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All The Weirdest Secrets You Never Knew About Clive Barker’s Hellraiser

Hellraiser was made for under $1 million, but wound up becoming one of the most significant horror movies of all time. And yet, the more you learn about this film’s production, the more of a miracle it seems. Here are all the strangest facts you need to know about the making of Hellraiser. Clive Barker…

io9 Abhimanyu Das and Charlie Jane Anders

The only thing better than watching these cakes get made is eating them

If you are into cooking you probably know about silicone molds. If you are not, it doesn’t matter. Just look at how they peel from the cake—and then how the cake gets build into various patisserie wonders. It’s such a satisfying process. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

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The Crappy Diagram That Reveals The Hobbit Trilogy’s Epic Final Battle

When The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies finally comes out on December 17th, its ending will be suitably epic. In fact, the titular battle will apparently last 45 minutes, and is so huge and complicated that director Peter Jackson had to diagram it out. However, this diagram isn’t quite as epic as the…

Movies Rob Bricken

Let a Tiny Trash Can Dispose of Your Desk Clutter

Despite its diminutive stance, this miniature garbage can from Vipp is fully functional. Touch the tiny pedal where you’d usually stomp your foot and the lid temporarily pops open letting you dispose of tiny bits of trash, or store pens, pencils, paper clips, and other bits of stuff floating around your desk. At just over…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Funko’s new Warcraft toys include the cutest Lil’ Earth-Shatterer

Pop! Vinyl’s slow war of attrition with my wallet continues with a second run of figures based on World of Warcraft – and this time, the legends of Azeroth come backed by the cutest fallen Aspect of Earth you ever did see. D’aaaw! Sylvanas Windrunner – oddly the creepiest looking of the lot, considering her…

Tech News James Whitbrook

A Gorgeous Short Film About a Magician Who Builds Solar Systems

With a wasteland as their canvas, a Master and his Apprentice set about turning rubble into planets and moons, asteroids and comets, spinning them in orbit around a symbolic Sun. So begins Ambition, a short film made by Academy Award-nominated director Tomek Baginksi in collaboration with the European Space Agency. Produced in Poland and shot…

io9 Mark Strauss

Coconut Water Is Great, Shut Up

Coconut water is a delicious and healthy beverage, and it is good for you. If you drink it after going to yoga class or before a jog, you will be hydrated and receive nutritional benefits. Many people do not like coconut water. Those people have simply not yet acquired a taste for the subtle, loamy,…

Health Kate Knibbs

Trolley Tracks Once Ran Through the Beaches of Los Angeles

Trolleys once rivaled the crashing surf in the soundscape of Southland beaches. Along much of the Southern California coast from Santa Monica to Redondo and from Long Beach to Newport, a red dot—a distant Pacific Electric car—would appear down the shore. As it neared, the click-clack of the wheels moving over the wooden ties, the…

Tech News Nathan Masters

A Horrifying Instructional Video For Ghosts On How To Haunt Their Homes

Guides for ghosts can sometimes be on the goofily macabre side (think Beetlejuice’s Handbook for the Recently Deceased), but This Is How You Haunt Your House is instead fabulously grim, a chilling short horror film rendered as an instructional guide for the afterlife. This creepy short was made by Will Mayo as his NYU undergraduate…

io9 Lauren Davis

Humans’ Inherent Curiosity Stems From a Long, Protracted Childhood

Curiosity is one of our most basic traits and we have a lot to thank for it. Without the primal urge to always want to see what lies over the next hill, or the other the ocean, or beyond the confines of our atmosphere, humans would still be living—quite literally—in the stone age. In Curious:…

Tech News Ian Leslie

The Computer Demands You Fund The New Paranoia RPG Immediately

Rejoice, Citizen! Paranoia, the ultimate RPG of the darkly humorous future, is coming back — or it will if you don’t mind spending a few Alpha Complex credits on this Kickstarter. The new version of the classic game has been streamlined and modernized for the 21st century, and best of all, it’s almost nearly funded!…

io9 Rob Bricken

You Can Buy an Ejector Seat From an F-4 Phantom for Quick Escapes

If you’re an aviation enthusiast, there’s a lot of fun stuff to be found in Boeing’s online store. But none are as unique—and some would say even historic—as this authentic de-commissioned ejector seat from an McDonnell F-4 Phantom II fighter jet, one of the U.S. military’s workhorses of the Vietnam War. Made by the British…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Diorama of How to Photograph an Atomic Bomb

