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Every Movie Theater Showing The Interview on Christmas Day and After

The Interview, a movie in which two secondary characters from short-lived television classic Freaks and Geeks conspire with the U.S. government to assassinate a sitting head of state, has been through some shit. At last, though, it will be shown. And here are the theaters that will show it, broken down by state. The following…

Will Gotham‘s Next Supervillain Arc Feature The Riddler?

Emily Blunt explains why Into the Woods was changed from stage to screen. James Gunn gives the definitive answer about a Guardians of the Galaxy/Avengers crossover. The Walking Dead spinoff gets its female lead. And are we close to seeing an Ant-Man trailer? Spoilers now! Top image: Gotham Into the Woods Emily Blunt talked about…

Doctor Puppet‘s Christmas Special Is 5 Minutes Of Festive Whimsy

The Doctor Who Christmas Special is firmly entrenched as a holiday tradition now – but the arrival of a Christmas episode from Alisa Stern’s Doctor Puppet is just as exciting, as The Puppet 12th Doctor and Clara land on a Planet that only appears on Christmas Day. As all good Doctor Who Christmas fare should,…

Aww, a Bunch of Architects Designed Santa’s HQ

On any other day of the year, you might write this off as sentimental schmaltz. But hey! It’s Christmas eve—a day when the fact that hundreds of architecture students actually designed Santa’s logistics center is actually pretty fun. Almost 250 designers submitted plans and renderings of their vision for Santa’s “logistics center,” as part of…

Skechers’ Game Kicks Sneakers Are a Wearable Version of Simon

A distracted kid is more often than not a well-behaved kid. So for those times when a child’s phone or tablet has run out of power, Skechers is introducing a new line of shoes called Game Kicks that feature a built-in musical memory matching game that is played like Simon, except that these remain strapped…

Oxford University puts all kinds of Christmas items under the microscope

This year’s Oxford University season’s greetings explores different Christmas items throught the lens of a microscope. From the hard fur of a reindeer to the iconic Santa’s wool cap. Not surprisingly, everything looks gorgeous under the microscope. Christmas too. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Add this spectacular house to your list of dream homes

Casa Los Algarrobos. Perched on the moutains of Puembo, Ecuador, this 8,966-square-foot (833m2) house is yet another dream home to live in and have peace, food, and sex forever. The views, the materials, the distribution—I like it all. But it’s that bedroom that took my heart away. I want to wake up there so badly.…

This beer lets you send video messages in its bottles

Argentinian beer Andes had a great idea: Let people use QR codes printed on their bottles to record video messages so friends or family could get them by pointing their camera phones at it. Then they made this hilarious ad campaign showing one potential use: Send uncomfortable messages about delicate matters. I wish someone could…

New building in the Arabian desert looks like an alien spaceship fleet

This is Zaha Hadid’s latest building, the headquarters for UAE’s environmental management company Bee’ah, in the emirate of Sharjah. The company says that Hadid’s “design team found inspiration in sand formations created by the wind’s movement and direction.” I say aliens.

This is what an airplane looks like when you cut it like a salami

Looking at this Airbus A300 fuselage cross-section at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany, makes me realize once again how lucky we are to partake in the miracle of flying. Look at that, just some metal sheets, seats on top, luggage containers in the bottom. How the hell could that fly. Obligatory: P.S. I’m at…

Once Upon a Time is doing a sequel to its graphic novel Shadow of the Queen. The sequel, due out in April 14, 2015, will be called The Darkest Past and will have “four never-before-told stories of fan favorite characters.” [Bleeding Cool]

Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer Are Sixtiestastic In Man From UNCLE Photo

It’s been a long time since we heard anything about Guy Ritchie’s big screen reboot of the 60s classic Man from U.N.C.L.E., but here we are with the first official still. I actually think Armie Hammer looks pretty great as Illya Kuryakin. There was a long casting process for this project, with the project starting…

This Solar Flare Image Is Beautiful In Its Simplicity

A solar flare peaked at 7:28 p.m. EST on December 19, and the NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught this image of it. It was classified as X1.8-class. X-classes are the most intense flares, with an X-2 being twice as strong as an X-1. Image: NASA/SDO

Video: The skilled precision and interesting history of making a violin

The violin is a cute little instrument but also, as I learned from watching this video of violin maker (or luthier) John Young, a really interesting instrument to make. It’s artfully designed and carefully shaved down and is still made in a similar way from when it first appeared centuries ago. Young makes each violin…

Science Shows Why Reindeer Are Perfect Sleigh Pullers

On the latest episode of It’s Okay To Be Smart, host Joe Hanson delves into the science behind a number of Christmas-related science quandaries. Including: Why do the lights always tangle? What’s makes reindeers noses red? And what could let Santa visit every child in one night? [via Tastefully Offensive]

Acoustic Tweezers Can Rearrange Your Cells into Geometric Patterns

Have you seen Chladni figures? They’re patterns made when sand is exposed to sound waves on metal plates. They can be amazingly intricate. And now scientists could be making them with living cells. Put a grain of sand on a frantically vibrating plate and it will hop off. Put it on a still plate and…

FDA Ends Ban on Blood Donations By Gay Men … But There’s A Catch

Talk about problematic progress. The AP headline crowing “US Moves to End Ban on Blood Donations by Gay Men” comes with a whopper of an asterisk: gay and bisexual men who wish to donate blood may do so only if they’ve refrained from having sex with another man for a full year prior. This is…

Barack Obama’s Presidential Library Could Look Like An Alien Spaceship

A number of architects had designs among the finalists for the Obama presidential library, but our favorite is this one by Oslo/New York firm Snøhetta. It’s variously described as looking like a coral reef or a teardrop, but to us it looks like a pretty cool alien spacecraft. Here’s another image of the Snøhetta design,…

Being inside a Porsche engine factory is like being inside a Transformer

This video is fascinating because it let’s us pretend to be a fly on the wall of a Porsche 911 engine assembly line. There’s no annoying soundtrack, no voiceover explaining what’s happening, we’re just seeing humans and machines teaming up to create beautiful, powerful engines that purr the best cars. All the shiny metal reminds…

A Rescue Ship Raked the Ruins

It was almost too late. The buildings were falling to dust, eaten by the invisible jaws of the nano-disintegrators, and hostiles had ringed the city in deadly mechas. But then a rescue ship came out of nowhere, and we heard the Commander’s voice calling from an open hatch. This amazing scene was created by Hyunwook…