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TGI Friday’s Dumb Mistletoe Drone Cut Somebody’s Face Open

When TGI Friday’s announced a promotion involving mistletoe-toting drones flying around inside its restaurants, the idea seemed both dumb and unoriginal. Now, that the restaurant’s gimmicky marketing campaign has shed blood in Brooklyn, it just seems dangerous. And TGI Friday’s isn’t even taking the blame! Over the weekend, TGI Friday’s showed off the mistletoe drone…

Impressive images of massive fire in downtown Los Angeles

“A massive fire in downtown Los Angeles early today engulfed an apartment tower that was under construction, damaged two other buildings and left freeways and roads closed,” reports the LA Times. Thisimage by Gautam Trivedi is impressive, almost like the aftermath of a nuclear mushroom. This impressive image above by Eric Politzer looks terrifying too:…

RIP Frank and Louie, the Two-Faced Cat

He defied the odds by purring as long as he did, but the world’s longest-living two-faced cat (also called a Janus cat, after the Roman god with faces looking to the future and the past), Frank and Louie, died last week at the ripe age of 15. The cause was cancer, according to the feline’s…

Apparently No One at CNN Has Ever Sexted Before

CNN is the latest publication to publish an alarmist guide to teen sexting. It’s full of nonsensical combinations of letters that no human would ever tap into a text. But to be sure, we took some of this absurdist lingo for a spin, just to make sure it’s totally bonkers. It is. “28 Internet acronyms…

This Guy’s Job Is to Hack Cameras for National Geographic Photographers

If you’ve ever dreamt of a weird feature you wanted your camera to have for a specially specific purpose, the guy to call would be Kenji, National Geographic’s very own tinkerer extraordinaire. Head over to their very own Proofblog for a peek inside his workshop. Kenji works at the service of Nat Geo’s many photographers…

Every Episode Of Classic Doctor Who, All At Once

We’ve featured the work of Youtuber Omni Verse before, but this might be even crazier than every Simpsons Couch Gag at once: All 707 episodes of the ‘Classic’ era of Doctor Who, all at the same time. The video is only 15 minutes long, so in most cases you’re only getting half an episode (or…

The Coming Age Of Cyborg Animals

Wearable tech like fitness bands and GPS trackers are all the rage, and our pets are starting to use them, too. These tools can help us monitor and track our companion animals. But these devices are also changing our pets’ capabilities and how we interact with them. We’ve entered the age of cyborg animals. Illustration…

15 Things you may not have known about The Lego Movie

Screen Crush has put up a short video showing 15 things that you may or may not have known about The Lego Movie. The song “Everything is Awesome” is by Tegan and Sara and features The Lonely Island. Devo lead singer Mark Mothersbaugh composed the score for the movie. Everything in the movie is made…

Samsung’s VR Headset Just Went On Sale For $200

Samsung’s virtual reality headset, the Samsung Gear VR, is available online today for $200. You’ll need a Galaxy Note 4 to actually use the headset, since it uses the smartphone as its screen. Samsung’s Oculus Rift competitor is a comfortable, easy-to-use VR option, and while the company is stressing that this “Innovator Edition” is aimed…

Game Of Thrones Designer Says Sand Snakes’ “Nipple Armor” Was A Mistake

Readers of George R.R. Martin’s novels will be excited to see the legendary Sand Snakes appearing on Game of Thrones this spring. But some people’s enthusiasm was slightly tempered when the first set photos of the Sand Snakes appeared, revealing… armor with nipples. Costume designer Michele Clapton says this was a mistake. Talking to New…

SNL’s Star Wars Trailer: Remember, Everybody’s Old as Hell

A few weeks ago, the new Star Wars teaser trailercaused the internet to lose its collective shit. But amidst all the Millenium Falcon and soccer-ball-droid drooling, Saturday Night Live wanted to make sure that you don’t lose sight of one very important fact: By now, the original characters are just a bunch of old, senile…

Blu-ray Collection in a Box, $2 Kindle Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books, More

The Best of Warner Bros. 50 Film Blu-ray Collection is one of the most popular entertainment items we’ve ever listed, and today it’s down to its lowest price of $177. This set includes digital copies in addition to the blu-rays, and features films like Inception, The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, and The Dark Knight,…

Under the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, secrecy orders may be imposed by an executive branch agency when the disclosure of a patent application is deemed detrimental to national security. This year saw 5,520 invention secrecy orders, the most since 1994.

The Most Heartwrenching Photo of the Orion Launch

Since Orion launched on Friday, we’ve seen dozens of fabulous photos of NASA’s EFT-1 mission, mostly of the majestic Delta IV Heavy launch at Kennedy Space Center. But this one is truly outstanding. Tim Dodd captured one of the very first moments of the liftoff through the haunting remains of Launch Complex 34, where Gus…

Apple’s first computer wasn’t designed in a garage at all 

Though the legend of Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs developing the first Apple computer in a garage at 2066 Crist Drive in Los Altos is certainly romantic, it didn’t exactly happen that way. “The garage is a bit of a myth,” says Wozniak in a new interview with Bloomberg. “It represents us better than anything…

Jaust’s New Music Video Will Make You Miss Your Slot Cars

Underground street racing isn’t exactly a secret, after all, how many The Fast and the Furious movies have been made about it by now? But underground slot car racing? That sounds like the kind of illegal—but not really illegal—activities we can get behind. Faust’s new music video meets documentary for the band’s song We Need…

The 6 Crappiest Apocalypses, According to World Religions

Not all religions believe the world is going to end, but those that do rarely believe it’s going to end pleasantly. Instead, most religions focus on the war, pain, death and general discomfort caused by the apocalypse. Here are six religious “end of days” scenarios we wouldn’t mind being incorrect. 1) Frashokereti As the oldest…

These perfect GIFs seem extracted from an episode of the Twilight Zone

I read this series of animated GIFs by François Sola in two ways. The poetic way, where time stops so we can appreciate the details of a normal day in the subway stations of Lyon, France. And the it-creeps-me-out way, where some people have the power to stop time and move freely while others are…

Amazon Is Testing a Restaurant Delivery Service To Compete With Seamless

Seamless and Grubhub should be very afraid: Amazon is testing a restaurant takeout and delivery service called Amazon Local in Seattle. If you live in the Seattle area, you can browse for where you want to get your food and order online, then Amazon arranges how you get it. Right now, 141 restaurants have signed…

Chris Pratt Cuddles His Raptor Pack Babies In Jurassic World Fanart

Can this be canon, please? We love the idea that Chris Pratt’s character in Jurassic World started interacting with the Velociraptors he studies and let them climb all over him when they were just little terrors. Manuel Unda tweeted the photo manipulation fanart he made for Jurassic World, and now we (almost) want a little…