I didn’t know that this movie existed until today: Apparently there’s an upcoming full feature film based on Pixels, the short by Patrick Jean that went viral on 2010 (below.) Being a fan of all things 8-bit, I got really excited when I saw these new teaser posters and the synopsis: Former 1980’s Video Game…
South Korea’s nuclear power plant operator is conducting a two-day drill to test its resilience to digital attacks, following a series of posts on Twitter from a hacker claiming to have compromised power station computer networks. Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP), which runs 23 reactors and supplies around a third of the country’s electricity,…
Eyes On Cinema recently uploaded this nearly-six-minute video of soundless footage from filming in 1976. As the footage shows George Lucas, Mark Hamill, and Garrick Hagon (Biggs Darklighter) on the Tatooine set, it’s not only set footage, it’s set footage of a scene that got cut. https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-deleted-scenes-reveal-the-utter-disaster-that-1663817712 [via Slashfilm]
Matthew Ramsey, the creator of this insane Pornburger says he woke up to this crispy fried chicken between two “cheeseburger waffles”, sriracha mustard, american cheese and smoked bacon, and then went back to bed. I don’t blame him, that actually seems like the perfect Sunday to me. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on…
Ever wondered how astronauts go about working out if organisms can survive the stresses of space? Largely by strapping them to the side of the International Space Station is how. In this image, you can see the European Space Agency’s Expose-R2 project. The unit, attached to the outside of the ISS, contains 46 species of…
Beijing-based artist Li Hongbo—featured here with his fantastic malleable paper statues—created this neat series of silhouettes carved out from butcher’s knife blades. This artwork, called Shadow of Knives, was presented earlier this month in a solo exhibition at Contemporary By Angela Li. The gallerist writes: In this series, the metal sculptures are in the shapes…
A staggering 22,680 users have seen fit to award The Interview a perfect 10 on IMDb. Which is impressive for a film that virtually nobody is ever going to see. Update: Sadly, the score is now back down to 9.9. While the score for the film has been hovering at 9.9, Verge notes that today…
Watch David Warther making wooden pliers using a simple pocket knife his dad—famed master carver Ernest “Mooney” Warther—designed in the early 1900s. It only takes him ten cuts and a few seconds—so simple and fast that it feels like magic. Also, I can watch this man talking and doing this forever. SPLOID is delicious brain…
There are Christmas-themed episodes that are saccharine affairs from start to finish (usually, they rip off It’s a Wonderful Life in some way) and then there are glorious holiday romps that are absurd and fun all the way through. This episode of The Librarians was the latter. Bruce Campbell as Santa Claus! THIS IS EVERYTHING.…
Over the weekend, the U.S. asked China to help it stop North Korean hackers. Now, China has publicly stated that, while it condemns cyberattacks, it believes that there is no proof that North Korea was responsible for the recent hacks of Sony Pictures. https://gizmodo.com/u-s-wants-china-to-stop-north-korean-hackers-with-a-b-1673612390 In the statement, reports Reuters, China made no reference to requests…
Next time you’re annoyed that someone tagged an unattractive picture of you on Facebook, just be thankful that you don’t weigh 13,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds. [Doghouse Diaries]
The latest trend in magical hairstyles is a pack of animals rather than the usual hair follicles. You are never alone when you have animals for hair! This is a series of truly excellent works by Reimena Ashel Yee, and the rest of them are below. You can buy “A Sloth of Bears” as a…
Snapchat has decided to clamp down on third-party apps (for good reason). But now, Windows Phone users will find that they’re left without any way to sext—given that there’s no official app and all the other options have no been removed from the Windows Phone Store. Windows Central reports that third-party Snapchat apps have already…
North Korea isn’t happy with the U.S.. After the FBI pointed the finger firmly at North Korea and Barack Obama got on board, the country has warned that it will strike the White House and “the whole US mainland, that cesspool of terrorism”. https://gizmodo.com/obama-sony-made-a-mistake-pulling-the-interview-1673268761 Such rhetoric is hardly new from North Korea, but it does…
Panoply is a project that combines the animation talents of Steve K. Simons and the ancient Greek history expertise Sonya Nevin to produce beautiful animations of the scenes on artifact vases. Above is their version of the Pandora myth, developed from a circa 450BCE vase of a woman holding a casket and the descriptions of…
Director Alex Garland’s debut film, Ex Machina, follows the story of a computer coder named Caleb who, Golden Ticket-style, wins a week in the mountain house of the CEO of the company he works for. Only instead of getting the company, Caleb gets to participate in an experiment testing the capabilities of the CEO’s pet…
A Christmas Story? It’s a Wonderful Life? Miracle on 34th street? C’mon, we can do better than that. Every year, I have a pseudo-tradition to watch at least one “Christmas” film that others would consider—atypical. Or strange at the very least. Last year was Rare Exports, and the year before that Die Hard 2. Can…
NASA’s Flame Extinguishment – 2 (FLEX-2) experiment is designed to study the characteristics of burning fuel droplets in space, aboard the International Space Station. But under certain conditions, it looks an awful lot like the crossguard lightsaber from the trailer for Star Wars: Episode VII. @ISS_Research tweeted the comparison earlier today: For what it’s worth,…
Every year around this time, I read every music websites “Top 50 Albums of the Year” lists. It’s sort of a ritual at this point. I do my best to keep up with albums from artists in all genres, but inevitably something will slip past me. It was a great year for music, and Run…
Hint: It wasn’t Superbowl Sunday. Recently, the company behind BACtrack portable breathalyzers released a report based on anonymized data collected from its users. The analysis offers some fascinating insights into patterns of alcohol consumption in the U.S. – including the days of the year when Americans were most drunk. According to the report, Americans consume…