Brian Williams has done some incredible stuff with Lego; His Hogan’s Heroes build is one of the best MOC’s I’ve ever seen. In his latest creation, he takes on conspiracy theorists who suggest that the United States never conducted nuclear testing and that all the video and photographs suggesting as such were somehow faked. The…

Tech News Michael Schulte

How Much a Bottle of Whiskey Costs in Every State

It is Friday, which means it is an excellent day for a whiskey drink. Inspired by The Awl’s quest to catalog the cost of cigarettes in every state, we decided to hunt down the price of a bottle of liquor in every state so you can know exactly how much more or less that stiff…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Watch a Symphony of Independent Subway Buskers Perform Together Online

Oh this is wonderful. A symphony of WiFi-enabled, independent subway buskers were united by a composer named Ljova, who streamed their performances from different stations onto individual laptops set up in the middle of New York City’s Bryant Park. The result? “Signal Strength,” a very awesome collaboration. Each of the musicians set up a smartphone…

Tech News Jordan Kushins

Paris and New York are not that different from the right angles

I love New York despite/because New Yorkers and I love Paris despite/because Parisians. This time-lapse compares their striking similarities—from the right angles. I only wish Paris shared New York’s 24-hour life and New York shared Paris’ joy de vivre.* * But for that combination we have Madrid. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…

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The Crow Remake To Start Filming In 2015

Luke Evans is still going to be the new Crow, and the brand new reboot will allegedly start filming in the Spring of 2015. But no one is asking the real questions, like do we need another Crow movie? And does anyone want another Crow? [via THR]

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AT&T Is Locking Down Apple’s Universal SIM, But It’s Not That Dire

The new iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 come with their own Apple SIM cards, theoretically letting you switch carriers whenever you choose. But AT&T isn’t completely playing ball. As T-Mobile CEO John Legere gleefully points out on Twitter, the moment you activate your Apple SIM on AT&T is the moment you can no…

Tech News Sean Hollister

8 Alternate ‘Buster’ Iron Man Suits that are cooler than the Hulkbuster

It might be the most famous, but the Hulkbuster – which made its awesome movie début in this week’s fabulous Age of Ultron trailer – isn’t the only suit Tony Stark has made to combat a specific super-foe. Here’s 8 of Iron Man’s ‘buster’-style suits that are just as good, if not better. https://gizmodo.com/our-best-look-yet-at-ultron-plus-the-hulkbuster-from-a-1649586887 8.…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

No, Ebola Won’t Decide The Outcome Of The Elections

Ebola is at the top of the headlines. The elections are eleven days away. Therefore, the Law of Punditry dictates that political commentators must link these two stories together, forecasting that fears of the deadly virus will determine who controls Congress. Here’s why they’re completely wrong. For a moment, let’s flashback to 2012, when polling…

io9 Mark Strauss

All The Weirdest Secrets You Never Knew About Clive Barker’s Hellraiser

The only thing better than watching these cakes get made is eating them

The Crappy Diagram That Reveals The Hobbit Trilogy’s Epic Final Battle

Let a Tiny Trash Can Dispose of Your Desk Clutter

Funko’s new Warcraft toys include the cutest Lil’ Earth-Shatterer

A Gorgeous Short Film About a Magician Who Builds Solar Systems

Coconut Water Is Great, Shut Up

Trolley Tracks Once Ran Through the Beaches of Los Angeles

A Horrifying Instructional Video For Ghosts On How To Haunt Their Homes

Humans’ Inherent Curiosity Stems From a Long, Protracted Childhood

The Computer Demands You Fund The New Paranoia RPG Immediately

You Can Buy an Ejector Seat From an F-4 Phantom for Quick Escapes

Diorama of How to Photograph an Atomic Bomb

How Much a Bottle of Whiskey Costs in Every State

Watch a Symphony of Independent Subway Buskers Perform Together Online

Paris and New York are not that different from the right angles

The Crow Remake To Start Filming In 2015

AT&T Is Locking Down Apple’s Universal SIM, But It’s Not That Dire

8 Alternate ‘Buster’ Iron Man Suits that are cooler than the Hulkbuster

No, Ebola Won’t Decide The Outcome Of The Elections

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