirty Bandit Watches Some Porn Before Finishing Off His Burglary

Snow White Just Rocked My Face Off

Former HP CEO Mark Hurd May Have Leaked Company Secrets

Walk through this portal with me into another world

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: A Gross Misuse of Inception

Yes, That’s a Goddamn Flying Shark

The Pool Noodle Girlfriend

Sean Connery’s chest hair vs. a rogue meteorite fragment — to the death!

Video: Thomas Edison Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in 1899

Here’s the Bizarro Sam Spratt Illustration You Asked For

It’s Never Too Late For a Great Social Network Parody

Hot Tub Time Machine’s director to take on the Toxic Avenger

Your Packages Never Arrive Because UPS Employs Ninjas

Megamind answers the question, “What if Lex Luthor won?”

What It’s Like to Have a High-Powered Laser Shot Into Your Eyeball

How will Tuesday’s election results affect the future of science?

Check Out The Kickass Covers Gizmodo’s Contributing Artist Sam Spratt Drew For Game Informer

Inside Tu Books, a new publisher focusing on multicultural SF and fantasy books for kids

Android Apps November 5th

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