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Now’s the Perfect Time To Harass Your Friends for Google Inbox Invites

Google still hasn’t opened its new Inbox mail service for everyone, and it’s not doing another invite free-for-all, but it is gifting all existing users 10 addition invites over the holidays. Time to start hitting up your friends. If you’ve got Inbox already, spread the love Just don’t count on using these as a stocking…

Wingsuit daredevil high fives hand on insane low-level flight

Watch wingsuit daredevil Sammy Rohan jumping from a cliff in Chamonix, France, and flying so close to the ground that he was able to high-five a big yellow hand that his friends were holding on the ground. The stunt was made to raise funds for the Project: Base charity. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow…

A Bizarre New Species Of Fish Has Been Discovered At A Record Depth 

Scientists exploring the deepest place on Earth — the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean — have captured footage of a never-before-seen fish at a record depth of 26,722 feet (8,145 meters). As reported in New Scientist, the ghostly fish was spotted by an expedition led by Jeff Drazen and Patty Fryer of the University…

Hot Toys’ Iron Man Hulkbuster Could Be the Greatest Action Figure Ever

Once you accept the harsh truth that adding Hot Toys’ upcoming Iron Man Hulkbuster to your collection probably means there won’t be any money for your kids to go to college, it becomes easier to get excited about owning what is probably the most detailed figure ever created. Revealed at the Toy Soul convention currently…

Santa Doom Is Here To Spread Festive Cheer IN ALL CAPS

DOOM CARES NOT FOR CHRISTMAS. Well, I guess that’s a lie, thanks to this incredible cosplay by Cash Branson – Santa Doom is coming to town, and he’s got one hell of a naughty list. Cash made the costume for a recent convention, and it’s pretty damn incredible – from the detail on Doom’s armour…

The Most Worrying Rumor Yet About Star Trek 3‘s Director Change!

A casting call sheds a surprising light on Batman v. Superman’s take on Bruce Wayne. Andy Serkis debunks a bunch of rumors about his Star Wars role. Evangeline Lilly says some intriguing things about Ant-Man, and there’s a look at Jessica Chastain in Crimson Peak. Plus the first look at Neil Patrick Harris in American…

The Weirdest Stuff We’ve Launched Into Space

From the minute we started sending humans into space, authorized and unauthorized paraphernalia have gone with them. Even unmanned spacecraft hauled oddities to the far reaches of our solar system. Here are a few items that have reached where most of us will never go. Pornography When NASA sent Apollo 12 to the Moon in…

The Biggest Video Game Disappointments of 2014

Some video games were great this year. Some were not so great. These, as compiled by our bleep bloop buddies at Kotaku, are the latter. https://kotaku.com/the-biggest-disappointments-of-2014-1672860181

How the Soviet Union used nuclear explosions to create giant canals

I know the Soviets made tons of crazy stuff back in the 20th century, but this is beyond insane: They blasted an entire forest and the adjacent land with the help of nuclear explosions to carve a canal. Atomic terraforming makes so much sense, doesn’t it? The United States also conducted Plowshare experiments in the…

Adding Water to Solids Can Actually Make Them Stronger

It may sounder counter-intuitive, but adding drops of humble old water into solid materials can actually increase their strength and changes their other properties in interesting and useful ways. Researchers from Yale have discovered that adding droplets of water into some solids can strengthen and stiffen them, by virtue of their surface tension. The force…

Sony’s Letting Robert Rodrgiuez Finally Make Fire and Ice

Sony’s just completed a deal that brings Robert Rodriguez’s dream project — a live action version of Frank Frazetta’s Fire and Ice — to the big screen. This is passion project for Rodriguez, who has been trying to make this homage to his friend for years. And it looks like it will finally happen. Image:…

A pizza world champion made this 99-cheese pizza and it tastes fantastic

Check out the gorgeous images that photographer Steve Scalone took of my latest object of desire, a 99-cheese pizza created by pizza world champion Johnny di Francesco, of Melbourne’s famed 400 Gradi. A pizza that The Guardian says tastes fantastic: Fantastic. Di Francesco has created a balanced and surprisingly nuanced pizza. It sounds like a…

How You Can Use the Genetic Code for Passwords

Need a password for a new device or service? Try the genetic code. Messenger RNA triplets and the amino acids they specify provide nearly endless password possibilities. And it’s timely — the People’s Choice for Sciencemagazine’s Breakthrough of the Year is “Giving Life a Bigger Genetic Alphabet.” I began using the code for passwords years…

You will love this short on the guy who told you how logos are made

Aaron Draplin is the guy who told the internet how profesional designers create their logos with a passion that made me want to spend an entire day with him. I wanted to hear a lot more, so here’s a short documentary which offers a fascinating look into his mind, obsessions, and creative process. This is…

These distinctive underwater features of the Great Bahamas Bank are made of limestone, largely from the skeletal fragments of marine organisms, which has been accumulating for over 100 million years and is shaped by underwater currents. The image was captured the European Space Agency’s Landsat-8. [ESA]

Christoph Waltz Explains the Joys of Krampus to a Befuddled Jimmy Fallon

We love Krampus, the dark side of Santa, who punishes the naughty while Santa rewards the nice. But not everyone is aware of this Germanic folktale, leaving Christoph Waltz to act as an ambassador for the creature. He’s right: the Elf on a Shelf just does not compare. [via Laughing Squid]

It’s Very Easy to Get Drunk on Food Alone

Around Christmast, a lot of food comes laced with alcohol. But while the commonly held view is that much of it gets burned off in the cooking process, this video demonstrates that there’s plenty left in there to see you exceed the safe limits for driving. This responsible piece of journalism, put together by the…

BBC: Apple Still Failing to Protect Factory Workers

An undercover investigation by the BBC’s Panorama team has found that Apple is still failing to protect those that work at the factories of its parts manufacturers. The Apple’s Broken Promises documentary found that staff at the Pegatron factories routinely were encouraged to work unhealthy hours building devices, while issues with underage workers and dormitory…

This Is Why Electronic Voting Is a Bad Idea Right Now

The system of democracy is built on the rather more humble system of voting. And voting is built on the two fundamentals of anonymity and trust. This video explains why, right now, digital voting doesn’t provide over of those two things well enough. Tom Scott gives a pretty great run down here of the ways…

Two Different Satellites Take Two Different Pictures of the Same Galaxy

What a difference a wavelength makes: On the left is the M82 Galaxy as seen in the visible light spectrum, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope — and the image we most associate with that galaxy. On the right is an x-ray image of the same galaxy, taken by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Image credit:…