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These weirdass GIFs could be perfect tattoos for sports-loving hipsters

Putin against the New York Knicks. Coca cola against the Kremlin. German graphic designer Florian Schommer mashups eastern and western pop culture icons making them collide in this fantastic collection of illustrated GIFs. Florian Schommer is a graphic designer based in Hamburg, Germany. You can follow Florian onFacebookand LinkediIn. This is part of a series…

What Does the Return of a Major Villain Mean for Arrow?

Yet another familiar face may be joining the cast of Captain America 3. Joseph Gordon-Levitt talks up Rian Johnson’s plans for Star Wars Episodes VIII and IX. Watch a new Hobbit clip. See a new look at Helena Bonham Carter as the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella. And Sleepy Hollow finds its Thomas Jefferson. Spoilers now!…

This Is the Largest Stone Block Ever Carved By Human Hands

This may look like a modern civil engineering marvel—but in fact you’re looking at the largest known stone block to be tirelessly carved by human hands. Discovered in a stone quarry in Baalbek, Lebanon, by German archaeologists, the perfectly hewn chunk of stone measures 64 feet by 19.6 feet and is 18 feet tall. It’s…

How Scotch Tape Was Invented

Despite the name, Scotch tape wasn’t invented by the Scottish. It was invented by a college dropout named Richard Drew from Minnesota who worked for a small sandpaper company founded in 1902 called Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, later known as 3M. The name “Scotch” itself has an origin story almost as interesting as the invention…

An Episode of Forever Where Only the Last Seconds Matter

Hey! Remember at the start of the show, when it felt like the mystery of Henry’s immortality and his mysterious caller were going to be central parts of this show? Yeah, the show just remembered that, too. Spoilers… This week’s theme: Hiding your true identity! Yes, with a main character who is over 200 years…

Tumblr, of all things, now has a Buy button. Post a link to a product on Etsy, Kickstarter, Artsy or DoSomething and Tumblr will try and peddle it.

This Is What a Volcanic Eruption Looks Like in Satellite Radar

Back on November 23rd, the Pico do Fogo volcano on Cape Verde’s Fogo island erupted. This image shows how that incident looked when it was captured by the Sentinel-1A satellite’s radar sensors. In fact, the European Space Agency satellite captured two images: one before the event on November 3rd and then another afterwards on the…

Report: Mozilla Will Get Firefox on iOS

For a long time, Apple hasn’t allowed Firefox to appear on iOS. Now, Mozilla wants to change that. According to TechCrunch Mozilla’s VP for Firefox Jonathan Nightingale explained: “We need to be where our users are. So we’re going to get Firefox on iOS.” It’s an overdue move, given how robust third-party browsers like Chrome,…

Gmail now allows you to to edit Microsoft Office documents sent as email attachments by simply clicking an “edit” button at the bottom of the message.

Unreal in-game footage makes GTA V totally look like a parallel reality

After seeing footage of GTA V on the next gen consoles, I’m beginning to think that GTA V isn’t just a video game. A full blown parallel reality? That’s more likely. A real life breathing city that exists somewhere? That’d be more accurate. This footage of Los Santos at night in GTA V is unreal.…

This Steampunk Iron Man Art Comes With a New Tragic Backstory

Concept artist Anthony Jones not only made this beautiful piece of art, as he’s done before, he also came up with an alternate universe explanation for it. The full image is below, but here isJones’ short story: After donating his heart to save his only son Jarvis, Jarvis devoted his life to engineering to bring…

This GIF shows how much work goes into making stop motion animation

In this clip from the movie The Boxtrolls (it’s the end credits scene), you see how the stop motion animation of that beautiful film was made. There aren’t any shortcuts, somebody has to move the characters, move out of the way, film it and then move the characters over and over again to get it…

Watch Japan’s Explosive Asteroid-Sampling Mission Take Off

While the rest of the world has been busy shedding a bitter tear over the early demise of Europe’s comet-sampling probe, the Japan Space Agency has been busy launching another mission to sample distant celestial bodies. The Hayabusa 2 rocket is the follow-on mission to the largely successful Hayabusa, which returned to Earth with samples…

Why Jackie Chan movies are so much fun to watch

The always excellent Tony Zhou of Every Frame a Painting takes a closer look at what makes Jackie Chan action movies so fun to watch. It’s Jackie Chan’s brand of action comedy that makes him so special, he plays the underdog, he uses the environment around him, he’s a perfectionist and so much more. Every…

How To Make Your Own Tent Footprint For $25

Footprints help extend the life of your tent by protecting its floor. But, they’re inexplicably expensive. You can slash that price by half or more if your make your own from Tyvek. Here’s how. We have a Big Agnes Fly Creek UL2 tent ($390) that we use for pretty much every backpacking trip. It’s a…

Overcoming Rain And Darkness For A Successful Morpheus Test Flight

Morpheus successfully ran through its tether test flight after addressing a flaw in the remote control system. Despite looming bad weather and impending darkness, the test flight went beautifully. I’m calling this a good opening up for Orion on Thursday! Morpheus dangling from a crane as the sun sets. Image credit: NASA Morpheus, NASA’s prototype…

The Coolest Moments from Toy Story That Time Forgot

ABC aired the holiday special Toy Story That Time Forgot, and it was, as expected, adorable on every level. There were also a few surprising references thrown in. Below, everything we loved about it. Spoilers… The plot was pretty simple: Bonnie takes to toys to Mason’s for a playdate. Mason and Bonnie leave the toys…

London’s Crazy Stupid Garden Bridge Is Actually Going Ahead

Let’s say, right, you’re the council for a giant city with a rising population, serious housing problems and a centuries-old public transit system. And you’ve got $300 million to spend on a new infrastructure project. Do you think you should a) spend that money on a garden footbridge that’s only open during the day, or…

Google’s just added a handy new feature to Gmail: you can now convert attached Microsoft Office files to Google Docs and edit them, all within your inbox. There’s also support for 15 lesser-used MS Office filetypes, and increased support for tables and charts and the like. Happy spreadsheeting. [VentureBeat via The Verge]

Watch a woman show what 100 years of beauty looks like in 1 minute

Different eras have different definitions of beauty. A look in the early 1900s can fall out of favor a few years down the road or maybe inspire a style decades later. Cut Video made this video that shows a model getting her and make up done to show what beautiful meant from 1910 to 2010.…