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Epic Rap Battles Ask If It’s Harder to Bust Myths or Ghosts

As great as the Mythbusters are, the Ghostbusters may win for the sheer number of movie references they manage to get into their raps. On the other hand, the end of the video seems to hint that neither team wins when the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man turns up as a write-in candidate. [via Viral Viral…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

The Surprising Connection Between Two of Disney’s Best Robots

This would make more sense if Eve wasn’t far less amiable than Baymax. She must take after her mother more than her father. On the other hand, they both are outfitted with weaponry that is out of place with their original functions. “Robotic Family” by Nacho Diaz, who has a ton of crossover art. See…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

The top 10 chase scenes of all time—or at least some of them

I like to watch Cinefix’s top whatever whatever because they always prompt me to rewatch something or watch something new. But then I don’t like them because they are inevitably unfair. They could have done 10 lists of the top 10 chases scenes of all time and all of them would have been different. You…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

The Fantastic Four Reboot Is Reinventing Doctor Doom In The Worst Way

Toby Kebbell recently revealed what the new backstory is for Doctor Doom in the Fantastic Four reboot. And it’s so bad, guys. It’s really, really bad. Spoilers beyond this point. Speaking with Collider, Kebbell revealed: He’s Victor Domashev, not Victor Von Doom in our story. And I’m sure I’ll be sent to jail for telling…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Lego prepares Minecraft sets for launch

Get out your wallets and prepare to start hitting F5 on Lego online, because the new Minecraft sets are posted and will be available for purchase starting November 15th. I predict that these will be one of the hardest to get toys this holiday and in turn will last about 12 seconds once they become…

Tech News Michael Schulte

One of the world’s best chefs only serves fish, vegetables, and cereal

I was lucky enough to eat at one of Alain Ducasse’s restaurants once—Le Louis XV in the Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo, almost two decades ago. It was an unforgettable experience. Watching this short documentary titled Naturalité makes me want to travel to Paris to dine at his re-opened restaurant at the Plaza Athénée. Aside…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

This Ultra-HD timelapse shows the biggest sunspot in 22 years

Last month, the biggest sunspot in 22 years traversed across the Sun. Labelled AR 2192, it was big enough to see without the need for a telescope. This awesome timelapse animation can show you what you missed. Created by processing 72GB of data from NASA’s solar dynamics lab, the video is a composite of more…

Sploid Chris Mills

The Lumia 535 Is Microsoft’s First Non-Nokia Windows Phone

Microsoft has now officially buried the Nokia brand name with the launch of the Lumia 535, a low-end Windows Phone for emerging markets with the Microsoft name on the back. Rather than debuting the new management with a bold new flagship phone, Microsoft is sticking to the tried-and-tested Lumia formula: bold colors, basic internals, and…

Tech News Chris Mills

Bizarre Lego mash-up would make awesome posters

Buenos Aires based Alexandre Tisser imagines a series of prints for a new campaign titled, Fiction meets Fiction. Kids have been switching the heads on minifigures since the invention of minifigs, but it has never been this pretty. Images from fubiz. You’re reading Leg Godt, the blog with the latest Lego news and the best…

Tech News Michael Schulte

Elon Musk Confirms He’s Building A 700-Strong Satellite Fleet

Earlier this weekend, a Wall Street Journal report linked Elon Musk, the big entrepreneur success story, with a plan to use a fleet of small satellites to achieve global internet coverage. Although he hasn’t mentioned the internet part, he just confirmed the satellite part on Twitter, and said we’ll have to wait a few months…

Space & Spaceflight Chris Mills

Bryan Ferry’s new video is an intriguing orgy of sex and violence [NSFW]

I love Bryan Ferry’s new Loop De Li song, from his new album Avonmore. His captivating voice and his classic Roxy Music sound are back as powerful as ever. The disturbing video directed by Aoife McArdle is great, featuring what it looks like a-clockwork-orangy, sexually-ambiguous young Ferry. Warning: NSFW. Bryan Ferry is… you really should…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Behold! The pages of Steampunk Lego will amaze and delight!

From one of the best Lego book publishers, No Starch Press, Steampunk Lego hits the racks on November 30th. Written by Guy Himber, this 200 page Lego coffee table book features constructions in the Steampunk genre by over 90 different artists from every corner of the globe! This isn’t really your traditional Lego book. You…

Books & Comics Michael Schulte

AT&T’s Killing Its In-Flight WiFi Plans

In-flight WiFi is great (because Snapchat on planes!) but also terrible (because paying $12 for two hours of dial-up era internet), something that AT&T was planning to change by offering its own in-flight WiFi. Sadly, AT&T just announced that it’s nuking that idea. Back in April, AT&T announced that it was working on an alternative…

Tech News Chris Mills

It Was the Greatest Communications Tower Ever Built

She never forgot that night when she was a little girl and the communications network went down. Millions died. She vowed at that moment that she would never allow that to happen again. And that’s when she first got the idea for the Great Tower. Llia Yu lives in Pasadena, California. You can see more…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Manslaughter Conviction for Italian Earthquake Scientists Overturned

In 2012, the Italian courts handed down a decision that you could say sent shockwaves across the world. Seven Italian scientists were sentenced to six years in prison. Their crime? Failing to warn the public about earthquake risks right before a magnitude 6.3 quake killed 309 people. Today, six of those convictions were overturned. The…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

A cool image of the Moon orbiting Earth taken from outer space

I can’t have enough of these shots of the Moon and the Earth taken by the Chang’e 5 spacecraft. Here’s the opposite side of the amazing image of Earth taken outside lunar orbit. You can see Africa, the Arabian peninsula on the left and Australia entering the night on the right. SPLOID is a new…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Cooper the Lego cat has haunting green eyes

Cole Edmonson makes some incredible replicas of guns, daggers and various weapons that make you look twice and sometimes still think that they might be the real thing. Today, though, we take a look at this awesome build of his cat, which is currently in the AFOL display at the Portland Lego store. It is…

Tech News Michael Schulte

On Sesame Street’s 45th Birthday, Watch Follow That Bird

Most of the movies I used to watch as a kid have actually held up well over time (maybe I just had boss taste as a child, but my favorite movies were Pee Wee’s Big Adventure and The Muppet Movie, and both remain amazing). One I remember loving when I was little that I didn’t…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Oscar the Grouch used to be orange (but was supposed to be magenta)

Sesame Streetis 45 years old today, and the warm-spirited puppeteers behind the show’s Twitter account did a fun thing. They shared45 facts aboutSesame Street over the course of the day. Chief among them is the fact that Oscar the Grouch was actually orangefor the entire first season of the show. Orange! The story behind the…

Television Adam Clark Estes

This Satirical Comic Imagines Egypt In 3014, And Nothing Has Improved

Back in the 1990s, kids in Egypt thrilled to a series of science fiction novellas called The Future File by Dr. Nabil Farouk, which depicted an optimistic vision of a future Egypt. Now a cartoonist named Sherif Adel has created a satirical version called Pass By Tomorrow, in which the future Egypt is much the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Epic Rap Battles Ask If It’s Harder to Bust Myths or Ghosts

The Surprising Connection Between Two of Disney’s Best Robots

The top 10 chase scenes of all time—or at least some of them

The Fantastic Four Reboot Is Reinventing Doctor Doom In The Worst Way

Lego prepares Minecraft sets for launch

One of the world’s best chefs only serves fish, vegetables, and cereal

This Ultra-HD timelapse shows the biggest sunspot in 22 years

The Lumia 535 Is Microsoft’s First Non-Nokia Windows Phone

Bizarre Lego mash-up would make awesome posters

Elon Musk Confirms He’s Building A 700-Strong Satellite Fleet

Bryan Ferry’s new video is an intriguing orgy of sex and violence [NSFW]

Behold! The pages of Steampunk Lego will amaze and delight!

AT&T’s Killing Its In-Flight WiFi Plans

It Was the Greatest Communications Tower Ever Built

Manslaughter Conviction for Italian Earthquake Scientists Overturned

A cool image of the Moon orbiting Earth taken from outer space

Cooper the Lego cat has haunting green eyes

On Sesame Street’s 45th Birthday, Watch Follow That Bird

Oscar the Grouch used to be orange (but was supposed to be magenta)

This Satirical Comic Imagines Egypt In 3014, And Nothing Has Improved

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